Ancient and antiquated - not worth playing in spite of the admirable update. [June 2009, p.95]

Call it a failed experiment, but a worthy try. [Jan 2008, p.94]

Annoying, frustrating; even Mr ESC couldn't rescue this game from complete disaster. [Jan 2008, p.94]

This pedestrian offering is a little too sterile, a little too similar, a little too short yet somehow a little too long. [Aug 2008, p.99]

Ponderous and lightweight racing atop near-vaporous water. Go and have a bath instead. [Oct 2010, p.121]

A thoroughly tedious adventure with weak jokes and puzzles made hard through length not smarts. [July 2009, p.103]

A morbidly obese platformer from a developer which just didn't know when to stop. [July 2009, p.104]

Too much Ball Z and not enough brawl. If you know what we're Saiyan. [Aug 2008, p.85]

Better by degrees. Tiny, incremental degrees, barely worth noting. Give it a wide berth. [May 2011, p.99]

There's too many options and too much going on for a console controller to handle. [Christmas 2009, p.119]

Other on-rail shooters are a lesson in design Aces of the Galaxy must have skipped. [Sept 2008, p.95]

A good concept ruined by clunky mechanics and a poor progression system. On a par with Midway's "TNA Impact." [June 2009, p.80]

Staggering to think that EA bare behind this tosh; hang your heads in shame, boys. [Sept 2008, p.86]

A totally competent golf game which ultimately does too much wrong and to little right. [Sept 2008, p.97]

Time hasn't been kind to Quake Arena. [March 2011, p.118]

Bland, convoluted and plagued with counter-productive level design. [Dec 2009, p.105]

Tries to be the snowboarding version of Skate, but forgets to make it fun. Oops. [Nov 2009, p.93]

Not terrible, but largely without merit. [Jan 2011]

We originally had this down as "Ninja Gaiden Lite". We were wrong. Tedious. [May 2009, p.81]

Pretty, vacant. How 18 months' development could result in a game so trite is beyond us. [May 2011, p.101]

Rigorously mediocre. [Oct 2009, p.95]

A lukewarm experiment, and while a partner is required for fun, everything is fun with two. [Oct 2008, p.102]

Good humour, good looks and great audio, wrapped around an average game. [June 2009, p.95]

Hold out for infinitely superior "Streets of Rage 2." [Oct 2007, p.96]

Swag aside, there's nothing in this reductionist hotchpotch for fans of what Fallout 3 does so well. [Apr 2009, p.103]

If you need to satisfy your perverted cravings for dwarf tossing, go and play Oblivion (yet) again. But, please, don't buy this. [March 2011, p.100]

As a prototype of all that's come since, Wolfenstein is interesting - but not every antique is valuable. [Aug 2009, p.102]

Exciting, but the real battle is against the controls. [Dec 2008, p.103]