As true a game as you're ever likely to see - it's a merciless, but fair, must. [Aug 2008, p.72]

Like its predecessors, GRID is a bewitchingly addictive racer, astounding in how much content it has to offer.

We don't care what the film's like, this is one of the brightest kiddie romps ever. [Sept 2008, p.73]

In some levels the single player experience feels butchered. So much so, we occasionally found ourselves switching on a second pad, moving the other character into position and then dropping out afterwards.

Fun with friends, but the chances of finding anyone to play you are slim. [Sept 2008, p.97]

An obscene, atmospheric and silly adventure, marred by a lot of lackustre combat. [Aug 2008, p.98]

Lacks the sheen of "FIFA 08," but plays it off the park. A good placebo for "PES." [June 2008, p.76]

With very little progress since the last Narnia, even huge fans will want a price cut. [Sept 2008, p.83]

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]

A disappointing update to a disappointing game. [Aug 2008, p.99]

Some board games translate well. This doesn't. [Aug 2008, p.99]

Not a complete disaster but still a long way short of fun. It's just...okay. [July 2008, p.80]

Rockstar have surpassed themselves, delivering unquestionably the definitive GTA and perhaps the greatest videogame of all time. [June 2008]

"Uno" still sits smugly atop the XBLA card game throne, but Lost Cities is a worthy alternative. [Aug 2008, p.99]

Play basketball on half a court while Chuck D disses your sister. Nope. [June 2008, p.79]

Over 100 minigames, none of them as good as the "Wario" equivalents. [July 2008, p.96]

One of Atari's better visual upgrades, but not nearly as much fun 28 years after it first hit arcades. [July 2008, p.96]

Ikaruga isn't tough our unfair, and is always kind enough to encourage perfect play without ever demanding it. [June 2008, p.94]

A great game, but one which doesn't even come close to doing what it says on the tin. [July 2008, p.95]

A good combo which works well, but the elements are already fun enough without muddying the waters. [July 2008, p.96]

Lacks the punch or variety to be a serious contender in the crowded shooter genre. [May 2008, p.86]

Starts off bravely but gives way to 'fraidy cat design. Balls of steel, knob of butter. [June 2008, p.86]

But for all the glee of the slaughter, Viking is a game butting its head against the limits of its genre. There isn't great variety in the tasks or the bosses you face and a few more genuinely off-story quests would be nice.

Undoubtedly the best tennis game on 360 featuring Sonic. Except for... no, this is the best.

Still a brilliant shooter, but needed better levels and more new content. [May 2008, p.81]

Simply not at all comfortable on 360. [June 2008, p.96]

A conversation so watered down it's hard to find where the good game has gone. [June 2008, p.96]

If Condemned was the starter, this is the main course. Gory, dark and great. [Apr 2008, p.64]

Even with its faults, PES 2008 is still unquestionably a better game than its predecessors. It may be lacking in a couple of areas (hell, they needed to justify making next year's PES 2009 after all...), but PES 2008 remains far more than a yearly update; it's the first true next gen iteration of Xbox World's most played game. [Dec 2007, p.64]

Flawed in places, abysmal in others - but it's hard to hate it as much as you should. [May 2008, p.74]

Looks great and it's rammed with fun ideas, but it's gimped by the soft guns and float-o-characters. [May 2008, p.97]

Shame they couldn't have spruced it up for 360 but it's still great fun. [May 2008, p.85]

A nondescript but very decent rendition of a nationally-derided sport. [July 2008, p.82]

A gimmick in need of a game. [May 2008, p.97]

A terrible, dreary, teidous mess. [June 2008, p.82]

Expensive at half the price, this is boring for Lost fans and baffling for the rest. [May 2008, p.72]

Finally a lag-free online shooter! A shame it comes at the expense of the Campaign.

A great game and one of only a few platformers on Xbox; keep a spare pad handy though. [Apr 2008, p.96]

You may love it, you may hate it, but for those with the skill and dedication, it's a shooter like no other. [Feb 2008, p.72]

"DMC4" kicks DW's face off all night long. [May 2008, p.88]

EA have created the football equivalent of "NBA Street" - and it's great. [Apr 2008, p.82]

Thoroughly unambitious. [June 2008, p.96]

Lacks the fine-tuning of the "Advance Wars" series, but at 800 points it's a passable clone. [May 2008, p.98]

Not the worst FPS on 360, but it's a clear second place. Nowhere near good enough. [Apr 2008, p.68]

Out-dated and out-gunned, Elements feels like a failure on 360. It may have been a hit on PC two years ago, but since then gaming has moved forward, leaving us wishing for a true sequel to Dark Messiah rather than this half-arsed port.

The worst game on 360 and of this generation, Jumper's perfect only in its failure. [June 2008, p.81]

Looks like the future, plays like the past. Imperfect - but you get your money's worth.

Lacks the appeal of a "Hexic" or a "Lumines," but a surprisingly solid puzzler nonetheless. [Apr 2008, p.96]

Basically, it's just extremely generic and has that 'safe' feel about its design that suggests that its spent more time with the marketers than it has the artists - but the other side of this coin is that in a functional sense, Turok is dependable.

Not a patch on DMC3 but, the moment we finished the game, we played it all over again. It's that good. [Apr 2008, p.78]

An enjoyable run through the film's events, but it's barely a game in places. [May 2008, p.89]

Rez was good on a 32-inch CRT; in the world of 48-inch plasma screens, it's spectacular. [Mar 2008, p.92]

Tough competition will improve your game, but won't convert anyone not already chess crazy. [Mar 2008, p.94]

Paradise cherry-picks the best features from the past games - cars which have both the one-bar Burnout 3 boost bar, cars which have multiplying Burnout 2 boost bars, cars which can traffic check and cars which can't, the best of the events and the best ramps and shortcuts. It's not quite so gleefully mindless as the previous games, but with loading times stripped out and the best online modes we've yet seen in any racer on any system, it feels like a truly next generation Burnout game.

It's one of the pooer clones of the "Snood" formula, but at least it doesn't lack charm or character. [Apr 2008, p.96]

It was bad back then - it's bloody awful now. A new low for XBLA. [Apr 2008, p.96]

Though it's brevity itslef, you'll be able to busy yourself chasing scores and unlockables for a long time to come. [Mar 2008, p.93]

Aside from a few nice options, sadly this is second-rate sword-slashery. Try Ninety-Nine Nights instead.

Platform shooters don't get much better, but the plop filter and slowdown problems let it down. [Mar 2008, p.94]

It plays a lightning-fast, ultra-competitive game, and the statistics are unbeatable in their completeness. [Oct 2007, p.96]

The "Giraffe" has already trod this ground before. [Mar 2008, p.94]

Like the last girl in the pub after closing time - it looks ropey but it's dead dirty. [Feb 2008, p.80]

An RPG-lite that's just too watered down to be at all enjoyable. [Mar 2008, p.94]

Top game. [Mar 2008, p.94]

Laughable. [Feb 2008, p.85]

As welcome as getting trench-foot. [June 2008, p.85]

Not shat or shovel, Asteroids Deluxe is one of the very, very few early eighties games that still play well. [Feb 2008, p.94]

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

Never before has storytelling been so competently ingrained into a videogame, and never before has a player had so much freedom to dictate the course of a linear storyline. Mass Effect isn't the laser-spewing monolith of a game we expected it to be, but it is far, far, far from a disappointment. [Christmas 2007, p.56]

The best bits will match any adrenaline high a game's ever given you. [Mar 2008, p.62]

Avatar is poorly adapted into a poor game with poor visuals. [Jan 2008, p.82]

The bold change of direction is to be applauded, but everything feels too bitty. [Jan 2008, p.70]

We'll go easy on it for being a kids' game, but it's certainly not a good one. [Feb 2008, p.94]

The weirdest, floatiest controls imaginable. [Feb 2008, p.94]

An average game made all the worse for having come from a superb team. A letdown. [Jan 2008, p.64]

An astonishingly ambitious adventure that's, largely, beautifully executed. [Jan 2008, p.72]

A disappointing 24/7 mode and huge repetition betray superb new mechanics. [Christmas 2007, p.70]

There's nothing broken here, but combat lacks flair and strategy is insignificant. [Jan 2008, p.68]

As bog-standard a shooter as we've ever played, marinated in a gallon of blood.

A game without a reason to live, consigned to the scrapheap by the 360's real racers. [July 2008, p.83]

Were it not for the technical faults Blacksite would be a just-about-half-decent FPS, albeit one with an identity crisis. The graphics aren't all that bad, but you can never really see them because of the staggeringly arse-flavoured frame rate.

One of the most inventive puzzle games on 360, ported from the PC with little love and attention. [Jan 2008, p.92]

Should be rubbish. Surprisingly isn't, though. [Jan 2008, p.94]

Fun Labs need to remember the fun was never in the shooting, but the hunting. [June 2008, p.84]

A strategy game that succeeds at what it's tried to do, even if it isn't that clever. [Christmas 2007, p.84]

A kiddy game at heart, that's now packing more bang for your buck.

Both Extraction Point and Perseus Mandate are short, dull and inferior to the original.

It's smoke and mirrors and a host of cheap tricks...but it's wonderful. [Jan 2008, p.56]

Another twin-stick shooter, but with a fun twist. [Jan 2008, p.94]

Although we've been here many times before, Timeshift is still a slick shooter with some neat ideas. [Christmas 2007, p.83]

Virtua Fighter 5 runs effortlessly on Xbox. But it's definitely an acquired taste. [Christmas 2007, p.74]

A pleasant surprise and a pretty good introduction to the show. [Christmas 2007, p.80]

We appreciate that mini-games must be simple and intuitive, but that doesn't mean they can't be imaginative, or hide subtle depths and plenty of replayability, or at least pretend they're doing something exciting. Party Animals does none of these.

The trouble is, while their numerous parodies of classic games are often missile-guided barbs that'll nuke your funny bone, they're surrounded by an absolute shatfest in gameplay terms that, stripped of its Grade A license and related idiosyncrasies, would normally be taken outside, beaten with a stick, strung up and strangled until dead.

Not half as crap as many would have you believe, this'd make a top pressie for the little 'un. [Feb 2008, p.78]

Our wireless guitar kept losing connection with the 360 when the neck wobbled, and it happened an awful lot. [Jan 2008, p.76]

Online multiplayer would maybe be fun - if anyone were playing, which they aren't. Disappointing. [Jan 2008, p.94]

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