Underplayed. [Feb 2009, p.104]

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

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

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

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

A decent enough idea, but one bolted onto a mess of a game. Very naughty indeed. [Oct 2010, p.96]

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

This would be a nice (if distasteful) stalk-'em-up, but it's so wretchedly broken in places.

A dull, expensive experience, but it's faithful to the board game, at least. Yawn. [Jan 2009, p.70]

A deluxe compendium of cliche, worth a tenner to be fans of the film. [Jan 2010, p.90]

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

A messy, boring, button-mashing waste of time. [Nov 2011, p.111]

Rotten sniper slop with flimsy Call of Duty-esque levels glued onto the side. [Oct 2010, p.94]

Tornadoes suck, blow, annoy and upset. Tornado Outbreak nails all of that. [Jan 2010, p.74]

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

It's a bad version of a bad way to replicate playing poker, badly pieced together. [Aug 2007, p.75]

Niggly, thoroughly uninspired, and lacking variety, Bodycount is destined to sink without trace in 360's deep pool of generic shooters. [Dec 2011, p.100]

As painfully endless and mind-numbing as ever, but it does at least try to add something new. [Apr 2010, p.96]

A big mistake made all the more unbearable for its few glimpses of promise. [Feb 2010, p.88]

Frustrating, cheap and lacking any real depth. A modern "Chase HQ" this isn't. [Aug 2008, p.80]

Cheap and nasty. [Feb 2010, p.84]

A stab at a cold Summer Athletics anchored down by too many weak events. [Apr 2009, p.89]

A budget effort which has been created with little effort to please military buffs or gamers. [Oct 2010, p.97]

Wrong control system. [Feb 2011, p.108]

Quite probably the most repellently cutesy kid's game ever to grace the Xbox. Coochie-poo! [Issue#98, p.105]

The genre's game of choice, but the better game of a bad, bad mix. Forget about it. [Dec 2007, p.85]

Yet another step-down for the ailing series. EA's given up on this one, it seems. [Jan 2011, p.89]

With a gazillion top racers on 360, you'd have to be bonkers to drive this home. [Feb 2008, p.79]

Tries to coast by on nostalgia, but even fans will see this as a total waste of 14 years. [Sept 2011, p.86]

Jamie's not the only one who's crying. [Apr 2010, p.100]

Okay, so it's a kid's game, but some element of challenge would have been nice. [July 2009, p.89]

Frustrating and clumsy, with one of the least appealing female characters ever. [May 2009, p.83]

Endlessly dim foes and equally dull swordplay undermine any samurai appeal. [Christmas 2007, p.76]

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

Tepid platforming action. [June 2010, p.88]

Absolutely soul-crushingly tedious. [Sept 2007, p.78]

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

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

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

A dull, zero budget hack-'n'-slasher with a mad plot and easy Achievements. [Aug 2011, p.95]

Little imagination, endless repetition and incredible frustration. [Oct 2010, p.90]

One of the worst shooters of this generation. The clue really is in the name.

An inept shooter that manages to make Duke Nukem Forever look like Modern Warfare.

Massively unimpressive. [June 2009, p.87]

The perennial police pap parps again. Lock your doors and drive on, meine freunde. [Apr 2011, p.98]

Soulless, derivative guff. [Jan 2010, p.91]

A cerebral classic with the cerebral removed. A truly trivial pursuit - buy the real game. [June 2009, p.77]

Bad to the bone - and not even in a funny way - this is a good idea, obliterated.

Another insultingly uninspired stab at fooling fans of the comics and the movie. [Aug 2011, p.100]

More Bowel Motionsports. [Feb 2011, p.108]

It doesn't take a quantum theorist to see this is rotten.

The villain's aim is to destroy Matt Hazzard. This game does it for him. [June 2009, p.78]

A collection of utterly shoddy Winter Olympics themed mini-games. Avoid. [Apr 2010, p.97]

There was no need to reheat this, and no need for you to suffer it. [Feb 2012, p.111]

A car crash of a game, and yet another howler to add to the execrable Hollywood tie-in bin. [Aug 2010, p.27]

A perfectly charming guest that turns up to the party five years too late. [Christmas 2009, p.97]

Cruddy game of cruddy movie non-shocker. The greatest legends of humanity, shat upon. [Aug 2010, p.99]

It loves the sport, but this is a cheap racing game, besieged by big, game-ruining problems. [May 2010, p.80]

They stopped making Shrek games. And we all lived happily ever after. The end. [Oct 2010, p.98]

Middling fun in small doses, but how many times can you play the same game? [Dec 2007, p.85]

The worst RPG on 360 by a wide margin. [Christmas 2009, p.99]

A colossal waste of cash. [Christmas 2011, p.112]

An unplayable mess lacking all the polish we expect from EA. Stay well clear. [Oct 2007, p.85]

Even for the notoriously shabby ghetto of licensed-games, X-Men Destiny represents a new low. Activision have sent this one out to die. [Christmas 2011, p.102]

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

A wretched game that totally fails to compete with other hack-'n'-slashers on 360.

Shallow and incredibly dull, another year, another rank DW title. [June 2009, p.82]

A real chien of a historical slasher. Its camp appeal is offset against its tendency to crash mid-game. Sheer hell. [Christmas 2011, p.101]

"World at War's" zombie-flavoured extra is more accomplished than this tosh. [May 2009, p.76]

Balls indeed. [Christmas 2009, p.89]

The worst 30 minutes of our gaming year so far. Please don't make it yours as well. [June 2011, p.119]

One of the best shooters of the mid-nineties, ruined spectacularly for the 21st Century. [Aug 2010, p.121]

As uninspiring as it's bland title. Blah. [Jan 2011]

Buy this to waste money! [Apr 2009, p.104]

Speedy shooter much in common with cack like "Outrigger." Get your mech fix elsewhere. [Christmas 2008, p.94]

A strong license attached to an abysmal game, like a Ferrari attached to a boat anchor. [June 2009, p.95]

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

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

An idea too small to sustain an entire game. [Jan 2009, p.104]

Last time we checked, a Toyota doesn't come with a ruddy big gun. False, and very bad, advertising if you ask us. Still, it's free. [Christmas 2007, p.98]

Cheesy acting. [Feb 2011, p.108]

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

A brave attempt at something which shouldn't have been attempted in the first place. [Apr 2009, p.104]

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

Nothing other than nice graphics. [Dec 2008, p.103]

A well-made revival of a rotten formula, Bionic Commando is better in your head than on your screen. [Apr 2011, p.121]

Laughably outdated and, worse, overpriced. [Aug 2009, p.103]

It takes the "worst game on Live" title from "Rocky and Bullwinkle", by some margin. [Jan 2009, p.104]

A worthless exercise in over-designed pap, based on a game you already own. [Apr 2009, p.104]

Rather than simulate a playground game we never played in the UK anyway, pay the extra and import the brilliant "MLB 2K8." [Jan 2009, p.104]

Weak enough to make even uber-fans blanch. [Jan 2011, p.113]

Everything about LOTR: Conquest is bad. [Mar 2009, p.80]

Sega's most overrated game is as rubbish now as it was back in 1992. [Nov 2007, p.96]

A sorry excuse for a 360 title. [Apr 2009, p.92]

As it is, buying this overly, overly, overly familiar reprise would be akin to sticking two fingers up to every decent developer out there, then murdering their pets. Please Koei, no more. Please.

Audley Harrison puts up a better fight than this. [Feb 2011, p.108]

A braindead chore of a platformer, with no redeeming features. [March 2011, p.103]

Unleash this on an unsuspecting child and social services could very well come knocking. [Feb 2009, p.81]