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

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

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

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

Underplayed. [Feb 2009, p.104]

A shooter with all the usual pieces but none of the smarts needed to entertain.

Not what you expect from the makers of Total War: a flawed real time strategy, with zero thrills. [June 2009, p.74]

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

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

A frustrating mix of good and bad - we'd take it over "Blacksite" and co though. [Christmas 2008, p.63]

Switch off your critical faculties and there's a decent enough weekend rental here. [Issue#98, p.104]

A mildly entertaining fantasy yarn tragically coded by a team without any 360 experience. [May 2010, p.102]

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

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]

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

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

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

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

The 360 already has its share of top-grade fighters, making this instantly obsolete. [June 2010, p.99]

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]

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

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

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

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

Another 'classic' Sega franchise turns to bum gravy. Sonic, eat your heart out. [Jan 2009, p.67]

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

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

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

Episode one was weak; episode two clearly didn't notice. Who botches the Watchmen? [Nov 2009, p.105]

Thoroughly unambitious. [June 2008, p.96]

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

It's a shame, as what initially looked promising all those months ago when we first saw it, is in fact one of the worst games on Live Arcade. Avoid.

Not terrible, just utterly mediocre and, crushingly dull throughout. [Oct 2008, p.92]

Massively unimpressive. [June 2009, p.87]

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

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

As long as people insist on buying them, they'll keep on making them. [Dec 2008, p.92]

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

Should be put out of its misery. [Christmas 2009, p.98]

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

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

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

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

You'll feel frustration nearly as much as exhilaration, but the concept shines through. [Apr 2011, p.96]

Fleetingly daft fun but this is too expansive, too charmless and too hard. [Nov 2009, p.91]

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

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

Suffers from being in a big sea of similar titles. [Jan 2011]

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

Not the best, but Fatal Conspiracy is better than its individual parts would have you believe. [Jan 2011, p.82]

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

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

You'll need to be a serious American football/robot fan to get stuck in now. [Dec 2007, p.96]

Laughable. [Feb 2008, p.85]

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

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

Fancy time with Scofield, Sucre, Abruzzi and co? Buy the first season on DVD; it's much more fun.

Utterly rubbish, but bizarrely addictive. [March 2011, p.102]

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

Cheap or not, this has nothing to recommend it, bar morbid curiosity. [Jan 2008, p.83]

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

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]

A juvenile wishlist of swords, guns, girls and gore - really not much cop a game. [May 2009, p.42]

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]

Lacklustre gunplay is helped by an efficient, albeit simple, bird's-eye view. [Nov 2009, p.88]

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

Rock Revolution is ruined by its painful visual style, and is nearly unplayable on the higher difficulties. [June 2009, p.83]

This needed to be 80% faster and 150% slicker. [Sept 2010, p.104]

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

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

Could have done something really worthwhile with the genre, but... didn't. Nazi stuff.

We often found shooting to be off-target. [Feb 2012, p.109]

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

Sadly short on ambition. [Sept 2008, p.97]

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

Hell's vengeance is indefensible scrot that has no place in this console generation. [Nov 2009, p.90]

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

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

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

Time to dig up those copies of "ET"; there's a new extraterrestrial king of the landfill. Absolutely horrible.

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

Zzzzzzzzzzzz. [Jan 2011, p.87]

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

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

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

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

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

A lie detector that doesn't detect lies. Pointless. [Feb 2011, p.108]

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

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

At once percent per game we're being generous. [Feb 2011, p.108]

It's poorly designed and poorly made, and has the air of a game even the devs didn't care about. [July 2009, p.82]

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]

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

Bang for your buck - but the bang of a party popper rather than a nuke. [Mar 2009, p.79]

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

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