A flawless two hours of fun, made all the better by the extra challenge stages. [Jan 2009, p.102]

A haunting puzzler brimming with ideas, Limbo is easily the platform's greatest successor to Braid. [Oct 2010, p.118]

Visceral Games has managed to create a stunning single-player adventure and has made an encouraging, if imperfect, first step into the realm of multiplayer. Buy it. Fear it. Love it. Dead Space 2 is the undisputed king of action horror.

The ultimate racing game for fans of slowburning, ultra detailed motoring... a bit joyless for everyone else. [Aug 2007, p.78]

It's another sound update but just lacking the fluidity and polish to mark it as one of the great sports sims. [Christmas 2011, p.103]

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

A rollicking good adventure. [Christmas 2008, p.56]

A better game than Assassin's Creed II, albeit one with extra niggles to contend with. [Jan 2011, p.]

A masterpiece of co-op gaming that's endlessly replayable and genuinely scary. [Jan 2010, p.76]

Looks like a straight run and gun horror shooter, but it's filled with ideas which will be copied for years. [Feb 2009, p.68]

It captures you imagination like few other worlds in games. [Christmas 2011, p.100]

It's GTA IV - only perfected. [Christmas 2009, p.116]

The very fact that we wish Dead Space included more of its original features and less content pulled from the last generation's greatest game speaks volumes for the quality on show. [Issue # 71]

Massive, ambitious and thoroughly brilliant, Deus Ex Human Revolution turns out to be three different games at once, and all of them are outstanding.

A must-have for any Fabs fan. [Dec 2009, p.86]

Presents an insanely detailed world and a game unlike any you've played before. [Aug 2011, p.96]

Peggle is a drug. But a good one. And with no special "after effects." [June 2009, p.94]

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

Incredible graphics. [Jan 2011, p.82]

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.

Exactly what you'd want from a modern Metroid - pretty, well-paced, and as grey as a squirrel. [Nov 2009, p.104]

I never expected Modern Warfare 3 to go toe-to-toe with EA's juggernaut this year, but it came out of the gates with a tour de force campaign and co-op mode. It loses points with a perhaps too-familiar multiplayer that caters to the juvenile on Xbox Live; though don't be mistaken, Modern Warfare 3 is one hell of a shooter and a highlight for a series that just won't die – no matter how much we wish it bloody would, at times.

An only slightly disappointing update of a superb title. [Dec 2009, p.92]

One of the best fighting games ever, but it's a series that's been even better since. [Feb 2009, p.102]

Guybrush and gang get the gaming equivalent of a knighthood, a Ferrari and a bonk with Megan Fox. [Oct 2009, p.102]

The cliche 'game of two halves' normally conjures up images of classic football comebacks, but after staggering through the glaringly uneven single-player campaign in Bad Company 2, twenty-four hours after spending a whole day solidly playing the superb multiplayer component, there's hardly a more apt description of DICE's wannabe CoD-killer. This is all about the online game.

It's a stonking sports game, but even the commentary repeats lines from old version. [Issue#98, p.90]

Still the best football game in the world, bar none. [Dec 2010, p.84]