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.