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]