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

Like the last girl in the pub after closing time - it looks ropey but it's dead dirty. [Feb 2008, p.80]

An RPG-lite that's just too watered down to be at all enjoyable. [Mar 2008, p.94]

Top game. [Mar 2008, p.94]

Laughable. [Feb 2008, p.85]

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

Not shat or shovel, Asteroids Deluxe is one of the very, very few early eighties games that still play well. [Feb 2008, p.94]

Call it a failed experiment, but a worthy try. [Jan 2008, p.94]

Never before has storytelling been so competently ingrained into a videogame, and never before has a player had so much freedom to dictate the course of a linear storyline. Mass Effect isn't the laser-spewing monolith of a game we expected it to be, but it is far, far, far from a disappointment. [Christmas 2007, p.56]

The best bits will match any adrenaline high a game's ever given you. [Mar 2008, p.62]

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

The bold change of direction is to be applauded, but everything feels too bitty. [Jan 2008, p.70]

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

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

An average game made all the worse for having come from a superb team. A letdown. [Jan 2008, p.64]

An astonishingly ambitious adventure that's, largely, beautifully executed. [Jan 2008, p.72]

A disappointing 24/7 mode and huge repetition betray superb new mechanics. [Christmas 2007, p.70]

There's nothing broken here, but combat lacks flair and strategy is insignificant. [Jan 2008, p.68]

As bog-standard a shooter as we've ever played, marinated in a gallon of blood.

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

Were it not for the technical faults Blacksite would be a just-about-half-decent FPS, albeit one with an identity crisis. The graphics aren't all that bad, but you can never really see them because of the staggeringly arse-flavoured frame rate.

One of the most inventive puzzle games on 360, ported from the PC with little love and attention. [Jan 2008, p.92]

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

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

A strategy game that succeeds at what it's tried to do, even if it isn't that clever. [Christmas 2007, p.84]

A kiddy game at heart, that's now packing more bang for your buck.

Both Extraction Point and Perseus Mandate are short, dull and inferior to the original.

It's smoke and mirrors and a host of cheap tricks...but it's wonderful. [Jan 2008, p.56]