An annoying game of trial and error. [July 2005, p.84]

Just about everything is bland, from the gameplay to the graphics. [Jan 2006, p.80]

The surreal visuals occasionally impress and the voice acting is fair (no Depp though), but there's too little fun. [Oct 2005, p.94]

If you're expecting puzzles to solve in The Da Vinci Code, then you'll be pleased to know there are plenty; if you're expecting a good game, however, that's a different story entirely. [Aug 2006, p.84]

The Story mode is fatally flawed. [Oct 2006, p.84]

Too bad The Sopranos: Road to Respect doesn't give respect to either the franchise it's based on or its fans. [Feb. 2007, p.85]

Seems better suited as a handheld...sort of. [Jan 2007, p.88]

It ain’t all that great to look at…[and] the controls can be rather awkward. [Feb 2002, p.40]

You can't even play through this or any season as your favorite college team, which makes us wonder why on earth they called it March Madness 2002. [Mar 2002, p.30]

The generic rock soundtrack can't save the mediocre graphics. [May 2002, p.28]

Sloppy, nonintuitive control and monotonous, room-clearing gameplay make it a chore to play. It's also unnecessarily difficult. [Sept 2002, p.31]

The level designs are limited, repetitive, and visually uninspiring, while Zapper has all the personality of a last-minute stand-in. [Jan 2003, p.42]

About as fun as being hit in the face with a chair. [Holiday 2003, p.44]

The original "Ridge Racer" on PSOne had better control than Auto Modellista. The biggest problem with the game is the utter lack of traction that these cars have. [June 2003, p.28]

Repetitive missions, bad flight controls, and too many robots make this game quite non-super. [Dec 2002, p.60]

The actual gameplay itself is woefully shallow. [Oct 2002, p.40]

It makes for a boring, bland videogame. [Holiday 2004, p.92]

DRIV3R is a mess, little more than an unfinished recycling of GTA cliches, both sterile and juvenile. [Sept 2004, p.25]

There's nothing here you didn't already pay for with "UFC Throwdown." [July 2004, p.34]

As sure as Boyz n the Hood led to Malibu's Most Wanted, "Grand Theft Auto" has given us 25 to Life, a third-person urban shooter that reminds us that everything's better with an AK. [Apr 2006, p.72]

Inspired by true events, with a storyline developed by Mafia expert David Fisher, Made Man is simply a woefully slipshod product. [June 2007, p.86]

A collection of the original games would have rocked, but in too many of these games, Sega Classics Collection has reinvented the wheel - and somehow made it square. [March 2005, p.78]

You'll repeatedly find yourself emptying a full clip to kill a dude at point-blank range. [Feb 2006, p.81]

The difficulty curve does level off after a while, but the sheer boredom of the endless hit-and-run battles does not. [Sept 2005, p.75]

Combat featuring counters, reversals, and fighting move upgrades sounds promising, but in practice does little to offset the game’s repetitiveness. [Mar 2006, p.84]

The different challenges and abilities are so contrived that it's laughable. [Holiday 2005, p.90]

The graphics are mostly serviceable, but the AI is all over the map. [Holiday 2005, 92]

Not good. Simply, not good. [May 2006, p.82]