It's looking a bit on the tired side. Great music though. [Issue#25, p.118]

[An] abomination. [Issue#29, p.117]

A real mess of ideas that tries hard but just doesn't have what it takes. [Issue 26, p.118]

A contender for one of the dirtiest games of the year, Payback is two parts uninspired garbage and three parts loading screen. [Issue 28, p.98]

Small kids might like it, but will need supervision to solve some of hte later puzzles. Adults beware. [Issue#36, p.96]

So many cliches, so little time. [Issue#40, p.103]

What's good is lifted, what's new is paper-thin. [Issue#32, p.118]

Things couldn't get more generic unless there was somehow stealth, crates and a space marine superhero involved. [Issue#32, p.117]

He's rubbish at flying and all his weapons are completely unbalanced. [Issue#33, p.92]

Terrible stuff, and what’s more quite predictably so. The problem’s made worse by how much better things would be if its fat was simply trimmed. Oh Sonic, where art thou?

Bizarrely this Hulk game isn’t as much fun as Hulk: Ultimate Destruction, and it wasn’t exactly brilliant anyway. You’re best off just watching the film and leaving this alone.

You're left roaming the virtual landscape, hoping opposition might come your way. [Issue#33, p.117]

Put simply, there are deeper tactical outings, more sociable games of skill, and many Live Arcade titles more enjoyable than this. Go and buy one of htose instead. [Issue#34, p.116]

A shame in so many ways. Avoid, unless you like boredom.

At least you don't use the right analogue stick to aim. [Issue#36, p.114]

Quite simply, this would have been struggling for a decent mark on Live Arcade. One strong concept does not a game make.

There are much better games out there for the same audience. [Issue#44, p.84]

Very few redeeming features can pull SA back from the brink of feeling more like a half finished game with unforgiving controls. It will leave you with blisters, but not the good kind.

If you hadn't seen the price tag, you'd wonder what all the internet furore had been about. [Issue#45, p.100]

We accept that there’s some who’ll like this. You know who you are and you know you’re not the majority. Listen up majority, it is you to whom we speak.

Just another bemani game with horrible music that you're supposed to play with seven big buttons but instead you play it with wee buttons on the pad. [Issue#35]

It sucks! [Issue#37, p.116]

Zombie Wranglers sucks. Especially the 'comedy' names they've given each level. They really suck. [Issue#35]

Not terrible, but so dry it’s pointless. If videogame paintball appeals you may be entertained, but boredom will set in.

The fighting is okay, a few design decisions commendable, but ultimately there is just not enough great game here. Tiny levels with nothing in them? Looks like we are the ones being golden fleeced.

As strange as they come, with the shallow twist of centering on a group of women who bare all. You already know if this is for you or not.

Not atrocious but lacks any sense of originality and is far too tedious. [Issue#46, p.87]

A strange one, this. Fun to play with friends for a while, but the questions range from interesting to just plain stupid, and this really should be DLC. That’s what DLC is for!

Dull and frustrating. [Issue#49, p.88]

A game this short and shallow should really be ignored. There is nothing original, compelling or even that new and it will join the ever-growing pile of rubbish movie tie-ins.

There are much better alternatives. [Issue#53, p.95]

Try to forget that it ever happened. [Issue#52, p.93]

Controls that are either to broken or too difficult to use. [Issue#54, p.84]

If you must play one, go back a few games. [Issue#48, p.87]

When the camera decides to point at nothing its problems are inexcusable. [Issue#53, p.94]

The basic framework of the combat is acceptable, but really...nah. [Issue#48, p.99]

Some promising ideas, but little to no delivery on any of them. [Issue#49, p.90]

Fiddly controls. [Issue#51, p.105]

Feels like an unfinished game. [Issue#57, p.97]

At a whopping price, this is one game worth missing out on. [Issue#54, p.105]

All in all, a shame. [Issue#55, p.105]

It comes up short. [Issue#56, p.105]

The trouble is, said hints can appear superimposed over the play area, reducing play to a highly distracting farce. [Issue#57, p.107]

Nothing more than an interesting curio. [Issue#58, p.105]

It's just not very good at all, even for "fans of the series," as people tend to say. [Issue#56, p.90]

There are much, much better ways to spend 1,200 Points. [Issue#58, p.105]

A typical videogame tie-in that will last no longer in the public's memory than the film. Play it if you must, but don't say we didn't tell you so. [Issue#60, p.99]

Some truly horrendous loading times. [Issue#58, p.94]

Suffers from a variety of problems that will mean even racing fanatics and aficionados of the depicted sport itself will struggle to enjoy it. [Issue#57, p.97]

We've seen all of Sniper: Ghost Warrior's tricks before, and in far superior games. [Issue#62,p.88]

Really boring bits. [Issue#63, p.91]

Steer clear. [Issue#64, p.103]

One day someone will nail this series and make a game that does its mystery characteristics justice, but we're stuck waiting until then. [Issue#66, p.91]

Offers a smaller and less entertaining variety of workout than its fellow Kinect fitness titles. [Issue#66, p.93]

There isn't a single mini-game here that won't seem anachronistic three months from now. [Issue#67, p.90]

The eight-angle camera system serves only to confuse players with depressing regularity. [Issue#67, p.103]

Do yourself a favor and get Costume Quest instead. [Issue#67, p.105]

What should be exhilarating, fast-paced and exciting turns out to be boring, samey and unbalanced to the point of being broken. [Issue#68, p.89]

Ill-suited to the 360 platform and massively overpriced. [Issue#71, p.101]

A contradictory videogame premise that screams frustration from its opening stage, and continues in that vein thereafter. [Issue#71, p.103]

Unresponsive and inaccurate. [Issue#72, p.101]

More fun than being tortured and killed, but still not really much of an advertisement for 13th Century living. [Issue#73, p.87]

A rather depressing waste of money. [Issue#73, p.88]

This just isn't worth bothering with. [Issue#73, p.89]

Both a poor update and an unwieldy, near-cheating videogame overall. [Issue#73, p.101]

An 18-rated game made for 13-year-olds, and yet it is the gameplay that is the biggest disappointment. [Issue#74, p.82]

God of War minus the imagination, plus inordinate amounts of the colour green. [Issue#74, p.89]

Pales next to the likes of Torchlight and the DeathSpank games. [Issue#74, p.102]

A good idea in principle, and one that could have made for a great game, but its execution is so poor that it ends up looking like a complete mess. [Issue#75, p.76]

Painfully dull gameplay. [Issue#75, p.82]

Simply too boring to even consider a rental. [Issue#75, p.84]

So technical that it might as well be a manual. [Issue#75, p.85]

The inherent ropey nature of this tie-in can't be ignored. [Issue#75, p.85]

Couldn't feel much more dated if it tried. [Issue#76, p.102]

It's quickly frustrating. [Issue#77, p.91]

This game's destiny? The bargain bin. [Issue#78, p.84]

Broken, overly repetitive and frustrating to play. [Issue#78, p.89]

An uninspired, cheap-looking Trials HD rip-off, plastered with the Red Bull logo. [Issue#78, p.103]

We were both bored and angered by it. [Issue#79, p.100]

The fighting and climbing become exercises in frustration, and there isn't enough depth here. [Issue#83, p.100]

Motocross has so much more to offer than this dire racer. [Issue#84, p.87]

These robots could sure use a little extra life injected into them. [Issue#84, p.104]

A good-looking but boring button masher that should be avoided. [Issue#86, p.100]

Never before has a game's potential been squandered so much just because the hardware was unable to keep up with the vision. [Issue#87, p.80]

Though you might think Kinect would be the perfect fit for its staccato gameplay, it ultimately makes things even more frustrating. [Issue#87, p.87]

This game could send the blood pressure of a Buddhist monk into the stratosphere. [Issue#90, p.78]

It's an improvement on staring out the window. [Issue#91, p.78]

An impossible sell when you repress the action, screw the controls and forget to include AI. [Issue#91, p.88]

Poor controls. [Issue#92, p.88]

Offers little more than the free trial vision can provide. [Issue#93, p.88]

When it comes down to it, Crashed Ice isn't much more than an extra bit of advertising for Red Bull's own tournament. [Issue#94, p.82]

It can't hide its budget nature, presenting strategy fans with irksome gameplay, ugly visuals and an overall lack of polish or thought. This is a mess. [Issue#97, p.76]

The lack of challenge only adds to the boredom. In every way, Army Of Two: The Devil’s Cartel is an embarrassment to videogames...Not just boring, but exactly the kind of ‘violence for violence‘s sake’ dross the anti-videogame lobbyists dredge up at the arrival of each new atrocity.

Backgammon is the worst game in the world. [Issue#23, p.97]

A poor effort that simultaneously shows up EA's footballing naivety and its rampant capitalism. It will sell like the proverbial hot cake, but don't say we didn't warn you. [Issue 7, p.100]

A game that can't decide what it is and should never really have been released; something that Ubisoft clearly realises given the amount of effort that hasn't gone into promoting it. [Issue 10, p.86]

This would be embarrassing on a Dreamcast, let alone the hulking next-gen monster console we call Xbox 360. This is not a next-gen game and it's not fun either. [Issue 8, p.98]

A total waste of a disc and DVD case in our eyes, Samurai Warriors 2 does nothing that comparable games don't do an awful lot better. Definitely one to be avoided. [Issue 12, p.94]

A game that sucked in 1982 and amazingly, sucks even more in 2006. [Issue 14, p.116]

Not the worst game on 360 but it's not far off. Tedious, short and not much fun, if you want to pimp rides, we reckon you're better off sticking with "Need for Speed." [Issue # 16, p.94]

Hilariously bad. [Issue #22, p.82]

Virtually nothing works as it should, and what does owes an enormous debt to a few evergreen classics. Disappointing. [Issue 23, p.79]

A confusing tie-in that delights in the incompetence of its young audience, The Golden Compass makes absolutely no sense. Still, at least we got to throw projectiles at a monkey. [Issue 28, p.96]

Turning Point falls so short of its potential it makes us shed a tear. [Issue#32, p.82]

Button mashing is boring. [Issue#20, p.93]

As cynical as it is terrible, this pushes "Fuzion Frenzy 2" hard for the title of worst game on the Xbox 360 to date. [Issue #22, p.89]

Boring offence, terrible defence and a poor substitute for a series that could've taken a huge step forward on the 360. [Issue#30, p.93]

Awfully disappointing spin-off that insults on practically every level. The developers at Krome deserve to be punished, just like we were when playing this. [Issue 27, p.95]

For those who can look past the game’s flaws there are a few hours of mindless destruction and anal-probing to be had here, but only if you’ve exhausted every other game out there.

Here's a list of things that this is less interesting than: rubber gloves, garden peas, Spam and watching paint dry (of course). [Issue 26, p.117]

To make matters worse, you can spin blocks once they hit the bottom of the well or other blocks, meaning that the skill is lessend further. [Issue 27, p.118]

Rubbish, boring combat. [Issue 27, p.99]

Simply put, this is cynical, poorly playtested nonsense that's seriously due an MOT. Geddit? [Issue 27, p.96]

Gone are the days when it was acceptable to include hour-long levels and no checkpoints. [Issue#31, p.92]

Terrible controls. [Issue#46, p.87]

X-Blades fails to excite on any level and falls flat in everything it attempts. Probably best to ignore this and pretend it doesn’t exist.

Take the thing online (that is the name of the game after all...) and the results are truly beyond atrocious. [Issue#33, p.116]

A pointless, unfinished, unpolished, joyless, broken experience.

Another low-grade offering. [Issue#34, p.117]

Does Microsft not realise how insulting it is to release past free flash games as pay-to-download XBLA content? [Issue#37, p.116]

Not even worth it for fans of either series. [Issue#44, p.85]

Cheap, bland, and pretty much tasteless, like that value-brand white block that claims its chicken. [Issue#43, p.94]

Shellshock 2 is one of the most poorly designed and unplayable games this generation. Not even its admittedly interesting premise can keep it from feeling unfinished and completely unnecessary.

The frankly rubbish Summer Athletics by another name, and therefore still utterly depressing. Don’t even think about wasting your money on this.

Stupid, stupid game. [Issue#35]

Playing Interpol is like reading a "Where's Wally?" book, only without Wally. Or Woof. Or even Wenda. [Issue#37, p.117]

Headache of a game. [Issue#39]

Another Live Arcade offering that would be better replicated with pen and pad. [Issue#44, p.99]

It’s a very kid-friendly game, but to the point where there’s very little actual game to enjoy, and what there is is incredibly ugly. Simple, really easy and one that even five-year-olds will get bored of.

Although the game's stealth and combat elements are initially playable, they soon become dull and repetitive due to the uninspiring missions and tedious plot. [Issue#58, p.95]

You're far better off simply waiting a short while for Puzzle Quest 2. [Issue#59, p.105]

In short, it's a stinker. [Issue#61, p.104]

Mercifully short. [Issue#62,p.91]

This isn't exactly an experience to savour. [Issue#62,p.103]

A truly rubbish shooter that lies deep in Gears' shadow, pillaging it for set pieces, designs and mechanics with zero subtlety. [Issue#64, p.89]

The core fighting system is designed well enough, but the Kinect control is lazily implemented and there's absolutely no variety to the fights. [Issue#66, p.93]

An annoying platform/adventure hybrid that fails to utilise its fictional universe effectively. [Issue#67, p.84]

A messy control system. [Issue#67, p.88]

We can think of no reason for anyone to buy this. [Issue#74, p.101]

Generally speaking, Lucha Fury is a complete waste of time and Microsoft Points. [Issue#75, p.101]

It ranges from boring and stupid to totally incomprehensible, and neither end of the spectrum amounts to any fun at all. [Issue#80, p.87]

If you're an oldie who remembers Voltron, do yourself a favor and don't soil those memories with this. [Issue #81, p.103]

Poorly designed, monotonous and, aside from the hilariously bad voice acting, utterly, utterly bland. [Issue#84, p.89]

Probably not the worst tower defence game anywhere ever, but certainly the worst we recall playing on Live Arcade. [Issue#84, p.104]

Even if you're a fan of the TV series, the dullness just isn't worth it. [Issue#87, p.86]

If the awful premise wasn't bad enough, the gameplay you're presented with really makes the whole experience feel like an enormous waste of time.

Terrifically boring. [Issue#92, p.84]

Appalling levels, terrible writing, repetitive gags and weak shooting mechanics make for one of the least enjoyable experiences of 2012. Be smart and avoid at all costs. [Issue#93, p.82]

Basically, it's broken. [Issue#97, p.73]

About as fun as chiseling "HATE" into your eyes with a scalpel. [Issue 10, p.106]

Poor mini-games mixed with horrible controls and the worst 'host' ever - the best way to describe Fuzion Frenzy 2. [Issue 18, p.95]

Mind-numbingly boring. [Issue#23, p.97]

Tiresome gameplay, Unusuable maps, Broken combat. [Issue#24, p.78]

A piece of crap. [Issue 26, p.118]

It's bad...Even the Achievements suck. [Issue 18, p.85]

Rubbish. [Issue#24, p.101]

Blimey, it's been a while since we've played something so awful. It really makes you wonder how this got past quality control. [Issue 27, p.98]

Pointless, rubbish. [Issue 28, p.118]

Shrek is now dead to us, which is a shame; it all started so well. [Issue#29, p.117]

Utter toss. [Issue#29, p.117]

It's a complete knock-off, filled with bland mini-games. [Issue#32, p.118]

It's just dull and not really what your console was created for. [Issue#34, p.117]

This is about as fun as chiselling 'hate' into your other eye, and completing a set. [Issue#36, p.114]

This was a terrible, terrible idea. [Issue#35]

A criminal waste of development time. [Issue#55, p.93]

Has no redeemable features, is almost devoid of quality and should be avoided at all costs. [Issue#50, p.95]

A partner title without a fraction of the main series' spark. [Issue#66, p.103]

There's so much wrong with this game that we don't have space to list it all. [Issue#66, p.86]

It's simply lacking in every single respect. Not good. [Issue#67, p.86]

A videogame that thrills almost not at all that also happens to represent atrocious value. [Issue#71, p.102]

Intense, riveting, terrifying and masterful are just a few of the words we wouldn't use to describe Amy. One of the worst games on Xbox Live Arcade. [Issue#82, p.102]

Playing The Expendables 2 is like playing a port of Cannon Fodder coded by a dog while the entire population of America shouts at you. It's horrible. [Issue#90, p.87]

This game is a fossilised turd that never deserved to be excavated. [Issue#93, p.85]

This is Xbox Live Arcade at its very worst. [Issue#25, p.118]