January 31, 2012 - Poor - While the game oscillates between quiet moments of benign banality and maliciously amateur stretches of sensory-overload, it's undeniable that NeverDead is a tumor from the moment you insert it into your console.

February 7, 2012 - Poor - Frustrating, repetitive and lazy, NeverDead is a shining example of how not to make a game: every aspect is poisoned by the bad design that runs through its core.

February 2, 2012 - Poor - The game needed more immediate payoffs to help offset the woeful control issues and repetitive design, but only persistent players will be able to slog through to the last third of the game where the levels and abilities get more interesting. Sticking around that long hardly seems worth it though.

January 31, 2012 - Poor - The dismemberment of the main characters [...] makes the game less fun than it would have been as just a plain old third-person action game. Sure, it's a unique idea - but not every idea is worth pursuing. In the case of NeverDead, this concept should have been left on the cutting room floor. You could say the same about the game itself.

February 22, 2012 - Poor - A largely uninteresting game populated by awful characters that is a chore to play, NeverdDad deserves to spend eternity alongside those infamous Atari 2600 ET cartridges, or perhaps digesting forever in the belly of The Biggest Loser's loser.

February 3, 2012 - Poor - The story is just supposed to string together the action sequences, which is where the strength of the game is supposed to shine. Unfortunately for NeverDead, it seems to have forgotten that essential element.

February 2, 2012 - Poor - The animation is clunky and below par, but the art direction is quite good, in a lowbrow, pulp comic book kind of a way. The script is trite, and music and voice acting both well below par, but you still couldn't accuse it of being a technical shambles. Design wise, though, it's formulaic, tedious and messy.

January 31, 2012 - Poor - It is the video game equivalent of those trashy drug store action movies starring nobody actors, the five dollar sort that you only buy to give away as gag gifts. Do not be fooled: NeverDead represents the bottom of the barrel in video gaming. Do not buy it.

January 30, 2012 - Poor - All style and no substance, NeverDead sounds like a great idea but can't make its main mechanic transition from theory to practice. A dull, derivative slasher that isn't worth your time nor money, especially when Bayonetta exists. Which it does.

January 31, 2012 - Poor - The most surprising thing about NeverDead is just how boring it all is. This is an utterly generic shooter with an inspired dismemberment mechanic that neither Rebellion nor director Shinta Nojiri seems to know what to do with. Lacking any kind of spark whatsoever, it becomes increasingly apparent that NeverAlive would be a more honest title.