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 1, 2012 - Poor - NeverDead rarely gets to a point where you want to pull your own arm off just to have something to throw at the TV, but neither does it offer much more than ten hours of frustrating, repetitive gameplay. The initial concept may have been intriguing, but the final game definitely suggests that staying alive is vastly overrated.

February 8, 2012 - Poor - NeverDead is an embarrassment fit only for mockery. Sometimes, when I use the word ridiculous, I mean it in a positive way. With this game, I mean it with sneering contempt. NeverDead is a ridiculous videogame, one that is so clumsy, bedraggled, and neglectful that I am furious it exists, let alone carries an asking price of $59.99.

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 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.

February 2, 2012 - Poor - Like flowers in a trash dump, the fragrance of NeverDead's high points is overpowered by the tons of garbage surrounding them. Even the most worthwhile moments are awkwardly handled, and there's nothing fun or helpful about having your body torn apart over and over again.

February 2, 2012 - Poor - No amount of perfunctory challenge maps can make up for a game design so functionally lazy, so utterly indifferent to your enjoyment, that it can't even be bothered to make its lone gimmick work even slightly well within its hacked-together world. If the developers in charge of NeverDead didn't care enough to make it a remotely enjoyable experience, why should you care enough to bother with it?

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 31, 2012 - Poor - This should have been better. Rebellion has done likeable banter in Rogue Trooper, Shinta Nojiri has made better stories, and they've all cracked jokes that don't fall this flat. But NeverDead honestly feels like a game whose creators gave up on it half-way through. It's a tragedy that it fails on so many levels.