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If Force Commander had looked better - epic rather than blocky - its sludgy pace and irritating interface would have been easier to take on the chin.

Even AT-ATs aren't cool when they look like they've been assembled from a cut-out cardboard model on the back of a cereal packet.

It's a banal observation I realise, but Force Commander's key problem was that it looked awful. Annoying, buggy and boxy: a far cry from the slick action I'd hoped it would somehow have despite all that I'd heard. I didn't make it past the first few levels. Star Wars does Command & Conquer? It's still the dream for Nerdly Men & Women Of A Certain Age really, isn't it? Even after Force Commander.

Almost everything I'd read seemed unimpressed. One a day, every day of the year, perhaps for all time. Have You Played? is an endless stream of game retrospectives.