“Cybergene” was one of the more hyped Big Finish boxsets in recent years and much like TV story “Asylum of the Daleks”, which suffered from a fan backlash when it didn’t in fact have “Every Dalek Ever!” in it, this box having loads of different Cybermen on the cover and promising much the same you’ll be unsurprised to hear it had a similar backlash from hardcore fans, made worse by the fact its audio so it’s hard to know which Cybermen featured at all beyond one or two obvious ones. Ignoring all that though, what is the story like by itself? It’s… fine. Basically a decent War Doctor story that happens to feature Cybermen. Let’s take a look…

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The War Doctor returns to our scre… audio-playing-devices with “Fallen Heroes”, a story I was really looking forward to not just because I really like the War Doctor range but because it was said  to be inspired by the likes of the X-Files and definitely Alan Wake, which is a unique idea for Doctor Who but especially the War Doctor, who tends to be all Daleks and blasters. Did it live up to my expectations? Well…

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I was looking forward to “Unknown Soldiers”, as I do for pretty much any War Doctor story, to be fair. The boxset has its moments and some of the cast really shine but others, um, not so much, especially a “Rocket Raccoon you have at home” that gets FAR too much attention in the last half of the story. Still, is there more good than bad? Well…

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The next War Doctor set has arrived, and somewhat annoyingly it’s also sort-of a sequel to the “Dark Gallifrey” series I’ve yet to buy (thanks to work schedule and extremely frustrating Big Finish app issues…) but only in the setting up of how Morbius is alive again and in a regular, if disfigured, body. Once you just accept that fact and brush off references he makes to what happened to him in that story you can focus on a fun showdown between him and the War Doctor. Let’s take a look!

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The Sontarans vs. Rutans mini-series-that-was-originally-a-box-set comes to a close with this rare stand-alone War Doctor story. “In Name Only” does a good job of tying all the different story strands that have been created across the previous three releases while also giving a fun story to digest as well. Let’s take a look!

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The War Doctor Begins, um, ends with “Exit Strategy” and with it the story of sort-of companion Case. Thankfully the odd and tragic story is brought to a good conclusion that also features another good look into the relationship between the War Doctor and his earlier selves, more specifically his previous self. Let’s take a look!

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“Enemy Mine” is the last War Doctor Begins box set (although there is already a stand-alone release featuring Jonathan Carley’s great early War Doctor announced so thankfully it’s not the last in general) so it’s time to tie up the one dangling loose end that is Case. At the end of the previous box set she had merged with a Berserker Dalek and then was recruited by the enemy side, so does the story come to a happy end? … Well, you’ll have to wait for the final story in the set to be reviewed in a couple of days, but as for the first two stories? Let’s take a look!

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