MDK is frequently fun, sometimes frustrating, full of surprises, and visually stunning.

This should truly be awesome...and it is - if you have the recommended Pentium 166.

Fast it is not. And that's the most exciting thing about it.

The first class audio and visuals simply cannot mask the fact that Power F1 contains a fundamental flaw.

Probably the most interesting thing about Sentient is that it does make you feel as if you're onboard a space station.

Soldier Boyz is proof that companies still do use video footage in games - and that the results are as unsatisfying as ever.

It may be a half-baked, flawed product, but it's one you just can't stop playing.

Though the tabloid alien-abduction plot feels a bit dated, there's more than enough splatter and gags to compensate.

In addition to creating a plethora of wacky questions pertaining to film, the producers have also given this version a movie motif.

NovaLogic is back with a sequel worthy of giving Longbow a spin.

Exile III: Ruined World is the triumphant conclusion to the Exile trilogy, a massive epic with elegant interface, fascinating plot, and beautiful graphics and sound. A more fascinating and playable game, one will be very hard pressed to find. In Exile, you were cast down into the underworld by the Empire. In Exile II, you claimed the pit as your own, and fought off the Empire. In Exile III, your battle is to return home, to return to the surface and the sunlight you had thought lost forever. The problem - the surface is being destroyed, and nobody knows how or why. Move fast, or there will be nothing left for you to return to.

The plot in Shivers II is hauntingly intelligent.

In the first adventure, "Supernatural Private Eye" Edward Carnby is confronted by the many faces of evil in the darkness of Derceteo, a house where entering is the easy part and leaving could be hell! In part 2, Carnby battles against the powers of voodoo to save an eight-year-old girl kidnapped by a gang of evil zombie bootleggers dwelling in the aptly-named "Hell's Kitchen." In his final quest, Carnby faces the ultimate challenge in Slaughter Gulch, a Western, wilder than you could ever imagine! [I-Motion]

An adventure game with no adventure and no game.

Although this game doesn't include everything it should, there are some tasty extras.

From the opening level, you'll know you're in for a movie-worthy experience.

Grab your lightsaber and get ready for terrific Star Wars adventuring in Yoda Stories, the newest in a series of easy-to-play Desktop Adventures from LucasArts. Join Luke Skywalker as he trains to become a Jedi with Yoda, then harness the Force and cross the galaxy to meet exotic aliens, collect stange devices and weapons and deal the Galactic Empire one crippling blow after another - all within an hour!

The charming, uniform graphics also invoke the warm nostalgia of a bygone era.

The game is a real blast.

It plays wonderfully, looks absolutely fantastic, and serves up hours upon hours of wicked deep space warfare.

There's a lot to like in this low-priced gem.

Enemy Nations presents real-time strategy gamers with, if not something exactly new, at least a new combination of gaming styles.

The backgrounds in Eve are attractive, but the redundancy becomes tiresome.

Sound like standard empire builder fare? Yes and no.

A little patience goes a long way with HeliCOPS and leads to an overall satisfying experience.

iM1A2's complexity and realism will certainly appeal to simulation wonks, while the intense real-time strategy should endear it to the hearts of strategic wargamers.

Vale of Sorrow doesn't change Meridian drastically, but the improvements it makes are useful and well implemented.

Most of the new weapons in Dissolution are refined versions of hacks previously available on the Web.

Mech-to-mech combat is similar to others of this genre, with a couple of exceptions.

For those of you who never played the "non-gold" edition of Settlers II, it's best described as a mix of SimCity and Civilization.

Assume the role of Robert Cath, an American who recieves a mysterious dispatch from a friend to meet him on the Orient Express. However, once you get there you discover that things aren't quite as they should be! The game is set during the run up to World War 1. It has a very impressive recreation of the Orient Express and features a historically accurate background.

Theme Hospital is at heart a god-game in the vein of SimCity or Populous.

This typing tutorial stars Mario, Luigi, and Princess Toadstool.

Test Drive: Off-Road is pure arcade action.

It's a fine piece of work with only a couple minor flaws.

Play Sonic the Hedgehog 3, Sonic & Knuckles AND Sonic 3 and Knuckles! Save the world from destruction by defeating the evil Dr. Robotnik with your choice of Sega's best heroes... Sonic, Knuckles and Tails! Blast through huge zones, check out cool 3D special stages, discover bonus levels, and compete in 2-player split-screen competition. Complete with famous special moves, catchy soundtracks and fast action play, Sonic & Knuckles Collection delivers hours of great PC gameplay.

You'll battle cultists, gargoyles, zombies, hellhounds, and an unholy host of other terrors in your quest to stop Tchernobog. You must not only defeat the Cabal--you must scour its dread name from human memory. If that means eradicating everyone and everything the Cabal has ever tainted, so be it. Of course, you'll first have to make your way through fortresses, castles, mines, mansions, and estates guarded and kept by Tchernobog's malevolent servants. Fortunately, it is wits that make the hero, and although you're in serious danger of losing yours, you've got enough left to improvise some pretty effective tools of destruction. Aerosol hairspray can be frightening enough on its own, but apply it to a lighter flame and you've got an instant flamethrower (kids, don't try this at home!). Likewise, a flare gun can brighten your prospects considerably against even the grimmest odds, which is to say nothing for shotguns, Tommy guns, and dynamite. Who knows, you may even find that there are some spirits on your side when you find yourself clutching a voodoo doll. [Monolith]

Not nearly as original as its unorthodox title may imply.

I can't stop playing Realms of the Haunting.

A 60-year-old unsolved murder mystery... An ancient Indian myth called the "Cave of Death"... A strange note, a desperate plea for help... Adventures await you along the trails of the Great Northwest as you pursue unsolved mysteries in the role of Detective Chuck McBlade. Hiking, Hang-gliding, Rock Climbing, White Water Rafting, Wild Animal Encounters, Nature Discoveries, and much more...

You are Groove Champion, auto-vigilante. Your agenda: Payback for your dead sister. Your weapon: A 425-horsepower '72 Picard Piranha with two 50-caliber M60 machine guns on top and a flame-thrower on the side. You're one mean dude in an even meaner ride. They've messed with the wrong Champion. [Activision]

From the first sequence to the last, it's a constant barrage of fast-paced frustration.

A worthwhile investment if you're a fan of WWI or WWII flight and fight sims.

The logic behind some of the puzzles is a little on the dubious side.

Is it really worth 30 or 40 bucks for the enhancements?

Emperor of the Fading Suns is a good game with a major flaw.

G-NOME doesn't fully live up to its potential.

Loud, fast, and remarkably devoid of personality.

Becoming emperor of the universe has never been so tedious.

This translation looks beautiful and plays decently.

Marble Drop may succeed as an interactive screen saver, but it fails to engage attention as a game.

While it won't win any awards, Mutant Penguins is entertaining and intriguing, and a pretty great value.

In terms of realism and gameplay, Final Four 97 shoots an air ball.

It's simple to an extreme, but there's at least one amazing moment in each track that will keep your engine revving to the next.

Highly recommended for anyone who just can't get enough of the original.

A game that offers four distinct races and sixty-four separtate units shouldhave a little more complexity woven into its gameplay

Credit goes to Live Entertainment for creating an adaptation in which the storyserves as a supplement to the movie script instead of ripping it off.

Koala Lumpur, a silly and twisted tongue-in-cheek ride until the very last screen, is well worth your time.

A superior entry in the crowded Civil War gaming market.

The game doesn't perform all that well on the PC.

Atmospheric and true to the original.

Roberta Williams did not invent the adventure game genre, but she has aided in its evolution time and time again.

Not many PC translations of arcade games score high marks in realism, and Sega Rally Championship is no exception.

While the gameplay is essentially the same, there is a subtle change in emphasis in Shrak.

You, as biochemical engineer Lilah Kerlin, and your partner Max Powers, an environmental engineer, have created the Ceres Project -- an orbiting satellite that releases nanobots into the atmosphere designed to restore the ozone layer and eliminate atmospheric pollution, which has reached a crisis point in the year 2066. After successfully engineering and launching Ceres, the project is left to operate under its own control. With the job complete Lilah and Max decide to go on a long overdue vacation. However, while vacationing they discover a strange black, crystalline growth that is becoming larger every day ? and somehow it seems to be eerily linked to the Ceres Project. [AdventureGamers.com]

It's the ultimate pick-up game. Michael Jordan, Bugs Bunny, Porky Pig, Daffy Duck and Lola Bunny vs. a mean team of outlandish alien Monstars! This is intergalactic hoops according to the Big Slam Theory! Extraterrestrial dunks! Anti-gravitational alley-oops! Stellar gameplay! And a bunch of mini-games overstuffed with wacky cartoon mayhem. Earth just wasn't big enough. SPACE JAM!

An axe-wielding medieval mother wants your heart on a stick... An armored killing machine wants his mace in your head... A feracious fiend wants his claws in your charred corpse... Either way, you're facing eternity on the edge of a rusty blade.

The definitive X-Files resource is here. You've hacked into a highly classified government web site giving you Unrestricted Access to The X-Files. The X-Files Unrestricted Access CD-ROM was developed in close cooperation with The X-Files creator Chris Carter and Ten Thirteen Productions. It is the essential interactive reference source for every true X-Phile.

Welcome to the world of Descent - the amazing experience of 360 degree fluid 3D motion that is still unmatched. Plunge through mines that defy physics, blast your way past enemy robots and experience vertigo like never before. Arm yourself with deadly weapons and confront creatures with highly advanced artificial intelligence; they will plot, wait and ambush you from all sides. Don't keep this feeling of nausea to yourself, go Head-to-Head with 2-player modem support or 8-player network and Tournament Mode. Brace yourself for Descent I and II: The Definitive Collection...

BackPacker 2 is, as the name suggests, the successor to the great game success BackPacker. The idea behind the game is still the same, but the possibilities have become much greater. In BackPacker 2 there are four times as many questions, 70 different cities to travel to, 70 different jobs you can apply for, the possibility of Internet access and now there is also the possibility to also travel by train and boat to some of the cities. The gameplay has been significantly improved in terms of the many new features in the game. For example, buy souvenirs cheaply in Nairobi, and sell them expensively in Tokyo. The core of BackPacker, of course, is still all the questions that need to be answered to get around the world. To make room for it all, the BackPacker 2 comes on two CDs.

A CD-ROM for savvy world travelers. With a backpack, some euros and an assignment you travel through Europe. Like any world traveler, you take care of everything yourself: Where do you sleep? What do you buy? Do you have enough money? Keep going, because there's a lot more to this game than you think.

The kingdom of Khandaras has fallen into chaos. An unknown force of evil has swept across the land. Plunging it nto civil war and terrorizing the populace. A mad king, his missing son, and a mysterious archbishop are all pieces to the puzzle that faces you. You have journeyed to the source of the evil. The town of Tristram. Now inhabited by only a handful of survivors. The catherdal there is buildt over the ruins of an ancient monastary, and now eerie lights and sounds are heard echoing through its abandoned halls. Perhaps the answer lies withing the remains of a forgotten past... Diablo invites you to enter a world of dark gothic fantasy. Play as a brave warrior, cunning rogue or mysterious sorceror. As you venture deeper into the labyrinth, you'll discover weapons, armor, and magical treasures, and develop your character's skills and abilities. [Blizzard]

Now you can play anyone, anytime, anywhere with Risk, the game of global domination. Using the same hands-on military planning found in the original Risk board game, players now see battles come to life. With each battle comes the chance for victory and advice from historic military leaders as you earn medals and special bonus content for strategic accomplishments. This product will deliver a truly unique way to play the Risk game and provide an ideal social experience for up to six players in multiplayer mode and online.

Scrabble was made for computer play.