Two monster corporations at war. One solution. A massive martial arts event is organized to settle the score and eliminate all conflict between the two parties. Join over 30 brawlers from Capcom's legendary Street Fighter and SNK's renowned King of Fighters series; as they fight for universal domination. Capcom vs. SNK PRO...the ultimate collision of strength and power.

Plastro, the nefarious leader of the Tan army, has enlisted the help of the villainous Baron von Beige to help him set a trap for Captain Blade! The Alpha Wolf Squadron once again 'takes to the skies' with an onslaught of new missions, improved helicopters and more pyrotechnic weaponry than ever before. Join the Air Cavalry as they face a host of challenging foes in their efforts to stop the General's evil plans.

In the end, GameDay 2001, aside from its obvious roster updates and a few minor additions, is totally identical to last year's title, which was a really good game.

Syphon Filter 3 looks, plays, and feels more like an expansion pack for the previous games than a true sequel.

Atlantis: The Lost Empire is based on the Disney movie of the same name and follows the exploits of four characters from the movie as they attempt to discover the hidden underwater world.

A Journey of Friendship...A Journey fraught with Danger...A Journey to Save the World...A Journey West. Based on one of the most popular legends of China, Saiyuki takes you on an epic journey from China to India and back. Recruit the Monkey King, Son Goku, and others like them to defeat untold monsters along the way.

Despite the haphazard audio, NASCAR 2001 is definitely a game that's worth owning.

A mere $40 investment stands between you and one of the best arcade-style motorcycle racing games the PlayStation has to offer.

Based on one of the most popular cartoons in the Looney Tunes library, players will direct Ralph Wolf throughout the flock of sheep while avoiding detection by Sam Sheep-dog. Your mission, of course, is to use all sorts of outrageous mail-order equipment (Acme, naturally) to get to some delicious lamb chops.

RC Revenge is intensely playable and highly polished - a far cry from its predecessor.

Join Bugs and Taz in their first ultimate action-packed adventure through time! Experience original gameplay that let's you switch between Bugs Bunny and Taz, to conquer obstacles and adversaries. Face off against classic Looney Tunes adversaries like Yosemite Sam, Elmer Fudd, Babba Chop and Count Bloodcount. Explore 4 exciting time periods - The Aztec Era, The Viking Era, The Arabian Era and Transylvanian Era. Enjoy over 30 levels of sporting contests, quests, boss encounters, and crazy chases. Play with a friend in the first ever 2-player cooperative gaming for the PlayStation!

Play 12 of the best classic Atari games with all the fast action, sights and sound you remember! Asteroids, Asteroids Deluxe, Battlezone, Black Widow, Centipede, Gravitar, Missile Command, Pong, Space Duel, Super Breakout, Tempest and Warlords. Each Atari title is faithfully reproduced down to the last detail, and each one is just as easy and fun to play. It's like having your very own arcade!

Train with Professor X to unleash your super-powers and polish your combat skills. Master all-new, over-the-top moves-including aerial combat-as you fight through the ranks of mutants and prove you have what it takes to earn X-MEN status. Plus, get a behind-the-scenes look at X-MEN the Movie concept sketches, costumes and more!

They've travelled millions of miles, across the galaxies, their mission was simple, "Pose as stupid creatures and study the habitat". The sheep soon forgot their mission and preferred instead to enjoy the sunshine and wallow in the lush green pastures. Now it's time for them to return home. Your task is to guide the Sheep back to their celestial ancestors, saving them from the perils of electric fences, shark-infested ice cream and combine harvesters. It's not as easy as it sounds, especially when your sheep flock off in the other direction!

Hard-core Time Crisis fans and those just looking for a good gun game would do well to pick up this game, but the antiquated presentation, lack of options, and brutal continue system will make this at best a rental for most.

EA added the new coach mode and polished an already stellar game into the best college hoops simulation for the PlayStation.

989 has opted to take the easy road this time around, and the result is a basketball game that remains virtually unchanged from last year's version.

Overall, Need For Speed II is the PlayStation's slickest racer yet.

Rev your engines - It's time to burn some Looney Tunes rubber! ACME Corporation, the corporate juggernaut behind such successful products as the Acme Disintegrator Gun and the Acme Portable Hole, is sponsoring a number of racing contests all over the universe for the Looney Tunes characters to compete for the looniest racing champion title.

Super Shot Soccer is a pretty fun game that's a little short on options but not bad on offering up some well-rounded soccer gameplay.

Easily as good as Raystorm or G-Darius and tough competition for Einhander, Thunder Force V is a shooting fan's dream.

MTV: Pure Ride is an excellent snowboarding game, but it's yet another example of a development house shifting the majority of its resources to the next generation of hardware.

It's a solid game that's fun to watch, but it's no longer the only game in town.

NFL Blitz 2001 takes a low-key approach, delivering much the same features as last year's release while offering a number of minor refinements in key areas.

Konami has gone to great lengths to integrate two- and four-player capability into each of the game's non-season modes, which opens up the possibility of introducing your sports-phobic friends to a soccer game they can actually play.

Even though the gameplay is largely the same as in the previous GTA, it's still a lot of fun.

Delta Force features tactical, stealth-based combat from a first-person perspective.

NCAA GameBreaker 2001 is basically the same as last year's model.

Destruction Derby stands alone as the premier demolition racing series on the PlayStation.

A number of unfortunate gameplay adjustments overshadow the few welcome additions found in this year's release.

Count Dracula has been resurrected to begin a new reign of terror across the land. As Simon Belmont, descendant of legendary vampire hunters, you enter Dracula's estate to face the Count and his minions - alone. Be prepared for one of the first adventures in the Castlevania series ever!

Even if you're not well steeped in the world of video pinball, the game's $9.99 price makes it well worth checking out.

In an apocalyptic future, the Edo computer has gone beserk, dividing the world's inhabitants into two mutant classes. Silhouette and Mirage. Now, the watchguard computer safety system has sent forth the Messenger of Justice to travel to Edo and repair the damage before the world is lost forever. As the Messenger, Shyna Nera Shyna, blast, beat, and bash your way through seven wild and bizarre stages using friendly parasite weapons to aid your advance against wacky enemies, huge fully-animated bosses, and devilshly difficult obstacles. Providing the utmost in playability and replayability, the game wizards at Treasure, the brilliant minds behinds such international hits as Gunstar Heroes™, Dynamite Headdy™, Mischief Makers™, and Guardian Heroes™ have come up with another sure-fire classic that pushes the 2-D capabilities of your PlayStation® game console to its limit, and come up with a hit!

Out from the underbelly of a dark and dangerous future, emerges an elusive hero who wages war for peace and justice. Now, one of the world's most legendary heroes, Strider Hiryu, returns on the PlayStation® game console. Armed with his light sword, Cypher, Strider blazes through the darkness to battle the evil dictator, Grandmasters. Featuring 2 discs of gritty action adventure, this highly anticipated sequel also includes an incredible bonus... the original Strider game.

Based on the comic by the great manga artist, Rumiko Takahashi, Bandai is proud to present INUYASHA for the PlayStation® game console! Battle your way through the thrilling world of INUYASHA and unlock new characters for hours of pulse-pounding fighting action! Go head-to-head against a friend, or team up in tag-team and versus modes! In this fight for fun, you'll always come out the winner!

Crash and his friends are back in a knockdown, drag-out arena rumble. Get ready to ride, race, jump, throw, and battle it out to the finish in frantic, head-to-head battles, and heart-pumping chases. Choose your favorite character, including Crash, Coco, Dr. Neo Cortex, and new baddie Rill Roo, and race for points in more than 30 competitive events. With a Multitap, you can race up to three of your friends and show who's the top bandicoot. It's a good old-fashioned bandicoot brawl.

Ducati World Racing Challenge makes a good effort at providing the kind of gameplay and variety that racing fanatics desire.

Sentenced to eternity in an ultra violent intergalactic prison for a crime you didn't commit, you only have one shot at freedom, and it's a long hard road to roll down. You will have to go head to head with the "Best of the Worst". The most vicious and violent humanoid prisoners the galaxy has to offer. Fight your way across the universe, beating any and all opponents... If you're tough enough, you can win back the freedom that is rightfully yours... if you're the last man rolling!

This year's entry in the MLB series adds more authenticity to the baseball experience with new modes, detailed stadiums, and fresh commentary. In MLB 2004, you can build yourself an unbeatable dynasty with Franchise mode, take your favorite team or player through a ten-year Career mode, manage the front office in General Manager mode, or take a rookie from A-Ball to the big leagues in Spring Training mode. Replays, play-by-plays from Vin Scully, and commentary from ESPN's Dave Campbell, enhance the action from Opening Day to the Fall Classic.

Vanishing Point is one of the most original and enjoyable racing games to come around in a long time.

Ready 2 Rumble: Round 2 has more boxers and moves than the first game, but aside from a few slight changes here and there, the game remains largely unchanged.

The graphics in Maximum Remix are roughly identical to the first game, so you're stuck with muddy, ugly textures and quite a bit of texture warping.

An ambitious and unethical scientist, a secret experiment gone horribly awry, and an artificially intelligent supercomputer gone mad; all the necessary ingredients for the imminent extinction of mankind. You are humanity's last hope, a hotshot pilot given the unenviable task of flying an experimental fighter into the dark heart of the Con-Human Network. Seize the controls of three Wave Rider spacecraft, each equippped with the WR-01 primary weapon array, WR-02 secondary lock-on laser system, and WR-03 single-use weapon for emergency situations. RayCrisis: Series Termination is the final entry in Taito's acclaimed trilogy of shooters, and it bombards your CRT with an abundance of fourth-generation optical stimulation: multilevel scrolling, transparency and lighting effects, and enough polygons to overload your cerebral cortex. Dodge, weave, and blast through two play modes, disintegrating wave after wave of relentless bogeys, to achieve high scores and unlock hidden bonuses. Prepare your senses, reinforce your nerves, and limber your trigger finger - the final assault has begun!

EA has created the best-looking and best-sounding PlayStation Formula One title to date, and it has excellent gameplay and features to boot.

Strap on your goggle and helmet, choose your favorite sled and hit the courses. Gain experience day and night, sun, rain or snow, racing on the icy flats of Murmansk, the slopes of Aspen and the tunnels of Nagano.

For the first time ever, RPG fanatics are given the chance to be true game designers. You construct an entire RPG using the massive library of in-game design tools: plot your story path, create an incredibly nasty boss, customize dungeons and maps, even animate your own title screen. When your RPG masterpiece is complete, save it and challenge friends to play through your one-of-a-kind fantasy adventure creation.

In the tradition of Bust a Groove, Bust a Groove 2 is a captivating game about music, rhythm, dancing, style and competition. In Bust a Groove 2, you control one of 18 characters who compete in an epic dance-a-thon in dynamic dance venues around the world and the universe. Bust a Groove 2 has spectacular, fluid dance moves that allow even a casual gamer to become a natural dancer after just a few minutes.

While the game isn't bad by any means, it just doesn't stand up to the other games on the market.

The world of Dragon Warrior returns! Torneko (the tubby merchant from Dragon Warrior IV) takes the best-selling series in new directions as he tries to save his village from the curses of a mysterious treasure.

Take on, self-absorbed Emperor named Kuzco. Add a devious royal advisor named Yzma, her brawny assistant Kronk and their potion that turns Kuzco into a llama. Introduce a good-hearted peasant named Pacha, to help Kuzco. And, what do you get? Al-paca trouble!

Those simply looking for a good PlayStation golf game are better off looking at the Hot Shots series than picking up this antiquated, middle-of-the-road golf game.

Those who want a deeper, more satisfying platform adventure should probably save this for a weekend rental.

While the game is aimed at a younger crowd, it still manages to be good, albeit short-term, fun.

It's been three weeks since Earth's near collision with the space colony Eurasia. The disaster was averted by Zero's heroics. Now, on a bruised and battered planet, tales of rampagning reploids are surfacing. It's up to Mega Man X to investigate these mysteries but it's not going to be easy. Mega Man X must battle through a maze of levels and rescure reploids along the way. Return to battle agagin and again with the new Nightmare System, which randomizes level maps, enemies and endings based on how you play the game. Mega man X is back and now it's personal!

More sophisticated players will likely find this 3D platformer to be too repetitive and easy.

MARTIAN GOTHIC: UNIFICATION is a spine-tingling action-adventure on a cold and isolated planet. Your three-member team descends upon the derelict Vita base located on Mars, quickly realizing the ancient nightmare that awaits. The investigation becomes a battle to stay alive as the team uncovers the mystery of Vita base, until finally confronting the appalling secret hidden deep underground, a secret older than humanity itself...

Leave the nonmagical world behind and enroll in Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry in Harry Potter and The Sorcerer's Stone. As Harry Potter, you will hone your magical skills and advance through three terms of study during Harry's first year at Hogwarts. Each term will challenge you to meet a number of objectives, such as collecting and mixing potions with Professor Snape or piloting a flying broom through the Forbidden Forest in search of Neville Longbottom's Remembrall. In order to pass the first year of study, players must complete over 29 different objectives, while avoiding enemies and obstacles.

Cute, Cuddly, and Ready to Rumble! Digimon Rumble Arena comes to life in this truly Digimonumental release! With user friendly controls and loads of adventure, it's easy to learn, yet hard to put down. Fun for the entire family, Digimon Rumble Arena provides classic fighting gameplay for 1 or 2 players.

Take on the worlds gnarliest waves in this awesome 3D surf simulator endorsed by "The Pipemaster", legendary surfer Gerry Lopez. Ride the best that California, Hawaii, France, Australia and Japan have to offer. Choose from 15 officially licensed boards: T&C, Local Motion, Natural Art, Pearson Arrow and Gerry Lopez himself. You can even learn to master the pipe and a full-on 360 turn. Adheres to A.S.P. official rules. Three levels of difficulty to choose from.

Tomb Raider: Chronicles reveals four newly discovered, and previously untold adventures, taking you on a journey from the ruins of Rome, to the bowels of a German U boat, to the rooftops of a hi-tech city in a search of four ancient artifacts. In light of Lara's recent disappearance, those closest to her gather together at the Croft Estate on a gray, rainy day for a memorial service in her honor. Afterwards, the friends sit quietly together in the study of the Croft Mansion and provide new insights about Lara's past exploits; exploits that have until now remained a secret...

Activision's version of The Weakest Link attempts to capture every element of the popular British game show.

Star Wars Demolition might seem like some half-baked attempt to cash in on the Star Wars license, though it's actually a competently executed game.

The population is threatened with near extinction as hostile alien forces ravage the planet, converting human survivors into cyborg warriors. Working against all odds and armed with an Alien Imaging Unit that has replaced his left eye, Resistance fighter Lt. Riley Vaghan must use firepower, stealth, intelligence and sheer determination to save humankind from impeding doom.

Psikyo's take on the classic conventions strike as true as most modern attempts, and the fans of such games should welcome the results.

GameDay 2002 does a decent job of delivering a fun and somewhat realistic game of football to the PlayStation.

In a world where technology and mythology are one, a young rebel and his ragtag crew are unwittingly drawn into a holy war being waged by the bloodthirsty General Faulkner and his mercenary forces. Guide the charasmatic Bastion as he realizes his destiny to lead the rebellion against the Junaris Kingdom, and to save the people of his world from an eternity of oppression. Lead powerful squadrons of robotic warriors into battle and take complete command of their actions. Smite your foes with cleaving swords, piercing spears, and sizzling magic spells. Use the terrain to your advantage and maneuver your forces into superior combat positions. Witness the results of your tactical decisions in glorious 3D combat sequences.

Offering an unfamiliar style of addictive puzzle gameplay and boasting the personality of a vast assortment of wacky characters, One Piece Mansion is a fine buy for fans of the genre.

Rayman's world kicks into multiplayer overdrive in this total competition crash course with the cast of Rayman 2. Smoke the competition on mind-bending racecourses, or spark up a lum-flinging firefight in the battle arena. And with 8 characters, 24 maps and up to 4 combatants, now Rayman's got more ways to reign supreme than ever.

In the mystical land of Mardias, the Valaimian Empire threatens to upset the balance of power of the continent. Our hero, Fazz and his band of mercenaries are hired to protect one of the Ruins of Xia from the Valaimian forces. Little do they know, that a more sinister power is rising. Will you be able to stop it before the world of Hoshigami is engulfed in eternal darkness?

NASCAR Heat isn't quite the all-encompassing racing simulation that Electronic Arts' NASCAR 2001 is, but features like the beat the heat mode make the game worthwhile for any NASCAR fan.

Join Stuart Little on his fun-filled journey through grand Manhattan. The evil Falcon has stolen some of the city's most precious jewelry and it's up to Stuart to get them back! Luckily, Stuart wants your help and with it, the sinister Falcon doesn't stand a chance!

With four people joining in, the number of onscreen explosions, pig-speech comments, and all-around nuttiness nearly lifts the game into the same sphere of quality as Worms or Bomberman.

The crime world's fastest getaway driver is back on the streets in Driver 2, the sequel to the action-packed Driver. Like its predecessor, Driver 2 is an adrenalin-fueled, high-speed car chase through the streets of four cities, where you, as Tanner, infiltrate the criminal underworld, using your driving skills as well as your cunning to disrupt their plans. All the true-to-life features of Driver; such as realistic car handling, complete with damage modeling and true, real-world physics reactions on all cars; extensive production, giving the cities an amazing realism, featuring recognizable landmarks; new features such as foot missions, dual player, and the enhanced cut scenes make this game a real adrenalin rush.

Experience the intensity of being the world's top secret agent. Equipped with a full arsenal of Q-Lab gadgets and weaponry, you must be suave and resourceful as you carry out action-packed missions based on the blockbuster movie.

Aladdin is about to face his biggest adventure yet. He's got to dart through the marketplace of Agrabah; break his way through the Palace; escape imprisonment in the dungeon; journey through an oasis; survive the fiery Cave of Wonders; rescue Jasmine from booby traps in the Pyramids; save the Sultan from the grasp of evil in the Ancient City; and battle Nasira in her secret lair, And Jafar is never far away...

Gundam Battle Assault isn't a good enough game to live on its own - the fighting is competent, but hardly compelling for any length of time, and the story mode is completely uninteresting.

NFL GameDay 2003 is ready to kick off the new football season with updated teams, rosters, and players. All 32 NFL teams, including the expansion Houston Texans, are included in this year's NFL GameDay. You can make legendary plays with Total Control Passing and new offensive moves that allow you to break tackles, stiff-arm defenders, or dive over tacklers for the winning touchdown. Whether you're getting a workout in Training Camp mode, challenging opponents in Exhibition or Season modes, or playing multiple seasons in General Manager mode, NFL GameDay 2003 brings the NFL to life.

Ellen Ripley died trying to wipe out the Aliens. Now, 200 years later, scientists have resurrected Ripley - along with the Alien Queen - hoping to create the ultimate weapon. Teamed with a crew of renegade space pirates on a research vessel headed for Earth, they must fight for survival and destroy the Aliens once and for all.

Even though it's not quite up to prevailing standards, Speedball 2100 still packs quite a bit of wallop.

Roll up! Roll up! Travel back to Victorian times with five steam-powered adventures. Use your flippers to tunnel to the Earth's core, journey to the ocean depths, fly through the tallest mountains and steam to a mysterious island to stop the evil General Yagov! Marvel at the most accurate ever ball physics! Balls that really spin, slide, roll and jump! Gasp in awe at the complexity of the table design, featuring bumpers, ramps, drop targets, magnets and more!

Darkstone makes an excellent case for making a modest $10 investment.

The branching family tree adds a measure of replay value, but the game is average enough that few will want to play it through more than once.