It's still over too quickly, and there's little explanation why you're running around these ruined buildings beating up drug addicts. [Sept. 2006, p.76]

Everything awful about the modern football player is showcased in Blitz: the League. [Dec p.87]

They just made the experience bigger, better, and easier to share with your friends. [Dec p.92]

The actual story is as sad as it is malevolent. [Jan 2006, p.88]

A mediocre game. Madden NFL 06 is the least necessary installment in this classic football series in some time. [Nov 2005, p.70]

It's fairly hard to put a finger on why it all works. [Mar 2004, p.70]

Easily the most accessible and beautiful Trek combat simulator yet. Ultimately, though, it's only a small upgrade from the previous mission. [Feb 2003, p.72]

There just isn't enough new here to make FIFA 07 a worthwhile purchase. [Jan. 2007, p.63]

The generous slathering of nostalgia for the locations and characters of the old arcade games is a treat. [Dec p.93]

A game of moderately tactical chaos. [June 2005, p.55]

With Rise of the Witch-King, EA has officially left precious few licensing stones unturned. [Mar 2007, p.64]

There's enough new stuff to see to last maybe three or four sim lifetimes, which is a pretty good deal for your $35. [July 2006, p.58]

While Earth 2150 clearly takes its inspiration from the best of the RTS breed, it fails to establish any identity that is clearly its own.

It's tough to sum the experience up succinctly except to say that it's probably worthwhile—more so if you are the tolerant type.

It's a guilty pleasure, but a pleasure nonetheless, and as action-adventures go you could certainly do worse.

For longtime fans of the series there simply isn't enough new stuff to get excited about, however, and for every improvement there are missing features and lingering problems that drag the game down.

Quotation forthcoming. [Nov 2005]

It has the setup, but its drab, by-the-numbers execution lacks any flair.

Summoner's biggest fault is the party AI. Sometimes your party members seem incredibly intelligent; other times they seem to have trouble outthinking the average lab monkey.

Compensating for the lack of visual variety is the sheer wealth of interesting and engaging play modes. [Jan 2003, p.83]

There are times when it plays like a dream; conversely there are times that it plays more like the Arena League rather than the NFL.

The animations are superb, despite the great quantity of creatures and heroes that appear during the campaign. The sound effects augment the animations perfectly. [Jan 2004, p.73]

The action is short, intense, and punctuated by time spent studying track conditions and tuning your car.

While it's impossible to overlook the game's unforgiving level of difficulty, it is often very entertaining.

It's not quite in the same league as "Out of the Park Baseball" and "PureSim Baseball", but Baseball Mogul is no longer an after-thought. [July 2006, p.67]

Even if Titan Quest doesn't deliver on its promise to hang out with Homer, this is a cut above the average "Diablo" clone. [Sept. 2006, p.69]

A solid bit of urban planning in an interesting new setting. Period. [Nov 2002, p.88]

It remains hampered by somewhat soft physics, outdated season information, and the absence of an online multiplayer mode. [Jan 2003, p.77]