Its mix of classic adventure-style gameplay, intriguing storyline, logical puzzles and just a touch of action make it a topnotch choice for fans of thought-inducing gameplay.

Lavish aesthetics notwithstanding, Adventure Pinball also plays a mean game. Only the inevitable onset of repetition dulls its luster.

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.

This is the best dose of pure visceral excitement to hit shooters in years.

A potentially good tactical strategy game marred by a lack of inspiration.

Despite the bugs, this is a great baseball game boasting more than enough improvements to keep you from going back to High Heat 2001.

Kohan is the slickest, most polished, and the most entertaining fantasy strategy game to come along in a very long time.

There is a significant difference between the two games—"Age of Empires" is a lot of fun. "Fate of the Dragon" is not.

This latest effort seems mired in a war between greatness and mediocrity—and mediocrity has the upper hand.

If you like big bangs, you'll get unlimited enjoyment when nuclear explosions pepper the late game carnage and shake the entire screen with powerful force. Along with this visual feast, audible devastation also drives the scene.

To get an accurate sense of what playing Star Wars: Battle for Naboo is like, find a heavy object and bash yourself over the head with it.

Unfortunately, at $30, the shot is foul. Guys, it's called a roster patch. Look it up.

it's downright provincial. It's a game about buying buses, setting them up to drive in a circle, and then watching them.

Once Undying gets up a head of steam, it woos you with sheer atmosphere and production values. On looks alone, it sucks you in for hours at a stretch. Its landscapes and architecture are spectacular.

If there is a patch by the time you read this, and you're the type who pegs the name Peter Johnson as a redundancy, then you'll probably get a kick out of it.

Playable enough, but it's also devoid of personality.

This add-on won't win over any new converts, but it will keep the old ones happy. That is what expansions are really all about.

Mixing down and dirty hack-and-slash action with some light puzzle solving; Blade of Darkness makes a simple concept work. With enough blood spurting and gib spraying to send Joe Lieberman and his cohorts running for cover, this is slicing and dicing at its finest.

One design feature that reduces this game's charm is the limit of eight items in active inventory.

Completely without substance and fails to match even the primordial games from the DOS era.

This is an attractive and challenging game that, unlike so many other racing games, really does penalize you for running the pedal to the metal all the time.

The game grows on you, however, mostly because of its kooky style.

There's nothing at all wrong with arcade-style gameplay, but there's something wrong if the action is alternately dull and frustrating, as it is this game. If you're a Ducati devotee or fan of motorcycle racing, prepare for disappointment with this game.

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.

This game will definitely bring a smile to your face when that black number three bumps you, just before he takes the lead away from you on your last lap at Daytona.

One mean mother of a four-wheeled game. Warts and all, it still offers classy pick up n' play handling, efficient interface, and stupendous presentation.

If you like your strategy games historical, complex, and deeply stimulating, Europa Universalis is more than a mouthful.

The entire experience is crippled by an obtuse interface and abysmal documentation. All in all, this is one of the most unstable and frustratingly erratic games to anchor in software stores in quite some time.