Delightfully loopy. [Sept 2005, p.91]

less noisy, flashy, and chaotic, but still full of crashtastic goodness. [Dec p.91]

Infinity Ward lays claim to the creation of the ultimate WWII shooter with Call of Duty 2. [Jan 2006, p.63]

An outstanding game, both for its graphics and its gameplay, but it is not for everyone. Ground Control glaringly omits some standard genre features: there is no in-mission save, no speed control, no skirmish mode, and the AI is hit or miss. Yet this is truly a case of a game being greater than the sum of its parts.

The best simulation of modern tank (and maybe just tank, period) operations ever.

As a game of resource management and tactical combat, Total Annihilation is not fundamentally different from anything that has come before, but it is nonetheless an evolutionary leap for the genre of real-time strategy.

A must-have for hardcore players, most of whom undoubtedy already own it. [Jan 2005, p.71]

Just like the original "Freedom Force", this is a real-time strategy game for comic-book geeks, by comic-book geeks. [June 2005, p.53]

The last great fighting game of this generation. [Jan 2006, p.92]

It ups the ante on art and style while taking its attempts at being "cinematic" too seriously. This makes it nearly impossible to ignore the general level of mediocrity to the characterizations, writing, and storytelling despite its mostly solid action. [Jan 2004, p.62]

Galactic Civilizations II may not lead to a resurgence of space conquest games, but as long as it's available, the renaissance can wait. [May 2006, p.53]

Wild World is more of an expansion than a sequel. The DS version adds online play and a camera that follows you instead of one that shifts from screen to screen. [Mar 2006, p.89]

Quotation forthcoming. [Nov 2005]

The new pilots are smarter, making for more challenging - and more convincing - air combat. [June 2003, p.76]

The only real thing missing are side-quests, but that's made up for with a solid 15 hours of gameplay within the title's story mode. [Sept 2004, p.7]

A work of art with nicely drawn anime sequences and beautifully rendered cel-shaded graphics. [Oct 2004, p.9]

With the significantly improved graphics engine, the wealth of options and an extremely powerful course editor, the trip to pick up a copy of Links 2001 may be your best drive to date.

Casts a massively powerful spell of gaming joy, and it's one you can't resist. [Sept 2002, p.76]

A fantastic game full of personality, brains, and drop-dead looks with the backing of a popular license. [Dec 2004, p.80]

It's certainly not intuitive and it's not always streamlined, but there's a unique sense of satisfaction when you've won not by out-harvesting the other guy (which still happens far too often), but by throwing a rock when he threw scissors.

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

The voice acting in this game is probably the most widely competent you'll ever come across in a recent computer game.

A thoroughly worthy addition to the Civilization family. [Feb 2004, p.56]

The visuals are terrific. Explosions are robust; the particle effects shine; starbases are huge and panoramic.

Hardcore combat sim fans with equally serious hardware and a cast-iron stomach for aspirin will find themselves engrossed in a simulation of incredible depth and subtlety.

The missions can be skin-crawly tense and the strategic planning is a joy. Nevertheless, poor AI, coupled with mundane and buggy graphics give the game a "late-beta" feel.

Just because it's the only big-budget PC football game on the market is now excuse for complacency. [Dec 2004, p.79]

In Daxter, you get great graphics and not much else. [Jun 2006, p.91]