A passable shooter that will please Nintendo-owning fans of the genre, but it won't win any awards for originality, ingenuity or design.

Controlling everything with the DC controller, especially over the often lengthy missions, will lead to cramped, achy hands, and the necessity for quick command issuing just doesn't fit well onto a gamepad.

The puzzles are utterly simple, the gameplay is too linear, and we finished it in about 10 hours.

The batting and pitching interfaces are as good as we remember them from the stellar N64 games, but the fielding transitions are terrible and there are graphical bugs that are unforgivable. The game looks okay, with nice character models but lifeless environments and stadiums -- but it's just not what you'd expect from a PS2 sports game.

Poor AI, routine melee combat and unimaginative gameplay consign Rune to the hellish abode of the bored.

After a year of impressive Dreamcast titles, gamers have come to expect something more from their next-gen consoles, and the same shallow, flashy arcade games just aren't going to cut it.

While the pack does allow you to throw an amazing party, it doesn't do anything else -- and parties lose their novelty pretty fast.

The biggest problem with the game, aside from the voice acting, is the difficulty. Both the characters and the monsters are capable of getting critical hits, but the monsters seem to have an advantage over Zak and his companions.

With its limited gameplay, repetitive modes and lackluster multiplayer, we can't recommend it to anyone other than flight sim enthusiasts.

It's fine for players looking for basic off-road action, but those looking for hardcore realism or arcade action should look elsewhere.

Unfortunately, it also has crippling flaws that suck fun out of gameplay like a starving Nosferatu gnawing on a rat.

As it comes out of the box, the awkward controls, ordinary story and mediocre multiplayer prevent us from recommending this marginally fun game.

This is one really short game. With a little effort, you can beat it in 10-12 hours.

Unfortunately, this isn't the sort of game we want to play online or off.

With so many interesting alternatives to real life available on so many systems, why stick with one of our most repetitious and grueling sports?

We come not to bury Spider-Man, but to lament that more could not be done to make the Nintendo 64 version of the game as sharp as its counterpart.

It the best of the Olympic crop, but it still doesn't quite get even a bronze medal.

The game looked promising and campy, but ultimately left us unimpressed.

Though occasionally enjoyable, endless game crashing bugs, bouts of tedium and a few badly designed elements make it a miss.

Unfortunately, there's some yellow snow on this mountain.

What should or could have been a cool, sneaky shooter devolves into a series of tedious levels, severely aliased graphics and some of the stupidest, ugliest enemies we've seen this side of "Delta Force: Land Warrior."

Plenty of flash, spectacle and new features... but so little meat to carve a proper meal from.

Gamers will probably derive more fun simply from reading this paragraph than they will from actually playing Deep Fighter.

The difference is purely in level design, which is creative and interesting in the first game ("Strider") and pure crap in the second.

There were a few fun moments while playing this, particularly in the Capture the Flag mode. Unfortunately, the cosmic physics combined with the hit-and-miss controls ripped the huge potential out of its heart.

While it's an improvement over the original, Team Arena is essentially a decent mod but it's nothing that can't be found for free.

In a move that perfectly mirrors our own high-school careers, it seems as if Ubi Soft went to every length imaginable to make sure that every aspect of this game is dead average, and no more.

Giant robots Good, lame story Bad, stealing sechnology Good, weak level design Bad, nothing innovative... that's bad Homer.