The real problem with the game is not the online elements but the design itself.

You'd think KCEO Japan would start the new millennium with better control schemes than the one's they pioneered seventeen years ago, but NOOOOOOOOO!

With a few friends and some beers it's a good-enough time not to notice how lacking in replayability and long-term enjoyment the thing is.

BLSC has one heck of a stiff control that makes turning around or moving Buzz more painful and unnecessarily cumbersome than it should.

Only recommended on DC for those who are willing to put up with its mediocre look or who must keep the little one in the family from holding his/her breath until he/she gets it. Life's a bitch when you're a parent, isn't it?

Unlike most shooters this is a game anyone can play without fear of going red-eye enraged with frustration.

At it's heart the gameplay of Virtua Athlete is really nothing more than a series of button timings.

Where's my "Medal of Honor" CD for PSX? I've got some bad leftover "Sarge's Heroes" taste that I want to wash out of my mouth with some Nazi-killing antics.

Ultimately a disappointment.

I can see its depth and replayability, but it'll be a cold day in the Florida Peninsual before you see me pick "H&D" for rent anytime soon. It's not my cup of tea.

Its shallow gameplay hardly justifies the time and effort of me going all the way to the store to buy it.

Rent it, because it deserves at least that but only the truly hardcore aces should even consider the purchase.

Does too many things right... but unfortunately buries them underneath some pretty piss-poor flaws (crummy graphics, insane difficulty, awkward control, unrewarding non-existent learning curve, etc.).

Max Steel isn't bad, just insultingly average and unimaginative... as seen on TV every Saturday morning these days.

Too short, too hard and not packed with the replayable goodies one expects a home port to deliver these days.

Rent it like I did, beat in a couple of nights (it's about 4-5 hours long if you rush through it conserving your ammo/gas and avoiding the respawning Deadites) and mourn the butchering of yet another promising movie franchise in a videogame that fails to do justice to its cool characters and interesting plot.

Go in peace son, as your indiscretion with yet another Acclaim-sponsored disappointment has been forgiven... again!

Why do most track & field events in "Sydney 2000" still rely on the ages-old technique of rapid button-tapping (A/B) to build stamina during a race/jump, followed by an action touch (X/Y) to flip/jump?

A nice and barely-humorous misfire about one of America's biggest pop-culture phenomenons of the last few years, but a misfire nonetheless.

I suggest gamers shortchange Sega by spending only $3.99 to rent this miniscule title that will only be enjoyable truly for a weekend or so of fun.

Aside from the cool TV-style graphics and CG character fonts (identical to the one's ESPN used to have about half-a-year ago), the final game is as disposable and empty a sports experience as watching "ESPN Sports Reporters" every Sunday morning

It's months late, and unless you have a broadband adapter there realistically isn't a reason to play this game. "Quake 3" and "UT" did it better and that's my final stance.

I'd still rather play "Dynamite Cop" with its humor and imagination. "ZR" was game I had high hopes for but in the end falls way too flat.

The Grinch, the anti-"Rayman 2", a 3D scavenger hunt so unappealing and unrewarding (not to mention confusing and boring) you'll be wondering what you saw in it to begin with (besides the obvious tie-in to the movie).

The game's sound system is simply awful. The game features a single commentator with about as much life as a rock.