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Just like all of the best Nintendo games, the more you play F-Zero X, the more you'll appreciate its subtleties. It may not impress you at first glance but I can assure you, this cart is packed with gold.

A frightening game to the point that I found myself having to take breaks from playing just to ease the tension in my shoulders.

Along with a brand new engine (the first built specifically for next gen consoles), Project 8 looks great, presenting some beautiful neighbourhoods and characters.

As wrestling games go it is probably the best total package.

Puts its aging competition to shame with its polished visuals and offers a challenging, though sometimes frustrating, single-player experience.

Unlike Batman, however, Tarzan has awesome control, good camera angles, and excellent gameplay.

A good one all around, getting as much gameplay in to the tiny little cartridge as it can. I even find it got the difficulty about right--not too had, not too easy.

If you are looking for the most authentic title on the market, then this is it.

Arguably the finest motocross game available thanks to its racing and freestyle gameplay offerings--and new additions to last year's game.

The single player is fun, but the real lasting value can be found online.

The frustrations are enough to make me wroth enough to wall a Sim up in an exitless building and watch them slowly expire.

While Shadow of the Colossus may not have the best ever PS2 graphics, what it does have is pretty pleasing.

All it needs for 2002 is the ability to start a riot and you won’t be able to tell it from the real thing.

A real change from the rest of the Oddworld games, but a welcome one. Here's hoping the Stranger turns up in future Oddworld games.

It gets hefty points for not being just a "prettified" version of the one available for PlayStation, N64 and Dreamcast.

A textbook example to other console developers on how to write videogame prose.

Whether you’re old-school or newbie-fresh, there’s no getting away from the perennial curse of survival horror games: Cheesy Voice Acting.

Bloodier dustups there are, and faster moving ones too, yet for those who like their streetfighting with style, UFC Tapout hits harder than a bare-knuckle jab to the kidney.

There's no question that Miyamoto has raised the bar on arcade-style 3D space shooters once again.

If the game was not so brilliantly presented with such rich characters, story and astounding art and voice-work (best voice-work to date in a videogame), you would probably take more notice of the simple and boring adventure elements (go here, go there, find this, talk to that person...), and the too-heavy reliance on melee combat, and the constant battles, and the frustration of having to take two steps back to level up before being able to take the all-important third step forward in a world.

For right now I would only recommend a purchase to somebody who doesn’t become easily bored by the same course over and over again.

Kudos to developer Treyarch for creating a seamless interface by which players can control a gravity-defying character without any noticeable restrictions or limitations.

Despite a few surprising shortcomings, most notably the save system, Splinter Cell delivers with the impact of a postcard from Hell.

Combines a top-notch economic/civic model, attractive graphics, and solid real-time combat to give gamers a slice of Chinese history. And that, like all things Asian, is tres cool.

While the concept is a good one--it's really cool to build up a little squadron of Naboo Starfighters--it doesn't really work in the 2D, sprite-based AoE engine. For example, after your TIE Fighters streak to their waypoint, they simply hang in the air, awaiting your next mouse-click.

For those who’ve got time and money to burn, running contraband across the imaginary border is a lot more entertaining--and much safer--than trying to sneak a pair of scissors through airport security.

Easy to get into but hard to master, Amped offers a surprising amount of depth and graphical splendor for what is basically such a simple premise: point your board down a mountain and become famous in the process.

My favorite mode is back, the Story Mode, and in this game it rocks, offering up a first person romp around the many locales in the game and a wide variety of career paths for you to choose from.

The best addition is definitely the new multi-passenger fares you can pick up, adding a new, and quite difficult challenge to your taxi driving skills as you try to beat the timer while delivering up to four passengers to different locales.

It's a slick, stylish, fun game either way, perhaps worth a little more if you've played the original. Bond minus the boobs, baby, shaken and stirred.

Acclaim comes off of the top rope with what could be one of the sleeper hits of this holiday season. With all of the stars that made wrestling what it is today, Legends of Wrestling is a must-have.

The wormhole/supply line/multiple fronts idea is a great one, and I’d love to see it taken further.

This excellent, visceral shooter is just the tiniest bit on the short side, but remember what the man said: In a New York Minute, everything can change.

Terrific music and sound effects make this one of the best-sounding computer games released this year. Human screams and primal alien/predator screeches are done very well.

Okage's extreme weirdness does level off after a while into a mostly familiar RPG, but its overall charm and humor make the experience well worth it.

Even with the option of taking numerous paths on each mission, once the truth is out there, you probably won’t want to bother again.

While not quite as big as "Baldur's Gate II," this game is considerably large, totalling about 100 hours of the single-player gameplay.

The game delivers everything you want in this kind of action game--great visuals, replayability, and enough button tapping action that I now have a green circle with a white A permanently tattooed on my thumb.

Now that I've finished this game, I'm kind of hoping the developers will go ahead and create another.

Doesn't offer any changes to the gameplay--I think there could be a lot more creativity in the scenarios, but it will inject new life into your Zoo Tycoon gaming.

It's a wild and fun ride.

The detail and immersion of these environments is such a pleasant surprise that it may take even a seasoned player a while to realize that the single-player missions are rather linear, and that the artificial intelligence of the enemy troops is a little...lacking.

For those in the know, the actual Tokyo highways have been painstakingly recreated, so consider this the ultimate vacation.

The game is chock full of innovations, yet retains the addictive play of its predecessors.

Now this is how you do a collection of classics.

And oh my brothers, does the red, red krovvy flow real horrorshow under Tenchu's ultraviolence. That's A Clockwork Orange speak for "there's a lot of blood, too."

Even though the PC version is based on the original music generator, it is the best of the bunch in terms of control and flexibility.

This is quality adventure gaming at its best.

The actual game play in Bloody Roar isn't as deep as say, VF4, but on the flipside, it's a game that's easy to pick up and play. Though you certainly won't beat the game by being a button-masher.

It will also rekindle a desire in every pen and paper gamer to call up some friends, blow the dust of their D20s and return to the roots of role-playing gaming.

The Ecks vs. Sever FPS engine is the best we've seen on the GBA so far, but it's still firmly rooted in the pre-Quake era of shooters. Arguably it's more advanced than any games of that era, although it's not as long or as involved as say, "Duke Nukem 3D."

If MOH has a noteable flaw, it’s that the sniper-scope---which you’ll often rely on heavily---has the odd drawback/realism glitch of not allowing you to see farther in actual, raw distance than you would normally...it merely brings targets into clearer, closer focus.

Thanks to the expanded multiplayer, I have no trouble calling the Xbox version of The Clone Wars the best of the bunch.

At times it’s enough to make the would-be follower of Pharaoh yell, “Holy Moses!”

The deciding factor of this game has to be how often you have friends over to participate in the battle modes. If you have chums over all the time, put this one in the must-buy category, otherwise Bomberman Online is still worth a rental or two.

Even though there are some weak moments, overall it’s a great deal of fun being the guy who can stop the horrifying Xenomes from destroying humanity.

Military buffs will no doubt find this an immersive game, even if only in solo play.

Reminds me a lot of those so-called summer blockbusters. The game itself isn’t that bad, but it just can’t live up to the hype surrounding it.

It might not be the prettiest game, but Warlords: Battlecry proves that good gameplay certainly makes up for blunt edge graphics.

It's Kubrick's "The Shining" to most other developers' "Scream 2," and it's the kind of game to play alone, in the dark, with the back door open and a dose of prescription medication in you.

The Second Story, with it’s excellent skill system, item creation and complicated character relationships, takes two steps forward in RPG gaming. Unfortunately, it takes one of those steps back by being mired in some old and tired RPG conventions and by lack of documentation.

Fans of anime should rejoice in the story, and those looking for a strategic level game for the PlayStation 2 will no doubt be captivated by this intense title.

You know you’re in trouble when it takes you five times to get through the first training level of a game, and it freezes on the second.

In only a few days my anti-videogame girlfriend had become a wide-eyed, pixel staring “let me try this level just one more time” gaming geek.

Asheron’s Call is full of successes and problems and provides a game world that provides both excitement and frustration.

The action is intense; the settings are spectacular and the gameplay is very well balanced.

So what’s not to like? Really nothing, but neither is there really anything that stunned me. This is good, solid, ‘Mech gaming, yet nothing more.

This game is different, has a great style, and will give your brain a workout. If you like mystery novels or courtroom dramas, you gotta take this case.

Possibly the best all-around baseball game for the PlayStation 2.

You can expect some immense spaces to trek around, just don’t expect too many courses to race on.

The most enjoyable new aspects of the expansion are the vehicles, and nearly every side gets new ones.

The game is also annoyingly dark during night missions. Even with the brightness cranked, it was pretty hard to see.

It sounds totally weird on paper, but as soon as I tried it, I found it grew on me really quickly. Give it a try, and see if it charms your frog costume off too.

An obsessive-compulsive's dream.

It’s a slightly empty, guilty and dissatisfying sensation, like pleasuring yourself with an adult mag that you stole from your senile grandpa. Sure, it felt good for a little while, but it was wrong on so many levels that you have to wonder, after the fact, what the Hell made you do it.

The combat system of Buffy the Vampire Slayer is just brilliant.

Use of the Unreal engine brings alien worlds and starship interiors to glorious life in stunning detail and colour.

A joy to play. The voiceovers and multiple camera angles continue the series' entertaining tradition.

One of the great strengths of Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door is that although everything is pretty simple, none of it is so simple as to be boring.

No doubt, the batting mechanics are complex and the franchise mode a bit hard to get a handle on, but this is console baseball at its best.

Seeing Top Gear Dare Devil’s virtual landscape is like visiting a world-famous tourist attraction on psychoactives.

It looks good, has some clever tracks and is peppy enough to stay exciting for some time.

The major factor holding Outlaw Golf from being a top tier golf game is its unforgiving control system.

Not since "Excitebike 64" for the now-defunct Nintendo 64 and the original "Motocross Madness" for the PC have I enjoyed a motocross game as much as MX 2002 featuring Ricky Carmichael.

Doom may be looking a mite long in the tooth in terms of the larger world of first-person games, but for a GBA title it's one Hell of a ride.

I enjoyed Crash's new abilities (extended jumps, spins and that extremely useful bazooka). I just wish the platform jumping elements in Crash 3 were as original and exciting of the motorcycle, jet-ski and biplane sequences.

It is considerably more challenging than the first at many points, yet it doesn’t have quite the polish of the original.

A few minor annoyances, like poor enemy AI and some puzzles that seem almost too difficult keep it from a higher score, but if you’re looking for a game you can invest some time in and not feel like you came away with nothing, welcome to Eden.

Even hardcore sim-nuts won't have any quality issues with Tropico; it's the less-experienced who will find themselves initially bewildered, even with the talky tutorial--there's just a lot of detail here, and Tropico seems to take for granted that players know the city-sim drill.

Those who want more than a clone will be disappointed, those just looking for a good game will be pleasantly rewarded.

A great game if you are a fan of the WW2 genre and a previous fan of the DOD series, but if not, you might find greater value in another WW2 title.

Super Swing Golf's controls work very well under the Wii set-up, and it's a good choice for new and veteran duffers.

It captures the environments of Hogwarts well and I had a blast knocking Draco Malfoy on his butt in the duel in Defence Against the Dark Arts class.

With the increased resolution of the Xbox, the visuals in the game are now simply breathtaking.

Not for the challenge-impaired or easily frustrated, Driven will definitely teach you more respect for what it takes to be a real race driver.

Combines spine-tingling combat, sweet character development and solid story with one hell of an editor.

Quite worthwhile in the absence of anything new from Squaresoft.