At times engaging and at others frustrating, but still sporting a striking visual design, Fuzion Frenzy is worth a rental for your next party or to check out for an eventual buy.

Aside from these minor graphical niggles, the game does look mightily beautiful and plays smooth as glass, even in splitscreen multiplayer mode.

The true King of Fighters, and it is a perfect showcase for what kind of games the Xbox is able to deliver.

A decent game. It looks pretty darn good, has a swell sense of speed, and the music adds to the frantic pace (though the sounds bites in the game are kinda repetitive).

This great engine and these great visuals are draped over gameplay that is just so-so.

On both the Xbox and PlayStation 2, EA Sports has brought the Thunder with authority as far as this race fan is concerned. I've played both versions and the Xbox version is the better of the two.

At best, an average racer with a watered-down trick system.

I am absolutely thrilled with this game and already I can’t wait to see where Red Storm takes it next.

Fun and immersive while it lasts, but unfortunately it’s a short ride with little replayability (save, maybe, for the multiplayer modes).

The on-screen skaters control well, but not quite as tightly as the PS2 version of the game. There is a bit more play in this version, with the end result being a control scheme that is slightly looser than one might expect.

The things they have added do not drag the game down. In many ways they are great improvements. But they don’t go as far towards making the game a truly deep, satisfying RPG as they could.

Earth not only plays great, it respects the feel of history and advancement, and by its very nature makes the player respect it too.

At times, it's hard to tell where sincerity ends and irony begins--select Snake's cigarettes in the inventory list and you're provided with the helpful information that cigarettes are highly addictive and bad for your health. Not like, for example, guns or anything.

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 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.

Still one of the great ones all these years later, even with dated graphics, poor voice acting, and the inherent limitations of a gamepad.

Together, the sum of these interesting parts holds up quite well.

Despite a high level of difficulty, the game is proof positive that the original PlayStation still has plenty of life left within.

Although a solid simulation, the game lacks the flexibility, beauty, and creativity to be more than a mid-range title.

The brilliance of this game, however, doesn't stop with the audio effects, or the crisp, fast moving, beautiful graphics, with you and up to five other boarders on the screen at the same time, moving at a blistering fast frame rate. The controls in SSX Tricky are perfect.

Kohan is one of the few that not only mixes resource management and solid tactical play, but a couple of turn-based wargaming conventions to boot.

Not only is the gameplay un-revised on this much more powerful platform, but much of the former joy in the series has been drained away. The characters, levels and gameplay are essentially flat.

The first racing game that really <I>encourages</I> you to get your ya-yas out.

Makes a nice package, and is a good ride for fans of the series. It's probably a little rough on newbies though.

Aside from the occasional slander and the slight slowing down of production, I didn&#146;t quite get the feeling that the press was really all that interesting a factor.

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

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.

Steer clear of this smoking wreck, race fans.