Unfortunately, it's just too shallow to enjoy for any length of time, and feels restricting when compared with the king of the slopes, "SSX 3."

Makes a terrific rental title, because it's great fun in the short term. Unfortunately, its disjointed story telling, lack of multiplayer modes and limited longevity make it hard to recommend as a full priced purchase.

It relies far too heavily on trial and error design, meaning it will likely only appeal to the 'hard core' crowd.

It may not be wholly original, but it is terrifically polished and, basically, a lot of fun.

Unfortunately, Sega SuperStars is missing one crucial thing - a multiplayer mode. You can enter your name at the end of each game if you've scored well enough, and the ability to take a photo of the winner and save it along with the score is nice, but there's no structured multiplayer mode such as the one found in EyeToy: Play.

If you're looking for something that's truly revolutionary, you won't find it here, but despite Breakdown's occasionally repetitive gameplay and bland environments, it's a breath of fresh air in a genre that's fast becoming stale.

A decent licensed title, but it doesn't take any risks, so don't expect an epic adventure.

The music is great, and as in past Tenchu games, manages to mix traditional Japanese instruments with some more modern electronic sounds.

While it's a competent shooter that can provide some great thrills, it's simply not in the same league as this holiday season's best first person shooters.

One of those rare games where the story, characters and performances eclipse the gameplay by a wide margin.

It’s brilliant and it’s bizarre. It’s also a contradiction - plenty of mindless violence where the screen literally drenched with blood coupled with subversion and thought-provoking symbolism and metaphor. It’s not a high-school English class, though, it’s a game. It’s great fun if you can get into it, but if you can’t it’s probably not surprising.

Compared with Halo 2 there is certainly more substance and less of the feeling that it's just an excuse for a multiplayer mode.

It brings some fresh ideas to the table and it's very polished.

Don’t let the sour taste left by "Driv3r" put you off. Parallel Lines doesn’t re-invent the wheel, but what it does, it does very well.

As far as gameplay is concerned, Ghosthunter is obviously flawed (although it's by no means unplayable). However, as an experience, Ghosthunter is quite accomplished – it does a great job of developing its characters and it's genuinely spooky on more than one occasion.

Straddles the line between good design and mediocrity so consistently that it's hard to love it or hate it.

This game is for the kiddies and most hard-core gamers will not find anything that keeps them playing to the end, but as a game for parents to buy for the youngsters, it's not a bad buy at all.

We're happy to report that it's actually pretty good.

A huge disappointment. The game certainly isn’t up to Namco’s standards, and although it can be occasionally enjoyable, there are numerous racing games which tear strips of R.

It's not as good a game as "Time Crisis 3."

Had Studio Cambridge spent as much time tweaking and refining the gameplay mechanics as they did reworking the audio and visuals, this could have been a truly great remake.

A surprisingly competent simulation.

If the control had been more intuitive and the combat had been tightened up, the game could have been more enjoyable, but as things stand, most should give Sony's new shooter a wide birth.

Alias isn't the disaster that it could have been, but it doesn't have what it takes to sneak past today's heavyweights.

Disappointingly, preprogrammed machines is a fitting description for the thugs that supposedly threaten Sydney's life in Alias.

This is a game that really benefits from its electronic transformation – it is far superior to its paper and pen counterpart. And this is coming from a self-confessed techno-phobe.

Perhaps if the developers had spent less time trying to blur the lines between roleplaying games and action titles, they could have focused their efforts on compelling combat – something that should be important in a game all about slicing and burning everything in sight.

Aside from dragging it through the mud, Rogue Agent does almost nothing with the GoldenEye name.