Four things that made Prince of Persia Sands of Time stand out: the wonderful 3D animation, the design of the puzzles, sensational game play, and the new look at an old franchise.

The only real gripe there can be used against Sphinx is the sound, more so the lack of voice acting but you soon get over that after awhile and agonize more about the puzzles involved in the game. With Sphinx begins a new platformer legend that hopefully we will see a lot more of in future.

If you don’t intend to play with friends or family that much don’t bother with the title unless you haven’t played a Mario Party title before.

Singleplayer, SOCOM 2 offers about 15 – 20 hours of gameplay – however the hours online are endless.

Improvements on last years release make FIFA 2004 an all around good game, with great improvements to the graphics and keep that bar raised as sound component goes along with PS2 online play it has a lot of positives going for it but not enough to knock off "PES3" as the pinnacle.

The graphics, sound effects and especially the voice acting are fantastic, challenging even the current top-place holders in these categories.

Great Graphics and quality sound provides an overall good game that seems to be lacking in the gameplay area, not due to lack of depth but the difficultness just isn’t there and the game comes across too easy for many.

When troops become mentally broken and stop obeying orders they often get themselves killed and there’s nothing that you can do about it, and this becomes quite annoying and frustrating.

An enjoyable game but has quite a few flaws, most of which are graphical.

Literally hundreds of hours of gameplay. It is virtually impossible to complete everything in the game.

The most intensive war action first person shooter combat title yet. I have not played a single-player experience that is as immersive and intense as the one in Call of Duty.

This may not be the game for car fanatics. It's the game more for the Mario Kart-ers, in the sense that it's not that deep, but provides simple and mindless entertainment for the short time that you need it.

Unfortunately, it can grow a little bit repetitive and is a bit too easy.

A perfect length for a game of this quality.

Here Comes the Pain will give you hundreds of hours of gameplay in Career mode, and plenty more in Exhibition mode and with your friends.

Depending on what you want it for, it doesn’t really impress to the extent of what we expected prior to its release.

The battling is appealing for a while but soon becomes a bit repetitive. Fortunately the game’s graphics are nice-looking and crisp and the sound (especially the music) is excellent.

A fun yet repetitive and slow-paced romp through the history of the Caribbean.

UFO: Aftermath will give you about 15 hours of solid gameplay, at which stage you may choose to go again and take a different path to victory.

It's solid gameplay along with the comical and loveable characters make Tak an overriding success. Outstanding graphics and a splendid voice acting dialogue are all apart of a package that appeals to the masses.

One of the best Star Wars games out there and also, in the process, proves to be one of the best GameCube games out there.

It’s very enjoyable the whole way through and the puzzles are extremely well designed and varied, some being simple and some requiring quite a bit of thinking.

What’s the maximum amount of fun that can be had by battling over the top celebrities represented as clay model figures doing something similar to wrestling but not quite wrestling? Not a lot.

It doesn't play with the formula too much, which is both a good thing and a bad thing.

This game appears to be suited for the younger audience but not too young as some of the evil characters are freaky with their weird screams and looks they may scare the little ones.

There’s a huge arsenal of weapons available for you to maul your enemies with and running over pedestrians to see the fantastic rag doll physics and, of course, the huge splatters of blood, is great fun.

The ability copying and multi-routed tracks are smart additions that would be a lot more enjoyable had other infuriating faults not let it down.

An instant classic. Joe has an awesome array of moves that are all great fun to pull off. The graphics are brilliant, and the controls are perfect.