The graphics are bland, the gameplay stunted, and the multiplayer limited to online only. Throw in a useless first-person bombing mode that isn't even first-person and you've got a game that's simply a bomb. No, not the bomb, just a bomb.

The Story Mode is a joke, and the Challenge Mode and mini-games are mere shells of what's been included in previous adventures. This Monkey Ball got dropped. Hard.

What is surprising is the lack of creativity, integrity, or even quality regarding practically every aspect of the game. The only saving grace is the authenticity of Rome.

The potential behind the game is unmatched, but an extremely poor online interface coupled with lackluster servers and a relatively boring single player experience makes Chromehounds a chrome donkey.

The game has most of the necessary ingredients for success, but Bethesda and 7 Studios managed to produce a lackluster hack-and-slash adventure title that features woefully linear level design, mediocre voice acting, and tired swashbuckling.

Had more emphasis been on the actual bowling, its physics, and the fun of multiplayer, we would be getting somewhere. As is, the game's just a flash-in-the-pan cheapier title that even bowling zealots should avoid.

And 1 Streetball ultimately suffers from a lack of effort in every category.

This should have been released as a much cheaper booster pack instead of an expansion. It simply doesn't offer enough to justify the asking price.

While some will simply love this game because it is X-Men, if you're looking for a game that's fast moving and innovative, this is not the game for you.

Combat is dull and repetitive, mostly requiring players to repeat the same button combination over and over again.

Metal Saga fails to innovate with a lackluster presentation, terrible pacing, and a quest that really doesn't nail down a narrative.

What we basically have here is a glossed-over version of the game with very little addition and a $20 price drop, not to mention some horrible freezing problems that send this game to the showers.

The game is missing several things, including a crucial control scheme during a majority of the shootouts, the car and speedboat chases that threw in diversity in previous versions, and a multiplayer mode that generates interest.

A flat tire of a game, with non-compliable controls, non-working gameplay, and a dull pace that indicates racing tractors would've been speedier.

Trying to find enjoyment out of Final Fight: Streetwise is kind of like trying to find a minty Tic-Tac in a dirty ashtray. All you'll find is gritty, unenjoyable substance that unfairly buries a classic gaming franchise.

Plays more like a lifeless copy of the thousand arcade shooters that came before it, rather than anything even remotely strategic.

It's times like this I'm glad I own my Generation NEX system and my cherished copy of "Track & Field," because I honestly feel there's more Olympic goodness in that classic Konami game than there is in one event of the terrible Torino 2006.

Ape Escape Academy is like a drunken scholar- it has all the best ideas in the world but the execution will leave a bad taste in your mouth. The presentation is strictly average, the controls messy, and the multiplayer aspect damn near unexplored.

The absolute worst example of the "Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas" cloning process, sticking together with its below-average graphics, its poorly-selected soundtrack, and its miserable excuse for a gameplay set-up.

This was a guilty pleasure just waiting to happen, but the developers just couldn't get the camera right, and the result is a product that is damn near unplayable. I spent more time running around in circles and shooting the ground than I did actually hitting anyone!

The camera is horrible, the voice acting is well below average, the battle and movement system are extremely tedious, the story takes 10 hours to finally get anywhere... it's just problem after problem.

But the game's built by the basics, and the randomized 3,000+ questions run into problems with repetition. It's like...the Gunther of the gaming community. (Sorry, Gunther.)

The game suffers from lackluster gameplay, as well as uninspired work in the graphic and audio department. It does have moments of appeal, but they're buried beneath a pile of rushed presentation.

Lacks the fun and diversity of the Viewtiful games before it. Dare I say it's a Henshin-a-no-no, baby.

Just a cookie cutter style platform adventure wrapped around a horrible license that's apparently brain washed lots of impressionable children. But not this guy! NOT...THIS...GUY!

Bandai's string of horrible anime-based games continues, as Zatch Bell! Mamodo Battles is yet another boring and mindless beat-em-up starring characters who look and sound extremely annoying.

A washed-up, poor-controlling, badly unbalanced game that can't even touch the Greg Hastings models. Skip this budget turd immediately.

While it captures the sweet essence of the film from so long ago, it fails to motivate with its stale gameplay.