I greatly enjoyed my time with Monster Hunter Rise Sunbreak. It’s not really the type of game you can simply jump into. It does have a bit of a learning curve from the beginning, but once you get over that, it’s a lot of fun to go questing about. The new additions with the Sunbreak add-on give a lot more options to a game that already has a lot to do. Overall, if you like Monster Hunter Rise, you’ll enjoy Sunbreak just as much. Capcom seems to be adding more to the game with extra updates as time goes by as well!

I wanted to like Street Power Soccer, but I just couldn’t. The jerky animation, unrealized art style, and generally wonky gameplay are not compatible with this sport’s fluid energy. I’m not mad about freestyle soccer whatsoever, so you may find more to like if you are into it. Just don’t expect the new FIFA Street.

Shop Titans starts off as a simple but enjoyable enough economic sim, but before long you'll learn that it's really a game of waiting for timers to expire. It's one thing to pop into a mobile game on your phone a few times a day when you have a minute or two, it's quite another to have to sit down at a computer and launch a game several times a day just to progress in bite-sized chunks. Unless you're willing to part with a steady stream of cash to continuously turn it back into a simple economic sim.

PONG's fame comes from its historic significance and not its gameplay, and it takes a lot more than PONG Quest offers to make that gameplay fun.

If you buy it, you'll be bored with it in less time than it took you to read this review.

In a move that doesn't happen often these days, I'm going to go against the mainstream critics and fans and say The Escapists 2 is a Switch game that doesn't even deserve a first look, let alone a second. If I want to feel the opposite of entertained, and instead an emotion bordering on physical pain, I'd save my money and throw myself down the stairs. My home has two flights, one for each game in this inexplicably popular series. Good news! I never have to play either again, and I can get the same feeling by hurling myself down one of the two carpeted inclines in my own home - for free.

With all the indies in the Switch eShop, The Deer God is one that fails to impress on the level as others. As great as the premise is, the gameplay is repetitive and boring, with really no incentive to play for more than a few minutes. The art style is as tired as the random encounter or escort mission, and the game just fails to come together in any meaningful way. Other indies far outshine this one, and your money is probably best spent elsewhere.

The only true horror in Black Mirror are the intrusive load screens and a game-breaking bug.

With the load times, the cool but only once or twice modifiers and living boards that are all pretty much the same, it is probably a better idea, and a cheaper one, to just buy the physical board game, rather than invest in the electronic Switch version. Every know addition to the Switch's growing library is cool with me, but Monopoly is one you can probably take a pass on.

Randall is more frustrating than it is anything else, and doesn't offer anything that makes up for subjecting you to that frustration. There are too many better games out there to waste your time and money on Randall.

By the time I finished Valkyria Revolutions, I was almost comically over it. The most telling moment of the entire experience came as I was nearing the end, and my wife came downstairs and asked me, "Ugh. Are you watching that game again? Play something more interesting!" That's right, "watching that game again." With so many cutscenes, only broken up by uninspired action with ideas that don't work or aren't utilized correctly, Valkyria Revolution is tough to recommend to anyone for any reason. If the alternate history angle of the story excites you, you'd be better off playing any of the Chronicles games. If action RPG combat is your thing, Dynasty Warriors, Hyrule Warriors or the upcoming Fire Emblem Warriors should scratch that itch much better than this game can. And if you are a longtime fan of the series, like I am, I can't do anything but warn you; this is not the game you wish it was, nor expect it to be. Please, Sega, let's go back to the way it was. This Revolution is not a welcome or a successful one.

Akiba's Beat is, quite simply, the worst kind of disappointing. A great niche title like Akiba's Trip was weird and not for everyone, but what it did right should have been easy to replicate for a proper sequel. Instead, everything that was good about the original game was tossed right out the window. The gameplay, the world, the collection-frenzy and side quests, the bizarre plot and out-there interactions... all of it gone in favor of a dull Persona clone with next to no soul. Akiba's Trip was well worth taking (over and over again) but Akiba's Beat is just that - beat. Save your money on this one.

Buy some real beer with your money instead, you'll have more fun.

This is not the Digimon game that you've been waiting for.

Here's the real spoiler alert: nothing in Spoiler Alert lives up to its novel concept.

Frighteningly boring.

Quickly hack and slash your way to boredom.

Sonic is no longer a good or even passable video game character.

You're better off resisting the urge to collect more toys.

Skyward Collapse is a game with simple mechanics, good interface and is visually pleasing, it's just not a lot of fun to play.

Stay away from this game and go see the movie instead. Even if it is the worst film of the summer, it would still be Citizen Kane compared to its video game counterpart.

Two bad games do not equal one good game.

I know there is a contingent of Trekkies out there that will buy anything with Star Trek emblazoned on it, and that's fine; buy it, put it on your display shelf and never, ever play it. That's what I did with DragonBall Z for Kinect!

About what you'd expect from a budget shooter, maybe less.

The only thing legendary about this game is the mess it makes of the Bond franchise.

Thundercats looks bad, it plays bad and it drags a fantastic cartoon reboot's name through the mud.

Inversion isn't terrible - its main obstacle is how many other games on the market handle this stuff much, much better.

It's a chipwreck alright...

The ENTIRE single player experience can be viewed as such: Enter room, clear room of enemies, enter next room, clear enemies, enter... You get the picture. Boss battles do help to break up the monotony, but like I said before, they are crazy easy, oft repeated and often just plain stupid.

Perhaps 'Boringgirl' would have been a better title.

Voltron: Defender of the Universe is a downloadable game just about everyone should skip.

Unfortunately The Asskickers doesn't kick much ass.

It looks great but that's about it.

If you want to visit the world of Scarygirl, stick to the book.

Subpar map design and control issues put the multiplayer game on shaky ground from the start, and these problems coupled with team-based objective play that just wasn't designed well and a completely dysfunctional partner system that forces you to buddy up with a randomly-assigned stranger make the multiplayer game a "one and done" experience for most gamers.

Anyone who has played this type of game before will be instantly bored, and even newcomers will quickly look elsewhere to fill their gaming guts. I'd tell you to go outside and play, but seriously, it's just too hot.

Plain and simple, Duke Nukem Forever suffers from being passed around the development table for too long without any updates to its core.

Lucha Fury could be a decent brawler, but the fun in its gameplay is brought down greatly by its bad controls.

Sonic Free Riders could have been a great game if the controls worked.

Probably the biggest joke in Duke Nukem Forever is that the game was released as a top-tier title at a $60 price point. The game that was supposed to reboot the franchise has without a doubt rebooted it to a BSOD, and it will certainly take some time for the Duke legacy to recover from this fiasco.

An epic fail on the quest for fun.

Red Faction: Battlegrounds is only recommendable to those who already got it for free as a pre-order bonus, and it's not even that good of a deal for them.

Whether you're a Bionic Commando fan from Rearmed territory or an old school NES junkie, Rearmed 2 isn't going to be the game you'll end up wishing it was.

It's online-only, its expensive and single-player enthusiasts won't find anything to enjoy in this title.

Dead Space Ignition is not worth the purchase unless you want to get the unlockable content for Dead Space 2, but if you want the unlocks then you may as well just pre-order Dead Space 2 and get Ignition for free. Play the game long enough to secure your unlockables and then go play something else.

There are a ton of other, much better SRPGs on the PSP, stay as far from this one as humanly possible and play Yggdra Union instead.

Just be patient and wait for Twisted Metal.

I liked the basic idea behind the game, and I liked the artistic style and the way each planet of levels had its own look and feel. However, there is absolutely nothing fun about this game and I can't imagine anyone wanting to stick with it longer than the time it takes to download it in the first place.

Brilliant sniping mechanic; too bad you're spending most of your time fending off the poor game design in the sea of nauseating textures.

Charging unsuspecting people money for this game - now that's naughty.

There's no reason to recommend this game to anyone. It's short, but feels longer than it is because it's so frustrating and poorly designed. The graphics are poor, the 3D effects rudimentary, and the controls are terrible. Other than that it's fine.

If you want more Iron Man 2 this summer, you're better off just seeing the movie twice.

The moral of this fairytale is to avoid playing this game.

Unless you want your party to be a slumber party, let Vegas Party stay in Vegas.

For all intents and purposes Bakugan: Battle Brawlers is just battle after battle after battle (is that how it got the title?) with slow mechanics and nearly nothing to offer in the way of story, characters or much else.

Follow this general rule - if a game appears on a Nintendo system and you've never heard of it, or the company that produced it, steer clear.

Control issues aside, the gameplay itself is not all that much fun. If perhaps things were faster and more chaotic, as they are in Warlords, it would fare better, but as it is it's more tedious than fun.

There isn't a whole lot else to say about Nectaris. It's an old school strategy title that I'm sure someone will enjoy based on either nostalgia or just a lack of anything else to play.

It's a terrible remake of a terrible game, and will probably top my "Worst of 2009" game list come December.

Chicken Blaster takes a player through eight stages of shooting nothing but chickens and it's about as fun as it sounds.

Long load times and limited magazines feel more like a cheap way to pad the game's length than to capture an historic feel, especially when these weapons are far more accurate at a far greater range in the game than their real-world counterparts ever were.

C.O.R.E. is simply not worth your time or money. There are far better shooters out there, even on the DS.

G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra The Video Game is just plain awful. Whatever you do, though, don't let me stop you from seeing the movie. You'll love it.

This game is almost as ugly and unpolished as it's console counterparts. It just happens to be the lesser of the five or six evils.

Use your $10 on a bargain game that you'll want to play after the first day you buy it, or put it in your piggy bank and save up for a real shooter.

At least if you play Pokemon Trozei, you'll get essentially the same game with a bunch of funny Pokemon faces to laugh at. Here, you might laugh, but it won't be in a good way.

Everything about this game is poor - control, AI, graphics, missions - just about any game aspect you can think of, Stalin vs. Martians butchers it. This one is best left to fans of Stalin or of the planet Mars ... just kidding.

Air Conflict isn't worth the money even if you're paid to play it.

If you are a huge DBZ fan, wait for this one's price to drop before getting it; if you aren't stay far, far away from this one.

When viewed as a whole package, Godfather II doesn't equal the sum of its parts, or at least the sum of the parts, as they SHOULD have been.

If you want a nice, normal text adventure on the DS, Hotel Dusk and Phoenix Wright are the way to go. Lux Pain is really only suitable for gamers who are flat-out tired of stuff that makes sense, plots that can be followed and games that can be honest-to-goodness enjoyed.

The big truck has inspired a rather simple and decidedly small game.

Buying this game will turn your neck red with anger when you realize that you've just thrown your money away.

Stay away from Infinite World at all costs.

It's going to take even more M&Ms candy to keep you awake while playing this title when compared to the Wii version.

Overall, M&Ms Adventure comes across as another generic platformer that we know all too well.

In my younger years, a kid who lived up the street, let's call him "Bad Pete," had a bright idea involving some frozen Gobstopper candies and his paintball gun. The giant purple welts that followed were far, FAR more painful than playing this game, but not by much.

Those two words, wasted opportunity, are Soldiers of Misfortune's M.O. Everything about the game felt like a rush job, a an oversight related to developers who maybe just didn't care enough.

Civil War Secret Missions is simply not recommendable. It can't be considered educational as it spreads more misinformation than it does factual information.

Nostalgia aside, Alien Force is really a pretty awful game, and certainly not one worth paying full price for.

Stay away from this one.

Overall, most people will skip Popstar Guitar without a second thought, but until junior's hands grow to the size needed for a real guitar controller, this is a somewhat adequate solution.

Toss this one into the storm cellar and lock the door

It's about time PC gamers got a good space trading game to play, but it looks like they'll need to keep waiting.

The Incredible Maze's name is only half right – it's a maze but it's hardly incredible.

Avoid this game like the plague.

This is really different, this is kind of strange, this isn't all that much fun - no matter how you spruce it up, connect the dots is still connect the dots.

The PS2 version is the cheapest of the many versions of Mercenaries 2 but you really get what you pay for in this watered-down title.

The problem with Outcry isn't that it was cheaply made, it's that the developers took what little they had, and made something unappealing and boring out of an interesting concept.

The entire game consists of one mode - looking at a bored-looking robot and imitating its moves - and that mode isn't really any fun.

C'mon Silicon Knights, give us Eternal Darkness 2 instead of this silliness!

To be honest, I really, REALLY wanted to like Monster Madness. But annoying voice over, lazy cutscenes with static pictures, bad hit detection and worse attacking issues, I just can't recommend this one.

1942: Joint Strike wasn't only a disappointment because the game just isn't very interesting or fun, it also served to remind me that I've still got another couple of months until Capcom's remake of Bionic Commando hits the PS3 and 360 for download.

Bob Saget himself is a great guy, but his game is inexcusably awful.

Journey to the Center of the Earth is long on frustration and short on fun. Not even the film's most diehard fans should torture themselves with this one.

You're better off saving your money and playing some of the million or so free Flash games that can be found on the internet.

There's no real reason to recommend Hellboy: Science of Evil. Hellboy fans will be disappointed, action gamers will be frustrated, and no one we'll be happy that they bought this game.

Here's what we're dealing with: Code Lyoko: Fall of X.A.N.A. is an obtuse, for-fans-only generic RPG with no defining characteristics.