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

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

An epic fail on the quest for fun.

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.

The game does a just fine job of porting the original, but unless you already love the game you’re not going to be enamored with its rudimentary play and graphics.

We've got some new rules for Fight Club. Rule Number One: Do not play Fight Club. Rule Number Two: Tell all of your friends about Fight Club.

It’s hard to recommend this game to anyone, even fans of the movie. You get six easy puzzles and six frustrating puzzles for your money, with no incentive to play through the game a second time. You’re better off simply watching the movie again to get your penguin fix.

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.

It is not a strategy game, but a poorly designed puzzle game. The puzzles are poorly explained and the solutions obscure and not really logical. The only challenge in the game is avoiding frustration-induced madness. This is just not my idea of fun.

Been there, done that, and it's been done a lot better.

Quickly hack and slash your way to boredom.

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

A monotonous and unimaginative fighter that can only possibly appeal to the most die-hard of Dragon Ball Z fans.

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.

It's a chipwreck alright...

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.

If Jackass the show were as bland as Jackass the game it would have been cancelled after one episode.

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.

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.

Toss this one into the storm cellar and lock the door

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

Shells of Tedium would be a more appropriate title.

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

Viking, once it is all said and done, just isn’t a very good game. It's repetitive, its boring and nearly every aspect of the game seems either rushed or plain forgotten about.

This game just does not provide anything new or provide much of a challenge. Perhaps it might be appropriate for someone new to gaming, but most gamers will grow quickly bored by it.

The graphics are about on par with everything else in the game. The resolution is locked at 800x600, and even if you ignore the blockiness of the graphics the small levels are bland and uninteresting and the cutscenes smack of stock-footage amateurism.

Less a game than a geopolitical simulator of a bizarre, parallel Earth. Try not to hurt yourself while rushing out to the store to pick up your copy.

Avoid Vampire Rain like a vampire would avoid sharing a garlic burger with a priest on Miami Beach at noon.

25 to Life just doesn't have anything going for it that warrants a look at the game unless you're gangsta obsessed or bored out of your mind after playing every other available Xbox game out there. Save yourself the frustration and spend your gaming dollars elsewhere.

A bad day for L.A., an even worse day for gamers.

If you really love World War II naval combat and have a very high degree of patience, then maybe take a look at Destroyer Command.

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.

Ecco is a game with great promise, but horrible controls and a very high difficulty level combine to make a wonderfully beautiful animal into a sadistic game.

The idea is great, the execution poor. We can only hope that this is not the only treatment of the subject we'll see in computer gaming.

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

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

Exercise your brain by thinking of creative ways to avoid this game.

It's all pretty repetitive and unexciting, and there's not really any motivation to keep running the same boring races over and over again on the same tracks. There are far better racers out there, even on the lowly GBA.

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.

El Tigre does little to resemble the television series that it is taken from and the gameplay found therein is very repetitive.

If this is an ultra adventurous experience, I shudder to think what average mundane minigolf is like.

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

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.

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

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.

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

The 2D grainy characters and low-color, static, and minimalist backgrounds may have been acceptable in an arcade 10 years ago or on a Sega Genesis, but do you really want to see graphics like these on your Xbox?

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.

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.

Stay away from Infinite World at all costs.

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.

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.

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.

Avoid this game like the plague.

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.

And for being a “suspense” game, there are times when the music sounds like you’re on a carousal. Not good at all.

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

HD or no, Lair isn't a film to be watched, it's a game to be played. Therein lies the problem. Lair is nearly impossible to play.

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.

'Torrente' may just be a new Spanish word for ‘terrible’.

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!

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.

If you do finish Riddle of the Tomb, you won't be drawn back into the story by an interesting denouement. Like the rest of the game, it splutters and fades, leaving you cold and bored.

Frighteningly boring.

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

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.

The biggest bomb in B-17: Fortress in the Sky is the game itself.

It looks and sounds good enough, but an annoying and punishing difficulty level - right off the bat - kills any genuine fun most people could have would a game like this.

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

Seven Kingdoms: Conquest is indistinguishable from any other bad strategy game you've played over the past ten years.

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

The nonexistent tutorial, clunky interface, rough and bland graphics, and quirky AI are all hallmarks of a game released too early... more an exercise in frustration and bewilderment than a game.

You'll get more face time with a Hooters Girl if you go down to your local Hooters for lunch.

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

Well, ladies and gentlemen we have a new winner, or loser as the case may be. Legends of Wrestling II is the worst game I have ever played.

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.

Betty Boop is better off in the unemployment line than she is working this double shift.

Why bother wasting your money on this incomplete, ill-conceived, and poorly designed mess when the developers couldn’t be bothered to release a playable game?

Chicken Shoot doesn’t have anything going for it that would make it remotely recommendable to anyone. Avoid it like you would a chicken carrying SARS.

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

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

The bottom line is that this game is amateurish and not that much fun to play. For the same price, or less if you shop around, you can go out and buy "Freelancer."

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

Anyone who did not play the original game in the arcades is sure to be dumbfounded by its status as a classic.

Angels? Angels from hell sent to torture poor gamers perhaps...

Unfortunately The Asskickers doesn't kick much ass.

It plays just like the classic plastic toy, except that you'll get bored with it even faster.

If you are looking to waste time you might try playing Crime Stories, or you could try something else, like watching the grass grow. Whatever your choice, just remember you are still wasting your time.

It might be a budget title, but that's not an excuse to release such a mess of a game. What price would you place on spending your leisure time in a confused state of frustration?

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

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

On a system in which there are plenty of games that are actually fun to play that are free or will cost you a one-time fee of ninety-nine cents, this game has the gall to force you to pay each time that you want to play. And if you do break down and buy more coins, what does that really buy you? More time poking at the screen in the hope that one of your laser beams will actually destroy a fish. No thank you. I can barely take wasting five minutes on this pointless game, let alone actually paying for the right to spend more time with it.

You're better off just buying an ATHF DVD if you want to watch episodes at home. At least they don't come with a game.

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.

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

If you really want to learn more about the battles of Rome and to try your hand at recreating them, you're far, far better off simply renting a History Channel Special and picking up a copy of Rome: Total War.

The real test of intelligence here is whether or not you are smart enough to avoid this game.

Legend of the Dragon is a quick thrown together cash-in on the TV series. The combat is easily forgettable as is everything else really. Stay clear of it as much as possible, even a rental is not worth it.