An interesting simulator of small unit urban tactics, but a lot of gamers will find the gameplay too slow and constraining.

In the end, Operation Flashpoint is an ambitious game that tries its best to compensate for its various shortcomings, and Codemasters deserves a lot of credit for not mimicking Call of Duty or coping out to make a mediocre title.

If you like complicated war games with Everest-sized learning curves, then this is the game for you.

The first Monster Hunter ripoff, Lord of Arcana, wasn't a complete disaster, but it wasn't a good game, either. Gods Eater Burst is a much more competent game, one that takes some of what made Monster Hunter so engaging and even adds some new stuff to up the ante.

Tiger Woods PGA Tour 14 has enough new features, especially the interesting Legends of the Majors and the online Connected Tournaments, to make it a good purchase if you've been out of the series of a while.

Still not quite up to being a real NFL sim, but a lot of fun to play nonetheless.

If you go in expecting the game to be revolutionary you can’t help but be disappointed. However if you’re just looking for an enjoyable and solid game of football, you’ll be happy with the game.

It obviously tries to emulate Japanese style console RPGs, but it fails to deliver the story depth or puzzle challenge common to those games.

Control in the game is tight and responsive; either with a wheel controller or even if you brave it with the four arrow keys.

Puzzle infuriation and stolen tropes from other RPGs do drag down the experience, but when compared to the first game, DQ2 is a revelation. The story, characters and open world make the game feel like so much more than a "mash attack til everything is dead" musou title M.O., and the move toward a traditional Dragon Quest game over a hack and slash title makes a huge difference. If Dragon Quest, Dynasty Warriors or action-RPGs are your wheelhouse, there is more than enough here to keep you busy for between 30 and 50 hours.

In spite of the “cutesy” appearance of a Disney game that’s too hard to play for the wee set, Disney Magic is a lot of fun to play. If you enjoyed Meteos, then you’ll like this variant on the game.

Either way you approach the game, Lost Orbit is an enjoyable game. Although things can get a little crazy with all of the gravitational hijinks as you zip through space, the game is not punishing to casual gamers.

Icon is an average fighting game but the graphics, style, and interesting use of music make it more entertaining than I thought possible.

Jak X is kart racing for the Twisted Metal generation.

This is not the type of game that you'll want to play the heck out of for a week straight. It's best enjoyed in short bursts when you're in the mood for a little bit of frenzied shooter action.

It has a suitable cel-shaded look to it and reproduces the vibrant colors and crisp lines of the series quite well.

Stick It To The Man is a great downloadable titles with plenty of actual laughs and some engaging gameplay to match. With so much that could have gone wrong, you owe it to yourself to check out the game that got so much right.

Go in expecting a puerile romp in much the same way you would going to a summer movie and you'll most likely finding yourself having a good time.

An enjoyable hybrid RPG/action game that is accessible to the novice X-Men fan but pays the bigger dividends to the true fan.

Warhammer 40K makes a good initial foray from strategy gaming into action gaming, and hopefully we'll see more epic Space Marine action in the future.

Earth Defense Force 4.1 provides portable pick-up and play pleasure on your PlayStation.

Early adopters may not even blink an eye at coming back for round 2 but for anyone just coming in they will have one of the best fighting games out there and a ton of unlockable content to look forward to.

Medal of Honor: Airborne is an enjoyable shooter, adding enough to the formula to avoid feeling like a retread of territory you've crossed many times before.

If you loved "Caesar" and "Pharaoh," you'll probably really like Zeus. You'll probably enjoy the game also if you enjoy the challenge of building a city and an economy to run it, provided you have the patience to wait for your efforts to bear fruit.

Titanfall is a lot of fun to play, but some of its shortfalls left me a little disappointed.

In MW3 you know what you're getting and, yes, that's exactly what you get.

Graphically the game is top-notch. The players are animated realistically and there are a lot of nice extra touches such as ball marks on the courts and shadows cast by the lights in night matches.

NHL 07 delivers some great on ice action.