Still, if you're looking for a solid adventure game with some interesting story ideas, this is the right place to be.

A game that relies so heavily on precise timing of jumps needs to provide the player with tight, responsive controls, something Dragon's Lair 3D fails to do.

You won’t need to escape Paradise City if you don’t bother going there in the first place.

Any good feelings generated during the game's opening and initial sequence were quickly squashed by the game's numbing tedium... Looks great, no filling.

Lords of EverQuest has too many problems to be enjoyed by anyone except EverQuest fanatics taking a break from roleplaying.

Much too thin of a manual and buggy play keep Age of Sail from reaching its otherwise promising potential.

Tube Slider's biggest flaw of all, though, is that it just isn't all that much fun. After your first play session with the game you'll have too strong of a "been there, done that" feeling to want to spend much more time with it.

Too much grinding to be much fun.

Mad Tracks is pretty short on gameplay, which is probably a good thing since the gameplay that is there isn’t very exciting.

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

A skewed, funny, and at times hilarious look at the campus mating game. Unfortunately, just like the mating game it's not without its frustrating moments.

In the end, Balls of Fury is just another movie game that pushes the envelope of how bad things can get when someone says, "We need a movie tie-in game for our crappy film!" Seriously, Balls of Fury is a terrible movie with a terrible licensed game attached to it.

Naruto: Ultimate Ninja Storm Revolution has all the fighters from the previous Ultimate Ninja Storm 3 incarnations and added material but it strips down what we saw in Storm 3 to make room for the extra content.

Angry Birds has nothing to fear from these squirrels.

If you really, really must play a MMORPG space sim, then you should give VO a trial run as it does deliver the very basics. Otherwise, it is hard to recommend that you spend your MMORPG time and money on this one.

Best left to diehard fans of the movie or comic. There are better superhero brawlers out there for everyone else.

An epic story turned into an average platform game.

Nice as a little bite-sized breather from bigger games, but don't expect anything more than just a momentary distraction.

Terrible control issues and seemingly endless jumping puzzles.

Best enjoyed as a party game when you can gather a few friends together. The lack of depth, repetitive nature, and missing online feature of the game hamper its long-term appeal.

The cooking game concept is off the wall enough to have the potential to be a fun party game, but Cooking Mama is not challenging or deep enough to pull it off. Instead it gives you too much repetition and frustration, kind of like getting stuck eating meatloaf every night.

It is a bit more accessible to casual gamers who may want to give the game a look if they find that the realism of other games makes playing them too difficult or involved.

The scaled-down version of the Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter console games is a fun little shooter in its own right.

The hacking and slashing game is enjoyable enough over short stretches, but you'll inevitably wish that there was more to the game than that.

I'll summarize this way: If you're a Harry Potter geek then this is a must have. If you're just a gaming geek then you may want to pass.

What if this game did throw in a standard, nondescript career mode? Would it be worth the price then? What if everything was unlocked to start and it was the same low price? What if it had the career mode, all the unlockables, all the stuff you could get online, all the features ready to go, and even more game modes, all for the same low price? Well then we may be talking about a game that you would be crazy to pass up. Unfortunately that's not the game we have here.

Ninety-Nine Nights looks fantastic, but it’s not much more than a pretty face.

It appears that the developers spent all of their time in creating the city and traffic, and the AI and gameplay took a back seat.