The story - good enough but you'll never find yourself discussing it down the pub.

The voiceovers are horrific, with badly timed lines, terrible voices and a miserable script from the days of Ocean licenses.

Top presentation is let down by technical problems and poor map design. They ported the graphics but struggled to fit the gameplay in. [Xbox World]

You could probably leech out a weekend's worth of so-so gaming, and at 30 bucks, you'll still have plenty of cash to check out the upcoming film. It's bound to be more exciting than this.

Eragon's redundancy and simplicity just offers too few reasons to keep playing.

Unfortunately, the entire look of the game is marred by choppy graphics.

Something we were actually outraged by was the fact that that in two-player mode there are no AI cars at all.

Teen Titans is a short and unspectacular diversion for an audience that might be too young for more mature fare, and the price is certainly right, but those more discerning with their beat 'em-up dollars should hunt super-villains elsewhere.

If you're likely to be amused by the puerile humour, you'll find this mildly diverting and entertaining, otherwise avoid - this is a genre that's overpopulated and there are far better examples than this.

The action pauses so frequently to remind you how to excute your task that the entire game ends up feeling like one giant training tutorial. It's impossible to get stuck at any point because all of the answers are pretty much handed right to you.

Something we were actually outraged by was the fact that that in two-player mode there are no AI cars at all.

We're left with an adventure that is decidedly mediocre, if not blatantly substandard, and the end result tends to induce boredom rather than anything else.

While Buzz is okay for the kids, for the rest of us it ends up feeling like a pretty hollow experience. The gameplay is just too limited and uninspired.

This is a novelty. Granted, for all it's limitations, the technology does work, but this really is something for the little ones.

FIFA 2002 might be deeper, but it isn't more fun. The rich gameplay is negated by clumsy implementation, shabby player models and lack of visual finesse.

Call us big girls' blouses if you wish, but this one's scary. Alas, it's also flawed to buggery.

Nobody makes lightgun shooters quite like Sega. But while this would have you happily pumping in the pound coins at the arcade, it doesn't have the longevity to make it an essential home purchase.

You do, however, get four-player split-screen, as opposed to the PS2's two-player mode. Whatever platform you choose, Pac-Man isn't a stellar example of the genre, but it's not a shameless money-grab either.

It's the snail's pace of the action that is Sonic Shuffle's main undoing. Against the computer, even with the speed of the moves turned up, it's agonisingly drawn-out and often just plain boring.

The best thing you can do if you want a fantastic footy game on your new PS2 is to find a copy of PSone's "ISS Pro Evolution." It'll be half the price, but twice as much fun.

Gorgeous-looking, but devoid of almost any rewarding gameplay whatsoever, despite a functional multiplayer.

Sonic fans may fill their need for speed here, but everyone else, please walk on.

The novice faces a hefty learning curve, even with the well-written tutorial in the manual, and many will give up within the first few hours.

But its solid play mechanics aren't enough to overcome the near-complete lack of licensed courses and golfers, or the various other oversights and issues that plague it.

If you've never played a Tomb Raider game, have an elderly PC and like the idea of bending an absurdly proportioned woman to your will (literally, on occasion), you might find entertainment here.

A decent enough karter sadly let down by overly complex track design and occasionally ropey graphics.

The lack of ambition to break new ground will prove unpalatable to most gamers; most RPG fans, even.

A good-looking and proficient shooter, but one that is utterly devoid of invention or new ideas.