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

Play it loud, on a big-assed TV, until you've mastered every character, your girlfriend's left you and the bank has repossessed the goldfish.

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

A good one-player game but as necessary as a bacon sarnie on a cold morning in multiplayer. If you liked "Worms," you'll love this.

With any high-speed sports game, the real bonus is in the game play and NHL 2001 oozes it.

Please would Red Storm kindly take their hands off this poor knackered cash-cow's red-raw udders and do something new? Tango down.

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.

Atrociously inept, this is the perfect example to illustrate just how bad games can get. Utterly without merit.

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

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

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.

In the six hours that it takes to finish Metal Gear Solid, there is little more than an hour's interaction.

The best conventional RPG -- carefully side-stepping "Deus Ex's" entirely different brilliance -- in recent years.

An immensely satisfying racing sim designed for hardcore racing fans.

Yes, it doesn't add much that's new but -- oh, let progress be damned.... Love this game. It. Is. Fun.

A romp to remember and a multiplayer taste to acquire and savour.

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.

For a Microsoft-published game Crimson Skies is refreshingly politically incorrect, with blatantly sexist mid-battle quips from the dashing protagonist.

A distillation and purification of an already dangerously potent liquor. Only its closeness to its parent prevents greater recommendation.

A fun, if not exactly classic, future-racer, riddled with shortcuts and offering plenty to do. Pales in comparison to "F-Zero X," though.

You could do a lot worse than re-visiting the first two Turoks and forgetting all about this half-hearted and dispiriting finale to what has been one of the best-loved franchises on the N64. A shame.

If you're looking for a simulation, this ain't it. But then, that's hardly the point.

Far from being the cash-in we'd all expected, this is one of the best puzzlers money can buy. Excellent stuff indeed.

They've created the first game featuring a comic book hero that doesn't disappoint.

Brilliant. You'll certainly be having a bit of a laugh, as well as being scared out of your pants.

It's safe to say that UFC is bloody hard, in all senses of the word.

Sega GT seems to frustrate more than entertain after some time, like GT2 did before it for gamers that played the original.

But don't take it that lightly: it's cute good- looks and sense of humour don't detract at all from what is an exquisitely crafted game of tennis.