Without wishing to come across as overly pedantic, there's little in Wild Wild Racing that could be genuinely be termed wild.

Looks stunning. The polygon count has been upped from the coin-op version, and the characters are as lifelike as you could want.

For fast, mental-as-anything racing goes, you're better off with a copy of "SSX" and a few mates. Roll on Ridge VI...

And it has marvellously crap fighting, which should please you louts out there. Punch him! Hit him in the face! We demand blood!

It is just a pity that, ultimately, the missions become all too similar.

A poor plot, which never makes you feel that you're doing anything other than playing an average videogame.

Being part of a battle on such massive scale has never been as convincingly portrayed before.

Constantly surprising, always delightful, never less than utterly stunning, this journey through the looking glass into a new and perfectly formed world is escapism of the very highest order.

Simply the best golfing simulation available right now.

The action never lets up and while there's no real depth or strategy, it's a damn good blast that really gets the adrenaline pumping.

Armored Core 2 may not be to everyone's tastes, but if you can get your head round it, the seamless integration of strategy and action provides a deep and enthralling experience.

Niggly graphical flaws and suspect longevity drop the final score but it's rip-roaring fun while it lasts with well-balanced game play. Do try this at home.

A brief affair, a perfectly formed kinetic buzz. And, a long time after you've finished with it, you'll still hear the sounds. Repeat after us: Click. Thud. Buchhhhaaaaa.

An unconventional - hence invigorating - impetuous, inciting, and utterly, utterly playable first-person multiplaying affair.

Madden NFL 2001 pushes the mighty "ISS Evolution" into a two-way fight to be the greatest sports game on any system. Ever.

Progression through the levels is expectedly linear but it also tends to be the same open-door-with-switch-call-lift-fight-end-of-level-boss structure. The formula never alters - no puzzles, no significant alternate routes, no variety.

There's just not that much to it. Even the career mode suffers from a distinct lack of depth.

Only tediousness and (lack of) longevity lower the standard of what would otherwise be something of a classic shooter.

A sequel that delivers more, but not quite enough.

If you're new to the series or a Greek aficionado then this is an excellent place to start, but if you stopped playing one of the earlier games after a few levels there's nothing that'll inspire you to play any more of this one.

Don't expect depth, merely an ongoing rush of a pure gaming high. Bliss!

The game play is absolutely superb, with well-balanced armies and some simply brilliant new units including a new building system more akin to the WarCraft series that allows for a more efficient unit production system.

The PS2 version doesn't have any extra features that might make up for the lack of certain technically impossible bits and pieces.

Dull, unenjoyable and incredibly shoddy, failing to deliver even the most basic of racing thrills.

Quite simply fantastic. The most universally appealing Dreamcast title yet.

Perhaps the most impressive aspect of the game, though, is the way in which it gives a real sense of what war was really like for pilots in the Pacific.

The true magic of Alien Resurrection is that you almost always feel insecure, no matter the quantity or quality of munitions at your disposal.

Amanda De Cadenet -- remember her? -- once said in an interview that she'd rather have five minutes of filth than half an hour of arduous bump 'n' grind and, at last, we understand what she meant.