Hoshigami is an overcooked hodgepodge that's too unwieldy for strategy RPG newcomers and too imbalanced for experts.

Poor AI and insane difficulty get between you and the sniping in Sniper: Ghost Warrior.

Monochroma is a game that I wanted to enjoy, and I thought it would be worthwhile even halfway through the adventure. But things really go off the rails as you push onward, with most of the later puzzles demanding precision that's just not possible.

Shrek 2 for the PC is strictly for kids, though considering its clunky controls and short running time, it's not even a terribly good game for them.

Those looking for the Frogger they grew up with should probably look somewhere else.

The frustratingly bad physics in Totaled! make the game a thoroughly unentertaining experience.

Ultimately, RLH is a game that simply wasn't good when it was first released, and even with slightly better graphics, a new level, and Xbox Live content, it still isn't a good game.

Some of the greatest wrestlers from decades past are making their first-ever appearance in a video game, and that in itself is exciting. However, the lack of match variety, the sloppy control, and the poor overall execution make Legends of Wrestling a rental at best.

Some busted mechanics and picky controls will make you think twice before bringing these Ghostbusters on the road.

The Assembly feels like a small part of a bigger, much more engaging game. It's a good foundation for a world full of mystery, but it ends just as it starts to get interesting. A game that fully explores the dystopian facility, its history, and the state of the outside world is something I'd be interested in. However, as it is, The Assembly is hard to recommend.

A cute story mode isn't enough to compensate for Trioncube's unoriginal and incredibly easy take on the Tetris formula.

Bomberman Land's single-player adventure is a dud, but the multiplayer battle mode is a blast.

Iffy controls and blotchy animations mean Smash Court Tennis 3 should restring its racket and try again next year.

The few moments when Bullet Witch shines are impressive, but not nearly enough to elevate the rest of the game above the dismal plane of mediocrity.

This trigger-happy safari may be too exuberant for its own good, but there's still some fun to be had in these hunts.

Aside from a few novelty options, Codename: Outbreak is an uninspired first-person shooter that really doesn't stack up against the glut of similar games currently out on the market.

It's advisable for both general enthusiasts and die-hard hockey fans to avoid this game for fear of losing interest in the sport.

A dull and largely forgettable experience, which, considering the quality of the previous three Digimon World games, really shouldn't be too big of a surprise to anyone.

If you can make it past IGPX's terrible presentation and steep learning curve, you just might find an inexplicably satisfying mech-combat racing game.

Brutal difficulty is the only thing that sets this WWII real-time strategy game apart from its predecessors.

Ultimately, what's most impressive about Myst III: Exile is that it combines intellectual challenge with scene after scene of enchanting beauty.

Unfortunately, Prye's adventures aren't anywhere near as exciting as they might sound because of the game's poor control, its awkward camera angles, and its simplistic and repetitive story.

This arcade game is relatively shallow and a pale imitation of its television inspiration.

Little League World Series Baseball 2010 may have a cheerful personality, but it strikes out where it counts.

Primitive production values, flaws in the single-player campaign, and a sometimes lag-ridden experience in online play make GunGriffon: Allied Strike difficult to recommend.

Big Bash Boom's potential is clear. Despite its singular focus making it feel a little barebones when compared to other cricket titles, the shift towards arcade gameplay feels perfectly suited to the relatively flamboyant presentation of the BBL. But it's washed with bugs that affect the core of the experience, and those technical issues make it difficult to warm up to.

Whatever mad genius decided to smash the two series together should be commended: the mix is mostly a successful one, and where it fails, it’s at least failure in favor of trying something new.

Fable Heroes is a mediocre four-player brawler that's only partly redeemed by its fabled license.

Diner Dash is a challenging game that will keep you on your toes from start to finish, but it's too simple to keep you coming back.

Tides of Destiny makes several good changes to the Rune Factory formula, making for a fun adventure in fantasy farming.

The Mario & Sonic series is the perfect example of the kind of charming, bite-sized, and all-inclusive entertainment that defined Nintendo throughout the Wii's golden years, but a lack of creativity and a poor implementation of the Wii U GamePad ensure that Mario & Sonic's fourth outing in six years fails to secure a podium finish.

Mighty No. 9 is an inoffensively average game sprung from the memories of the past, with little to show for its position in the present.

There’s enjoyment to be found within the game’s combat, but it’s just not worth stomaching the tedious design and perverse activities to find the pearl inside.

Yar's Revenge's great art design is squandered on dull, painful-to-control rail shooter gameplay.

Medal of Honor: Warfighter doesn't merge its cliched parts into a satisfying whole, making it just another middle-of-the-road military shooter.

Will hold the interest of a devoted WWE fan for a few days, but it doesn't have a wide enough assortment of wrestlers or moves to keep the attention of anyone else for very long. The absence of a create-a-wrestler option is also tragic.

Bland humor and breezy action make Rabbids Travel in Time 3D a lighthearted yet lackluster platformer.

It has all of the same ingredients that made the earlier releases so popular, but the excitement is gone, and what once felt new and energetic is now old and tired.

TMNT doesn't wear its nostalgic aspects particularly well, and the remaining components simply don't make for a very entertaining experience.

Fails in almost every department, from graphics to gameplay and everything in between.

The frustrating controls ruin what could have otherwise been a standout conversion of one of the Dreamcast's more unique games.

Though the game draws inspiration from some of the more respected second-string puzzle games out there, Super Bubble Pop offers neither their depth nor their long-term appeal.

A racing game that is easy to control but extremely difficult.

Though it hasn't changed dramatically since last year, the few changes made to Crave's latest poker title don't do anything to bring the series up to the standard set by recent, better poker games.

Everything positive that has been added to the game doesn't do anything to counteract the mechanical artificial intelligence and visual problems that plague much of it.

Alien Spidy's cool momentum-based platforming is both unique and uniquely infuriating.

There's no reason to pick this one up, regardless of how bad you need a basketball fix--there are plenty of cheaper, better options available.

Woolfe barely comes into its own before it's over, with the entire game taking about 2–3 hours tops. It's apparently only half of a two-part experience, but the halfway mark of the game doesn't show much promise for the second.

The War of the Worlds adapts H.G. Wells' classic novel into a visually appealing platformer that unfortunately falls short in a number of key areas.

Only masochists need to bother with Majesty 2: Battles of Ardania, an incredibly tough expansion pack.

Unless your idea of fun is to stress yourself out by performing menial tasks, you'll want to pass on Cake Mania.

It offers very few thrills, and instead, an overly cumbersome control scheme and some insanely convoluted level designs suck just about all the fun out of what could have been an entertaining shooter.

There isn't much to do in this lengthy action role-playing game aside from fight, but at least the fast combat will keep you engaged throughout.

The Achilles heel of Golf Resort Tycoon is that not much happens for long, long stretches of time.

This is perhaps the ultimate example of an incomplete online game with more glaring defects than properly working features.

It is by no means authoritative, and it certainly won't convince newbies that the sport makes a worthy computer game.

Parents whose kids have Scooby-Doo hot on the brain from the movie can safely rent this one, or not, without worry of missing much.

This real-time strategy game's convoluted controls make it hard to play, much less enjoy.

Although NCCA Final Four 2001 features relatively entertaining arcade-style hoops action, the game's subpar graphics, lack of options, annoying control flaws, and lack of on-court atmosphere keep it from meeting those expectations.

Seeing the three original Star Wars stories play out as Lego toys is a treat, and the game is also a good action adventure in its own right.

Everything in the game feels extremely rushed and underpolished.

SpellForce 2's unique mix of role-playing and real-time strategizing makes a return in Faith in Destiny, but it only brings a few new tricks.

Bad graphics and repetitive play make Mega Man's latest adventure a dull one.

It's a short, simplistic shooter that's not worth even its budget price.

The Lord of the Rings: Conquest is an exciting and action-packed way to experience Middle-earth, provided that you have the patience and fortitude to shoulder a few frustrating burdens.

A simplistic but pleasant beat-'em-up. The combat isn't complicated, and there isn't much payoff for beating the whole thing, but the ride does have its moments.

Limited licences, stripped features, and disappointing presentation make Rugby World Cup 2011 disappointing to even the most ardent fans of the sport.

It's a solidly average game whose few original ideas are compromised by screwy controls, some pacing problems, and a punishing save-game system.

Battle of Atluma gets the WarCry card-game mechanics down cold. Unfortunately, the chill permeates every aspect of the presentation.

It still feels more like work than entertainment, but persistent simulation fanatics will welcome the challenge.

Unlike the entries from Microsoft and Rockstar, though, The Italian Job is almost completely devoid of both flavor and interesting gameplay, and the whole thing feels like it was slapped together in a supreme hurry to cash in on the release of the film.

There are still too many unpolished aspects and simply not enough challenge to make the game appealing to anyone outside of the most devout Alias audience.

Perhaps with some additional gameplay modes, or less-archaic graphics and sound, World Race might stand out a bit more, but as it is, the game is only worth playing if you have a specific affinity for the Hot Wheels series.

The average gamer is going to have a hard time looking past the game's generally poor production and repetitive gameplay.

Unfortunately, after a few hours of play, it quickly becomes apparent that the only thing undone by the Grinch is your own personal satisfaction.

The inclusion of different gameplay elements drag down what is otherwise an oftentimes surprisingly playable game.

The main problem with The Simpsons: Road Rage isn't that the graphics are ugly, but rather that The Simpsons license isn't integrated deeply enough into the game.

Perhaps if the developers had focused more on the stealth part of the game and less on the other aspects, we'd have a game that's less varied but more fun to play.

First-person shooters and real-time strategies are more at home on the PC because they require a mouse and keyboard to be enjoyed to their fullest extent, and Conflict Zone on the Dreamcast is a prime example of why this is the case.

Once again, the strategy elements of the empires mode do a lot to make up for the mundanity of the aging Warriors combat system, but it's not quite enough.

Lots of little annoyances add up to make Darkout less than than the sum of its influences, though they're not enough to ruin the entire experience.

If you have enough friends to fill up a lobby, there’s plenty of fun to be had with Defenders of Time. Otherwise, you’ll be left angrily waiting around for someone, anyone, to jump online.

This short adventure game nails the feel of both the show and the island on which it's set, but struggles with some of the characters.

Slick production values and cooperative play distinguish this beat-'em-up from the rest of the pack.

You won't like it when this simplistic, repetitive, and occasionally broken game makes you angry.

The gameplay is a mix of sloppy third-person action and even sloppier puzzles, putting the weight of the game squarely on Ash's tongue-in-cheek macho colloquialisms.

With its limited depth, Brave Soldiers can't hold its own against more technical fighters on the market, and the tedium and lackluster presentation of the story mode won't give anyone who's not already a fan of the series much of a reason to become one.

Players already familiar with arcade-style tennis games like "Virtua Tennis" will probably find the gameplay in WTA Tour Tennis a bit sluggish, and the lack of variety in the modes doesn't help the game's case, either.

At World's End isn't a bad game, but its dull, repetitive combat and uninspired mission structure prevent it from being much fun.

Good controls can't cover up for the boring, lifeless fights.

The action is plagued by loose controls and a bad camera, your scores of brain-dead opponents never put up enough of a fight to make things satisfying, and it's all set in a blandly designed world.

It's a new direction for the well-regarded series, but Circle of Doom isn't nearly as good as you may have hoped.

Jaws Unleashed was a truly awful game on consoles, and it's no better six months later on the PC.

Centipede and Millipede were arcade classics, but bad control and lame "evolved" modes make this package a stinker.

An '80s arcade classic is reinvented as a not-too-successful 3D platformer in BurgerTime: World Tour.

Bad graphics and repetitive play make Mega Man's latest adventure a dull one.

True to its title, this fantasy action game will make you furious.

The games are all emulated quite well, but aside from the couple of big-name titles featured, many of the games included in this suite are simply not worth playing.