It was more compelling on the PSP since no one else had even made an attempt to represent the game on the system up to that point, but with dozens of different pool games available for consoles at a near-universal budget price, many of which are vastly superior in terms of gameplay quality, The Hustle: Detroit Streets becomes thoroughly unnecessary.

Tedious gameplay, poor vehicle handling, and an unfriendly interface are just a few reasons why you should leave this game in the bargain bin.

The game misfires at almost every turn, featuring repetitive and overly simple gameplay, as well as dated graphics and an almost complete lack of sound effects.

While the game offers some impressive production values, it ultimately seems shallow and incomplete, and it won't hold anyone's attention for long.

Lots of comparable options come cheaper and offer more fulfilling shoot-'em-up action than this retread.

The embarrassing graphics and painful controls in The Incredible Hulk make citywide destruction feel boring.

The stealth only somewhat works, the combat is mindlessly simple, and the storyline makes Alien vs. Predator look like Dostoyevsky. Now, throw in some fairly ugly graphics, a lot of sloppy platforming, and an onslaught of moronic mission goals, and what you've got is a game you want just about nothing to do with.

Attempts to deliver some "Prince of Persia"-like acrobatics, but its sharp graphics are offset by bad control, weak voice work, and shoddy gameplay.

Shoehorning in the most basic of Wii motion-sensing controls isn't enough to make a clunky, repetitive game like Rampage fun--if anything, it just makes it more annoying.

The graphics are bad, and they definitely kick the game down a couple of pegs.

This cel-shaded third-person shooter is completely substandard in nearly every aspect and therefore is impossible to recommend, even to the young audience that the game is targeted toward.

Doesn't, in any remote way, come close to redeeming its prequel, much less the majority of the series.

As a licensed product, it's mediocre, with enough charming moments to rescue it from the immediate bargain-basement abyss. But as a game, it's an absolute insult and more likely to put kids to sleep than it is to entertain them.

Despite the lack of detailed graphics and absence of any need for a flight model, B-17 Gunner stutters worse than some detailed flight sims that tax the computer far more than this simple arcade game.

Car Tycoon may appear to be a decent ride, but if you're looking for a really excellent management game, you should look elsewhere.

Despite its lack of polish or depth in just about every facet of its execution, Lowrider has a lot of heart and is notable for at least trying something new.

It's hard to recommend Death Crimson OX to anyone but the truly desperate light-gun fanatic.

One Piece: Unlimited Cruise SP is a dull, time-consuming collect-a-thon that fails to do the license justice.

The Golden Compass is just another family-friendly film cash-in with few redeeming qualities.

A quirky strategy game that's interesting to play--at least for a little while.

The biggest problem with Woody Woodpecker Racing is that it's just not fun.

The GBA version of R-Type III is a pathetic, wretched imitation of that great game.

Pure Football may be an arcade take on the sport, but that doesn't excuse its repetitive gameplay and general lack of game modes.

This strategic RPG is ugly and frustrating--but it can also be a lot of fun.

It's a challenge, to be sure, but so is crossing the Sahara. The desert might even give more back.

With a license as big as the World Series, you'd hope for something more than a merely competent poker title.

Sonic the Hedgehog may share its name with the Genesis original, but this game is even more broken than most of the other recent Sonic games have been.

Proof that simplicity isn't always a good thing, this cutesy baseball download is so vapid you’ll lose interest well before the 7th-inning stretch.

A perfect example of good intentions gone awry.

Catwoman attempts to deliver some "Prince of Persia"-like acrobatics, but it's dragged down by bad control, weak voice work, and shoddy gameplay.

There are better ways of spending your time during the cold winter months than playing Winter Stars.

If the inconsistent controls aren't enough to steer you away from this fifth-rate Mario Kart clone, the frustrating AI and total lack of personality probably will.

Attack on Titan: Humanity in Chains is further proof that the seemingly obvious genre for an anime-to-game adaptation isn't always the best one.

Inuyasha for the DS is a lousy Final Fantasy knockoff with mediocre graphics and a ridiculously high encounter rate.

Clunky and unpolished.

For whatever progress that the series makes in this third installment, it's undone by lackluster gameplay and poor execution.

The elements of a charming Nancy Drew tale are here, but the game is far too short and too problematic to be recommendable.

This game is just flat-out bad in most every way you can think of, and for a franchise with such promise and potential, that's a truly disheartening thing.

Ghost Recon's shooting gallery action is shallow and repetitive, but it still manages to provide some entertainment.

Caught between being a space sim, a real-time strategy game, and a role-playing game, Starpoint Gemini tries to do a little bit of everything, and fails to do anything well.

A slew of noticeably missing features and other problems may well end up drawing too much of your attention away from the game's good parts.

The action here is a complete mess that can't be salvaged, even with copious amounts of fan service and esoteric references to the Gundam universe.

Rooted in archaic gameplay sensibilities and devoid of engaging characters or plot, Crime Stories won't even appeal to the most vehement of adventure game fans.

Though it can be fun with friends in short bursts, Tank! Tank! Tank! doesn't have nearly enough depth or content to remain enjoyable for long.

This hackneyed terrorist shooter is without story, without characters, without originality, and most importantly, without fun.

The troubled real-time strategy dungeon sim Impire fails to recapture the charms of its inspirations.

Arctic Thunder is not fun. The gameplay is repetitive, and the game is easily one of the worst-looking PS2 games we've seen to date.

Every aspect of the game, from the combat mechanics to the movement to the technical execution of the graphics, is lacking in some regard, and when you add these elements together, you get a game that's simply unpleasant to play.

An obtuse interface makes MLB Front Office Manager bewildering even to baseball-sim veterans.

This hackneyed terrorist shooter is without story, without characters, without originality, and most importantly, without fun.

Without a doubt, the worst basketball game released this year, college or pro. It offers a subpar effort--across the board--in graphics, sound, gameplay, and extras (like the simplistic dynasty mode, for example).

An inferior copy of a classic, Swashbucklers isn't worth your time.

These legendary fighters may look the part, but unresponsive controls are the first thing you'll notice.

An obvious attempt to cash in on the street racing craze by providing bargain-basement production values, unlicensed cars, and about as much excitement as a half-lit sparkler.

Like a poisonous mushroom, Rise of the Fungi looks good but makes you feel bad.

Iron Man's high-flying new adventure is hindered by erratic difficulty and repetitive level design.

War World is an uninspired mech combat game that isn't worth your time.

There are problems with the game's controls, physics, and artificial intelligence, which often make the process of playing the game more frustrating than fun.

This dreary and derivative turn-based strategy game is about as entertaining as working an assembly line.

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

This PC port fails to take advantage of the PC's increased technical power and greater control fidelity to adequately smooth over the game's prior tablet limitations.

Recycled environments and mediocre gameplay overwhelm the multiplayer positives of this lackluster Ghostbusters adventure.

NFL Tour would have made a great arcade game, but as a console game, it's simply too shallow to hold your interest for long.

It's hard to mess up a hidden-object game, but Interpol tries.

On multiple levels, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation fails miserably.

This shooter is a painful exercise in pattern memorization plus frustrating trial-and-error gameplay.

The Cursed Crusade is a repetitive hack-and-slash that is marred by clumsy combat, poor dialogue, and some serious technical issues.

Old and almost impossible, Stronghold Crusader Extreme is hard to recommend even to diehard fans of this RTS series.

The Ant Bully on the Wii is basically the same uninteresting mess that came out for the GameCube six months earlier.

This half-hearted revival attempt leaves Golden Axe lifeless and dull.

Drift racing is supposed to be fast-paced and exciting and it's neither of those things in D1 Grand Prix, a lifeless and frustrating PS2 racing game.

Aside from the Reservoir Dogs name in the title and the colorfully named characters, Bloody Days shares almost nothing in common with its namesake. With its rewind mechanic, you can see the potential for an exhilarating top-down, twin-stick shooter, but this never comes to pass. The game is easily exploitable and produces frustration far too often to become even the slightest bit interesting. Reservoir Dogs: Bloody Days devolves to a banal experience that's all bark and no bite.

Double Time gives you double the frustration for half the price.

This mindless hack-and-slash action game starts out feeling tired and repetitive and only goes downhill from there.

While some unique gimmicks and solid gameplay have made other god games fun to play, these elements are curiously absent from Heaven & Hell, leaving it a short, and otherwise dull, experience.

Missed opportunities cower in every corner, ranging from an irreverence toward the subject matter in the disjointed story to the absence of familiar voices, and the gameplay feels like it started life as an amateur Bond-themed Call of Duty mod.

This movie-licensed World War I dogfighter takes off, stalls, and nosedives straight into the ground.

Imprecise motion controls ruin all five of the sports featured in this disappointing collection.

It's unlikely that many were begging for a Napoleon Dynamite-themed minigame collection, and those few who were will be disappointed by this shabby effort.

Unbalanced AI, poor shooting control, and shoddy design at every level of the experience make this extreme sports title unworthy of your $30.

An oversimplified arcade racer without a drop of the wildness or excitement that the best arcade racers offer.

There's nothing inherently broken with the game, and until it fizzles out at the end the story's not bad, but the gameplay is so contrived and repetitive that it's unlikely anyone will garner much enjoyment from the game.

The Alien franchise deserves better than this. Aliens: Colonial Marines is a disappointing exercise in bland corridor shooting, dragged down by laughable dialogue and cooperative play that makes the game worse than when you adventure on your own. Colonial Marines is unremarkable in every conceivable way: it's far too easy, generally devoid of tension, and lacking in the variety it so desperately needed.

From its buggy, intensely frustrating gameplay to its near-absent production values, Made Man is a flat-out mess across every category.

Abysmal controls and frustrating gameplay await you in the depths of Firetop Mountain.

Some distinguishing features give this shooter a touch of class, but bugs and execution flaws cast a long shadow over Call of Juarez: The Cartel.

With a shallow single-player campaign and a broken online mode, Mr. Driller Online leaves little to recommend.

This slapdash role-playing game shows some promise early, but quickly becomes tedious and frustrating.

As if to draw further attention to its languorous gameplay, Tweety & The Magic Gems does absolutely nothing to impress with its presentation.

The very definition of a stripped-down budget title, as practically every aspect that would make a game fun or interesting is missing.

Hard Truck: Apocalypse takes an interesting premise and strips away all but the most mundane elements, leaving you to drive down a long and unexciting road to nowhere.

This hypersexualized role-playing game degrades the console war with questionable gameplay mechanics, choppy animation, and some truly awful music.

Bravo Team slogs on, stranding you in huge spaces, throwing wave after wave of cannon fodder your way, making its short play time feel hours longer that it actually is. Bravo Team is a game that feels unsure and tentative about ideas that have been tried and tested for years now, even in VR.

The visual performance is poor, the puzzles are drab, and the story mode is laughably lame.

This port has a host of new problems that render the game virtually unplayable.

Attempts to deliver some "Prince of Persia"-like acrobatics, but its sharp graphics are offset by bad control, weak voice work, and shoddy gameplay.

Shadow the Hedgehog fails to live up to its pedigree due to terrible controls, an uncooperative camera, and an overall lack of effort.

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