Far Cry Vengeance tries to blend recycled content with new gameplay designed for the Wii, but the results are lackluster across the board.

The lack of any strategy to the gameplay, a generally poor design, and an endless number of stability problems turn Monster Garage into a real monster, all right.

B-17: Fortress in the Sky is a simplistic World War II-themed shoot-'em-up that lacks variety and panache.

You'd be better off staying away from this botched attempt to translate the great ninja stealth action series to the DS. Almost nothing good about Tenchu made the cut.

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.

It's not as if the Olympics, be it summer or winter, has had anything special to call its own when it comes to video game adaptations over the years, but Torino 2006 is especially egregious in that it pares down the number of included events to a fairly measly number, manages to make every single one of them completely uninteresting, and skimps entirely on the presentation.

Not only does Pocket Pool miserably fail to deliver an enjoyable game of billiards, but its attempts at titillation are more depressing than anything else.

The environments are no fun to get through, fights are infrequent, and the simplistic combat is unfulfilling.

It may carry a $20 price tag, but even at half that price, the technically flawed gameplay and dated production values add up to a gaming experience that's hardly justifiable.

Just because a game seemingly aims to be bad on purpose doesn't make it any less of a bad game.

Suffers from a vast array of frustrating and obnoxious problems, making it practically unplayable by any audience... It has no redeeming qualities, and it should be avoided by basketball fans and Disney fans alike.

Whether you're a fan of the cartoon or a fan of fighting games, Legend of the Dragon is a total disappointment.

Despite a variety of shortcomings, MetropolisMania 2 is a fun and oddly addictive city sim that walks the fine line between being eccentric and outright bizarre.

Dumb enemies, repetitive levels, and downright unappealing looks makes this a theory that's not worth testing.

Fans of the genre can consider Land of the Babes a light snack between hearty meals.

A resounding failure. Unless you're a masochistic Fight Club fan looking to purposely have your sensibilities offended, then you'd be well advised to stay far away from this game.

Although it lets you wander around a game board and participate in various multiplayer challenges as your favorite Crash Bandicoot characters, the game ultimately crashes and burns because the majority of its minigames are lifeless and uninteresting.

A fair adventure in button pressing, but that's as far as it goes.

Hour of Victory is practically broken and has no business being on shelves in its current state.

If you've exhausted Steam's survival horror library, Dementium II HD will scratch your genre itch. Unfortunately, that itch has already been rubbed raw by much better games.

Awkward controls and a forgettable plot greatly overshadow Blackwater's few bright spots.

One thing is fact: NFL Blitz 2002 for the GBA is a stinker.

There’s almost no joy to be found in playing Left Alive, only bitter disappointment.

The controls in this horror-themed minigame collection are possessed by an evil spirit whose only goal is to drive you mad.

The updates really don’t do anything to improve the gameplay and in some cases actually detract from it.

What do you get when you mix a 50-year-old animated franchise with 21st-century downloadable games? A poor microgame collection.

Framed as a spiritual successor to Ultima Underworld, Underworld Ascendant misses the mark with almost every shot, much like my aforementioned hapless archer. At the same time, even freed from the expectations its historical baggage brings, it is a clear failure. The spirit of Ultima Underworld lives on elsewhere.

With its repetitive, pedestrian amusement-park games and nearly lifeless presentation, Wonder World Amusement Park completely fails to amuse.

Broken controls destroy any fun that could have been had in this arcade boxer.

Quite possibly one of the most confused games and most definitely one of the worst games to be released so far in 2002.

There is a nugget of a good idea here, and one that is interesting on paper. Unfortunately, Fire Emblem Shadows' most innovative ideas bump up against its mobile and free-to-play nature, resulting in a game that is both not for Fire Emblem fans and hard to recommend to anyone.

Couple that with major bugs, sloppy typos, and a painfully slow pace, and you get a mess of a game that feels more like punishment than fun.

Escape from Bug Island is a dismal reminder of the low points of survival horror's past.

It's got plenty of cute Tamagotchis, but it's short on depth and is seriously lacking in the fun department.

Lucha Fury is a beat-'em-up that proves that beauty is only screen deep.

Not counting massively multiplayer delivery quests, my top benchmark for delivery-style games is still Choplifter. Fluster Cluck can be found at the opposite end of that spectrum.

It's an unusual idea, and certainly an interesting one, but as you play, you'll find that Combat Medic probably wasn't the best idea for a game.

If the problems with getting the game to run weren't enough reason to keep you away from Chaos Legion, then the boring gameplay and graphical shortcomings should be reason enough.

Over the years, the series has shown its flashes of playability, but Sarge's War isn't one of them. This game never shows anything above the most minimal of efforts, and even then, it seems as though you're being entertained as if by accident.

This dull and unpleasant action game is in desperate need of a tune-up.

This small collection of minigames offers little for even the most fervent Dead Space fan.

No amount of Xzibit influence or ride pimpage can save Pimp My Ride from its god-awful minigames and lousy driving mechanics.

It's not as if the Olympics, be it summer or winter, has had anything special to call its own when it comes to video game adaptations over the years, but Torino 2006 is especially egregious in that it pares down the number of included events to a fairly measly number, manages to make every single one of them completely uninteresting, and skimps entirely on the presentation.

Terrible. This first-person shooter from Red Storm Entertainment suffers from graphical problems, poor control, and terrible AI, and on top of all that, it can be beaten in less than two hours your first time through.

This wacky action game doesn't contain any of the fun hinted at by its goofy premise.

In X-Men: Destiny, awful combat and meaningless choices combine to create a new mutation of boredom.

Every aspect of the game is categorically bad; the story is tough to follow, the graphics are lousy, and the gameplay is so contrived and repetitive that it's unlikely anyone will garner much enjoyment from the game, no matter how low their standards are for being entertained.

This third-person shooter is a trip into hell.

Neither quality fan service nor a good action game on its own merits, The Shield fails miserably to live up to its license's pedigree.

A number of notable frustrations keep this moderately enjoyable flight-combat sim from soaring.

Regardless of how passionate you are about rally racing, or just the ASO-sponsored event itself, it's doubtful that you'll tolerate Acclaim's mockery of the sport.

Past these cutting-edge visuals, however, there's nothing left but a simple run-and-jump platformer--and it's a bad one at that.

Celebrity Deathmatch's biggest problem isn't its timing, but, rather, it's the absolutely horrid gameplay and complete lack of any worthwhile features.

An unplayable mess.

Our biggest complaint with the PSP game was its lack of difficulty. That's been addressed to an extent in the Wii version of BMX Challenge--the increased dependence on trick points during race events adds some much-needed challenge to the game. Unfortunately, what's still missing is any sense of inspiration, authenticity, or fun in the game's extreme-sports approach.

Legends of Pegasus had a grand plan, but developer Novacore didn't come close to pulling off what it set out to do. Like storied Bellerophon, its hubris has proved its ultimate undoing.

This third-person shooter is a trip into hell.

Even taking the lack of MX games into consideration, this game is bad for everybody, and it's our sincerest hope that potential players will take our advice and stay very, very far away from this game.

This exotic pedigree gives Torrente the game an air of intrigue that eclipses the final product, which turns out to be a typically rotten movie-licensed budget shooter.

Land of the Dead fails to deliver even the most garden-variety of zombie-killing thrills, due to its inept combat, awful visuals, and cripplingly stupid artificial intelligence.

Getting pounded in the face with a real dodgeball might be more fun than this postmodern rendition of the schoolyard sport.

The Bering Sea has never seemed more boring than in this dull spin-off of the popular Discovery Channel reality show.

A resounding failure. Unless you're a masochistic Fight Club fan looking to purposely have your sensibilities offended, then you'd be well advised to stay far away from this game.

This poorly designed shooter, with awkward controls and particularly shoddy sound, comes off as an embarrassing attempt to cash in on a franchise name that wore out its welcome years ago.

If you live a life of sin and gluttony, Infernal will be waiting for you in the afterlife.

Your best bet is to not play Tsunami 2265 at all. Don't worry, you're not missing anything.

Does not suffice in any facet of its execution and should be avoided by even the most fervent vehicular combat fans.

Feels like a rushed hack-job of a game, with just barely enough cohesive action to keep it from completely falling apart at the seams.

One of the worst action games of the last 10 years.

This factory comes off more like a real industrial complex than the fantastic playground of a fop who makes candy with magical midgets.

The Nintendo DS rendition of Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer is a short collection of generic levels that hardly relate to the movie at all.

This small collection of minigames offers little for even the most fervent Dead Space fan.

7 Days to Die on console is a terrible port of a game which otherwise shows real promise on PC, where it currently languishes in Early Access. In its current state on consoles, the game is technically playable, but that's the best that can be said of it.

A miserable failure...Gamers are advised to avoid this game, period.

ATV Quad Fury's lackluster tempo and ugly user interface makes it one to avoid on the Nintendo DS.

Apart from the stylus-based reel controls, there's nothing particularly good or interesting about Super Black Bass Fishing.

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

Even for the budget price tag that Miami Takedown is retailing for, this bomb is a horrible choice for anyone, and it should absolutely be avoided.

Unless you want to spend $20 to be bored to tears, you should stay away from Street Jam Basketball.

While the modest selection of maps are sufficiently large and multileveled, the uninspired deathmatch and conquest modes offer nothing that you can't find in other shooters.

Childish minigames and saw-it-coming plots make NCIS a mockery of its TV inspiration.

World War II shooters simply don't get worse than Battle for the Pacific.

It's just too bad the game's abhorrent visuals, combined with a few lingering gameplay quirks, relegate it to the unenviable position of being the best of 1996. Unfortunately, if you've checked the calendar lately, it's the year 2000.

You would think that a real-time strategy game would be a great fit for the Nintendo DS, but stay away from this one, with its busted artificial intelligence and half-baked minigames.

As Valhalla Knights moves to the Wii, any potential for fun is buried under tons of repetitive busywork and technical gaffs.

It's a short game with bland mechanics, repetitive levels, and almost zero replay value, and that's not even taking into account the total absurdity of getting into a fistfight with Osama Bin Laden.

This game sucks all the fun out of drag racing, presenting the sport as slow and tedious instead of fast and furious.

Star Raiders achieves the incredible, somehow taking all the fun out of being a hotshot space pilot.

ShellShock 2: Blood Trails spices up Vietnam with a liberal application of zombies, but the controls and the generic shooter gameplay leave a lot to be desired.

Weak graphics and dodgy controls hamstring an already mediocre air combat game.

It's among the worst action-adventure games ever released and is so crippled by confusing camera angles and bad control that it seems less like a game and more like a parody of its genre.

Terrible from top to bottom, suffering from bland, derivative gameplay, simplistic level design, brain-dead AI, and a buggy graphics engine that chugs even at low resolution.

The Expendables 2 feels like a natural extension of its source material, but it's likely to please only a certain breed of old-school game fan.

Stupid AI and sluggish performance are just two of the many problems that plague Shadow Harvest: Phantom Ops.

In a word, this game is ugly.

An unfinished, broken mess of a tactical shooter that offers not even one redemptive bright spot.

If you enjoy tedious objectives, racially insensitive humor, and ugly graphics, the latest Destroy All Humans is right up your alley.

Ironically, while this penguin-themed puzzle game seems geared toward younger players, it may be too challenging for the average kid.