Ice Age may be kid-friendly, funny, and faithful to the movie, but it's also repetitive and over too quickly.

Zeno Clash is surreal and relentlessly bizarre, but sheer weirdness takes this first-person brawler only so far.

It can make for a decent though relatively brief diversion for GameCube owners really hurting for an RPG, and its lighthearted style makes it suitable for Pokémon fans.

While Cold War features some pretty impressive graphics and a decent story, the predictable enemies you'll face and the limited number of environments you'll visit prevent the game from being particularly exciting.

While Cold War features some pretty impressive graphics and a decent story, the predictable enemies you'll face and the limited number of environments you'll visit prevent the game from being particularly exciting.

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.

Compared to so many other movie-inspired games, Cars for the Nintendo DS is genuinely one of the more interesting ones. The care that went into each of the different minigames is impressive. Unfortunately, there just aren't enough of them here to hold a person's attention for very long.

Poor level design poisons Jericho's awesome but unrealized potential.

Operation Flashpoint: Red River features realistic and challenging missions but is often hampered by poor AI and other frustrations.

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.

Operation Flashpoint: Red River features realistic and challenging missions but is often hampered by poor AI and other frustrations.

ProStreet is a solid racing game, but it has some performance issues and is missing most of what made the previous games in the series interesting.

Operation Flashpoint: Red River features realistic and challenging missions but is often hampered by poor AI and other frustrations.

New gameplay mechanics and multiplayer support are welcome additions to the series, but they come at the cost of accessibility.

Brave Story follows the traditional role-playing-game formula to the letter and ultimately turns in a serviceable, though unremarkable experience.

The game has lots of spunk, for sure, but it's ultimately no deeper than its vacuous star.

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.

Technical achievements set Tekken 3D Prime apart from other 3DS games in the genre. Visuals aside, it fails to meet expectations.

This fantasy massively multiplayer online game makes a great first impression, but almost every aspect of it devolves into a grind before you're even halfway to the level cap.

A soccer game that boasts far more style than substance and has more in common with the FIFA games of old than it does with "FIFA Soccer 2005."

It's light on new features, but NBA 2K8 is still a solid basketball game if you have yet to make the leap to the new generation of consoles.

Warp is an entertaining top-down puzzler that's weighed down by sticky controls and a fleeting sense of identity.

BlackSite: Area 51 is an ordinary first-person shooter that's held back by a collection of bugs and other issues.

Too many basic flaws hinder the block-bashing fun of Lego Pirates of the Caribbean.

Tolkien fans may enjoy the game's presentation of Middle-earth lore, but The Hobbit tends to rely too heavily on derivative, uninspired gameplay for it to stand up on its own.

Army Corps of Hell captures the devilish combat of its setting but is too repetitive to sustain that appeal.

Too many basic flaws hinder the block-bashing fun of Lego Pirates of the Caribbean.

This unusual first-person shooter barely boasts enough content to justify even its budget price tag.

Too many basic flaws hinder the block-bashing fun of Lego Pirates of the Caribbean.

But even its title mocks the Army, literally one-upping its slogan while glamorizing a sector that, if anything, deserves scrutiny--not macho fantasy.

Some of the games featured just don't play the way they should, marring an otherwise stellar compilation. If you have any interest in classic gaming, this collection is worth a look, provided you can get used to its quirks.

Even though the game's overall execution leaves something to be desired, Bounty Hunter has its good points, and the GameCube version is markedly better than the PS2 release.

Dante's epic quest loses momentum long before you reach the end.

Lips' wireless mics and excellent song selection make for an evening's worth of entertainment, but it has little to offer solo players.

More of the same thing that made the first game good. Unfortunately, what was great almost three years ago doesn't hold nearly as much water these days.

This arcade racer isn't a great fit for the system, but it can still be rip-roaring fun.

Issues aside, MLB 12: The Show demonstrates a bright future for portable baseball games.

Driver: Parallel Lines is a mostly competent GTA clone, but the dull storyline and remedial gameplay prevent it from being recommendable.

If you're lukewarm about Fable II or gambling in general, then Pub Games doesn't do anything well enough to warrant your attention.

Offers some entertaining action, lots of explosions, and too many technical hiccups.

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.

This World War II stealth sequel is extremely hard, but if you're the patient type, it's also rewarding.

Ice Age may be kid-friendly, funny, and faithful to the movie, but it's also repetitive and over too quickly.

Athens 2004 certainly looks better than past Olympic Games, but the gameplay itself honestly doesn't improve much on the button mashing and timing-based gameplay that Konami built Track & Field on more than 20 years ago.

If you can endure some vexing technical flaws, Alone in the Dark can be a clever, satisfying adventure.

This is a fun version of the beloved game of quick sketches and crazy guesses, provided you've got the hang of drawing with your tablet peripheral.

While the memorable battle sequences from the movie trilogy would lend themselves perfectly to a strategy game, this one just isn't put together well enough to do full justice to the source material.

A budget-priced affair that in many ways looks prettier than anything prior to it but generally sticks to the basics and isn't immune to odd design choices and marginally flawed physics.

It nails the show's insanely enjoyable brand of humor, but can't quite pull out a gameplay design to match.

This disappointing sequel saps away the unbridled fun that made the original so enthralling.

There is no doubt that Ecco the Dolphin shows its age, but it's still one of the most unique games out there. Watching Ecco leap out of the water and navigate the murky depths is still a lot of fun. You'll probably want to pass on this rendition of Ecco's adventure if you've played it on other systems because the improvements don't enhance the gameplay experience all that much.

Despite poor presentation, WRC offers a realistic and satisfying rally experience.

Budget-priced and packed with options, this arcade shooter compilation is a decent game and a good value.

Despite poor presentation, WRC offers a realistic and satisfying rally experience.

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.

Tony Hawk's Proving Ground gets most of the Tony Hawk formula down, but the parts that stray from that formula are the parts that don't work out so well.

Frustrating platforming and a tepid narrative mar this journey into classic Kingdom Hearts realms.

While it captures the grand feel of the Games, London 2012's dull campaign stops it from taking home the gold.

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

Isn't exactly a fresh take on fighting games, though it looks good and controls well enough.

An emphasis on its dull single-player campaign, rather than the more entertaining party play mode, fails to make the most of the competitive spirit of the Olympics. There's some fun to be had with friends, but even then the uneven quality of its minigames means that as soon as the Olympics are over, London 2012 will lose its allure.

This year's Pro Evo improves upon its predecessor in some key areas, but it does little else to keep up with the competition.

Poor level design poisons Jericho's awesome but unrealized potential.

Scott Pilgrim vs. The World is a fun throwback to a simpler era, but visibility issues and a lack of online co-op get in the way of your enjoyment.

A fiendishly difficult, randomly generated dungeon crawler that at times can be an incredible work of interactive fiction, and at other times, a muddled mess.

The disconnect between the gameplay and the narrative elements of Spec Ops: The Line is numbing, which makes it more difficult to contemplate the murky morality of war in the way the game wants you to.

Alternately tranquil and tedious, Akimi Village is as simple as city builders get.

Instead of wrestling with rival nations, you'll tussle with unruly advisors in this naval trading sim.

What's especially unfortunate is that you'll find sprinklings of a great game concept all throughout Death Jr.'s relatively short storyline. It just never successfully delivers.

Pro Evolution Soccer 2009 features a couple of new game modes, but things are still largely unchanged in Konami's football franchise.

MS Saga looks and feels dated, but it makes good use of the license and manages to deliver a decent--if unremarkable--role-playing experience.

The seminal rhythm game makes its PSP debut with a chunk of new content, but the gameplay hasn't quite withstood the test of time.

In the enjoyable but bare-bones Leviathan: Warships, you customize a fleet of ships and pit it against your friends' fleets on the high seas.

For the game's target age group, the combination of a humorous plot, unlimited continues, and solidly average gameplay makes for a great, non-gory initiation into the 3D combat genre.

The game is fun when you sit down with it, but two hours later you'll have seen everything there is to see.

The sound effects -- while a little drab -- get the job done, but the buzzer that signifies a new wrestler entering the ring in the royal rumble mode will drive you absolutely insane with its frequency.

Draglade's rhythm-based combat isn't as robust as it could be, but the story mode and competitive online play are still fun.

Offers a challenging and varied gameplay experience that will satisfy the amateur cryptographer in everyone. However, the game is brought down by supbar production values and a dialogue-heavy story that has a tendency to drag at times.

Madden NFL 10 on the Wii makes some great strides in differentiating itself from its counterparts, but it also neglects the major aspects that make those other versions so engaging.

A fiendishly difficult, randomly generated dungeon crawler that at times can be an incredible work of interactive fiction, and at other times, a muddled mess.

Actually, Lollipop Chainsaw is built for return visits: the game lasts for five hours or so, pushing you to chase high scores and buy enough combos to earn a fabulous end-level grade.

A mostly successful operation with a couple of unsightly scars.

It's just disappointing to see such an uninspired sequel that simply goes through the motions of being an action game rather than taking advantage of concepts introduced in its predecessor.

While it definitely has a certain sense of style to it, the game itself misses its mark, and the total package isn't one that will hold the interest of most first-person shooter players.

The game's story isn't strong enough to stand on its own, and the gameplay simply doesn't save it, making the game worth a look for hard-core fans of The Matrix films, but a buggy disappointment for just about anyone else.

It's fraught with lots of minor gameplay problems that eventually add up to one major headache. Rising Sun isn't completely without merit, since it comes packaged with some nice extra materials and mostly solid production values, but the weakness of the gameplay itself undermines what could have been a much more enjoyable experience.

A fun, kid-friendly game that also does a good job of telling the movie's story.

Pumped & Primed's minigames are all quite simplistic, and the single-player portion of the game can be completed in five or six hours. However, with a multitap and the right group of friends, there's no reason you shouldn't have some fun with it.

The game ultimately runs out of steam before it's over, but along the way, Rengoku II creates a more streamlined and interesting experience than its predecessor.

Just an average action game...The game is also quite short--it will only take you a little under four hours, if even that, to complete the game.

Starshatter provides a welcome dose of innovation to a space sim genre that's been practically rendered extinct, but its originality ultimately fails to translate into a satisfying gameplay experience.

Despite the fact that Krome Studios was able to translate the story, look, and feel of the film well enough into its offering, the gameplay is simply too lifeless and frustrating to hold your attention the entire way through.

It's true that the series wasn't gaining a lot of momentum before, but in its new form, Monster Rancher EVO dilutes the basic activities that made Monster Rancher endearing in the first place, and it's not particularly great as an RPG, either.

On the Xbox 360, this short Old West action adventure feels old all right. And its fairly fun shooting action is dragged down by a slapdash presentation.

Though it gets the show's style of humor down pat, Family Guy is derailed by frustrating and uninteresting gameplay.

Isn't quite as good on the GameCube as it is on other platforms. However, the tardiness and the rougher edges are alleviated somewhat by a phenomenally deep discount price, as well as by some nice stylistic touches in the game itself.

DDR Disney Mix was designed as a game for kids. Most of the game's stages are quite easy, though there is a harder setting that will bring the game up to a moderate level of difficulty for fans of the series.

The game certainly contains a lot of the same Wario charm that makes his GBA appearances so memorable, but the final product is too short and simplistic to hold your attention for more than a day.