Though based on a great series of innovative tactical action/puzzle games, Commandos Strike Force comes off as just another middling World War II shooter, despite some good ideas.

Black Hawk Down's dated gameplay design and presentation just don't measure up compared to other modern combat shooters. Though the multiplayer can be fun for a while, the weapon balancing is out of whack, and the implementation of vehicles is contrived to the point of absurdity.

As a cheaply priced, multiplayer-focused first-person shooter, Warpath is serviceable, if utterly unremarkable.

As a cheaply priced, multiplayer-focused first-person shooter, Warpath is serviceable, if utterly unremarkable.

With wizards and warriors replacing terrorists and counterterrorists (a la "Counter-Strike"), the game ends up a mediocre muddle rather than the novel game it could have been.

A brief and generic action game that does nothing to distinguish itself from the glut of similar--and cheaper--games on the market.

EA Replay contains a few genuine classics, but most of these 16-bit games haven't aged well, which makes them hard to come back to.

In today's world, it's merely a living fossil, reminding us of what online console gaming once looked like.

You've got to give Nacho Libre some style points for its patently insane cutscenes and use of video clips from the movie. Just don't expect to have any fun actually playing it.

The gameplay still hasn't received the attention it deserves, and, as a result, GameBreaker still fails to get many of the fundamentals right.

People without a passion for shooting fake guns at their television sets probably won't find much to like.

The shopping list of things that don't work right is long and comprehensive.

It's a short-lived, uninspired addition to Icewind Dale that costs nearly as much as the original game did and requires that you have the original installed; yet it offers only a fraction of Icewind Dale's value.

A dungeon hack of the most boring kind. You'll have the most fun farming for items, but that is predicated on an enjoyment of the simplistic, dull combat, the constant repetition of dungeons, and overall tedium.

Rocky isn't a great boxing game, and it doesn't quite deliver the same level of excitement as the films it's based on.

Ultimately an average game at its best and a frustrating and boring one at its worst. It's also exceedingly short.

Total Destruction is a glossy coat of paint on an ancient gameplay formula that simply doesn't hold water in 2006.

A number of problems with the controls, the graphics, and the enemy AI keep it from being anything more than a mediocre game.

Quite an amazing bit of eye candy, but it's a real shame that the game behind the pretty graphics just doesn't hold up.

The presentation is a technical nightmare, the story is poorly told, and the modicum of uniqueness the gameplay has to offer is almost completely murdered by sloppy mechanics and a myriad of bugs.

Full Auto 2 is technically proficient, but almost every aspect of this car combat game's gameplay is messed up in one way or another.

When it comes to graphics and sound, Crush Hour begins to fall apart at the seams.

Traveller's Tales has perverted Sega's previously charming action puzzle series into a clumsy, frustrating action adventure game.

A lifelessly generic shooter that, at times, feels like "Max Payne" without the fun.

The Avatar's DS debut serves up an engaging story and some slick 3D visuals, but it's otherwise just another mediocre brawler.

As a game, it's nothing special--just a mediocre platformer stuffed with all of the usual platforming elements. In terms of storytelling and presentation, however, Unmasked grabs the imagination and delights the senses easily as much as a feature-length version of the cartoon show would.

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.

The puzzles can be fun and challenging, but the anemic gameplay and generic presentation will leave you feeling unsatisfied with Frantix.