Finicky controls taint the exciting combat in BloodRayne: Betrayal, creating an uneven and frustrating adventure.

The limited selection of events leaves these Olympic Games out in the cold.

All of which amounts to new levels, harder difficulty, and not much else. This is pretty much the template for second expansion packs these days, so Tribes of the East is at least somewhat trendy. Nevertheless, you can't praise this mediocre add-on for fitting in with the cool kids. Nival should have finished the Heroes V series on a higher note than this.

This frustration carries over to just about every element of the game thanks to its poor artificial intelligence, graphical flaws, and repetitive mission objectives.

This Force-powered sequel is a better port than its predecessor, but it never jumps to lightspeed.

MLB 2K9 for the Wii is still a flawed distortion of baseball, but it's definitely a better bet than its Xbox 360 and PS3 cousins.

The game just doesn't capture the magic of the "Resident Evil" series.

Virtua Tennis 4 is a weak tennis game that fails to bring the series back to its glory days.

The novelty of racing teeny, tiny cars is more than a little bit stale, and so is Micro Machines v4.

This return to a beloved series is brutal enough, but it doesn't pack the punch of its forebears.

Brutally tough and unforgiving, Men of War: Vietnam is a serious test of your patience and your real-time strategy skills.

What's left is all that combat, which seems to go on interminably with too little to break it up.

The shrugworthy Legacy add-on extends Dragon Age II but doesn't improve upon it.

The shrugworthy Legacy add-on extends Dragon Age II but doesn't improve upon it.

If it weren't so buggy, MLB 2K10 on the PC would undoubtedly be the best in the history of the series.

The aerial combat is still thrilling, but some inexcusable issues make Zone of the Enders HD Collection a disappointing repackaging of two cult classics.

There's no great gameplay to be found in Medal of Honor: Vanguard, so there's nothing to hide those feelings of déjà vu that you'll get when you play it. Nearly everything in the game has been done before, and it has all been done better.

Burning Skies leaves little doubt that the Vita is a comfortable home for first-person shooters, but the platform's first FPS is disappointingly dated. Toothless enemies and simplistic level design make for tepid campaign action, and the solid multiplayer suite is too limited to be a big draw.

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.

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.

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

Officers boasts some interesting strategic considerations, including a focus on reconnaissance and realistic supply concerns, which have been lacking in recent RTS games. However, the practically nonexistent multiplayer, the punishing difficulty, the exhaustingly long missions, and a few other annoyances make it a difficult game to recommend.

Your guitar will gently weep for this frustrating platformer.

A bland first-person shooter mode does little to freshen up the stale taste of this aging light-gun series.

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

Call of Juarez: The Cartel proves that good ideas mean little when they don't have a solid foundation to support them.

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.

Target Liberty is too short, too tedious, and too absurd to take seriously.