Dreadful graphics and worse controls make this a battle to avoid.

There was potential here, but dreadful graphics and poor artificial intelligence make this a battle best avoided.

It's not the best version of Puzzle Quest to date, but it still offers much of the same great fun.

Incredibly buggy, packed with design flaws, seemingly a decade old... SunAge is a real-time strategy disaster.

Pain is the video game equivalent of breaking fine china with a hammer: it's simple, crude, and not very cost-effective, but still rather satisfying.

The control scheme has its quirks, but this is still an intense and enjoyable shooter.

Unless you fancy the idea of paying $30 for a hacked-together port of an old arcade game that wasn't any good to begin with, you can safely ignore Cruis'n.

Master of Illusion is a neat way for kids to learn how to perform simple magic tricks.

It's safe to go back into the water with Undertow, an under-the-sea XBLA shooter with solid multiplayer modes of play.

It's surprising that so many small annoyances and glitches made their way into a game of such general high quality. Still, most players will be able to look past them and enjoy Mass Effect for what it is: A terrific role-playing game with great production values and fun, exciting action.

The King of Monsters stars in the worst of DS games.

Rock Band does a superb job of bringing out the wannabe rock star in all of us, and creates one of the best party-game experiences of all time.

Rock Band does a superb job of bringing out the wannabe rock star in all of us, and creates one of the best party-game experiences of all time.

A deliberate '90s-arcade-game charm and some ridiculous non sequiturs give this incredibly brief light gun shooter an odd appeal.

A revered series takes a nosedive in this embarrassing, tedious excuse for an action game.

Just as Final Fantasy Tactics did nearly 10 years ago, Revenant Wings successfully takes the series into uncharted waters in an unforgettable way.

Galaxies adds a great deal of depth to an already intense shooter.

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

This operation has its share of complications, but most of them are good ones.

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

Unleashed is the worst thing to happen to Godzilla since getting killed by Mothra's babies.

Tedious pace and annoying pixel hunts sabotage this surreal adventure.

Unreal Tournament 3 doesn't make huge changes to the formula, but still ends up feeling fresh, fast, and very fun.

The single-player campaign doesn't get cooking until the last two levels, but those two levels combined with solid multiplayer make it worth enlisting in the Airborne.

An interesting time-shifting mechanic and fun-to-shoot weapons can't make up for the rest of TimeShift's run-of-the-mill first-person shooter gameplay.

Many of the improvements are subtle, but the changes and additions to College Hoops 2K8 make it the best game in the series.

Many of the improvements are subtle, but the changes and additions to College Hoops 2K8 make it the best game in the series.

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