The game feels more "Mat Hoffman's Pro BMX v1.5" than anything else, giving you more of what you loved in the original and tacking on some minor, unnecessary extras.

It feels like a game that was rushed out the door, failing to offer all the core features an online game should have.

Basically, it's for the young-ins that aren't tall enough to peer at the DDR monitor: a harmless sort of Dance Dance Junior, and not much more.

Having the option to buy more planes is great, but something that bugged me was that I couldn't upgrade the planes and improve the plane's stats.

I can recommend it to anyone who wants a spy based adventure game, but if you're really looking for action and suspense you'll be sorely disappointed with ICB.

An unfortunately overcomplicated variation of "Bust-A-Move."

For a game with a cartoonish bent and over-the-top character design, the gameplay seems a bit under-the-top at times.

The only groundbreaking things within this title are the mission-based challenges and the multiplayer games. Other than that, there's just not much new here.

With shallow gameplay and minimal longevity, King of Route 66 is a coin-op in PS2 clothing.

S.W.I.N.E.'s visuals and parts of its audio are surprisingly good. On the other hand, the game has been promoted as "irreverent" and "hilarious," yet it's neither. The whole pig/rabbit schtik is weak and irrelevant, not irreverent.

I hesitate to call it a nice try, because in some ways they didn't even really do that.

It's probably entertaining enough for the casual gamer, but the competition even in the bargain bins is better.

Take this game back to the drawing board; make it a game that would be good WITHOUT the Star Trek name behind it and stop relying on a franchise to sell a product.

Won't win any awards for innovation, but it may be worth playing through if StarCraft has lost its challenge.

It is a decent effort to bring the RTS setting to the battlefields of Europe during World War II, yet it doesn't compare to such similar themed titles as "Combat Mission" or "Close Combat."

The biggest complaint I have with The Sum of All Fears is the mission design. In a word, it's dull. For a game so short, I found myself playing 45 minutes at a time and stopping because the game couldn't hold my interest.

The biggest problem with Lethal Skies is the consistency of the difficulty level. The game fluctuates between incredibly easy and annoyingly difficult with no rhyme or reason.

You'd be much better served picking up a port like Rayman or Mario, or something more original like Warioland.

Several shots short of a 21 gun salute.

A decent distraction and if the "Earthworm Jim" games disappointed you, Jazz probably won't.

Falls short of what I think it intended to accomplish. The guts [are] there with the good control and tight physics model, but the presentation is not up to the level it should be.

A fun but dated 2D fighter with too high a price and no new features.

Considering the unpolished feel of SSC and with alternatives like "Gran Turismo 3" providing a much more fulfilling experience, there are very few people I could recommend this game to.

a paradox. Buried deep beneath the myriad of technical and gameplay issues is a real gem of a game that is worth playing.

Is it a deep role-playing game with a plot-twisting storyline ... or is it a Diablo hack-and-slash clone? Ultimately, it tries to be both, but doesn't succeed at being either.

Fails to deliver anything even close to Rare's seminal "Goldeneye."

A mildly entertaining console port that's heavy on gameplay but short on substance.

Disappointing, and CFS3 actually falls below standards set by previous series titles.

SX Superstar isn't a mess, and it's not an unplayable game, it simply lacks the ambition and creativeness necessary to turn a racing game into a truly great ride.

It's a good overall game, but could have been a refreshing title had it redirected its focus and gone all out in either direction -- sim or arcade.

The problem is that after the initial unique feeling of intrigue you may get by playing a game that takes place entirely underwater, it's just not very fun.

It never proves itself competent enough to deserve more than a weekend rental.

Heavy on eye candy but disappointingly light on game.

Any gamer below the age of 12 will enjoy The Muppets: On With The Show. The game is fun, cheap, and re-playable.

If the mission goals are repetitive, at least the players have some latitude in completing them, whether by brute force, stealth, or by calling in air support (you can illuminate targets with a laser).

If you're willing to endure the bad dialogue, limited carrying capacity, and annoyances inherent with a fully turn-based game, you'll probably find a lot to like about Paradise Cracked. It has an interesting story, plenty of gear to find and sell, and unique characters.

The difference between the two games is night and day, with "Mario Party 4" being the better of the two by a wide margin.

While the price is right, there's arguably not much else to get excited about.

While it's acceptable as a diversion, the action and atmospheric elements are too much at odds with one another.

Instead of going back to the drawing board, Xbox SoE coasts on cheapness -- but new multiplayer modes are what sweeten the deal.

An average game that tries to be more than it really is.

It's an unpolished game that will drown players in nostalgia for the first several chapters, but it's nothing we haven't all played before.

It will captivate you temporarily with its novel look and gameplay, but when the story starts to get interesting, the clunky controls and molasses-like pace of the thing will leave you frustrated. The game runs far too slow to be enjoyable.

Recommended only if you're uncontrollably and incomprehensively addicted to the original.

At almost no point does anything feel remotely "extreme" about the game, and it feels like everything has been watered down to accrue that "E" rating.

Teases more than pleases. It feels like half of what a good expansion should be, but at the same time is a great buy for those new to the series.

The core game is intriguing, it's just a lot better when you play it on the PC.

The physics of whacking your opponents with the bat are also ... well, whacked. More often than not, a smacked enemy flies in front of your kart, slowing you down and putting you at a disadvantage.

The game is short -- way too short. A halfway decent player is going to spend more time watching the movie than playing through the story mode.

The story should rekindle your fondness for the series, since you're basically replaying through the same storyline as the cartoon.

For the hardcore this game won't be much of a "whirl," but younger gamers might find it amusing -- at least for a while.

The game is short -- way too short. A halfway decent player is going to spend more time watching the movie than playing through the story mode.

A tremendously flawed product. Yet, there are many redeeming qualities to the game which hold great promise if developed properly in the future.

There are far too many gameplay, graphics, and presentation problems. I would say that the game is minor league, but that would be an insult to the guys in the AHL.

The game is short -- way too short. A halfway decent player is going to spend more time watching the movie than playing through the story mode.

While technologically more advanced than its predecessor, Evil Dead: Fistful of Boomstick proves to be no deeper or innovative than "Hail to the King."

A beautiful RPG marred by numerous bugs which render it nigh unplayable.

On GBA, the second verse is the same as the first -- just a little bit smaller and it seems a bit worse.

The difficulty of the game's puzzles (aggravated by a poor interface), combined with tedious mazes and trudging back and forth through emptiness killed my enjoyment of the game.

The most amazing feature of Night of 100 Frights is that almost every aspect of the game, starting with the background story, mimics a Scooby Doo episode.

While Big Scale is a fun game for racing enthusiasts, it quickly loses its charm due to its limited scope.

Rock Manager does truly emulate the music industry: it's the equivalent of a CD where the first tracks are the best and the rest is all filler.

The promise of well-implemented squad tactics is completely undercut by terrible control and routine missions.

Without any multiplayer value there is no justification to drop cash on this thin package, leaving it a rental for the curious.

If it weren't so confusing and repetitive it could have been a sleeper hit. Instead, it's a fossil.

A cool license doesn't save an otherwise bland game with nearly average everything.

The lack of visible competitors in the single-player modes, combined with the relatively slow pace, can make the game a dull affair. There's just too little sense of speed, danger, or excitement, and that bodes ill for a racing game.

A blandly mediocre game.

kept waiting for this game to become fun. It doesn't really.

It's not so much that the enemies are hard to kill, or that the simplistic level design inflicts any brain-bending puzzles, but more that the inherent trial-and-error style progression through the levels gets tedious to the point of removing all the fun from playing.

A decent (yet sadly derivative) game lying underneath the mess.

The game has no replay value, is too flawed to be a worthy addition to your collection, and can be easily finished in a little under 2 hours. It could, however, give you a fairly entertaining afternoon’s worth of gaming.

A good idea, and I think that with the right implementation it could make for an excellent game. Bogged down with tedious, unpolished gameplay, weak graphics, and unimpressive presentation, Stuntman is not that game.

An utterly middle-of-the-road shooter on its way to obscurity.

By the fifth level, you'll already be saying, "Been there. Done that."

Some enjoyable moments clearly prevailed. However, they were simply too few and far between. Would I recommend it? Only to neophyte questers and those starved for an adventure, any adventure.

Although Mad Maestro is plenty novel, quirky, and cute as a button, it doesn't have enough depth or replay value to justify its price.

Something of an introduction to the world of game making. In other words, it presents some of the fun as well as most of the painstaking and sometimes tedious work that is involved.

The combat is challenging because of the limits of the interface.

For some reason, the excellent racing engines from TOCA and Colin McRae were seemingly abandoned, replaced by a lackluster arcade-style physics model that feels like you're driving a slot car rather than an actual automobile.

Superempire put in a password save system for EWJ2, but, sadly, it bites!

You can instantly tell that it was born out of corporate necessity, not creative passion. It's a game without a soul, thrown together to "fill a niche" and "target a demographic."

Obi-Wan might have been a good game on the last generation of consoles, but it's too confused, rough hewn, and repetitive to stand up against Xbox games like "Halo" or even "Azurik."

The developers manage to hit a few high notes in their debut title but overall, Fighting Legends Online falls flat.

Another problem with the gameplay is the surprising simplicity of it. Sure, there are puzzles to solve, but they rarely require any sort of deep thinking.

A decent entry-level real-time strategy game, but will probably prove too easy for anyone who's ever played "Warcraft" or "Command & Conquer."

Sports some of the best visuals you'll find in a strategy game, real-time or otherwise... [but features] one of the most annoying user-interfaces for any strategy game in recent memory.

X2 has a number of unforgivable problems. Most noticeable of all is the difficulty level, and in turn, the frustrating nature of the gameplay.

All the PS2 will get you is some interface problems, a lack of anyone to play with online, and maybe a headache from the abundance of flickering text in the game's many high-resolution screens.

The Live play is fun, but when the core of the game is lacking in so many areas, it turns into a battle to see who becomes more frustrated with the poor control and spaced-out ball physics first.

Tries to replicate this Golden Era of wrestling, and it succeeds well in this respect. Everywhere else it fails, but it tries really, really hard.

It’s got average graphics and average level design. This game is as average as games can get.

A slightly-upgraded version of the unremarkable "MXRider."

An underwhelming, choppy mess.

The Disney name and the cel-shading are good, but the repetitive gameplay, lack of many goals, and the poor enemy AI drag it down.

A game that's really repetitive, but fans of the Hulk should get a kick out of it.

Almost every gameplay change in DMC2 is ill-advised, and does far more harm than good. It's like curing a man's cold by chopping off his head... DMC2's most painful flaw: Without the unique weapons of the original game, DMC2 also loses its compelling strategic elements.

It's not so much that the enemies are hard to kill, or that the simplistic level design inflicts any brain-bending puzzles, but more that the inherent trial-and-error style progression through the levels gets tedious to the point of removing all the fun from playing.