Wasted potential.

The single most irritating aspect of RAW's CAW option, however, is the complete absence of the ability to use ripped songs on the hard drive as part of the wrestler entrance.

Does High Heat still stand as the best playing baseball game around? A resounding, YES, would be my answer!

The cheap deaths and coin save feature make the solid gameplay tough to enjoy. But the package is attractive enough to fight through.

Star Wars Racer Revenge took an excellent control scheme and a promising career mode and sucked all the life out of it.

Sonic Team tried to include something for everyone in Sonic Adventure 2 Battle, but in the end all that variety ends up altering what made Sonic games so special to begin with.

It badly needed some revamping, and that's exactly what has been successfully done here, without losing the magic that made Blitz what it was...it's the best extreme football game available today.

It's like the videogame version of a really bad (read: good) B-movie.

An amazing game, until the point where the initial impact of the pretty visuals wears off. What's left is a very average playing mission based driving title with not much in the line of long term replayability.

Dark Summit may add an element or two, but it doesn't give enough to merit a sequel.

Grandia II still stands out as a fantastic RPG...[though] the graphics took a punch in the teeth in the translation.

If you like a good story, mixed in with breathtaking visuals, magnificent audio, and extraordinary game play you’d be a fool to miss out on this sleeper hit of the year.

The title uses several techniques to enhance gameplay, and for the most part, pulls it off with flying blood splats.

A great sim. Players can create and manage easily and it has enough slapstick comedy to keep you entertained.

The stop-and-go gameplay is an acquired taste but is worth it if you have patience.

Even with this new attacking system, the game still falls into the monotonous, repetitive game play that has affected the genre for years. Nightcaster isn’t what you’d call clumsy in terms of game play, just not as precise as you would like.

More than starting out on the right foot, I think NBA Inside Drive runs away with rookie of the year and is among the top console basketball games available.

Gameplay in a word, is phenomenal. You may ask, how is it different from other FPS? The answer I come up with is that it gives the player a sense of reality, but not to a point where it gets ridiculously tedious (see: "Operation Flashpoint").

The mix of strategy and action blends well, and the controls do the Zeon justice.

No matter what type of game you are looking for, the control takes some getting used to.

NBA 2K2 has set the bar for the rest of those basketball titles. No one has even come close to capturing the fundamentals of the game like this series does.

The audio is stunning. From the Dolby surround ambiance, to the incredible commentary, NFL 2k2 has the best sports audio around…period...Gameplay is fantastic.

The out-of-control sliding physics are present and accounted for, causing more turnovers and frustration than is healthy for anyone to experience.

There is no sense of speed. The skiers run down the slopes at a snails pace, and one can hardly tell the difference between 10 mph and 55 mph.

Unfortunately the controls take a turn for the worse when an enemy's missile, rocket, or whatever hits you. For some reason, no matter how heavy or light your boat may be, no matter how heavily equipped it may be with weaponry and armor, your boat will unrealistically catapult into the air.

Visually appealing and highly addictive

Great thing number two...is the ability to switch your characters in and out of battle at will. This is a tremendous step forward for the series as it fills in holes that we gamers had to come up with workarounds for previously.

The title feels a bit dated and offers standard RPG fare that’s as basic as it gets.