In years, Final Fantasy XIII-2 is the first game in the series that has a rousing and epic story and amazing cut scenes as well. Fans who were disappointed with the last two releases should really take a look at this one. The graphics and the sounds are outstanding and there is more freedom in gameplay than you were offered in Final Fantasy XIII. The only bad things remaining are the most boring combat system I have ever seen and lame side quests by Final Fantasy standards. A step – hopefully just a first step! – back on track and certainly recommended.

Harry Potter, the new adventure in Lego design, is fun. Collect all Lego bricks to become a real Sorcerer. The story is based on the movie, but in the game there is more to laugh. Very funny and many mystery puzzles are waiting for you.

Mario vs. Donkey Kong: Mini-Land Mayhem! is fun and challenging. Everybody who's into die red cap plumber will have fun with this one. I love those minis trembling around to hit good old Donkey Kong.

For action-fans, this game is a must-have. Concerning tenseness you will experience the same feeling as in Half Life. Simply take part in Alma’s return!

Flatout: Ultimate Carnage 2 is probably the most entertaining game in the action-racing genre in 2008, which offers hours of excitement, thrill and fun.

Fans of titles like The Humans or Lemmings will enjoy Toki Tori. But be aware: Solving riddles can cause severe addiction!

Final Fantasy XIII-2 is a step in the right direction. There were too many innovations in Final Fantasy XIII and now the developers incorporated all the feedback from the community to improve the game and offer all the Final Fantasy fans a better gaming experience. This strategy worked – the gameplay is pretty cool, the atmosphere as well as the effects (graphics and sounds) are stunning and the well-known setting is a nice bonus for fans of FF XIII.

The new Golden Sun is a nice sequel, but there is nothing special or unique in this game.

Deathspank is a funny game which comes up with an interesting graphics style, good humor and a lot of fun. It does also provide you with funny characters, dialogues and the most important, the glorious hero Deathspank.

Everybody who liked Heroes will love King's Bounty. Professionals will not feel challenged enough, although they will claim heavy loses in the course of some battles. Small mistakes in the menu and scrambling of battles should be fixed next time. A sequel must come, because King's Bounty represents a ray of hope in the almost dead genre.

Despite some shortcomings on a content and story level, RAGE still is one of the top shooter releases of 2011. id Software presents an unmatched graphics experience with wonderful handmade settings.

You will either love or hate the game - I do both. Every twist of the story is followed by boring side quests. But the little story flame keeps burning and every flare of it keeps me in the game. I want to know what this is all about, even if it is only because I want something to happen.

A role-playing game for the Xbox360 every fan has to play! Beautiful anime-graphics and very good gameplay make this game to something special.

Greed Corp will surely be often played in our office, if there is anyone left to challenge me. Especially the multiplayer mode, but also the rest of the game is funny as hell.

I can only recommend LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1-4 to every Harry Potter fan. You'll get a cute and funny story-roundup from the first four chapters of the Harry Potter adventures.

The best racing action you can find out there! If you don’t buy it, it is your own fault!

The innovations, the realistic depiction of animals and the cuteness make this addon an absolute must-buy for The Sims 3 fans.

Perfect Dark lives through its various multiplayer modes and not because of its great graphics. Despite all the cons it is a nice game for a quick round full of action.

This prequel isn't just a visual delicacy. Gameplay-wise it reaches heaven-like levels. We especially enjoyed the Declassified missions. And although the single-player suffers from some minor AI issues, the co-op mode manages to satisfy.

de Blob 2 for Nintendo Wii is a game that does not really support the motion features the Wii console offers. Apart from that, de Blob 2 contains hilarious scenes, great effects and is short and sweet.

Jackie is back – with a new storyline, some new features and an all new graphic style. There are some major improvements on the controls front and more depth thanks to the skill system. Also, some gameplay changes help make The Darkness II exciting and entertaining.

Hardcore-gamer and newbies should take a look at this game: If you aren´t afraid of violence and thrilling horror situations, you’ll find an amazing atmosphere in F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin. Creepy, but very good!

echochrome II is not perfect, but it has the ability to make everyone smile, regardless of their age or devotion to console games. Move is a perfect enhancement of the echochrome series, so check this one out.

Harvest Moon veterans and experienced dungeons crawlers with the will to interact with every NPC will fit right into the world of „Rune Factory Frontier", yet all other friends of this sort of gameplay will find that playing at their own pace gives everyone enough time to learn all there is to know. A true must for fans of somewhat slow, but steady games.

Because of the innovative gameplay of Mirror’s Edge, the user is able to experience catchy moves and thrilling action. Chases through the whole city and an interesting story guarantee long-term motivation.

Madballs in Babo: Invasion is a good game with small problems. The arcade title follows the slogan “simple, but clever”. If you want a little fun and action with your friends, Madballs in Babo: Invasion fits into your arcade collection.

Wizorb is the right kind of snack for those, who want some retro-feelings paired with challenging Arkanoid-style gameplay and some bits of role-playing flavour. Enjoy!

Storm Legion is a great add-on. It extends the strengths of Rift and has some groundbreaking new ideas like the awesome new housing system. Also the new souls are tactical and fit perfectly in the gameplay concept.

The right game for five minutes spare time. Like Solitaire you can always have a shot at the game but there is nothing that makes you stick to it.

The support of augmented reality is nice and collecting many different Denpa Men makes fun. If you're keen on exciting dungeons every now and then as well, The Depna Men may be just the game for you.

All in all I'm not completely disappointed. The strange mix of sex, violence, open world feeling and dialogue-driven storytelling with a easy combat system convinces, but the atmosphere aside the cinematic touch is disappointing. Nobody talks and you have to cope with text boxes.

The Sims 3 isn't what you want to play on a console. The handling's pretty crappy, but if you're okay with that, the game is fun for a long time.

Distant Worlds brings a breath of fresh air into the x4-genre, but only if you like micromanagement. Although newcomers can have fun also, thanks to the possibility of automation.

The figures are an innovative concept and allow expanding the experience to taste. Budget permitting, you can add as any characters and treasures to the game as you like.

With an overwhelming amount of possibilities and great new features, Madden NFL 12 is a must-have for all American Football fans.

After the brand hit rock bottom last year with Dark of the Moon, Fall of Cybertron rises like phoenix from the ashes. The game provides a great campaign and an encouraging multiplayer mode. That's the way licensed games should be done!

House of the Dead: Overkill is a game, which will fascinate shooter-fans with lots of gory action and cineastes with good humor and coolness. Sadly, the game seems a bit short with about three hour of playtime.

Big Bang Mini is an extraordinary shooter for the Nintendo DS. Easy to learn and hard to master – a title worth playing!

WWE '13 is awesome and that's the bottom line cause the editor said so. Even if Yukes still didn't managed to create handsome faces, the positive sides definitely outweigh the negative sides of the World Wrestling Entertainment. All in all, there is more content, more wrestlers and especially a brilliant history lesson regarding the "Attitude Era" instead of a lame Road to Wrestlemania.

Only the missing licenses and the commentator will let you take notice in a negative way. Great graphics, great game!

This is not a Motorstorm you'd expect it: multiplayer features to log what your friends are doing and radio controlled cars without boosts await those who are looking for something casual-fresh for their PS Vita.

Dragon Quest VI is a good role playing video game, strongly attached to classic genre conventions like round based fights and a free choose able talent tree. But we've already seen this in 1995.

Theatrythm: Final Fantasy is the perfect proof that music- and roleplaying games can fit together.

There are always some people online you can fight with! If you liked the mod GOTA for Warcraft III, you will definitely love this game!

40 minigames bring a lot of fun – even for beginners. A funny adventure for everybody who buys this game!

A very entertaining game that was released in Japan in 2006 in Europe in 2009! Let´s hope the second part will be released sooner in the old world.

Not just cats, but Kinectimals: Now with Bears – the game now truly has a touch of Teddy bear 2.0. Sure there's still room for improvement with the Kinect sensing. More perceived freedom in how you play is the right way to make the most of good graphics and extreme cute factor. Offers an exotic virtual pet and loads of fun with it.

Explosive combos, moody settings, brutal fights.

A worthwhile add-on to its predecessor. Most weaknesses like clunky animations and a troublesome interface have been eliminated, and you'll play about 14 hours - so much more than these very popular mini-DLCs nowadays.

Bejeweled 3 doesn't bother with pretense of a story, but keeps it simple: entertaining match 3 without unnecessary fluff. Merely solid graphics and sounds, but entertaining game modes for every taste that achieve the "one more round" effect. If you're looking for depth, look elsewhere; if you want good casual fun, it's a gem.

Overall I was surprised that Toy Story 3 had turned out that well. It's a cute game for everyone und much better than other license games before.

Some major failures in terms of handling can bug you quite a bit, but generally EA Sports Active 2 is a solid game. If you're interested in workout and you've got the space for it, check it out.

Chaos on Deponia continues the beautiful story of Deponia. The game brings nothing new to the genre, however it has great and funny characters, nice riddles and a fantastic atmosphere. Chaos on Deponia shows how an adventure game should be made.

A motley action-firework, which partly does not shine, but still is a lot of fun.

Definitely the best and the most beautiful shooter on the Vita and should be in every collection.

Despite some graphical problems Dragon's Dogma offers a solid action roleplaying experience that excites with a great combat system.

Despite a short – albeit intense – campaign and the outdated graphics, thanks to the great Spec Ops mode and the extensive multiplayer options, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 is one of the best shooters this year.

In the simulation mode there's some sort of simulation to it, but the graphics demand pretty much raw power. Many details and great gameplay can be found here.

It's not the most beautiful and polished game, but the end of the world with all it’s small and big problems rarely felt this real.

Sonic Colours is one of the big surprises on the Nintendo Wii this year. The package is really good and can only be recommended to all Sonic fans.

Word is you have to use the stylus, and the speed of the game is extremely slow for a Breakout clone. But aside that, it's really easy and you can play a lot of levels. Solid game for low price.

Despite the bad graphics Disgaea 3 scores with the huge amount of game content.

Bangai-O HD: Missile Fury is colorful, loud and fast-paced. Either you love this kind of game or you hate it. Very nice to see an editor in such a game.

Fans of Dissidia: Final Fantasy will love the pretty good sequel. The sounds, graphics and animations connect well to the characters, plus you're able to customize every bit of your heroes.

Dynamic gameplay, fantastic characters and good cut-scenes, furthermore appealing brainteasers and challenging boss-monsters make Dragon Ball Origins a very entertaining game, not only for fans of the anime-series.

A Kingdom for Keflings is an interesting city-building-strategy game combined with avatar-support. If you enjoy games like Die Siedler or Doshin the Giant you will be tied up to ten hours: very fair for 800 MS-points.

MySims Agents is a typical adventure game with a variety of mini games. Overall it’s a fantastic game for everyone!

Action-Puzzler will love the fascinating mix of unlocking new flowers and improving your timing skills. You just can't stop playing … come on and get 'em all!

There's a fine line between genius and madness, and Ace Cobat Assault Horizon swings both ways. The action-oriented dogfight mode in jets is brilliant jet simple. Unfortunately, the developers included helicopters as well, and piloting them is tedious. Ace pilots will surely grit their teeth and sit through those mission, though, just to get more of the dogfighting action.

It's somehow odd: Its style is psychedelic at best, the graphics aren't quite up to date and the fighting's a bit repetitive. Nevertheless, the charme of the game and the great atmosphere make up for that, big time.

New Super Mario Bros. 2 is not as innovative as Super Mario Sunshine or Super Mario Galaxy, but all in all it's a 2D Jump'n'Run you'll have plenty of fun with.

I played this game for hours, and I still can't stop playing. I fought big battles, conquered castles and cities and nearly forgot about the weak graphics. Too sad that it doesn't look better.

This title is surprisingly entertaining. If you like sports and you aren’t afraid of a real work out in front of your Wii, Grand Slam Tennis won’t disappoint you.

Nintendo has to keep its Wii-concept alive by presenting self-invented new ideas for games: Therefore, Wario Land is very good for catching the attention of “older” gamers, who long for classic jump ‘n’ run games, as well as first explorers of the Wii.

A good add on that offers lots of atmosphere and a thrilling story. Sadly the challenge concerning fights and survival is not very high.

Activision does almost everything right and delivers a nearly perfect sequel. Skylanders Giants offers an enormous amount of content while all the great things the predecessors offered are imbued or originally found again.

I‘m torn. The objective journalist says: "It’s an eye-/eargasm and thanks to its awesome weapon-crafting it's damn fun. The Fanboy within rants: "This is no Dead Space".

Alice in Wonderland is a surprisingly innovative adventure game with a strong presentation and an entertaining gameplay.

Yes, El Presidente, You should make the bid for power in Tropico 4. It has got a little more depth than the predecessor in just the right places.

All in all you'll get nothing especially new, but solid expansions. Old gameplay elements have been combined with new monsters, new spells, new abilities and new items in some new environments.

For a small amount of money you get so many hours of fun gameplay – thanks to the multiplayer mode and the many scenarios. I can recommend this add-on to everybody who is a fan of the Anno series.

It’s very difficult again to say which game, PES 10 or FIFA 10, is better. My personal winner is PES 10 because the AI and the ball physic work just great!

The best game of Ubisoft's launch titles for the 3DS, but I hope that there will be a successor which uses the power of the 3DS much more.

Nintendo Land is a pretty cool Wii U feature-demo, which introduces the new gamepad with all it's innovations for the player. The games are pretty cool, but there are only 12 included, and only a few are damn fun. If there were more games and an easy-mode for untrained gamers, the game would be more entertaining.

Despite flawed controls and disappointing graphics, Starhawk delivers a great online multiplayer experience with a varied gameplay and innovative features.

The indie hit is back, with touch and motion controls on the PS Vita. A must-download for all puzzle fans with some skills!

Mafia II stands for excitement, a vibrant atmosphere and fun. The graphics are well-done and up to date, and the shooting and racing parts ensure enough variety.

EA did it again, but this time in the MMA section. The handling of EA SPORTS MMA is remarkably innovative, and thus the game is very attractive to any fan of sports, especially fighting sports.

At first glance, Birds of Steel looks like a good aerial combat game for anyone with aviator ambitions. Looking more closely, it's really a game for simuloation fans. Despite simplified controls, anyone looking for fast-paced action is better off with a more arcade flight game. This title also has shortcomings in presentation, which likely are easier to overlook for simulation fans.

Nice, dark and violent sequel with a lot of new stuff.

To make it short: Armed Assault 2 is a fantastic game which contains elements of flight simulators, tactic-shooters and strategy- games. This title rocks!

Angry Birds is addictive, whether on PSP or not. It's funny and simple and a skill game for the whole family.

Project Soul took a step in the right direction. The newly introduced mechanics and the overall gameplay take the series to a new level. Interesting for new players and veterans alike.

Zeno Clash takes you to a totally different world. I promise you, you've never seen something like that before. Bizarre, unique, weird – but it makes a lot of fun.

Banjo Kazooie shows that even the beginnings of 3D-Jump ’n’ Runs have to offer a lot. The different levels still make a lot of fun because of the motivating gameplay.

Rune Factory 2: A Fantasy Harvest Moon is a pretty cool game with enormous game-depth and long-term motivating gameplay.

The game features a pretty weird setting, a badass main-character, awesome sounds and entertaining gameplay. Only the oldschool graphics and the highlight-free story lower the score, but all in all it's a pretty cool survival action game.

The Remake has a lot of great improvements, like a better character-design, a more detailed ghost-design and a better graphic-appearance in general. The nightmarish and dark atmosphere is amazing and nearly makes your heart stop. Behind each corner a ghost may attack you and they look horrible and frightening. Unfortunately there are negative aspects as well. The controls for the camera-obscura are awful; the same goes for controlling Mio. This causes a lot of frustration during the game and makes it even harder. The multiplayer seems awkward and unnecessary. All in all a great and shocking horror game with poor controls.