The game sounds better than it looks.

As with all M&M games, the sound effects are my favorite. Each town and feature on the map has its own song or sound, and the richness and variety is impressive.

It's an addictive game that'll have you hacking away at brigands, toad men, evil priests, and even the occasional minor gaming bug.

You will be subject to gruelingly slow frame rates. I will not hesitate to drop you below 20 frames per second. I will blur the graphics until your eyes hurt. You will play bland level after bland level without so much as a whimper.

The camera provides a third-person view, and although you can adjust the angles and the depth, it's definitely confusing, and not ideal for battle or discovery.

Aside from a few drawbacks, this manages to be an entertaining little game that adds enough to the smashy-smashy mix to keep you interested for at least a few hours.

The game is repetitive, no doubt, but there are enough challenges to make it worth a sitting or two.

The first thing that should be done is to fix the frame rate problem. Next, throw some cops in there -- after all, I am breaking the law.

ESPN--the network that's given the world Chris Berman, "Sunday Night Baseball," and the "Fitness America Pageant"--deserves better than this.

If you are expecting anything remotely as cool as "Toy Story," you will be sorely disappointed.

The major problems were addressed, the graphics were improved, and additional gameplay modes were added. What more could you ask for?

It's everything you loved about the original (1998's RPG of the year), yet infinitely more refined.

A product that feels like a half-finished heap o' crap.

The high degree of difficulty is matched only by the high degree of bad music.

We deserved stronger gameplay, better AI, better graphics, and better physics.

The main reason Elite Force works so well is that it combines not simply the Voyager license with the "Quake III" engine, but merges a well-written story with an incredibly solid first-person shooter.

Could possibly be the best game ever.

If you have some vision, creative ambition, and a whole lot of time on your hands, RPG Maker just may be the game for you.

It's difficult to get excited about muddy graphics and visuals that look almost identical to those circa 1995.

ESPN MLS GameNight is sort of like the result of Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman having a little tike of their own, but it comes out looking like your average tree sloth.

It's easy to pick up and play, but with all the planes and adjustments at your disposal, don't expect to master this one anytime soon.

Given the sordid history of Looney Toons games, it's simply enough that this duck doesn't suck.

This game managed to capture the feel of those rat-tailed days, without putting my older and fatter body at risk.

Where else can you see Deion Sanders put a hit on somebody? Certainly not at a Redskins game.

I'm not saying that the 2001 version is a bad game. It's just one that suffers from the same engine that has been tried over and over again for the lifespan of the series.

Horrible control, lousy graphics, and a migraine-inducing frame rate all add up to one of the worst games on the market. If you want skateboarding action, just stick to Tony Hawk.

The control is a little clumsy, and there are a few bugs that'll drive you to drink.

So far above and beyond the majority of real-time strategy games out there, it's tough to find any shortcomings at all.