It sits squarely in the middle of fun and boring.

A solid, competent extreme bike game, without a lot of frills, and with little style, but hey – when did style and grace ever figure into extreme sports?

Of the four versions of this game out there, this is probably the least fun due to the choppy frame rate and blurry graphics, not to mention the apparently missing fighters.

Despite a fairly impressive game speed even with eight riders, Supercross is a headache-inducing eyesore.

Gameday fans are owed an apology for this morass of bad controls and weak graphics.

Good for the nostalgia crowd, and that's the target audience. It's a cheap package too, so it's probably worth it. But what's with the slowdown in such old games?

If cars really behaved like those in VP, the carnage on our nation's highways would immediately result in a national speed limit of 15 to deter the sort of fish-tailing, wildly over-steering behavior exhibited in this game.

The most glaring drawback of gameplay is that there's no effective radar/tracking system to point you towards your remaining enemies, especially when they're out of range.

Slowly becoming the Utah Jazz of console sports franchises -- produces enough so that you can't ignore it, but possesses neither the flash nor the innovation to beat the younger competition in the ratings game.

If you’re expecting the latest in 3D graphics and CD-quality sound, you’re going to be disappointed. Besides the extra cinematic scenes made especially for this release, this plays, looks and sounds just like a 16-bit SNES game.

Have you seen the movie Driven? Neither have we. But this game, which I based on the movie, gives us so many clues as to what the movie was like that we don?t feel like we have to watch the movie to know what it's about.

Long on ideas but well short on design and execution -- a game that for the most part looks as good as originally promised, but with some shoddy controls that almost ruin the experience.

If you can look past graphics that came out of the Stone Age, if you can look past terrible sound effects (when guards get shot they grunt like… uh never mind), if you can look past a main character that doesn't look anything like Tom Cruise, if you can look past some ridiculous puzzles in places, you'll find Mission: Impossible, if you choose to accept it, really isn't that bad.

Uneven pacing, clunky interface and mismatched visuals undermine the game's potential.

It's not the most innovative game, and actually copies a block or two from other puzzle games, but the repetition gets endearing after awhile.

Its anime influences also feel forced and plagiaristic. Overall, this is one of the bigger disappointments this year.

The odd nature of the story and world is a change of pace (now there's an understatement) from the rest of the pack, and this one is probably worth checking out.

It's good for those that want all their classics in one cart - but the Game Boy Color versions are exactlt the same.

Doesn't add anything to the venerable Twisted Metal series - it just subtracts, and subtracts, and subtracts, until the only thing small is the fun.

Just too easy, too short, and too busy visually. It’s initially quite an impressive looking and sounding game, but you know the saying about looks being deceiving.

If you think of it as "Road Rash" up close and personal (and want to see a game like that), then go ahead and break these balls.

This is Jedi Power Battles in 3D - a simple, fast-paced action game that makes you forget everything else for a couple of hours, just like the movie it's based on.

The better money is with "Q-Ball Billiards Master," which is far and away better than this.

A decent kart racer that never makes full use of its license and falls a bit flat in gameplay.

The game is fun to watch (and that's mostly what you'll be doing) for a couple of hours, but beyond that the repetitive pre-scripted cut-scenes and ease of play will leave you bored.

It's more like a reworking of "Prince of Persia."

A great effort, but when compared to games like Turok or Golden Eye, it falls short. With glaring problems in the multiplayer modes, it's hard to see Duke Nukem 64 being taken seriously as a contender in the 3D shooter category.

It’s a repackaged version of the original. A few new levels aren’t enough to give this game a proper fun factor score – if you’ve played before, you’ll be disappointed.

You never really escape the feeling that you've played all of this before - twice, in fact... As for people who just like to drive around and cause mayhem, we've got one word for you - "Driver."

Barely on par with your average "Tetris" clone.

Black Kat is like me first marriage, aye - fun for a few hours, and then as slow a death as you never want to witness, matey.

Unless you've got some kind of passion for snowmobiles, we suggest you pass on this one.

Impressive for its visual and audio style, these Brothers need more help in the gameplay department if they hope to become a franchise.

A highly detailed and realistic golf simulation that just isn't all that much fun to play and has a few maddening quirks.

The best feature of the game is that no matter how low your school's hoops program is in real life, you can take your school to the championship.

It's a modified "Fighting Force" with a little thought behind it, but it is also hamstrung by controls that are less than intuitive.

Somewhat less than the sum of its parts, StarLancer just doesn’t provide anything we haven’t seen before.

For driving fans used to the rigors of Gran Turismo and Ridge Racer, 007 rates about a 003 on the fun factor scale.

There has to be a better way to represent the sport of snowboarding than this.

The fun is there for a few minutes, and then becomes tiresome.

There's nothing all that special about the units or the missions, and there's absolutely no innovation to the gameplay itself.

In order to even get out of the gate, you really have to like snowmobile racing.

It’s not bad (like "Green Rogue" bad), but it’s certainly not 3DO’s best game (like High Heat Baseball 2002 for the PC).

You may find yourself saying things like "well, it was only ten bucks..." at various points while playing the game, but the fact is there are worse games than this that cost a lot more.

If you're a fan of the child-eating boxer, help yourself to a serving of Mike Tyson Boxing. Otherwise, spend your bet money on "Knockout Kings" or "Ready 2 Rumble 2."

Where World Driver Championship fails is in its handling. It looks like the developers have studied at Namco's driving school as every one of the 30 cars on offer handles like the treads have disappeared from the tyres.

The same mediocre game on the Cube as it was on the PS2.

It's almost impossible to ignore the game's graphical flaws -- specifically, its propensity to suddenly switch from high-res to low-res mode in the middle of a race, taking the frame rate south with it.

Its bare-bones style of play may not impress those accustomed to more outlandish PC titles, but purists of the arcade will find just enough here to add to their Playstation library.

It's the role-model for mediocre action games.

Play it long enough and you may start to enjoy it, but the long load times and cheap AI mean you'll likely never get to that point.

If you want something more advanced for your Advance, pass this fossil up.

Graphics alone can't make up for blunt, repetitive gameplay and a grating soundtrack.

Unfortunately, this title just doesn't measure up on the Dreamcast, with a rushed feel when compared to both the PC and PSX versions.

You'll love playing this one over a snow-bound weekend, but probably return it to the rental counter by the time your senses thaw.

Not a bad little game, and the four player option makes it a lot more competitive.

The mechs are slow and ponderous, the missions linear, and the controls complicated.

It's certainly not the worst kart racer out there. But this isn't supposed to be a kart racer, this is supposed to be an RC racer -- it's there right in the title. And at that, the game fails pretty miserably.

It's all the worst traits of arcade racers thrown together, exaggerated to the point of grotesqueness, and then slapped into a game that's at best a visual mixed bag.

It’s an ugly mess that’s hard on the eyes, and it doesn’t get an easier to look at the more you play.

The addictiveness of Jonny Moseley Mad Trix is outweighed by the poor design and tepid game play.

May keep your little five-year old brother entertained.

If video games were breakfast cereal, Darkstone lurks below Malt-O-Meal.

The story is un-engaging, in no small part due to the unsympathetic characters, the nail in the coffin for any second-rate adventure/RPG.

There’s nothing about Army Men Advance that compels us to pick it up again.

If survival horror games went out clubbing together, Countdown Vampires would be the one getting asked, "So, who's your friend?"

Still not the contender that it should be, but there is hope - and the QB Challenge is still fun to play.

The Legend of Alon D'ar goes for the big story (which is lame in its own way) and the big RPG feeling - but falls short on both counts.

How could Reflections screw this up so bad? Driver 2 is a pale reflection (har har) of the original.

This lamp-rubber is definitely for little 'laddins.

The PS2's version of "Vanishing Point." Floaty, slow control, graphics that shine in some ways but fall a bit flat in others, gameplay that doesn't last very long and feels more like work than fun most of the time.

It's the same Gauntlet, and we're tired of running it.

There’s some pretty horrendous slowdown at times also, which is instant-death in a pinball game that relies on precise timing for ball aiming (not that you’d have much success at that anyway).

Better than bad is sometimes still pretty bad, and that's the case here -- though at least the frame rate is not so piss-poor as to be completely unplayable.

It won't last long, but it is an interesting diversion.

Little more than a rehash of the earlier game, "Fighter Destiny 2" would have been acceptable in 1998, but feels extremely dated today.

This is a thoroughly disappointing effort, and one that does not live up to the World Series Baseball name.

If the monsters don't get you, the needless micromanagement will.

The Roseanne of racing games. Some may say it has substance, but man, is it ugly.

The controls and action are both pitifully executed, and the graphics and sound won’t make up the difference.

This feels like what it is -- a rushed, early RPG that didn't receive the time or care needed to turn it into a fun game.

This is old-school gaming -- it feels like Urban Chaos, looks like the first Tomb Raider, and smells like a bomb.

If the game was a bit longer, or if even each mission took longer to complete than the 5-10 minutes generally required, maybe we could give the game a higher score - shoddy visuals and all.

But said frame rate is so bad that not only does it distract, it actually affects the gameplay by ruining your timing -- taking turns is often a case of guesswork as the game jerks along at somewhere between 5 and 10 frames per second (that is not an exaggeration).

Nothing but a knock-off of every other mission-based car game out there, and a dull and frustrating one at that.

Dogged by its short length, unlimited continues and past-due graphics, this shooter barely scrapes by the mediocre mark.

Pretty vanilla, as RTS goes.

It's not going to keep you up nights either; it's simply an amalgam of traits copied from more successful franchises, with a few new innovations that don't really add much to the gameplay.

It seems cliché to say it, but there's just not much new here, and what is new (the higher difficulty) is not welcome.

This one should just lay down and play extinct for us.

Just too basic to really hold much interest, and it’s too difficult to figure out for such a simple game.

Batman Vengeance had a hopeful start, but the controls, cameras, and crappy graphics make this bat look like a rat.

Weak gameplay, graphics, sound and options make NBA ShootOut 2001 an easy pass. Don't bite on this ball fake.

A pointless sequel that adds nothing to its genre or franchise. Almost as dreadful as its N64 counterpart.

Tedious micromanagement kills the fun before the going gets good.

Painful to play, painful to watch, foolish to purchase.

The Cleveland Cavaliers of the video hoops world: not the worst team in the league, but lacks flash, is thin in the middle and an absolute non-factor in the playoffs.

Getting surrounded by zombies and not having any way to defend yourself thanks to not being able to activate the special moves isn't really a pleasant way to spend your time, and turns this game into a tedious chore.