Once again, Madden leads the field in video game football, and as of right now, there’s no one near him in coverage.

It’s a great snack until the Hawk strikes back. Pick it up now and you’ll be done with it by the weekend.

Not as deep, heavy or pretty as the competition, but strangely appealing once the journey starts rolling.

Barely on par with your average "Tetris" clone.

As a multiplayer game it treads over most of the competition. The solo mode borders on evil thanks to its difficulty level.

A good game, with solid controls, but it’s repetitive and just a little boring after a while. This is a good bone to throw a younger brother or sister.

Far from an awful game due to its relative depth and difficulty. It just doesn’t do anything we haven’t seen before.

The game’s ugliness is its major flaw, though the free-roaming nature of many of the levels can be frustrating too.

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

It’s a rare game that combines style and simple, brilliant play, and a very worthy choice for King of the PS2 platformers.

A pleasant surprise, and some may actually prefer it to the darker, more serious "Unreal Tournament" or "Quake 3 Arena."

A much higher score would be given if the ridiculously long 90 second load time between levels had been optimized. Otherwise, it’s a great shooter.

It’s a fantastic college football game, and as of yet, completely without a collegiate equal.

Although not terrible complicated or intricate, it’s still a great game with a good interface and lots of scary stuff.

A great FPS. The most serious problem we have with the game is stability – we lost all of our save games at one point, and experienced random freezes fairly frequently.

The intensity of the missions, the fast-pace of the action, and the overall graphic flair of the game will have you coming back again and again, regardless of your patience levels.

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

An addictive and fun collection of Pac-Man games that looks a whole lot better than you’d expect.

It is a racing game – a good but flawed one, a technically masterful piece of work that still has not gotten the gameplay of racing against other drivers quite right. In some ways, it’s actually a step backwards from GT2.

Our only real gripes are the controls and the sluggishness of some of the titles on less powerful systems.

There’s as much to do in this game as there is in any other full-priced motocross game – and Motocross Mania is really no better or worse than most of those.

The graphics are the game’s strong point, with fluid character development and crisp backgrounds.

It’s a testament to the thought and heart that went behind Chrono Trigger that, despite a new loading problem, the game is still more fun than most of its present-day competition.

The best Advance multiplayer game to date (and you only need one cartridge), Bomberman blows up the competition when it comes to fun.

If you like your destruction on a massive scale, this game is the one for you – though it relies heavily on big explosions to entertain you (have we made our point yet?).

We have to be impressed by the number of included titles, faithfulness of the emulation, and the huge amount of archival material. Our only real gripes are the controls and lack of save support.

But if you want a serious butt-kicking good time, then this game Roars.

This ain’t no "Twisted Metal: Black." If Motor Mayhem had come out last October we might have recommended it; as it is, there's no real competition.