However, if you are looking for an excellent story and some awesome gunplay, the Darkness is a must try. Just don't turn the lights off

With the core gameplay intact and every key element that makes the game a pleasure still there, this is a solid DS pickup.

A decent racing game, but a great driving game. It's also the most important leap in racing game design since "Gran Turismo."

The puzzles, sense of exploration, epic battles, and vast arsenal of weapons are all truly sensational. The year may be young, by Darksiders will certainly be one of the best titles to be released in 2010.

Games like Hatsworth is the reason why the DS was made and the DS was made for games like Hatsworth.

Fans of the Trauma series are going to be quite pleased with the new gameplay elements, and newcomers should easily find something interesting to grab onto while learning the ropes.

When you have a formula that works, all you have to do is tweak it to make it better. That's exactly what RavenSoft did, and the results will not disappoint fans of the series.

The drum-beat of the gameplay may be a little erratic at times, if only because the drummer's creativity and ambition overwhelmed his finesse, but it delivers the hard-driving goods when they're needed most.

Even if you played the original title back on the original Xbox, you might want to take another stroll through the game and assault the Dark Athena.

Generally, this game is a flawless knock-out.

The gameplay is fast, furious and addicting... unfortunately it can also get repetitive.

Despite a slow start, Thief manages to snow ball into a wonderfully unique experience that will appeal to some and not to others.

There are some problems here -- the removal of fully manual power sliding, rubber band AI, overpowered items, no voice chat, overall slowness -- but they're forgivable, for the most part. If you can get over them, Mario Kart is a truly great multiplayer Wii title.

You will find no better college basketball experience than College Hoops 2k8.

Like a Michael Bay movie, Split/Second is a must-see, but isn't worth more than a rent.

Sometimes it feels like the game plays more like Bungie's first-person shooter, "Halo," than "GoldenEye," however, which is somewhat of a surprise considering the last two TimeSplitters games followed very closely in "GoldenEye's" footsteps.

If you can grit your teeth and win races, you'll appreciate the digitized city of LA.

As a tool, ModNation is an amazing game. As an entire package, ModNation gets held back by some inescapable technical issues of long load times and brutal AI that keep it from becoming the end-all, be-all Kart racing game but is still great.

If you're a die-hard Halo or RTS fan, Halo Wars is a must own. For everybody else, I highly recommend, at the very least, a rental.

The gameplay has been expanded but not evolved over the last in the series but there is plenty of destruction and mayhem to go around to care.

Lots of fighters and lots of action make the game digestible in small portions. Most of the “fluff” has been cut out of this version to make it more like the arcade game.

Bizarre Creations knows how to make a game with cars. Blur takes the kart racing genre a step forward with addictive progress bars and an evolved take on using weapons strategically.

Pulling off a Resistance game on the PSP sounds like a monumental task, but Sony Bend was up for it. In one swoop, they have expanded Resistance's universe while making a great game that can stand on its own.

Out of Bounds thrives in an abundance of style, personality and soul. The game injects a healthy dose of fun into the golf genre where it is badly needed.

Ubisoft knows what it's doing.

The sounds also add a lot to this game. From the odd noise of your footsteps to the breathing of psychotic people trying to hunt you down, it’s all here and creepy.

With its great animation and the new nail a trick mode in tack, fans of the series will have no beef with Project 8.

The game has just a pristine sheen all over it. It makes full use of the graphical horsepower of the 360. Tons of explosions or cars on the screen don't contribute at all to any slowdown.