The gore is gorier, the booms are boomier, and the guns are gunnier—RE:CVX takes an already near-flawless game and makes it even better.

This build-your-own-robot game gives grease monkeys a 20-story garage, hundreds of parts, and plenty of time to tinker with and create the ultimate 40-ton rig.

Since they opt for realism at the expense of fun, you just can’t pull off those sick, death-defying feats you can in other games.

A thousand yards beyond any other college football game.

Instead of marching towards you as you rip them apart with machine gun fire, these nasties scuttle and run like…real bugs. It’s enough to give you the willies.

You’ll finally answer some of life’s most burning questions, like how your Suburu Impreza station wagon would fare against a 2002 Dodge Viper on a racetrack.

Awesome.

Final bonus: Unlike most games of this sort, Bloody Roar 3 allows you to knock your opponent through walls instead of just into them.

If you’re keen on tasteless, tongue-in-cheek jokes, smooth sailing lies ahead.

NASCAR Heat is more than a grueling simulation, it’s a grease monkey’s wet dream come true.

We suggest using the seven foot Wolfman, he’s great at blocking shots.

Can’t be beat for fun, mindless destruction.

Stevie Wonder could breeze through this first-person shooter in under five hours.

We have to admit that most first-person games nauseate us, but Faction’s smooth graphics and easy gameplay make it hard to put down.

Sharp graphics, explosive action, and an Internet multiplayer mode earn a big ten four.

If you do a good job, you might even get a free donut or two.

We don’t like how the pesky pedestrians always manage to dodge your cab, but the graphics of the San Francisco–like city are amazingly detailed.

Despite a trick roster with some troubling names (anyone care to attempt a “Rocket Queen”?), this is as down and dirty as they come. Detergent not included.

This frantic shooter in the James Bond style will leave players visibly shaken…and definitely stirred.

There aren’t many games more extreme than this crazed, balls-to-the wall stock-car racer.

You begin by selecting the background for your on-screen tyrant—anything from leftist journalist to drunken gambler to flatulent womanizer.

This is not the kind of game you’ll enjoy slogging through on your own, but played with a group of other Simpsons fanatics it’s a pretty good time.

An embarrassment. When the players run bowlegged to field a ball, it’s hard to take this game seriously.

The only two things that don’t fly in House Party are illegal substances and Robert Downey Jr., which is too bad since there aren’t any Sim Cops on patrol.

We dare you to find a game package that gives you more bang for your buck—both literally and figuratively.

Though the plodding pace and cutesy atmosphere border on blasphemy, the game’s open-ended design lets you indulge your most megalomaniacal fantasies with ease.

A letdown for NRA enthusiasts, surely, but they will enjoy the best spy perk of all—a license to kill.

If you can overlook minor perspective problems, Onimusha’s intense combat, stunning graphics, and involving story make this a masterpiece hotter than a mouthful of wasabi.