The worlds of hairdressing and vegetable fancying combine in the best, and only, topiary simulator.

Metallica fans will be happy enough, but everyone else will lament the lack of evolution and poor value.

Vin Diesel proves not to have the magic touch after all, with this technically inept Driver wannabe.

Pitifully inept real-time strategy that makes almost every design and technology mistake possible.

The glory days of '80s/'90s wrestling is an appropriately arcade style affair and all the better for it.

Too expensive to win the graphic adventure new fans but old ones will still enjoy this genre highlight.

Exactly the game you'd expect to result from the film, with fun effects but no variety or depth.

Square Enix finally gets the Crystal Chronicles formula right with this great multiplayer action RPG.

Microtransactions all but ruin this unusual real-time strategy and its flawed collectible card game.

The best console version yet of the PC hit - and accessible enough to suit even real-time strategy haters.

The end product is still several features short of classic status but it's not as dry as January's "Lonpos" and yet just as addictive a time-waster.

This new episodic graphic adventure is mild cheddar compared to the original TV shorts and movie.

Yet another entirely inessential special edition of one of the best video games ever made.

Not a bad attempt at bringing Resistance to the PSP, but the end result feels shallow and repetitive.

Probably the best Harvest Moon game ever with a successfully odd mix of farming and dungeon crawling.

EA's latest DS game is half platformer, half puzzle game, all fun (well, three quarters at least).

Konami's role-player is a frustratingly uneven mix of great graphics, dull combat and fun questing.

A startlingly well realised iteration of GTA that even does some things better than the home consoles.

Konami's reinvention of the footy sim still impresses a year later, even if this is largely the same game.

An unexpected, but largely successful, change of pace as Norse melodrama meets strategic role-playing.

Someone finally finds something interesting to do with Pong, with this excellent retro homage.

An unsatisfying facsimile of Resident Evil 4 with none of the style or excitement, just more bugbears.

Not only a poorly disguised mobile game but one of the shallowest Tower Defence strategy games ever.

A hugely entertaining, if slightly uneven, roller coaster ride of gorgeously stylised ultra violence.

There are some great ideas at work here, but the game can't quite bind them into a successful whole.

Charmingly old-school puzzle-solving with some interesting gimmicks and cute characters/corporate mascots.

Viewing this simply as a re-release it's still a hugely enjoyable game, overshadowed only by its own sequel - with its longer, more complex missions, no time limit and multiplayer modes. Since it's getting the New Play Control treatment too it makes this a little harder to recommend... but not much.

Nintendo hobble their excellent old GameCube sports game with dreadful new motion controls.