Another big budget game more obsessed with impersonating its favourite films than creating any genuinely new script or gameplay ideas.

Proof that WiiWare can be a genuinely interesting and innovative service, with the best version yet of this imaginative and innovative indie platformer.

The best non-Tomb Raider game ever, as well as being one of the best value Xbox Live Arcade games of the year and a superbly designed co-op game.

This doesn't fix the flaws of the original it simply finds more to keep them company, in a game that's as banal and repetitive as its protagonists' vocabulary.

There have been worst movie tie-ins, but this fails to channel either the spirit of the film or the excitement of a real combat flight simulator.

As impossibly complex as it is deep, but running your own empire proves to be hugely engrossing for those that put in the man hours.

A clever mix of Team Fortress 2 and Tower Defence that is a lot more nuanced and inventive than it appears.

A magnificent tribute to retro graphics and music, but the game underneath remains a hollow tie-in.

A class BioWare download: short, pointless and missing everything that made the original interesting.

This does fix many of the flaws of the last game, but there are so few real advances that this is one yearly update you'll find easy to skip.

Red Dead Redemption is a great single player game, but this only emphasises the mediocre multiplayer.

The corpse of Symphony Of The Night proves far too putrefied to work as a co-operative platformer.

BioShock needs a new setting, storyline and gameplay. Instead it gets a story-less set of challenge rooms.

The Age of Discovery has enough excitement and intrigue to fill a hundred video games, just not this timid and repetitive strategy game.

Big dumb fun doesn't have to be quiet this witless, but this is still a fairly competent arcade update.

Namco Bandai unleash the God Of Bore, with gameplay and graphics that definitely belong in another age.

The lack of innovation is a shame, but the attention to detail and superb multiplayer is beyond criticism.

This doesn't solve any of the original's problems with storytelling and variety, it just makes them worse.

Technically a MMO racer, but also a clumsy rehash of some of the series' least interesting sequels.

It's not really a sequel but this is certainly a superior version of what is already the best new fighting game franchise of the current generation.

As much mood piece as video game, but the mix of stark atmosphere and clever puzzles is hard to resist.

Not a very interesting 2D shooter, but fans are likely to create something far more exciting from it.

If this half broken, frustrating platformer counts as one of WiiWare's biggest releases then the service is in an even worse state than we feared.

Not as daring as you'd hope in terms of gameplay or humour, but this Diablo parody has its moments.

It might not be the Elite sequel of your dreams but this space trader is in a field of its own on 360.

Maybe Russian games are meant as punishment not entertainment. This limp strategy RPG is surely the former.

Great value download, with an excellent capture the flag game that it would be positively rude not to try.

Not nearly as uninspiring or derivative as it first appears, but instead one of the most engrossing and thoughtful puzzlers of the year.