Only nostalgiaists will want to play it at length but this shames modern shooters with its ambition.

This starship sim never reaches escape velocity from the cloying traditions of Japanese RPGs.

An unexpectedly daring attempt to reinvent the series but one mired in technical and design flaws.

Despite many rough edges and a fumbled narrative few shooters feel as tense and unpredictable as this.

The end result is certainly the best of the series, with the sense of scale and superb presentation overcoming most concerns over repetition and depth.

One of the Wii's best-looking games, but this role-playing hybrid is all atmosphere and no substance.

A competent but relatively unambitious expansion that adds plenty of new content but no new ideas.

Bafflingly inaccessible Japanese role-player that still remains strangely engrossing despite itself.

A failed attempt to expand the coin-op, with a fog of unnecessary extras keeping you from the good stuff.

It might not escape from the shadow of Punch-Out!! but this WiiWare download still puts up a good fight.

Pokemon needs evolution not remakes, but it's still hard to resist the most feature rich version yet.

More than just a standalone expansion, this is another genre-blurring tour de force by Relic.

Despite a few interesting ideas this never manages to relive the glory days of top-down racing.

Baby and bathwater are thrown screaming from the tub as Square Enix strip Final Fantasy down to the marrow.

As rough and ready as the previous games but a fascinating tour of Japan's seedy criminal underbelly.

The real survival horror here is enduring the repetitive scares and gameplay all the way to the end.

A clever mix of World Of Goo and Drawn To Life that makes good use of the Wii and your own imagination.

World War I has never been so much fun in this successful mix of Tower Defence and shoot 'em-up action.

It's one step forward and two back in a sequel that seems almost ashamed of its own unique features.

An infinitely better game than you'd expect, but one that falls just short of true greatness.

Simpler, shallower but more accessible, this will divide fans but should engage the less committed.

If you're tired of music games this peculiar platformer is no reason to keep your plastic axe either.

An improvement on the earlier echochrome and another abstract but engaging puzzler for the PSP.

An interactive movie where the gameplay is as basic and two-dimensional as the story and acting.

Being Boney represents a more linear, but more accessible, experience for would-be European dictators.

Sega's legacy deserves a better celebration than this competent but unremarkable Mario Kart clone.

Embarrassingly poor Japanese role-player that manages the impossible task of playing worse than it looks.

An interesting script and missions can't save this miserable morass of repetitious role-playing.