A decent flight combat game, especially if played in sim mode. Unfortunately the very poor graphics manage to hinder what's been achieved with a good story and overall feeling.

An interesting FPS/roguelike hybrid, with a frantic and addictive gameplay and lots of contents. It's got some balancing issues and sometimes you feel luck counts more than skills, but for old school FPS lovers it's surely an advised buy.

A missed chance both for Sega/Gearbox and every Aliens or even FPS genre fan. Unsatisfying in every aspect, Aliens: Colonial Marines doesn't do justice to the name it carries.

Stormrise innovative controls are its major fault too, making selecting troops a very unpleasant experience. Add it to buggy and obsolete graphics, and all you've got is a very bad attempt at making a console RTS.

An irritating and awful game: boring, repetitive and with serious problems like the nerve-racking soundtrack and bad movements recognition.

The new fantasy Nightmare campaign isn't enough to rejuvenate an already mediocre game, which even keeps many of its original technical problems despite of the new gen porting.

Call of Juarez: The Cartel doesn't add anything special to the FPS landscape except for the three-characters storyline, with a mediocre and unpolished technical production. A big step backwards compared to Bound in Blood, and departing from the old wild west setting didn't help.

An avoidable game, unsuited even to the fans of the movie series. A very repetitive and soporific gameplay is the only horror you'll find inside.

Super Toy Cars presents us a nice toy racer capable of recalling youth memories, but it's unfortunately hindered by several physics, collisions and balancing problems, while it's also missing features present in other versions of the game.

Naughty Bear finally finds its proper home on XBLA, with a new customization system and its usual strong humor.

Sonic Free Riders feels like a rushed game: it's got a great potential and looks like one of the deepest games in the Kinect launch line-up, but all is compromised bye e very imprecise Kinect support, not on par with other games seen so far. Too bad the developers didn't have more time to improve this only, but essential, aspect.

The developer switch didn't really help the franchise: bad graphics, bad gameplay and frustrating. Its only good feature is the Escalation online co-op mode.

Ultimate Fishing Simulator fails its own title, being very far away from a fishing simulator, let alone the ultimate one. Bad U.I., unsatisfying fishing mechanics, totally unbalanced accessory and bait costs and several technical problems leave very little to be praised, like the good underwater camera.

A disappointing game, with interesting premises but with a boring gameplay and underdeveloped RPG elements.

A disappointing game due to an unconvincing story, repetitive gameplay and environments, bug-ridden online co-op and a generally lacklustre technical production.

A mediocre movie tie-in, incapable of adding anything meaningful to the previous game outside of the revamped swinging mechanic.

A Payday-like game in a WW2 setting is a good concept and the live action cutscenes are very good, but it all gets wasted by a laughable technical production with a repetitive and boring game design.

This first person adventure game is based on some interesting ideas, but they're very poorly executed with bad narrative, gameplay and many technical problems.

An easily forgettable game, plagued by too many problems: bad unit management, dumb AI, extreme repetitiveness and troublesome user interface.

Coffin Dodgers tries to innovate the mascot racer genre with some new ideas, but too many problems get in the way to the final objective; what we have is just a frustrating and unentertaining experience.

The nice characters cast can't save the game from its too reductive game structure, its surpassed technical making and especially its repetitive gameplay.

A very boring title even for its main target, cycling fans, with too trivial gameplay mechanics and a very bad technical production.

Fear Effect Sedna does many things but with mediocre results in all of them, like with the excessively punishing puzzles or the ridiculous voice acting. It's a real pity, as it shows great love for the original games and it deserved to be more successful.

An interesting title and with good potential, but it drowns in defects we can't ignore, like the badly balanced difficulty and a bad ui in the menus. You could however consider it if you're looking for a more serious Kinect sports game.

Verdun disappoints in almost every area: technically unsatisfying and with frustrating gameplay, it will hardly manage to satisfy any multiplayer shooter lover.

A disappointing game in almost every aspect. Even the most forgiving children won't find it very interesting.

Sniper: Ghost Warrior isn't flawless, mainly due to a sub-par technical production and some mediocre run-and-gun shooting sections; nevertheless, the developers managed to bring us a very involving and atmospheric game, suited to everyone who has always been charmed by the sniper profession.

WWE 2K20 is a game that still needs a lot of work, both in the graphics and gameplay/AI/physics areas, to be on par with the previous titles in the series. However the awesome roster, big Universe mode and some improved controls keep it from being a complete disappointment.

A somewhat exciting and absorbing game mainly thanks to its frenetic action and huge combos. However it's only suited for fans of this genere.

There's nothing in 007 Legends that would drive us to advise it. With a lackluster plot, many gameplay problems, short story and shoddy graphics it won't fly off stores shelves despite the name it brings.

We hoped that with this second episode Warner could bring more variety to the game, but we found a bad product on many fronts, except the very good visuals. A questionable plot, short longevity and a very repetitive gameplay make this game suitable only to the Watchmen über-fans, just to have some more Rorschach and Nite Owl action after the movie.

A mere add-on to the previous game, short and without any improvements to the first game, even losing features like Kinect support.

Risen 3: Titan Lords fails to reach its full potential: it's got a compelling and interesting story, which clashes with a bad technical production and a too muddled and unsatisfying combat system.

A quite entertaining and fast paced auto-runner, which unfortunately lacks in longevity and variety.

A decent game for cycling lovers, with an interesting managerial side but lacking on several aspects, like shoddy sounds and the complete absence of a tutorial for newcomers to the series.

The Lord of the Rings: Gollum is inadequate in all respects. Something good can be glimpsed in the second act, but it is still a drop in a sea of mediocrity that isn't worth your time, and especially not worth the involvement of such an important license as The Lord of the Rings.

A very interesting idea gets dragged down by a lackluster production: repetitive and boring fights, shoddy controls and sub-par graphics make it hard to be recommend for anyone.

Bring to Light fails in providing any kind of thrilling experience, ending up instead in being very boring and repetitive. Not the best outcome for a horror game.

When we talk about bad tie-in games, we refer exactly to something like this: monotonous, boring, with a too simple gameplay and technically lacking: a failure.

Even if based on a very interesting idea, Dead Alliance pitifully falls due to too many technical problems that make it practically unplayable.

It sports the charismatic characters from the movie, but lacks in variety and player satisfaction. Avoidable.

A short and mediocre game without any specific shining aspects; Indie games can be much better than this.

If the game could have been interesting thanks to some well-thought minigames and charismatic characters, bad Kinect support an very short longevity make it an easily forgettable game.

Naughty Bear shows some good ideas and a great ironic violent vein, but it isn't enough to overcome the general dullness and the lackluster technical realization. It would have surely benefited from more time spent on polishing and adding deeper gameplay.

Interesting ideas like the multiplayer interactions aren't supported by a suitable structure, story and technical execution.

Star Trek fans' hopes for a really good game tied to Roddenberry's franchise are once again crushed. Star Trek disappoints both in the technical and gameplay aspects, trying to emulate other popular titles but failing to do so.

Very simplistic gameplay mainly aimed at kids and casual gamers, mediocre graphics and several problems in controls and camera management ruin a game that maintains as its only bright spot the co-op mode, unfortunately only offline. Forgettable.

Bloodforge isn't a game for anyone, starting from its gory, desaturated visuals to its highly difficult gameplay. Too bad that some flaws, like a bad saves management and imprecise controls, help to steer it more towards a frustrating experience rather than a challenging and rewarding one.

Tennis World Tour feels too incomplete and detached from a real tennis experience to be at least satisfying. A good Career structure and nice graphics aren't enough to counterbalance the bad gameplay and a lack of essential modes, like online support and Doubles.

A mediocre game in every aspect: even if you're a great Iron Man fan, prepare to be disappointed by this shoddy tie-in.

Protocol may have been an interesting experience in VR, but as a classic game it turns out to be a slow, boring, frustrating, sloppy and repetitive action/puzzle game. It could have been more interesting with a deep gameplay redesign, but as it is, we wouldn't recommend it even to die-hard fans of first-person puzzle games.

A good activities and environments variety is ruined by too-monotonous gameplay where, except for climbing, we're asked to repeat very similar moves for each sport.

Prison Break: The Conspiracy offers nothing new under the sun, with a lackluster gameplay and a forgettable story. Lovers of the TV series should keep watching it instead of playing this game.

MotionSports tries to differ from Kinect Sports with a realistic visual approach and more exotic and interesting sports, but it fumbles the execution delivering us an unentertaining and bland experience, partly due to imprecise controls too.

A game that puts all its bets in the good graphics and physics, but neglecting very important things like longevity, plot and gameplay variety. There are game demos out there that offer an highly more rewarding experience than this, and are even free.

A boring and repetitive combat system and and a subpar technical production make The Cursed Crusade an avoidable game; a wasted opportunity to represent a great and charismatic historical period.

Repetitive, boring and quickly tiring: a lazy tie-in with almost no value even to the animated series lovers.

Onechanbara: Bikini Samurai Squad seems to be much older than the three years passed since its first release in Japan: the gameplay is ridiculously simple and seems to be taken from games 20 years old and the plot is trite and uninteresting. Even the bikini-girls-with-blades theme fails to attract, due to disappointing and last-gen worth graphics. Keep away from this game, and your X button will thank you.

THPS 5 is a real cold spike in the franchise lover's hearts: all the good things this series had have been blown away by wrong design decisions, bad gameplay and poor controls.

CrossfireX is, more than any other game, a two-sided coin. On one side we get a lacklustre and disappointing multiplayer component, while on the other we have two compelling, spectacular and creative - even if short - CoD-style campaigns, where Remedy's footprint is clearly visible. As a complete package, it's barely sufficient, but since they can be bought separately at a convenient price, we recommend trying the campaigns if you're into this kind of single-player FPS experience.

Battleship hardly shows value of any kind, except maybe for the board game like tactical sessions, which would have cut a better figure as a Live Arcade game rather than being diluted in a dull retail game.

Just one of many lackluster gaming movie tie-ins, made just to exploit its license. Its only shining point is the good story by Matt Fraction.

Project Root presents a very good base idea, but with a poor implementation; we liked the idea of a top-down 360 degrees non-linear shooter, but its generic art design, many glitches and bad game design decisions keep it from even touching its full potential.

What many were hoping to be one of the first real hardcore Kinect games turned into a very frustrating experience; the core concept is good and it's got some nice visuals too, but the motion control is too cumbersome.

Microids and PlayMagic delivered what looks like an unfinished game, with many bugs hindering the story progression and other problems like the bad enemy A.I., leaving just the original plot and the good cel-shaded graphics as the only positives.

The only interesting part in the new Harry Potter game are the Kinect missions, while the main game fails with a flawed enemy AI and a too easy and linear gameplay.

Super Street: The Game brings back a long lost old school racer feeling, with a lot of variety in game modes and tuning choices. Unluckily it stumbles in an uneven difficulty balance, unpredictable physics and an odd driving model.

What could have been a nice old school top-down arcade racer gets ruined by a crazy and unpredictable handling and physics model.

We apreciate the effort to reproduce the great Gears of War gameplay, but Quantum Theory lacks in execution with with a repetitive and frustrating gameplay.

A very poorly produced game, with too many problems to be even considered as a possibile buy.

EA's NBA title comeback turned out to be a real disappointment, due to a dated gameplay system and old-gen graphics. We'd save the excellent ESPN integration and the great play modes choice, but it isn't enough to make it a good basketball game.

The base ideas of a vertical platform-shooter and steampunk setting are interesting, but Blue Omega managed to create a really awful game, with an embarrassing gameplay, lackluster visuals and a nonexistent online component. Just avoid it.

Sanity of Morris proposes us an interesting concept focused on paranormal and X-Files-style mystery thriller; unfortunately, though, it also puts our patience to the test due to an unsatisfying implementation. Graphically poor and artistically not very apt, with a slow and cumbersome gameplay, you'll have to arm yourself with a lot of patience to get to the end of an already very short story.

Past Cure shows a lot of love for specific video games and movies with a huge ambition to emulate them, but the developers fell incredibly short of their target, producing a very troubled game in pretty much every aspect except for the soundtrack.

Agony focuses too heavily on the macabre and sexual elements of its very oppressive hell, forgetting to provide good gameplay to sustain the entire experience. Add this to a plethora of bugs and all kinds of problems, and you'll understand why we can't really recommend it to anyone.

A collection of over-simplified and extremely repetitive mini-games, something which value we would have questioned as a Live Arcade game, let alone a retail one.

Farming and breeding must be a very boring and repetitive activity, or at least this is what Farming Simulator 2013 makes us believe. Giants Software made a pretty impressive reproduction of the farming activities and tools, but they totally forgot that a game needs to entertain or at least involve its public.

Few good ideas and a nice visual presentation quickly make way for a frustrating and repetitive experience and many technical problems.

Giana Sisters: Dream Runners could have been a good game on paper, but it gets dragged down by too many gameplay and technical problems, other than contents scarcity.

A great roster of iconic indie heroes gets overshadowed by too many technical and gameplay problems. A game that would have needed many more months of development and testing to be acceptable.

The Walking Dead: Survival Instinct is based on a good idea - we'd love a good TWD survival game -, but with a very poor execution.

Fighters Uncaged is probably the only Kinect launch game trying to introduce a more thought and tactical gameplay, where success and satisfaction is achieved by properly reacting to the enemy moves. Unfortunately the experience is partially ruined by some problems in moves detection and an uninspired design.

Rebellion tried to distinguish the game by adding a horror atmosphere, but what emerges is only a very poor technical realization and frustrating gameplay. When the list of cons drastically overtakes the pros, it's clear we have a game to avoid: the Eidos shooter can rather be taken as a compendium of what not to do in a game.

Too many defects and bad design decisions hinder what could otherwise have been a funny game.

One of the worst games we'ever played, from every side you watch it. There's really nothing to save here.

Simply a really badly developed game, with a few good ideas nullified by a terrifying technical and artistic production, and a bug-ridden gameplay.

A good evolution in the series, managing to pull it out from the stall of the last years also thanks to the new fishing rod controller. We'd have liked an overall more simulative gameplay, where the right choice amongst the many baits and accessories available would have really made the difference in the outcome of a fishing session.

An innovative, pleasing and fresh product. If you're looking for something different and more "relaxing", you should give it a try.

A nice kart game for kids, with a lot of contents and solid gameplay. A good choice for every Ben 10 fan.

A game only suited for fans of Cartoon Networks' hero, that you'll have finished in about 4-5 hours.

Repetitive and dull, yet one more forgettable movie spin-off.

MotoGP 14 shows all Milestone's passion for racing, offering a greatly customizable physics model capable to suit every taste. It still lacks in the technical and animation departments, but it will undoubtedly entertain every racing bikes lover.

A psychological horror game much different from the ones we're used to, with a good story which puts us in a struggle against ourselves but not devoid of flaws.

The Walking Dead: Season Two surprises us with an exceptional main character, which manages to offer us a fresh point of view on the story, while the new Xbox One version smooths out many of the technical flaws of the old-gen one. A fascinating experience for every fan of Kirkman's comic.

A little gem full of brilliant puzzles, with a fascinating storytelling and a great soundtrack. It only slightly disappoints in the gameplay department, with somewhat imprecise controls that might become a problem in the most difficult and critical sections. Despite this, it's undoubtedly a game anyone should try.

A nice mix of racing and platform gaming with hints of TrackMania and Trials, Jet Car Stunts manages to entertain despite its very simple presentation. At its low price it's definitely worth a try.

A fascinating mix of point & click adventure and action-platform game, with a compelling and thought-provoking story and some brilliant puzzles. It only slips in a sometimes uncomfortable control system, but it's surely a recommended game for lovers of quality, sci-fi stories adventures.

While sporting an interesting turn based/real-time hybrid gameplay mechanic, the novelty effect wears off quite soon and Nova-111 finally reveals to be a too repetitive experience.