Just a step back and another nail in the coffin of the 2-D fighter.

Flaws aside, this is the best young girl targeted GBA game to come out in a long time. If I had a young daughter, I would very much rather buy her this Barbie game than any other children's game including That's So Raven, Disney Princess, or any Shrek game.

Sadly, Metal Slug Advance is the worst game in the franchise with the stupid health bar, insane difficulty, shoddy frame rate, unknown playable characters, lack of a co-op link mode, and merciless respawning enemies.

The slight improvements on defense and better looking character models just aren't enough to turn this game into a winner and one can't help but feel that more time should have been taken to develop the game.

As a game by itself, Metal Gear Acid is alright. But as a Metal Gear game of the series, I much rather prefer the intense action of a third person real time adventure game.

Gamers who like a little more structure in their FPS's, like Halo's mixture of skill with rock-paper-scissors combat based gameplay or Gears of War's stop-and-pop shooting mechanic, should definitely look else where.

Pales in the face of the competition. There is very little to unlock, XBox Live play is merely functional and lacks features, and there are very few extras.

Mad Tracks starts off fun, and each level will entertain through the first play through, but the replay grows flat sooner rather than later.

If you are looking for a single player experience, then you will want to look elsewhere. But even if you and three friends are looking at tackling this as your next co-op game, be warned that the slow pace of customization/level-up points requires a deep amount of dedication. Only the hardcore should apply; everyone else will probably be happier playing Castle Crashers.

After a couple of games in NBA Street V3, you may well be ready to hit the showers. Unless you're hardcore about basketball, it's hard to imagine that you'll feel much different.

Like other Zoo games, the music is appropriately rocking for the game content and the graphics are a bit choppy.

The Clique has a few bugs, but it plays just like a usual chick flick or high school romance movie—just not on the same echelon as my beloved Mean Girls. With the game’s shopping, dating and pure power-pinkness, The Clique has much potential to be a fun game for younger girls. Just beware of a possibly short replay value and play time.

When the rose petals fly across the screen after such a bloody intro, you know Tenchu: Fatal Shadows will be an extreme, if somewhat flawed, mixture of beauty and death.

Hammerin’ Hero is simplistic to a fault: short gameplay time, straight forward combat, and jobs that don’t really carry any type of variety.

High difficulty, poor construction, and annoying audio make this game a rental, at best, for all but the most hardcore of real-time strategy gamers.

In the end, a pared-down multi-player extravaganza does not a great single-player experience make. This game has a lot of good things going for it, but they exist in departments that ultimately don’t matter.

Rather than taking an average game and making it fun like it was intended, it took a decent game and turned it to crap.

A very boring game. There is not enough substance on each game board. Trying to take the pinball video game genre in a different direction is a noble step, but at the same time, you cannot remove things that define pinball games and make them fun.

Monkey Ball 3DS is not a terrible game; it is just very light on content.

All the basics are there, but the game needs a thorough ironing out because of the little flaws add up to one major let down.

In the end, his sassiness may save the day, but perhaps Blinx realizes that he, like the rest of us, is just along for this ridiculous ride. If Microsoft was looking for a system mascot to equal the likes of Crash, Mario, or Sonic, then they'll have to keep looking.

This particular version of [Unreal Tournament] seems more like a beta than a well-aged port.

Sniper Elite just doesn't have that much to offer your average gamer.

If you never played a Mega Man Battle Network game, play the GBA versions in numeric order to understand and to get the most out of the game. This is a game that probably could have been great if some design issues were worked out.

It is better than most movie-to-game translations but it still lacks significant polish. There are just too many annoying things in this game that can’t be ignored.

While Twonkies may be simple and easily figured out it is still offers a decent amount of fun to gamers.

However, if you're craving narrative depth, sound reasoning, and believable motivation to sit firmly behind your violent malevolence, you might want to hold off for something better.

Its average battle system and unimpressive graphics really doesn’t do much, and there isn’t anything to really appeal to the average gamer.