There's fun to be had in WWE '12, but with each iteration of the franchise, it feels like bigger changes are needed for the series to stay relevant. [Dec 2011, p.81]

If you crave innovation and have the patience to deal with Cookie & Cream's shortcomings, the title offers a creative, charming, and mostly satisfying adventure. [July 2007, p.93]

"Quotation Forthcoming"

Fans wil enjoy the customized in-fight dialogue between the characters. [Nov 2005, p.108]

That it does what it does with such colorful flair and tight pacing is the pleasant surprise that makes htis entertaining piece of fluff rise above the licensed-character hop-and-battle scrap heap. [Jan 2006, p.111]

It's easy to achieve proficiency in the game, and so difficult to fail, you may find that your skill and your interest in the game plateau quickly. [Dec. 2006, p.106]

Pokemon Battle Revolution has its ups and downs, but it makes for a decent way to get more out of Diamond and Pearl. [Aug 2007, p.85]

The racing itself is arcadey fun--though it can get annoyingly repetitive, especially when you spend a long time trying to evade the cops. [Holiday 2008, p.87]

Though it's not quite "Resident Evil" for the E10+ set, THQ's movie-based Monster House does provide a few good scares in the man-eating manor of its title. [Sep 2006, p.85]

It does mark a departure, adding light RPG elements to the isometric-adventure style seen on the GBA. [Dec 2005, p.112]

The premise is obnoxious, but COA is surprisingly addictive. [Dec 2005, p.118]

Even if you make no mistakes and keep all your customers happy, you're still likely to fail. [July 2007, p.94]

As promising as this Lost-meets-Animal Crossing premise sounds, however, the game as a whole becomes a bit tedious. [Feb 2008, p.87]

The problem is that the game feels phoned in, from the tacked-on motion controls to the scan tutorial system that assumed you've already played every other Harvest Moon game. [Oct 2008, p.90]

Cars is a decent racer, but ultimately, it is too fast and too rigid for its own good. {Aug 2006, p.86]

Obviously, Academy of Champions: Soccer is not a game for hardcore footie fans, but those looking for a pick-up-and-play soccer game should give it a try. [Dec 2009, p.86]

It's too bad, though, that the game feels like it would have worked better as a side mode than as a full game (think Devil Within from Tekken 5). [Holiday 2007, p.86]

Contact is, in a word, frustrating. [Nov. 2006, p.92]

If you're a die-hard fan of the great American pastime and don't own any other consoles, this is still a decent game of baseball. [Apr 2008, p.88]

It all functions adequately and adds welcome variety, but it feels like a novelty compared to the tried-and-true dance mat (which you can still use, thankfully). [Dec 2009, p.84]

Bigger doesn't necessarily mean better. [jan. 2007, p.106]

A fairly fun, fast-paced, and satisfying take on the cooking genre. [Jan/Feb 2012, p.85]

More options would have been nice, however, and it's a shame that legit classic Karnov isn't included. [Mar 2010, p.91]

If anything, Flushed Away suffers from being too ambitious, but there are many worse crimes a game can commit. [Dec. 2006, p.113]

Super Robot Taisen has enough gameplay to keep strategy-starved gamers occupied for even the longest summer road trip. [Sep 2006, p.83]

We're crossing our fingers that the next Batman title lets us play the comic book hero like we really want to. [Aug 2005, p.80]

A pretty shameless knockoff of Namco Bandai's Katamari Damacy series, conceptually speaking, but as far as knockoffs go, this one isn't bad. [Nov 2009, p.88]

It's not terribly different from the relatively recent FIFA 10. [May 2010, p.85]