A hard mode makes things a bit more fun, but it becomes available only after you play through the game once. [Sept 2011, p.82]

Even hard mode doesn't offer much of a challenge. [Sept 2009, p.90]

The alternate name for falling-piece puzzler Trioncube could be My First Tetris. [Mar. 2007, p.89]

An impressive feat, yet still a genre better represented elsewhere. [June 2009, p.90]

Movie footage is so embedded that it feels like you're not even playing a gmae half the time. [Jan 2006, p.115]

The original Frogger arcade game is a sweet multiplayer bonus. [Nov 2005, p.118]

You spend more time keeping a grip on the handheld than dealing with the game's challenges. [Jan 2009, p.90]

And that's the thing--Pet Zombies is an amusing idea. Monotonous gameplay, however, is not. [Oct 2011, p.86]

With its third installment in three years, the Raving Rabbids series is quickly growing stale. [Holiday 2008, p.86]

The real shame of it all is that Captain America: Super Soldier does many things right. [Aug 2011, p.88]

It may seem like a bit of a stretch to make a full-blown DS title about finding the differences between two nearly identical drawings. And it is. [Apr 2007, p.87]

It's a good choice for punchy party fans. [Nov. 2006, p.87]

It's as if the level designers didn't play the game, or at least not enough to realize that the game's mushy response to your button presses doesn't support the level of difficulty at which the jumping and fighting challenges are set. [Dec. 2006, p.113]

A great curiosity for a day, but it's not a place you'd want to stay. [Jan 2006, p.114]

But for the most part, the gameplay emphasizes Monster House's biggest flaw: repetition. Rooms and enemies seem nearly identical from one to the next, so there's very little incentive to progress.

For now, we're left with another disappointing entry in a once-great franchise. [Nov. 2006, p.90]

Somehow, this barrel of monkeys isn't nearly as much fun as its predecessors. [Mar 2010, p.90]

The control problems weigh too heavily for the game to be much fun. [Aug 2005, p.84]

Reeking of a quick-and-dirty Wii port, the game is hampered by clumsy controls, bland level design, muddy visuals, and ultrasimplistic AI. [Dec 2009, p.89]

This simply isn't a nice-looking game. [Jan/Feb 2012, p.85]

The developers have accomplished a rare feat in producing a game that is legitimately thought-provoking, original, and visually distinctive. Too bad they couldn't find a way to make it fun. [Apr 2010, p.88]

Wait for Punch-Out!! if you're hankering for some fisticuffs. [May 2009, p.89]

Everything is a struggle in Lost in Blue 3. [Apr 2008, p.90]

But for the most part, it's a coookie-cutter kart game, and after 25-plus years of entertaining us, Pac-Man deserves more. [Oct. 2006, p.92]

Unfortunately this newly christened Nintendo 3DS version of the game falls well short of the original. [May 2011, p.88]

The gameplay made me really want to like this game, and I can't stress that enough. Unfortunately, everything else just falls flat. [May 2011, p.89]

The overall game makes a lackluster effort at capturing the spirit of the film. [Aug 2005, p.85]

When you take on lousy controls that require you to alternate constantly between the Control Pad and buttons and the touch screen, it's clear that The Sims 2 Pets needs a serious check-up. [Jan. 2007, p.116]