Great for players who have absolutely no desire to experience what real poker is like. [Dec 2005, p.132]

The series captures the claustrophobic feel of pack racing beautifully, and that's no small feat. [Oct 2005, p.106]

If you have always intended to buy a collection of classic arcade games, then this is as comprehensive as you're going to get. [Nov 2005, p.93]

More than a knockoff, less than original. [Oct 2005, p.102]

Nice touches like graphics and gameplay elements ultimately don't disguise this fighter's lack of depth. [Oct 2005, p.107]

Generic racing game wrapped inside a cheesy candy shell. With guns. [Nov 2005, p.118]

A nice break from a day spent watching wood-chopping sports on ESPN 2. [Nov 2005, p.118]

Simply smashing... Hulk is easily one of the best superhero games, mainly because it feels like Radical took the subject seriously, rather than treating the game just like another licensed title. [Sept 2005, p.88]

Old brawler mechanics, GTA elements don't mix in particularly well. [Oct 2005, p.107]

A good dose of classic fun that translates well to portabilitiy. [Oct 2005, p.108]

Darkwatch doesn't amount to much more than your run-of-the mill first-person shooter. [Sept 2005, p.91]

The best thing about Play 2 is the fact that almost all 12 games are actually collections of three or more games. [Sept 2005, p.90]

A monotonous shooter with a crippled camera and a crush on "Psychonauts." [Sept 2005, p.93]

The other big addition offers a nice contrast to the traditional franchise mode, which returns as fully featured and deep as ever. In NFL superstar mode, instead of focusing on the fortunes of one team, you follow the career of a character you create (or import from "NFL Street 2" or "NCAA Football 06"). [Sept 2005]

For me, the simple combat takes a backseat to turning everything I love into a videogame character. [June 2005, p.95]

There always seems to be a slight disconnect between the controls and the onscreen action, making it difficult to really get your timing down. [Oct 2005, p.106]

What Makai Kingdom lacks in visceral appeal it more than makes up for in complexity and nuance. It's fun in a brain-taxing kind of way, but in the end a bit too cold and piecemeal to love. Though it may be fun and challenging, it never quite hangs together as a compelling whole.

The biggest problem is that it all just gets kind of boring, which is rather criminal for a game that's about heated, bloody battles. [Aug 2005, p.83]

The expanded table and wacky ideas are great, but it's the novel stuff that wears thin first. [Aug 2005, p.83]

There just isn't enough here to hold your attention. [Aug 2005, p.83]

This new Fullmetal Alchemist is an improvement over the first game, but an incremental one.

A great game, but most of the new features don't really feel like they're all that new. [Aug 2005, p.82]

Allowing your kid to play this game is considered child abuse in 29 states. [Oct 2005, p.102]

Ultimately, it's the style and absurdity that make Killer7 bearable. You're almost willing to deal with terrible loading times, poor puzzles, and weak shooting mechanics just to see what kind of madness will happen next. [Aug 2005, p.88]

Shallow combat meets nonexistente level design in a battle for FPS mediocrity. [Aug 2005, p.89]

You know the drill with anime games: They're typically a bit half-assed, and with Gundam vs. Zeta Gundam too much effort was spent on fanboy frills and not enough was spent under the hood. It's a fun ride, but this series is showing its age.

While multiplayer is a nice feature, its novelty wears thin quickly since part of the fun is being in a hectic firefight with several enemies and not just a couple of people.

While at times a throwback to the last generation of RPGs, it's surprisingly full-featured and charming; fans of the item crafting in "Star Ocean" will be in heaven. [July 2005, p.75]