RFA is basically one great moment--destroying buildings with a powerful weapon--repeated for a whole game. [July 2011, p.58]

A strange animal, Darkspore doesn't seem to want you to like its characters-and won't let you make your own.

There's only one good co-op map and a few middling deathmatch ones. The price is obscene for what you get.

Vivid and tactically demanding, Assault Squad is a brilliant multiplayer game that's even better with friends. [June 2011, p.78]

Mytheon is just shy of being a really good venue for inexpensive adventuring. [June 2011, p.79]

Despite hitting most of the right notes, it's so short that it's barely memorable. [June 2011, p.77]

With its rockin' techno beats, ARES takes me back to the days of the classic NES Mega Man games. [June 2011, p.77]

Finding good matches is not easy in APOX's sluggish community, however, and I cannot fathom why anyone should play this instead of the exponentially better games that it tries to emulate. [June 2011, p.77]

It's simple fun, but if you or a family member are into Clone Wars, simple fun if probably what you're after. [June 2011, p.75]

With no online community, no single-player gameplay and no replayability, Crasher has already crashed. [June 2011, p.74]

Still, successfully saving all survivors from a zone and turning the tide in the war against the great zombie menace is rewarding enough to keep m,e playing. [Jun 2011, p.74]

This short ride's definitely a lemon. [June 2011, p.72]

As much as I love impaling skeleton warriors with the Stake Gun, if I'm paying for this experience I want something new. [June 2011, p.72]

A hybrid sim/arcade racer that challenges and entertains, despite controls that must be tweaked into submissions. [June 2011, p.68]

A challenging, hilarious, and mind-expanding puzzle experience for one or two-treasure your first time through.

Free-to-play limits player choice and hurts the game's longevity, but Champions remains a pretty, if passable MMO.

An exhilarating adventure teeming with unique things to see and do- and most importantly, people to stab.

An impressive accomplishment whose size and depth is a testament to wargaming's ability to bring history to life. [April 2011, p.76]

Tactics adds layers of depth, but the cost of booster packs quickly makes a mockery of the "free-to-play" label. [April 2011, p.77]

This version is fine for a single-player quiz, but it's no party. [April 2011, p.75]

The short campaign isn't as replayable as it should be, but Retribution's three bloody modes each offer great combat options. [April 2011, p.68]

Visually near-perfect, but the ample action is bottlenecked by narrower level design and a weaker Nanosuit.

Absolutely colossal, Rift aims high and hits its mark, proving that there's room to grow within the traditional MMO format.

Two new guns make it a bit too easy to fumigate entire rooms with a few quick blasts, and any hope for an exciting new challenge quickly melts away as I hobble towards the ambiguous, lackluster ending. [April 2011, p.79]

The promise of giving content to the battles never really comes together. [April 2011, p.79]

A handful of changes don't go far enough to differentiate East from West. [April 2011, p.77]

NightSky delivers a short but sweet physics puzzle experience. [April 2011, p.76]

Normally, I'd never suggest that a classic be tampered with, but in this case, it's a shame that Munch's Oddysee wasn't tweaked. [April 2011, p.73]