While the GameCube version doesn't quite live up to the integrity of the Xbox game, it's impressive nevertheless. [May 2002, p.58]

The game needs either unlimited boost or longer time limits. Either one would have boosted its playability considerably. [Feb 2002, p.55]

The finest 3D medieval action-adventure game to grace any console. [Feb 2002, p.48]

Owners of both systems would be advised to pick up the Xbox version just for the subtle enhancements to the gameplay. [Mar 2002, p.49]

A game of precision. It's all about early braking and apex kissing, which is great, but not for those looking for obvious thrills. [Feb 2002, p.54]

Repetition aside – and there's lots of it – this is like those Neo Geo games of old where it's so beautiful you just deal with it to see the next level. [Apr 2002, p.62]

A solid, 20-level romp that should be treated as a quasi-sequel to "Doom." [April 2002, p.67]

It's at once intuitive and deep, a bit exaggerated yet deceptively extensive in execution. [Mar 2002, p.47]

A minor masterpiece. [Feb 2002, p.57]

A perfectly executed real-time strategy title, complete with an easy-to-master control set (a must for the limited button capabilities of the GBA) and a plot to match. [Feb 2002, p.68]

A nice alternative to "Gradius." [Feb 2002, p.66]

Things also tend to get a bit redundant, with the later levels feeling like larger or more populated versions of earlier missions. [Mar 2002, p.50]

A level of detail never before seen...This is the gold standard for adventure horror. [Apr 2002, p.62]

Chief among its problems is an unconvincing graphical presentation. [Feb 2002, p.61]

Most of the voice acting is competent, but Tidus has such a whiny, wildly misplaced voice that nearly all his scenes become a drag. [Feb 2002, p.50]

Its transition from SNES to the comfort of the handheld is flawed in execution. [March 2002, p.62]

Using [the controls] correctly along with the right gas and breaking, the game has a groove all its own, along with killer visuals to match. [Feb 2002, p.58]

There are so many classic Nintendo cues in Super Smash Bros. Melee, I almost cried. [Feb 2002, p.57]

A superb game. [Feb 2002, p.59]

Brilliant...Indeed, it's the kind of game that you find yourself playing in your head as you fall asleep at night, counting Pikmin, as it were. [Feb 2002, p.56]

Graphics and sound it has, but fun is in short supply. [April 2002, p.66]

This one has nailed the visuals from the show down to the last retro lamp post, and sports some nifty between-level snapshot cinemas. [Feb 2002, p.67]

A racing experience that’d blow Kojak’s hair back. [Feb 2002, p.58]

There just isn’t anything about this game that excites the way a jet-ski racer should. [Feb 2002, p.62]

This must be where Martha Stewart’s evil siblings reside. [Feb 2002, p.62]

It’s also home to some of the most pathetic voice acting I’ve ever heard. [Feb 2002, p.59]

This is the best F1 game you can get. [Feb 2002, p.60]

The graphics, though slick, lack the sort of interest I expected and are actually quite bland. [Feb 2002, p.62]

The main problem (of the many) is the terrain, which is rolled out before you like carpeting – a flat texture rolled over smooth humps and hills. [Feb 2002, p.61]

Unless you stay within the given path, you're guaranteed to lose every race. [Feb 2002, p.66]

If you can look past the smelly parts, Shrek is worth farting around with. [Feb 2002, p.59]

Even if just for eye-candy purposes, Cel Damage is plenty amusing. [Feb 2002, p.60]

This game smokes from start to much-too-abrupt ending. [Feb 2002, p.60]

As for Naya, well, I’m not wild about those bangs, but she does have nice moguls. [Feb 2002, p.59]

The framerate clicks in at a slow 30-fps, the controls are shifty, and the graphics are ordinary. [Feb 2002, p.61]

Half-Life has matured with style. [Feb 2002, p.61]

A hand-drawn RPG incorporating exquisite detail and a blazing new look to battle sequences, it's the best thing to happen to portable role playing perhaps ever. [Feb 2002, p.65]

A medium challenge with an all-too-easy ending. [Feb 2002, p.62]

Tricky derives as much replay power from its personality as it does its graphics and gameplay. [Feb 2002, p.62]

Its overall story...is simply impossible to resist and the dungeon design is marvelous. [Feb 2002, p.60]

The game's engine, which seemed a marvel when the PS2 launched, still comes off as exceptional. [Feb 2002, p.61]

Perhaps a sequel with a cleaner look and feel? [Feb 2002, p.61]

Freedom is the name of this game, featuring a downtown playscape so massively intricate that players can literally do whatever they want, whenever they want. [Feb 2002, p.58]

I’d have enjoyed movie tie-ins as well, like Michael Ironside barking out the mission briefings. [Feb 2002, p.62]

The game has visuals and personality to burn. [Feb 2002, p.66]

How they came up with a theme park run by a maniacal gear head hosting a tournament emceed by a pair of chickens I do not know [Nov p.87]

A great PS game, along the lines of "Driver," only more, shall we say, international. [June 2002, p.63]