Designed for kids, the well presented Pet Alien provides a gentle puzzle-based experience that should appeal to a wider audience than just those who enjoy the TV show.

Offering no discernible improvement over its lacklustre predecessor and paling in comparison to more accomplished DS football titles, PES 2008 is best relegated to bench-warming duty.

Impressive handling and a decent package of race events completely undermined by technical issues and clumsy execution.

A poorly tuned, unpolished wreck of a racer, Split/Second ruins a great idea with substandard execution.

For all its silliness, Soccer Slammers is just too random to be really engaging.

Filled with flaws, underwhelming action and lack of staying power, Assassin's Creed composes a chronicle of mediocrity.

A broken version of one of the finest electro-rollerblade games ever made, Jet Set Radio is a disappointing coda to a gloriously multi-coloured legacy.

Super Yum Yum Puzzle Adventures demonstrates it's harder than it looks to bring good mobile puzzle games to portable consoles.

A platformer with a few decent ideas, HEAVY-sword is let down by clumsy controls and a stark reliance on nostalgia.

A merely adequate approximation of any number of iOS arena blasters, Call of Mini Zombies 2 lacks that crucial vibrancy and flow needed in such an oversubscribed genre.

Give it Up! is a super-frustrating rhythm game. Some of that frustration is intentional, but unfortunately some of it isn't.

Being a castaway is an interesting premise, but too much of Lost in Blue 2 is repetitive, dull and fundamentally frustrating to be fun.

Cars 2 features some surprisingly unique stealth sections, but is let down by the awful controls and terrible racing action.

Limited in both scope and ambition, something that even sticking half the movie in at the start of missions doesn't mask.

Looks good, but over-complicated controls and needlessly lengthy bouts mar Rocky Balboa, making it a real test of stamina and patience.

A-Men 2 is enjoyable in moderation, but the trial and error gameplay soon makes for a rather frustrating experience.

Super Smash Bros in all but name, this basic fighter just doesn't do enough with its fighting engine or character-rich licence.

A poor man's God of War that makes no apology for its fast and furious fighting gameplay. The perfect, blood-soaked introduction to the PSP Minis platform.

Feed-The-Duck is a fine but shallow puzzler that could use some depth in its gameplay.

The decision to withhold consumable items as optional extras makes it feel like you've only bought half the game and ensures that Drawin' Growin' is more of an ordeal than entertainment.

Even if you leave to one side its overtly aggressive freemium pricing scheme, Plants War is still an unpleasant and bland slog.

Guardian Cross presents itself like a strategic card battler mixed with a classic JRPG, but it lacks any of the depth necessary to pull such a thing off.

Killing evil robots with a snowboard has never felt so routine. Krashlander's physics puzzling is challenging, but it needs work in other areas.

A well-put-together endless-runner, Miner Problem is as generic as they come.

Demonrock: War of Ages is a decent casual strategy game that lacks the necessary tactical variation and overall polish to keep you returning to the battlefield.

A disappointingly limited lane-defence game that offers little of the strategic depth fans of the source material would be hoping for, and nothing outstandingly fresh for the rest.

Fans of classic point-and-click adventures will feel right at home here, but anyone else might find The Long Reach a little flat.

Mario Party: Island Tour will provide you and a bunch of mates with a great evening of laughs, but most of the time you'll be laughing AT it rather than with it.