The problem is that the story mode is easily beaten in under five hours, and though it's short, it doesn't stay all that fresh. [July 2005, p.85]

Ty's biggest drawback is a lack of action. [Nov 2005, p.94]

It can be a fun game, but it's not exactly baseball. [Oct 2007, p.84]

Maybe Heatseeker would be more fun if we weren't already so darn spoiled by the Ace Combat series. [July 2007, p.84]

Too bad the mediocre voice acting does more to keep you away than to keep playing. [Nov. 2006, p.82]

It's rough around the edges, but it's still pretty fun overall. [Feb. 2007, p.84]

With an uniteresting cast and bland execution of a promising storyline, you'll never really get into the plot. [Feb 2005, p.76]

It's plenty challenging, but it lacks that "Tetris" feeling where you have to force yourself to turn it off. [Aug 2006, p.84]

The controls are pretty twitchy, regardless if you use the D-pad or the analog stick. [May 2005, p.80]

The mechs are a tad sluggish, targetting is tough with these controls, there's no story mode, and this is just too dense for all but serious mech-heads. [Dec 2005, p.116]

Ultimately, it's a short lived blast at best, overshadowed by the much better "War of the Monsters". [Jun 2006, p.84]

If you level up enough, later battles devolve into strategy-deprived power clashes that neither inspire nor require you to craft tactical attacks. [June 2005, p.75]

Picture a surfer being tossed into a vicious undertow--that uncontrollable motion is how fighting through Dawn of Mana feels. [June 2007, p.82]

Shoddy camera in amusement park mode, lots of cliched gameplay. [Dec 2005, p.101]

Radiata's core charm is hidden under too many layers of lightweight chatter and too little real substance. [Dec 2005, p.104]

So while nowhere near as sophisticated or well-produced as, say, a “Final Fantasy”, MS Saga does take a good 50-60 hours to churn through, and there’s a decent challenge hiding under its deceptively cutesy surface. [Mar 2006,p.85]

The PSP has no camera-maneuvering second analog stick, making the spy's portable debut a frustrating chore. [Jun 2006, p.85]

While it's fun to destroy everything from computers to cafeteria trays, the action gets old, fast. [Jan 2004, p.37]

If RedCard Soccer 20-03 leaned a little more to the "extreme" side, we probably would have enjoyed it more. [June 2002, p.40]

The gameplay, however, wears thin pretty fast. The regular enemies are mind-numbingly easy to beat, while most bosses are impenetrable (usually until you figure out which specific combo will crack it). [March 2005, p.72]

The gadget-filled action gameplay has been deflated into a fairly typical party game. [Holiday 2004, p.92]

It's still fun in bursts, but there's very little here that hasn't already been done on the PS2. [Jan. 2007, p.84]

Ultimately, Heritage of War is a solid game, but it does little to differentiate itself from the many other RPGs already on the market. [Dec 2007, p.89]

Most of us should just stick to iron fist tournaments and burning souls. [Holiday 2005, p.90]

Though the game looks and controls well, levels appear to be designed to kill the player in as many cheap ways as possible. [Dec 2004, p.78]

Too much coaching, not enough action. [Jan 2006, p.86]

It's also easy to die in the space of seconds, losing a half-hour's progress in one vein-throbbing instant. [Dec 2005, p.108]

A strictly average game that's license becomes its saving grace. [Oct 2003, p.40]