From the way the game renders an entire world that you can explore from one end to the next without a single loading screen, to animation that literally trounces anything ever seen in any videogame, to game design that keeps things interesting despite being what some would call “just a fetch quest,” this is a perfect example of the next generation in videogames.

Let me put it another way: this game has four racing levels. Four. With a couple of tries, you can beat the game in under an hour. I’m not kidding. An hour.

It's literally almost perfect.

If you can live with drop dead gorgeous tracks and great physics, you'll find a lot to love in Splashdown.

The best flight game ever made.

More than good, really, more situated in the whole “amazing/incredibly addictive/cleverly balanced” extreme.

It's blatantly obvious that the guys at Neversoft know exactly what they're doing.

This game is the absolute personification of what free-roaming means. You can do damn near anything you want, and more often than not you'll be rewarded for it. Sounds fun, doesn't it?

The environments, the bosses, the combat, everything gels and meshes so perfectly, there isn't an action gamer out there that could call their library complete without this game. Not one.

If you are a helicopter sim fan and like games that are frustratingly difficult then pick up this game. Otherwise, either stay away or at your own discretion rent it because there are way better games out there.

As far as sound effects go, they are some of the best ever found in a videogame.

I can't find a single gripe with the game. The control is absolutely perfect (wait till you feel the transition from road to water, it's awesome), the sound is great, the interface is clean and gorgeous.

It's an instant classic that will become a benchmark for originality, fun and old fashioned substance over style.

I don't want to beat a dead horse here; just avoid Arctic Thunder, and maybe Midway's next port won't fare so badly.

It’s not a masterpiece, but Z-Axis’ BMX combo-fest is a blast and a half.

Until we see what "WipEout Fusion" can offer, it’s the best futuristic racing game available on the PS2.

A masterpiece.

Motor Mayhem isn’t a bad game, but it’s hampered by a combination of small, annoying slights that keep it from being the game it could be.

A game that on every level, takes the previous conventions of an arcade basketball game and obliterates them, throwing innovation into places that didn’t seem like they needed it.

The difference is that TMB just does it all better. Level design, graphics, weapons, vehicles, players… they’re all pulled off to such a perfect degree that it almost seems like the other games didn’t even exist.

What it does well, however is mixes them into a delicious stew of action, RPG and strategy elements that end up tasting better than if they were eaten by themselves.

With TXR Zero, gamers not only get a PlayStation 2 version of the game, but they get the best one, hands down.

One of the best first-person-shooters of the summer, if not ever for the PlayStation 2.

The graphics are not jaw dropping, but as is the case with most strategy games, this really doesn't matter. In the end, it's the quality of the gameplay that counts.

Incredibly solid, full of humor, and packed with enough variety in gameplay to keep you coming back for a long while, it made it worth sitting through 50 games mired in crappy control or graphics.

Amazingly fun!

Quite possibly the prettiest game I’ve ever seen...But presentation isn’t really the problem here. It’s the gameplay.

Suffers from a very bland, mediocre play structure.