If you just forget the missions and go around beating thugs senseless, you can have hours of fun.

A unique twist on the point-and-click adventure, chock full of puzzle goodness and a compelling storyline that pushes you to the end.

It leaves out what I, and many others, find annoying about the RTS genre - the base building. It lets you focus simply on the fighting and taking control of strategic points of the map...The best strategy game I've played in the past few years.

One area I found very disappointing was the commentators. You will very quickly get tired of the unoriginal and repetitious comments they make. It also didn’t seem to have any real connection to what was going on in the game at times.

A great idea gone horribly wrong. Unless you’re a masochist, then the cut scenes are about as entertained as you’re bound to be while playing.

A great idea gone horribly wrong. Unless you're a masochist, then the cut scenes are about as entertained as you're bound to be while playing.

All of my best laid hopes were crushed, sliced, bludgeoned, and lit on fire to slowly simmer in the painful gamer's hell that I underwent during my 18-20 hour quest through the majority of Knight's Apprentice.

The lack of a quick save or manual save takes a great deal of enjoyment out of the game.

The game is fast paced and keeps you on the edge of your seat. Unlike many games, you don't have to sneak through 80 percent of the game if you don't want to.

The game is fast paced and keeps you on the edge of your seat. Unlike many games, you don't have to sneak through 80 percent of the game if you don't want to.

Gameplay is fairly solid and the creature design alone is enough to make the game worth playing., but staunch fans of the survival horror genre might find the game lacking a bit in the horror department. The endings were all unsatisfying and ultimately detract from the story.

First time through, play times will vary from twenty to thirty hours, and the overall package is impressive: But at what cost?

My biggest gripe would have to be with the lack of any record of your mini game times. This alone would serve to at least add a few more hours onto the gameplay, and that would be a large improvement over the 5 or 6 hours this game will last you.

While you may enjoy this game for a bit, the lack of any incentive to play the mini games more than a couple times will really hamper your ability to enjoy this game beyond your first time through.

The game deserves high marks for graphics, but as just about everyone knows...great graphics alone do not a great game make.

From start to finish, it brings the player into the story and doesn't let go. Tremendous visuals, sound work and engrossing gameplay is just a short list of what this game brings to the table.

It's a good game, and worthy enough to carry the Thief mantle, but it's also a perfect example of a game that is brought down by several minor flaws and a game engine which is, at times, very hard to get on with.

What really makes Van Helsing stand out is that it’s frantic and destructive.

With a nice story and hours of strategy to create, you can not go wrong with this game. I found myself wanting to see the next part of the story even though I knew 3 hours of sleep was not going to get me through the day.

I was absolutely floored that this game didn’t come Live enabled. The ability to showdown across the internet alone deserved the attention, but the multiplayer game they did include could have definitely added some value to the title if it could be played remotely.

A good game overall that manages to nail its target audience well but doesn’t provide much to anyone else other than a few hours of distraction from another game.

I really like the lack of “Sandwich Gameplay"...where you hit auto-attack and have time to get up and make a sandwich while your character kills stuff. In City of Heroes, you don’t have an auto-attack like you do in, say, "Everquest."

This game hits the nail right on the head. The first release was near perfection, and the expansion only makes it better. The biggest hurdle to overcome with Thrones and Patriots is the fact it is like a can of Pringles. Once you start playing, you just can’t stop.

Not mindless fun, but rather fun with a slight level of intelligence. If you enjoy games with a lot of action, a decent story, and massive amounts of monsters, you should definitely pick up Onimusha 3.

Playing with headphones, and in complete darkness, this game is like playing a movie, except you star in it. Warning, it gave me a nightmare the first night I played, maybe you too.

I did enjoy the game itself, but I got tired of going back to find that one monster that would trigger the next area. The cutscenes are great, though I did find the storyline a bit weak. Then again, this isnt an rpg. It's a fps!!

While the story is small and does follow a pretty straight path, it adds a lot to the game. You will find yourself playing just to see the next storyboard and actually getting into the idea of becoming rich and famous.

While the story is small and does follow a pretty straight path, it adds a lot to the game. You will find yourself playing just to see the next storyboard and actually getting into the idea of becoming rich and famous.