There’s just too much of a time commitment, too repetitive and slow advancement to recommend the game to anyone other than those who really, really want to be a part of a game that supports a clan war system.

Perhaps the Commandos series should stick to strategy gaming.

I suppose that if you have strong nostalgic feel for Speedball then the game may hold a certain appeal to you, but be forewarned that Speedball 2 - Tournament may tarnish some of your cherished memories of the game.

How much you enjoy Buu’s Fury will depend entirely on how much you enjoy Dragon Ball Z. Although too easy a game, it is still an enjoyable RPG through the DBZ storyline for big fans.

Still, if you're looking for a solid adventure game with some interesting story ideas, this is the right place to be.

A game that relies so heavily on precise timing of jumps needs to provide the player with tight, responsive controls, something Dragon's Lair 3D fails to do.

You won’t need to escape Paradise City if you don’t bother going there in the first place.

Any good feelings generated during the game's opening and initial sequence were quickly squashed by the game's numbing tedium... Looks great, no filling.

Lords of EverQuest has too many problems to be enjoyed by anyone except EverQuest fanatics taking a break from roleplaying.

Much too thin of a manual and buggy play keep Age of Sail from reaching its otherwise promising potential.

Tube Slider's biggest flaw of all, though, is that it just isn't all that much fun. After your first play session with the game you'll have too strong of a "been there, done that" feeling to want to spend much more time with it.

NASCAR 2011 is a racing game about a real sport that has all the tracks and best racers and allows you to play realistically or play more like an arcade racing game.

Mad Tracks is pretty short on gameplay, which is probably a good thing since the gameplay that is there isn’t very exciting.

El Tigre does little to resemble the television series that it is taken from and the gameplay found therein is very repetitive.

A skewed, funny, and at times hilarious look at the campus mating game. Unfortunately, just like the mating game it's not without its frustrating moments.

In the end, Balls of Fury is just another movie game that pushes the envelope of how bad things can get when someone says, "We need a movie tie-in game for our crappy film!" Seriously, Balls of Fury is a terrible movie with a terrible licensed game attached to it.

Angry Birds has nothing to fear from these squirrels.

If you really, really must play a MMORPG space sim, then you should give VO a trial run as it does deliver the very basics. Otherwise, it is hard to recommend that you spend your MMORPG time and money on this one.

Best left to diehard fans of the movie or comic. There are better superhero brawlers out there for everyone else.

An epic story turned into an average platform game.

Terrible control issues and seemingly endless jumping puzzles.

Best enjoyed as a party game when you can gather a few friends together. The lack of depth, repetitive nature, and missing online feature of the game hamper its long-term appeal.

The cooking game concept is off the wall enough to have the potential to be a fun party game, but Cooking Mama is not challenging or deep enough to pull it off. Instead it gives you too much repetition and frustration, kind of like getting stuck eating meatloaf every night.

It is a bit more accessible to casual gamers who may want to give the game a look if they find that the realism of other games makes playing them too difficult or involved.

The scaled-down version of the Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter console games is a fun little shooter in its own right.

The hacking and slashing game is enjoyable enough over short stretches, but you'll inevitably wish that there was more to the game than that.

I'll summarize this way: If you're a Harry Potter geek then this is a must have. If you're just a gaming geek then you may want to pass.

What if this game did throw in a standard, nondescript career mode? Would it be worth the price then? What if everything was unlocked to start and it was the same low price? What if it had the career mode, all the unlockables, all the stuff you could get online, all the features ready to go, and even more game modes, all for the same low price? Well then we may be talking about a game that you would be crazy to pass up. Unfortunately that's not the game we have here.

Ninety-Nine Nights looks fantastic, but it’s not much more than a pretty face.

It appears that the developers spent all of their time in creating the city and traffic, and the AI and gameplay took a back seat.

Really, though, at $5.99, I can ignore the game's problems and enjoy it for what it is: a unique idea with some fun "bullet hell" action and a heavy dose of Japanese flair. It isn't the prettiest or the longest game, but I had fun with Acceleration of Suguri: X Edition.

If you love the show, then you'll probably enjoy the game. Other gamers will probably find it too simple and too short.

If you live in a place where it is impossible to get either the EA or Sega football games, then you might want to check out GameBreaker. Then again, I would make a road trip instead.

Pick it up if Mafia II was your favorite game of 2010, otherwise save your game time and Microsoft Points for something more compelling and enjoyable.

Hunted's flaws, I imagine, won't be forgivable by a good number of the folks who choose to check it out. For those that can look past the warts, though, a truly fun game exists below the surface here. Dungeon crawling is fun, right? Gears of War's cover-based shooting is the cat's pajamas, correct? Right, and Hunted: The Demon's Forge is the diamond in the rough game of the season.

Control issues deep six this double-o seven.

If stacked wants to play with the big boys, it needs to bring more to the table.

An homage to "Diablo II" that fails to capture any of the magic that made that game so much fun.

Sometimes simplistic gameplay can make for a really fun game. This is not one of those times.

Straight-forward, no nonsense trivia best left to the most diehard of fans of European soccer.

Match-three gameplay with bonus powers that add a fun twist to the game.

If there had been a better variety of enemies and missions and if the story really fleshed out and brought to life a Goldfinger/No power struggle, we could have had the makings of a classic.

You're better off just taking your kids out back and tossing around a real football.

A game that did not need to be made. Check out "X-Men Legends" instead. You'll thank me later.

Ferrari Racing Legends is more of a game for the true hardcore fan of Ferrari cars rather than a player looking for a good driving simulator.

This one's best left to diehard fans that can't bear to let anything Ratchet & Clank pass them by. Everyone else should let it go quietly away into the dark.

It can have its moments, but a lack of action and exciting mini-games can make Muppet Party Cruise drag on like a bad party.

Arkanoid DS is a great game for portable play. It's simple enough to lend itself to playing in short sessions while on the go, but challenging enough to bring you back for more play.

Just right for little girls, but not for anyone else.

The bottom line is that this game is amateurish and not that much fun to play. For the same price, or less if you shop around, you can go out and buy "Freelancer."

Much like the PS2 version, this is still a good collection content-wise, but the PSP version greatly amplifies every flaw that the PS2 version has.

Even though the racing can be enjoyable, MX vs. ATV Untamed suffers from a decided lack of variety.

The lack of emotional weight makes Omega just another pointless series of hallways chockful of mildly challenging cannon fodder.

Pacific Storm: Allies tries to incorporate so many features from war and strategy games that it collapses under the weight of it all, crushing all fun out of the game.

The sequel to Obscure comes at us with some plausible scary environments and atmosphere but it is really not that much better than the first game.

Puzzle fans will enjoy Luxor but its lack of variety limits its appeal to other gamers.

The series is heading towards a good thing but this one just doesn't have it down enough.

JAM Live Music Arcade works better as a toy for jammers than an arcade game.

Mind Over Mutant doesn't mutate the standard platform game experience to stand out from the crowd.

Pinball purists might not get the level of simulation they require and smaller kids may find some of the tables' tasks a little difficult, but otherwise Adventure Pinball is a fun diversion for most players.

Too much repetition, too many problems, not enough fun.

Too simple and repetitive to recommend to anyone but a diehard Star Wars fan.

Overall, Zoo Tycoon 2's greatest appeal will be to younger gamers or tycoon game fans who don't mind exchanging complexity for the ability to play a tycoon game on the road.

This game is essentially a watered down racer that is easily replaced by any other racing game.

The entire game consists of one mode - looking at a bored-looking robot and imitating its moves - and that mode isn't really any fun.

Monster House looks good and sounds good, and combined with THQ's attention to the film, the game has atmosphere in spades. That's the real selling point of the title.

It won't make anyone want to quit World of Warcraft, but it can be enjoyable enough if you'd like to try out a pirate's life for free.

The game has a lot of good ideas, but falls a little flat in the execution. Strategy gamers looking for something a little different or those with an interest in the period should give the game a look, but will need to approach it with a bit of patience.

Overall ProStroke Golf is like an afternoon spent at an old muni course. You can have some fun with it but overall it’s bland and functional.

Releasing this game in its current state – now that’s a true crime.

It may have been a good idea to combine a cute platform game with pinball, but the result will frustrate as much as entertain its target audience.

Magna Cum Laude does get a slight recommendation based on its grade school level humor, but just prepare yourself for a lot of load screens and repetitive mini-games.

Even with its flaws, Spider-Man: Friend or Foe is a rather fun brawler that can be enjoyable for a while. It can be beaten in about two days, so one rental will easily give enough time to plow through this game and complete everything it has to offer.

It can be enjoyable enough in short doses, but you may not find yourself motivated to stick with the game until the end, especially when you factor in the inevitable frustrations caused by the game's mission design.

Microbot is hard to recommend even to those who live for shmups and twin-stick shooters. It's an also-ran, a game that had the potential to be something special but in the end is just a really good-looking but thoroughly frustrating and mediocre game.

Nostalgia alone is all there is to drive this lackluster game port, and it's not enough.

If Uno and Skip-Bo solitaire with a touch of Tetris thrown in sounds like your kind of thing, then you’re sure to enjoy this game.

So the story is pretty run-of-the-mill. The same can be said for just about all of this game.

There's nothing really more to the game other than an occasional comic book style still between levels. Unless you're the most diehard of Kong fan, there's not much that's going to hold your interest past your first session with the game.

Frantix will make you more frantic about the controls than the gameplay.

No Mass Effect 3 player should be without this DLC.

The quality of the graphics look as if they are dated by at least a few years. If we were able to see crisp characters, it might add something to the game.

In spite of its issues The Godfather: Mob Wars can be an enjoyable game although it would certainly benefit from better integration between the story and mob war modes.

On its own there is not enough in the game to make it compelling and the gameplay is just too lackluster to sustain interest.

God Mode is great mindless entertainment, until you start paying attention and are left wanting more...

Gauntlet fans will be disappointed and the game won’t win any new converts to Gauntlet fandom.

Overall Splatterhouse is a great buy if you're in the mood for an action game.

Combat is key in any good RPG and in Dragon Song the combat is very plain and in at least one area very bad.

If you're looking for a challenge or an in-depth game covering the Roman Empire, you might want to look elsewhere.

The problem is that using the Ring is not critical to success in the game - you can complete it easily enough without ever using the Ring.

As the matches drag on, you can't help but to use repetitive moves and you don't have enough control over things to be able to regularly generate positive reactions.

A great game ... just not on the GameCube.

Hydrophobia is a pretty good technical demo wrapped in an incomplete and unpolished game.

Eragon will appeal more to those with dreams of dragon riding than those simply looking for a good action game.

The disappointing business simulation and the drone-like guests make it difficult for the game to hold your interest for too long.

In the AI department, Dark Planet is consistently inconsistent.

The general lack of interesting and fun gameplay makes this a hard sell.

Super Monkey Ball: Step & Roll won't keep your interest for very long, but it may make you dizzy

NASCAR 08 is not a bad game, but you'll probably feel like it has potential to be a lot more.

Wanted Corp. isn't a bad title, just one that follows a million others like it and one that makes a design choice that doesn't quite fit. It can't quite make it to the heights some other recent dual-stick games have, but for $10, you could do a hell of a lot worse.

Locomotion hits on all cylinders as a transportation business simulator. If you are not stuck on the other areas of city simulation, you are sure to be satisfied.

Adequate but lackluster.

If you’ve ever wanted to be a part of a collegiate sex comedy, now’s your chance. Just bring along your patience for the repetitive mini games and numerous load screens.

The fun in Dogfight 1942 never really takes flight.

The main reason to play NBA 08: The Life v3 is not to play a basketball game but to get involved with The Life. If you're wanting a good "basketball" game there are better options.

Fist of the North Star: Ken's Rage is a really good example of what games based of an anime/manga should play like.

Mortal Kombat Arcade Kollection doesn't score any flawless victories since it gets hit many times along the way with its flaws.

The real crisis here is the lack of enjoyable gameplay.

On Ippo's road to glory he stumbles upon a few pebbles, but overall his path to the top is a good one!

For an "untamed" game, MX vs. ATV Untamed just isn't all that interesting or fun to play.

A Van Halen track pack that's missing everything that made Guitar Hero Metallica a great band-focused Guitar Hero game

Downhill Jam is not a bad game per se, it’s just that there’s not enough in here to make up for everything that’s been taken out of the normal Tony Hawk game.

Soltrio Solitaire can only really be recommended to those who really enjoy the card game and simply have to play it on their Xbox 360. For everyone else there’s just not enough here that’s different or exciting enough to warrant buying and downloading the game.

Alpha Prime does a great job of being average.

Friend or Foe’s single player is anything but a good time. You’ll be mashing buttons, setting up some cool looking but otherwise unimpressive combos and rolling your eyes through some of the most obvious boss fights since the NES days.

There are certainly worse budget titles out there, but if you tire of a game after less than an hour of play how much of a bargain is it?

It's enjoyable for a quest or two, but then it feels like an exercise in mindless repetition.

If for no other reason, Black Sigil is worth a look if you were a huge 16-bit RPG fan and spend as much time reminiscing about the gameplay over graphics simpler times as I do.

It's an interesting novelty of a game that is best enjoyed occasionally at parties rather than as a Guitar Hero alternative.

Doesn’t make it past the first round of the playoffs. If you want a real champion head over to Sega or EA.

Backbreaker is trying to break into a genre that is dominated by a 2,000 pound gorilla and for that alone I applaud them. However they need to do some serious enhancements, maybe even illegal ones, in order to be taken seriously.

Anyone who has played this type of game before will be instantly bored, and even newcomers will quickly look elsewhere to fill their gaming guts. I'd tell you to go outside and play, but seriously, it's just too hot.

A great game at its core that lost a little in translation from the home console version of the game.

While this game may have some good points, namely character customization on part with the pen and paper game and solid turn based gameplay, it staggers for life almost everywhere else.

At its core, Front mission Evolved is a run-of-the-mill action shooter that wastes the opportunities its got in giant robot combat. The game only occasionally frustrates, but never really wows the player, either.

There is nothing technically wrong with the game; it is just bland, generic and quite simply uninteresting.

The Game may resemble the TV show but with its variety of bland mini games it's not near as much fun as watching the real thing.

Hard core flight sim veterans will find its simplified flight model and weak campaign to be disappointing.

Puzzles in the absence of a plot can be a relaxing distraction to some, and a painful chore for others. Consider me one of the others. I found myself extremely bored playing this game.

Too simple and shallow for baseball fans, too many gameplay issues for arcade sports fans - Inside Pitch 2003 is destined to be a benchwarmer.

Defenders of Ardania is a good try at combining a couple of genres but it's a bit slow and confusing.

Fortix is recommendable to anyone who enjoys a good arcade-style challenge, even if you've never heard of Qix.

While it is leaps and bounds better than I thought it would be, Jackass: The Game is only a solid rental.

Take a pass on this lackluster studio tour.

A multitude of flaws takes the enjoyment out of fighting off multitudes of enemies.

Owning pet aliens is not as exciting or interesting as it sounds.

My dual sympathies go out to gamers who find themselves playing this short and dull game.

It is formulaic, simple and not too lengthy, but it does the job for its target audience and there are hundreds of kid's games out there that are much, much worse.

Eliminate the tedium, ratchet up the tension, and get rid of the annoying quirks and bugs and you may have yourself a good little strategy game here.

Fishing Master is more akin to Pokemon than it is to a simulation of fishing, and will probably appeal the most to the "gotta catch them all" crowd.

Splinter Cell Essentials would more be appropriately entitled “Splinter Cell Frustrations”.

Just not that interesting of a game.

Diplomacy is best left to fans of the board game looking for a little nostalgic fun. Those who enjoy juggling multiple competing proposals while under the clock are also encouraged to apply.

The ENTIRE single player experience can be viewed as such: Enter room, clear room of enemies, enter next room, clear enemies, enter... You get the picture. Boss battles do help to break up the monotony, but like I said before, they are crazy easy, oft repeated and often just plain stupid.

A poor single-player campaign and quirky interface issues make the game frustrating to all but the hardcore death match crowd.

This game is more torture than anything Dr. No or Goldfinger ever dreamed up.

Romancing SaGa has areas that may prove to be interesting in the future, but the lack of a story and uninteresting characters prove too much to overcome.

It just seems to consistently fall short in the action, puzzle, and suspense categories.

Overall, The Lost Admiral Returns doesn’t have enough going for it to hook a new generation of strategy gamers. While there are strategy games that can stand the test of time, The Lost Admiral Returns is not one of them. This fleet could use a modernization overhaul.

The gameplay and adult content both fail to deliver, leaving the game thoroughly Mirra'd in mediocrity.

Again, it's not a terrible game; it is, however, one of the biggest letdowns of 2011.

Datura demonstrates that the surreal can be just as frustrating as the real world.

Rather than feel like you're in constant danger in the lair of the enemy, you'll feel more like you're whiling away the hours on a Saturday afternoon playing with the odds and ends lying around on your garage tool bench.

Frontline: Fields of Thunder turns all out tank warfare into a tedious puzzle.

The card battling system never gives the player the feeling of being in control. Instead, most battles feel completely random and no amount of card handling skill can deal with a terrible hand when fighting some of the more powerful opponents.

About what you'd expect from a budget shooter, maybe less.

There's so little to the game that it's hard to imagine it holding anyone's interest for long.

Do yourself a favor and check out my review for Naruto – Clash of the Ninja Revolution here on this site. I promise; it is at least 1,000,000 times better than this disgrace of a video game.

Rampage Total Destruction is far from being totally fun.

The Art of Supremacy is best left to the most ardent of Empire Earth II fans.

All of these touches are implemented adequately enough, but they just can't make up for the broken gameplay.

Boogie is the type of game that would make a good rental for an evening when you’re entertaining some guests who aren’t gamers.

The 2D grainy characters and low-color, static, and minimalist backgrounds may have been acceptable in an arcade 10 years ago or on a Sega Genesis, but do you really want to see graphics like these on your Xbox?

Unfortunately, the game just didn't gel into one piece of entertainment; instead, it felt like a bunch of unfinished pieces of other games, smooshed together and sent to stores without much oversight in the quality department.

Genesis Rising is pretty, innovative, and a complete mess.

Currently, the game is a labor of love - it takes a lot of patience, but can be rewarding and very enjoyable. If promised features are added soon, this could be a good game.

It would be nice if there were more to this game, or if a little more thought had been put into the clues and words.

Rocketmen is one of those games that could have been pretty interesting, but just doesn't live up to its potential.

While maybe not quite a “Nightmare”, Druaga may at least make your sleep an uncomfortable one. I would pass this one by for a host of much better alternatives.

Poor, unresponsive control and linear level design prevent this game from being enjoyable by anyone other than big fans of the animated series.

The game’s annoyances would perhaps be tolerable if the gameplay itself was challenging and interesting. Unfortunately this is not the case. The AI takes a straightforward, brute force approach to its play and it always seems to overreact to your actions.

The Wii's control scheme and wider audience could lead to some fantastic games in the future, and I'm just fine with labeling Legendary Warriors a speed bump on a road to potentially great things. But, viewed as a single game, Legendary Warriors might keep a few kids busy for an afternoon, but most won't even get a rental's worth out of it.

If you’re on a Shrek high after seeing the movie, by all means go ahead and rent this game. Before your rental is due back you’ll probably have had your fill with it.

There's some addicting gameplay to be found in Squad Command, particularly for Warhammer 40,000 fans, but you've got to be willing to put up with the game's flaws and annoyances.

It does a good job of keeping in the spirit of the film's storybook setting, and its quality graphics won't disappoint. However, platform players will find it too short and will be disappointed in the lack of puzzles and overall challenge in the game's levels.

In the vernacular of the time, D-Day is just plain FUBAR.

It doesn't cut it as a tactical sim or an action shooter, leaving you with a strictly mediocre title.

The Blue Blur and his friends come together for another racing game and the result plays out rather well and brings along new gravity moves available to each character but Zero Gravity is not without its problems.

Spawn is indeed from hell and will make you suffer through a purgatory of repetitive gameplay.

In Besieger, a different approach to RTS strategy is defeated by poor execution and dismal AI.

More frustrating than it is fun.

The biggest problem with Gyruss is that there's just not a lot too it. Once you've played it for a little bit you've seen it all, and the only motivation to keep playing is to squeeze a few more thousand points out of it to add to your high score.

Sonic Riders: Zero Gravity is a racer that comes up just short of being respectable.

The game doesn't feel rewarding enough, and that's a shame since interest in the Beijing Olympics was very high.

Michael Jackson: The Experience is fun but just knowing how much more could have been done ultimately is disappointing.

Borrows from the Hollywood movies "The Running Man" and "Bloodsport" and then blends them with the characteristics of a traditional first person shooter. The result is a bit like most Hollywood movies, fair to good at best.

Inversion isn't terrible - its main obstacle is how many other games on the market handle this stuff much, much better.

Carnivores just plain falls short in its execution and its repetitive nature makes it difficult to hold the player's interest for long.

There really isn’t anything that separates it from other Spyro games. Actually in a lot of ways the PS1 games are much more enjoyable and original.

EA Replay is strictly for the nostalgic.

This game just does not provide anything new or provide much of a challenge. Perhaps it might be appropriate for someone new to gaming, but most gamers will grow quickly bored by it.

While the multiplayer modes offer something worth playing, Contract JACK ultimate disappoints with below-average gameplay unworthy of the series.

If you are a new Wii U owner, make sure you play New Super Mario Bros. U, Skylanders: Giants or any of the other big name games hitting this holiday season. But once those have come and gone, keep your eyes open and trained on the bargain bin. If you see Transformers Prime: The Video Game in there, it's one afternoon of fun might just be worth it as you wait for the next big release.

There’s no customization in the game and the business model is extremely light. What the game really comes down to is keeping pretty girls happy so that you can keep watching them in their bikinis, and Hot Dog King manages to make this a pretty boring exercise.

Shrek the Third is best left to diehard Shrek fans or 360 gamers looking to pad their Gamer Scores.

A great idea wrapped up in a very mediocre game.

If you found the first game to be very challenging, this expansion has the potential to frustrate you to no end. It also lacks the elements that made the first game suspenseful and packed with atmosphere.

To be honest, I really, REALLY wanted to like Monster Madness. But annoying voice over, lazy cutscenes with static pictures, bad hit detection and worse attacking issues, I just can't recommend this one.

At best, Haze is a solid, but flawed game that most people would enjoy to the fullest during a rental, rather than an all out sixty-dollar purchase.

And make no mistake – this is an impressive game from a lot of standpoints. It may have suffered a bit from the lack of hype leading up to its release and some not bad, but not exactly great gunplay, but C.O.P. is one of those games that people will still find themselves gushing about years from now.

Ultimate Tenkaichi may be the best looking DBZ game to hit our shores, it doesn't have the gameplay to back it up.

It is not a strategy game, but a poorly designed puzzle game. The puzzles are poorly explained and the solutions obscure and not really logical. The only challenge in the game is avoiding frustration-induced madness. This is just not my idea of fun.

Tries to deliver a varied and immersive gaming experience, but just doesn't deliver.

A pretty short game and the gameplay that you do get isn’t very good. Spend your game playing time elsewhere unless you’re truly desperate for more Achievement points.

The changes did not go far enough and the result is a game that is still a notch below the top players.

The lack of any control over the game's timescale is a serious drawback. Otherwise the game does have it's own, albeit quirky, charm.

Mega Man: Star Force 2 offers a new form of RPG gameplay for the series but it doesn't stack up as well as other Mega Man games

Like the One Ring, Conquest is beautiful to behold and highly tempting, but it comes with some big hidden flaws.