If the game really loved geeks, it would give them a more interesting puzzle game.

Battle for Europe will sap any enthusiasm that you have for the game from the very beginning and won’t do anything to generate any fun or excitement if for some reason you decide to stick with it. Look for your flight thrills elsewhere.

This political machine is in need of a little tune-up.

Hearthfire, though relatively inexpensive, isn't a DLC I can recommend for everyone. More casual Skyrim players (if those exist) may not enjoy the low-key vibe of this new content, and even the most civic-minded player might find the lack of real options in construction too limited to be much fun.

Horrendous AI and frustrating gameplay kills all the fun, and that’s no bull.

Devil's Cartel has a "been there, done that" attitude, and after playing it you will, too.

It can be fun at times for fans of the movie, but it is too inconsistent to recommend to the casual action gamer.

Fans of the Winter Games in search of a good game will have to wait a least another four years.

It's a bit odd and altogether not that interesting. Even though it's a budget title, you're better off waiting and saving your money for an RPG that you'll actually want to spend some time playing.

If you really love Rainbow Six, then rent the game because you'll blow through the game pretty quickly.

Rocket Bowl takes two relatively boring video game genres and creates an entirely new boring genre from them.

Take a Tom Clancy game, remove the realism, the freedom in pursuing your objectives, intelligent squad AI, and just about everything else that makes those games so much fun and you're left with nothing more than a mediocre shooter with a good storyline.

Rainbow Islands Revolutions is too simple and too short to be called either revolutionary or a classic.

Rise of Nightmares is a fun Kinect game for those looking for some blood.

While the puzzles aren’t bad, the rest of the game is. That leaves you with something that’s just not that much fun to play and that is downright frustrating far too often. Leave this one to the most obsessive of Da Vinci Code fans.

Valhalla Knights is almost a good action role playing game for the PSP. Almost.

The enemy AI is just as poor as the pathfinding AI. The enemy will send troops at you singly and in pairs allowing you to make short work of them. Even after you've spent half the mission killing off the enemy's solo suicide attacks it doesn't catch on and continues to waste its troops one by one.

Leave this one to that small population of the gaming public that likes to play their games while facing their fish tank.

There are some solid modes here but the graphics and gameplay don't support the experience enough for it to matter.

HD or no, Lair isn't a film to be watched, it's a game to be played. Therein lies the problem. Lair is nearly impossible to play.

I'll give the Stewie segments a 70, the Peter segments a 60, and the Brian stealth missions a 50. Averaged out the game would get a generous 60, but I'll give it a one point demerit for the lameness of the mini-games.

There’s not enough variety here to keep anyone but the most ardent Spider-Man fans going all the way to the end of the game.

In the end, Destroy All Humans: Big Willy Unleashed is a fun idea with poor implementation and some of the un-funniest moments ever captured in a videogame.

What can you say about yet another extreme dirt biking game? You can say they have now made one too many. Leave this one in the dust.

Star Trek D-A-C has barely anything to do with Star Trek and even worse has little to do with fun.

The volleyball is worse than in the first game. [Feb 2007, p.82]

Ecco is a game with great promise, but horrible controls and a very high difficulty level combine to make a wonderfully beautiful animal into a sadistic game.

Inversion has some nice shooter gameplay but when it comes to controlling gravity, it's little world is suddenly turned upside-down.

Shallow and repetitive gameplay pretty much destroys what would be a fun animal learning session.

A "Diablo II" golem – it looks like the original but lacks its heart and soul.

Operation Spy is strictly for the 007 crowd – the age 0 to 7 crowd, that is.

As amazing as having a lock-on option is, it just can't save Lord of Arcana from the depths of mediocrity. The "warp battles," lack of online play, a slightly boring grind system and some just plain weird design and control choices keep this one from being great.

In Great Invasions, The Dark Ages refer to the hours upon hours you’ll spend trying to make sense of things.

It's about time PC gamers got a good space trading game to play, but it looks like they'll need to keep waiting.

Only true diehard Transformers fans will be able to sit through this game, despite the fact that it’s pretty short. Everyone else will simply wish that it could transform into a better game.

There's no magic in this Harry Potter game.

If you like tons of bad words, lame stories, and repetitive gameplay revolving around guns and cars then try 187. Otherwise just go for a nice Sunday dive away from this game.

Operation Raccoon City is geared more toward online play. If you play this game single player, you are not likely to enjoy it as much.

Gangs of London features a lot of gameplay, it’s just that not very much of it is all that enjoyable.

What can I tell you except to stay away from Hazzard County at all costs.

I liked the basic idea behind the game, and I liked the artistic style and the way each planet of levels had its own look and feel. However, there is absolutely nothing fun about this game and I can't imagine anyone wanting to stick with it longer than the time it takes to download it in the first place.

Tower defense meets real-time strategy, with the winner to be determined a few hours from now.

Been there, done that, and it's been done a lot better.

Red Faction: Battlegrounds is only recommendable to those who already got it for free as a pre-order bonus, and it's not even that good of a deal for them.

As challenging as bumper bowling and as much fun as a 7-10 split.

Less a game than a geopolitical simulator of a bizarre, parallel Earth. Try not to hurt yourself while rushing out to the store to pick up your copy.

The evolved game is fun in small doses and more so in multiplayer, but the archaic classic mode is a game that should be left to rest in peace.

187 Ride or Die just doesn't have anything going for it. The gameplay is repetitive and uninspired, the campaign mode is tedious, and the multiplayer play is boring.

I can see the appeal lasting about as long as it takes the movie to be released on Blu-ray, but probably not much after that.

There’s a lot of potential for a great game here, though. Hopefully Superman will return again and this time bring more gameplay with him.

Here's what we're dealing with: Code Lyoko: Fall of X.A.N.A. is an obtuse, for-fans-only generic RPG with no defining characteristics.

Civil War Secret Missions is simply not recommendable. It can't be considered educational as it spreads more misinformation than it does factual information.

If building the Seven Wonders of the World was this easy, I wonder why there weren’t a lot more of them.

You’ll want to escape the Academy yourself after playing Ape Escape Academy for a little while.

Plain and simple, Duke Nukem Forever suffers from being passed around the development table for too long without any updates to its core.

The moral of this fairytale is to avoid playing this game.

Sometimes it takes a true fan of the subject matter to appreciate a mediocre game. This is not one of those times.

A unique storyline and bland, generic gameplay still make for a bland, generic game.

I can't recommend this game to anyone, unless someone out there actually enjoys fighting with the controller while blindly swimming the seas in a vain search for their next obscure objective. Best to string up this one by its tail.

There’s not enough gameplay and too much repetition in this high school game … perhaps in that way it’s too much like the real thing.

If you really love World War II naval combat and have a very high degree of patience, then maybe take a look at Destroyer Command.

For all the hype surrounding its real-world missions, when you get down to it you’re paying $10 a month for what is at best a budget title shooter.

And for being a “suspense” game, there are times when the music sounds like you’re on a carousal. Not good at all.

Exercise your brain by thinking of creative ways to avoid this game.

While it is a solid puzzle game it doesn't really do anything to excel or stand out in a cluttered genre.

The Empire Earth series may just end with this whimper of a game.

Risk Your Life: PotE can be entertaining and thrilling, but it’ll take some work to make it that way.

Two World has nice ideas and swings for the fences, I'll give it that. But lousy animation, funny (in a bad way) voice acting, and the lack of countless small touches ultimately fell this beast.

Stay away from this one.

The basic idea of Yoostar 2 seems perfect for the Kinect, but too many technical issues means this should be left of the cutting room floor.

Dragon’s Lair HD is not likely to appeal to anyone who is not already a lifelong aficionado of the game.

The game grows quickly tiresome, and doesn't go anywhere but down from there.

Voltron: Defender of the Universe is a downloadable game just about everyone should skip.

The game feels as if the designers only wanted to put enough effort into the game to make it adequate and passable.

This game is almost as ugly and unpolished as it's console counterparts. It just happens to be the lesser of the five or six evils.

The primary problem with the game is that your additional form and your primary weapon, the Sword of Light, draw power from your spiritual energy. This energy is fast to drain and very slow to regenerate, giving you just a few swings of your sword before you are left without the ability to attack.

Knights Contract is simply a solid adventure game with many flaws, an awkward charm, and often pure fun.

The PS2 version is the cheapest of the many versions of Mercenaries 2 but you really get what you pay for in this watered-down title.

A simple, yet enjoyable and somewhat addicting game best enjoyed in small doses.

Obviously, Naruto fans will love this, but so will side-scroller die-hards and those who love the old 2D, left-to-right with giant, colorful characters business.

The cost of Genkibowl VII isn't worth the quantity of gameplay you get for your money, and the quality of the gameplay isn't good enough to justify committing to a Season Pass at this point. I had a lot of fun with Saints Row: The Third, I expected more out of Professor Genki.

Nitrobike is very much a middle-of-the-road game. It does a few things right, a few things wrong and, most of all, it does nothing new.

Eragon for the Xbox is a good example of why reading can be better than gaming. Buy the book instead.

Instead of treading in familiar action territory, Castlevania Judgement introduces us to a fighting genre with Castlevania characters but the overall Castlevania feel and quality that the series usually displays suffers quite a bit with this change.

How could such a complex war inspire such a shallow game?

It's the poor man's "Diablo."

It be a poor portrayal of the pirate's life, says I.

Probably the biggest joke in Duke Nukem Forever is that the game was released as a top-tier title at a $60 price point. The game that was supposed to reboot the franchise has without a doubt rebooted it to a BSOD, and it will certainly take some time for the Duke legacy to recover from this fiasco.

The only thing astonishing about this game is how bland and generic it manages to be.

It’s a shame that the city shows no real personality, I would have hoped that a city in the year 2090 would have looked futuristic or something. This one could be any of the current major cities with nondescript skylines and very plain colors.

If you want a nice, normal text adventure on the DS, Hotel Dusk and Phoenix Wright are the way to go. Lux Pain is really only suitable for gamers who are flat-out tired of stuff that makes sense, plots that can be followed and games that can be honest-to-goodness enjoyed.

This is really different, this is kind of strange, this isn't all that much fun - no matter how you spruce it up, connect the dots is still connect the dots.

The "z" in Dogz is for the snores this game produces in its players.

Stay away from Infinite World at all costs.

Eragon continues the age old tradition of mediocrity in movie-licensed games.

Doesn’t have anywhere near the magic as the movie. Do yourself a favor and rent the movie instead of playing this inadequate title.

Sonic Adventure is still a great game like it was back in the late 90's when it was on Dreamcast, but nothing has changed at all with this Xbox LIVE port - all the flaws still remain.

It's all pretty repetitive and unexciting, and there's not really any motivation to keep running the same boring races over and over again on the same tracks. There are far better racers out there, even on the lowly GBA.

Subpar map design and control issues put the multiplayer game on shaky ground from the start, and these problems coupled with team-based objective play that just wasn't designed well and a completely dysfunctional partner system that forces you to buddy up with a randomly-assigned stranger make the multiplayer game a "one and done" experience for most gamers.

Unless you really, really love monster trucks, the game's poor execution will prevent it from keeping your interest for too long.

With many other much better racers available World Racing 2 should stay in the garage.

Who would have thought that purging a demonic school of evil by taking control of Death’s son would be so bland, tedious, and frustrating?

Use your $10 on a bargain game that you'll want to play after the first day you buy it, or put it in your piggy bank and save up for a real shooter.

Sonic Free Riders could have been a great game if the controls worked.

Just be patient and wait for Twisted Metal.

There’s no disguising the fact that this is a tedious and frustrating game.

An epic fail on the quest for fun.

You've really got to be a diehard fish lover to enjoy this game otherwise it will bore you to tears.

Shells of Tedium would be a more appropriate title.

If you really want to learn more about the battles of Rome and to try your hand at recreating them, you're far, far better off simply renting a History Channel Special and picking up a copy of Rome: Total War.

It’s a novel enough concept in a setting that has produced many enjoyable shooters, but it just doesn’t deliver much excitement. Even if you stick with the game through its relatively short campaign, there’s no real motivation to play through it a second time.

Control issues aside, the gameplay itself is not all that much fun. If perhaps things were faster and more chaotic, as they are in Warlords, it would fare better, but as it is it's more tedious than fun.

The quarter crunching classic that has basically remained the same throughout the years finally changes just a Wii bit, but still not enough to draw in any new fans.

If you have kids around that you can pass the game on to, take a chance on it. Otherwise, PK will leave most gamers feeling like not-so-super heroes.

The idea is great, the execution poor. We can only hope that this is not the only treatment of the subject we'll see in computer gaming.

If you are looking to waste time you might try playing Crime Stories, or you could try something else, like watching the grass grow. Whatever your choice, just remember you are still wasting your time.

Nostalgia aside, Alien Force is really a pretty awful game, and certainly not one worth paying full price for.

This is a game that's best targeted to those who can't get enough of Ugly Americans and have three other friends who feel the same way. Otherwise there are plenty of twin-stick shooters available on XBLA that are a lot better games than this.

Brilliant sniping mechanic; too bad you're spending most of your time fending off the poor game design in the sea of nauseating textures.

Avoid this game like the plague.

Long load times and limited magazines feel more like a cheap way to pad the game's length than to capture an historic feel, especially when these weapons are far more accurate at a far greater range in the game than their real-world counterparts ever were.

There are just far too many better options out there when it comes to strategy games, so why bother with a poorly designed one that is in the end an exercise in frustration?

C.O.R.E. is simply not worth your time or money. There are far better shooters out there, even on the DS.

In my younger years, a kid who lived up the street, let's call him "Bad Pete," had a bright idea involving some frozen Gobstopper candies and his paintball gun. The giant purple welts that followed were far, FAR more painful than playing this game, but not by much.

Toss this one into the storm cellar and lock the door

Why bother wasting your money on this incomplete, ill-conceived, and poorly designed mess when the developers couldn’t be bothered to release a playable game?

This game is essentially a bargain bin Xbox game and it is insulting to see it with a regular Xbox 360 game price tag.

I know there is a contingent of Trekkies out there that will buy anything with Star Trek emblazoned on it, and that's fine; buy it, put it on your display shelf and never, ever play it. That's what I did with DragonBall Z for Kinect!

This is one game from the past that's best left forgotten.

Charging unsuspecting people money for this game - now that's naughty.

G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra The Video Game is just plain awful. Whatever you do, though, don't let me stop you from seeing the movie. You'll love it.

The graphics are about on par with everything else in the game. The resolution is locked at 800x600, and even if you ignore the blockiness of the graphics the small levels are bland and uninteresting and the cutscenes smack of stock-footage amateurism.

There's no real reason to recommend Hellboy: Science of Evil. Hellboy fans will be disappointed, action gamers will be frustrated, and no one we'll be happy that they bought this game.

If you want more Iron Man 2 this summer, you're better off just seeing the movie twice.

25 to Life just doesn't have anything going for it that warrants a look at the game unless you're gangsta obsessed or bored out of your mind after playing every other available Xbox game out there. Save yourself the frustration and spend your gaming dollars elsewhere.

The only thing legendary about this game is the mess it makes of the Bond franchise.

While this might seem to be a mall rat's dream, Mall Tycoon falls short of the mark as either a business simulation or a shopping center builder.

Emergency Mayhem throws some wacky tasks our way as we race to reduce mayhem but really reducing panic has never felt so repetitive.

The game selection in each is pretty thin at five games, and to top it off none of them are particularly entertaining. Odds are that you’ll just play through them all a couple of times and be done with it. The lack of any kind of detailed feedback or progress tracking means there’s little motivation to keep playing beyond that.

A monotonous and unimaginative fighter that can only possibly appeal to the most die-hard of Dragon Ball Z fans.

Journey to the Center of the Earth is long on frustration and short on fun. Not even the film's most diehard fans should torture themselves with this one.

Ultimately awful. If this is Ultimate Beach Soccer, then I don't even want to see Mediocre Beach Soccer or Awful Beach Soccer.

Betty Boop is better off in the unemployment line than she is working this double shift.

Doctor Who fans will get a lot out of the story and excellent voice acting and motion capture, but only gamers with a high tolerance for frustration will find the fun buried in this one.

The game selection in each is pretty thin at five games, and to top it off none of them are particularly entertaining. Odds are that you’ll just play through them all a couple of times and be done with it. The lack of any kind of detailed feedback or progress tracking means there’s little motivation to keep playing beyond that.

You're better off saving your money and playing some of the million or so free Flash games that can be found on the internet.

Chicken Hunter's collection of quick mini games is easily forgettable for the most part... not even the lovable chickens will have you coming back often.

Bob Saget himself is a great guy, but his game is inexcusably awful.

There's no reason to recommend this game to anyone. It's short, but feels longer than it is because it's so frustrating and poorly designed. The graphics are poor, the 3D effects rudimentary, and the controls are terrible. Other than that it's fine.

The nonexistent tutorial, clunky interface, rough and bland graphics, and quirky AI are all hallmarks of a game released too early... more an exercise in frustration and bewilderment than a game.

Avoid Vampire Rain like a vampire would avoid sharing a garlic burger with a priest on Miami Beach at noon.

Seven Kingdoms: Conquest is indistinguishable from any other bad strategy game you've played over the past ten years.

Legend of the Dragon is a quick thrown together cash-in on the TV series. The combat is easily forgettable as is everything else really. Stay clear of it as much as possible, even a rental is not worth it.

The game does a just fine job of porting the original, but unless you already love the game you’re not going to be enamored with its rudimentary play and graphics.

The biggest bomb in B-17: Fortress in the Sky is the game itself.

It looks and sounds good enough, but an annoying and punishing difficulty level - right off the bat - kills any genuine fun most people could have would a game like this.

You're better off just buying an ATHF DVD if you want to watch episodes at home. At least they don't come with a game.

We've got some new rules for Fight Club. Rule Number One: Do not play Fight Club. Rule Number Two: Tell all of your friends about Fight Club.

Lucha Fury could be a decent brawler, but the fun in its gameplay is brought down greatly by its bad controls.

Air Conflict isn't worth the money even if you're paid to play it.

'Torrente' may just be a new Spanish word for ‘terrible’.

We've got some new rules for Fight Club. Rule Number One: Do not play Fight Club. Rule Number Two: Tell all of your friends about Fight Club.

If Jackass the show were as bland as Jackass the game it would have been cancelled after one episode.

Those two words, wasted opportunity, are Soldiers of Misfortune's M.O. Everything about the game felt like a rush job, a an oversight related to developers who maybe just didn't care enough.

Dead Space Ignition is not worth the purchase unless you want to get the unlockable content for Dead Space 2, but if you want the unlocks then you may as well just pre-order Dead Space 2 and get Ignition for free. Play the game long enough to secure your unlockables and then go play something else.

If this is an ultra adventurous experience, I shudder to think what average mundane minigolf is like.

Overall, M&Ms Adventure comes across as another generic platformer that we know all too well.

It’s hard to recommend this game to anyone, even fans of the movie. You get six easy puzzles and six frustrating puzzles for your money, with no incentive to play through the game a second time. You’re better off simply watching the movie again to get your penguin fix.

Chicken Blaster takes a player through eight stages of shooting nothing but chickens and it's about as fun as it sounds.

Unless you want your party to be a slumber party, let Vegas Party stay in Vegas.

Overall, most people will skip Popstar Guitar without a second thought, but until junior's hands grow to the size needed for a real guitar controller, this is a somewhat adequate solution.

The real test of intelligence here is whether or not you are smart enough to avoid this game.

Unfortunately The Asskickers doesn't kick much ass.

While not the most ground breaking stealth title, Vampire Rain is worth a try for a stealth fan, even with its flaws.

It's going to take even more M&Ms candy to keep you awake while playing this title when compared to the Wii version.

It might be a budget title, but that's not an excuse to release such a mess of a game. What price would you place on spending your leisure time in a confused state of frustration?

Godzilla Unleashed: Double Smash for the Nintendo DS is a disgrace and literally no one should buy or even think about this game.

The game is so bad it actually makes me angry.

Thundercats looks bad, it plays bad and it drags a fantastic cartoon reboot's name through the mud.

A bad day for L.A., an even worse day for gamers.

If you are a huge DBZ fan, wait for this one's price to drop before getting it; if you aren't stay far, far away from this one.

Chicken Shoot doesn’t have anything going for it that would make it remotely recommendable to anyone. Avoid it like you would a chicken carrying SARS.

The Incredible Maze's name is only half right – it's a maze but it's hardly incredible.

Follow this general rule - if a game appears on a Nintendo system and you've never heard of it, or the company that produced it, steer clear.

Even the most die-hard fans of the series will quickly become disappointed and bored to tears soon thereafter. Very little effort was put into the game’s design or implementation, so you shouldn't put any effort into buying it.

Buying this game will turn your neck red with anger when you realize that you've just thrown your money away.

The big truck has inspired a rather simple and decidedly small game.

There are plenty of problems and no redeeming qualities in Call for Heroes, and it simply is not worth your time and money.

Everything about this game is poor - control, AI, graphics, missions - just about any game aspect you can think of, Stalin vs. Martians butchers it. This one is best left to fans of Stalin or of the planet Mars ... just kidding.

Well, ladies and gentlemen we have a new winner, or loser as the case may be. Legends of Wrestling II is the worst game I have ever played.

Anyone who did not play the original game in the arcades is sure to be dumbfounded by its status as a classic.

Angels? Angels from hell sent to torture poor gamers perhaps...

You'll get more face time with a Hooters Girl if you go down to your local Hooters for lunch.

It plays just like the classic plastic toy, except that you'll get bored with it even faster.

Save yourself the trouble and just say "No Deal".

With a few unlockable characters to its name that you can get in about two hours of play there is little to really keep you entertained here. Even a rental is too good for this.