The fighting system itself is has a few interesting features, but almost everything else about the game will either frustrate or annoy. The camera, the enemy A.I., almost every aspect of the graphics, the sound effects and the required mini-games are all decidedly sub-par

Aside from the World Series of Poker name and Lon's voice, this game has nothing to do with poker's ultimate event and even fails to compete with poker products of comparable or lesser price. Nuts!

But it's worthless, and Eidos knows it. The game design is so transparent, the goal behind the game is so obvious, the lack of any morsel of fun is so far from the car and tracks and the playing of it…it's just exasperating. This is pure bargain bin trash.

If you're able to survive the first batcable swinging level with any hair left in your head and are then able to experience the first combat level of the game for yourself, then you will truly understand the pain involved in playing this game.

Very simple, very raw, very ugly, and ultimately not a lot of fun. It's a shameless attempt to quickly cash-in on a new market -- nothing more.

The game isn't fun, it doesn't require any form of strategy beyond knowing how to complete the objective, the production values are awful, and you spend the majority of it mindlessly pushing the same button repeatedly as you try not to fall asleep.

This is a kid's game. It's also a bad kid's game. And there's really no getting around that.

There's essentially no reason to pick up World Series of Poker. Scratch that, there IS no reason to pick up World Series of Poker.

Whatever the reason for its terrible quality, it's not a game that should played by anyone of any age.

A prime example of failed execution in almost every respect. It controls poorly, the levels are boring, and the trap/barrier concept is never very well explored.

Its ugliness assaults your senses right from the start.

More time is spent fighting with the controls than against the enemies in this confusing pile of robots bashing each other to pieces.

The laughable A.I., boring level design, pedestrian graphics, and tattered story make this a game that should be avoided by young and old alike.

A bad kart racer in every sense of the word. The track design is poor, the game feels slow and, worst of all, the controls are terrible.

The unique theme is about the only thing that separates this from so many other games already on the system. But like so many other titles of its kind, it's really just a few simple mini-games thrown together in a lackluster package.

PBR: Out of the Chute is the kind of game that only hardcore rodeo fans could get into, and even they would likely be bored with the gameplay within an hour or so of picking up their controller.

The main draw of the Hotel for Dogs film was all the cute and funny dogs doing wacky things like getting shoes out of vending machines. The game has none of that cuteness, save for a couple clips from the film itself. Instead you get a title that is barely a game at all.

The laughable A.I., boring level design, pedestrian graphics, and tattered story make this a game that should be avoided by young and old alike.

It's just so shallow and lacking any kind of noticeable depth.

We're guessing the developers fell headfirst off their snowboards one too many times before cooking this one up because concept included, through and through Evolution Snowboarding is a craptacular game to behold.

To use a popular term reserved for the most successful of vacuum cleaners... it sucked.

Mix in the monotony of the core gameplay, and you get a game that's impossible to recommend, no matter how bad you want to hook some bass.

With only 21 songs to choose from, this is pretty limited. The rest of the game is repetitive and boring and will only last about half an hour.

Not the worst first-person shooter out there by a long shot, but it dives pretty low.

The designers have simply reproduced challenges from the show virtually ensuring that anyone who might have the least interest in this game won't be surprised by any part of it. The only monster is this garage is a flagrant disregard for fun.

It's a slow-paced shooter with shoddy AI, dated graphics and a frustrating design. Even though it's good for a few irreverent laughs, it's not worth paying for, even in the bargain bin.

The single player is boring, arrestingly conventional and entirely forgettable. The multiplayer is slightly better, though mostly because of its options and not because of its gameplay.

There's essentially no reason to pick up World Series of Poker. Scratch that, there is no reason to pick up World Series of Poker. Regardless of the fact that it's a portable version of Hold 'em, Omaha and whatnot, it's still not worth snagging.

I'd still love to see a game that actually dealt with the complex issues oil companies have faced in the last 100 years, but Big Oil definitely isn't it.

Although the gameplay isn't quite broken since it's still physically possible to participate in races, it just isn't fun.

Although the gameplay isn't quite broken since it's still physically possible to participate in races, it just isn't fun.

Even as a budget game, Baja 1000 is a poor attempt at virtual off-road racing. The vehicles aren’t satisfying to drive, the overall presentation is poor and everything looks and feels slapped together. If you’re looking for just the barest of bare-bones racers, Baja 1000 certainly fits that description.

The vehicles aren’t satisfying to drive, the overall presentation is poor and everything looks and feels slapped together. If you’re looking for just the barest of bare-bones racers, Baja 1000 certainly fits that description. But if you’re at all discerning about your driving games, steer way clear of this one.

The vehicles aren’t satisfying to drive, the overall presentation is poor and everything looks and feels slapped together. If you’re looking for just the barest of bare-bones racers, Baja 1000 certainly fits that description. But if you’re at all discerning about your driving games, steer way clear of this one.

There's absolutely nothing new offered here, and what is offered has been done better many times before. At best boring and at worst unplayable, the included 28 mini-games fail to inspire player enjoyment of any sort.

In all honesty, Block Party is not a good game, but I did have fun playing it. I’ll admit; the first time I saw a small child hurdling through the air after being launched out of a giant sling shot had me in stitches.

It's a poorly executed side-scrolling beat-'em up with sloppy controls, sluggish character movement, and far too little variety.

Makes a good gag gift or gag rental, if there is such a thing.

Despite the fact that Industry Giant still retains some distinguishing characteristics, the quality of the title has not improved, even in re-release, since its first production.

This game is pure crap, plain and simple.

This is a game worth avoiding like the plague, even if the classic remains deep and warm within your heart.

This is a game worth avoiding like the plague, even if the classic remains deep and warm within your heart.

Crossfire simply fails to do the one thing it has to do, and that's to entertain. It takes archaic forms of gameplay and tries to update them for the next-generation but fails in almost every respect.

The wave of Wii shovelware has officially begun.

Take Ubisoft's advice: "imagining" yourself as a rock star will be a lot more fun than attempting to stumble through this mess. This game is insulting to its target audience, includes some of the shallowest gameplay I've encountered, and will be painful to your ears.

World Championship Cards is boring, poorly put together and, at times, annoying. If this had poker, I'd make a joke about folding. But, it doesn't.

World Championship Cards is boring, poorly put together and, at times, annoying. If this had poker, I'd make a joke about folding. But, it doesn't.

Crash has had one bumpy ride on the Nintendo DS, and I had high hopes that last year's Crash of the Titans would lead to bigger and better things for the character. But Vivendi/Activision seriously dropped the ball on this one.

The only redeeming quality I could point out regarding Make the Grade is that it, at the very least, functions properly and doesn't seem to crash. That's about it.

Big breasts can go a long way to brightening up any day, but with gameplay this dim, even these headlights can't light up this game.

It isn't really a game to begin with. It's like scratching off a shiny, curvaceous lottery ticket. When the payoff for doing so isn't real money, there isn't any reason to bother with it.

Remember the 1997 live-action George of the Jungle movie starring Brendan Fraser? You're better off digging it out of the bargain DVD bin than trying to play this game.

Nearly every gamplay mechanic fails in one way or another. While the game is functional, Alone in the Dark is a clear case of something that needed to be baked in the oven longer. The overall concept is solid, but the testing phase seems to have been glossed over.

Wonderworld Amusement Park has no personality; no soul. There's nothing on offer here that other Wii mini-game collections haven't already beaten to death. What's worse, many of these games are frustrating or have unresponsive controls.

Its messy controls and unsatisfying challenges aren't going to appeal to anyone, especially with products like Cooking Mama and WarioWare Touched! also available for the Nintendo DS that offer much more interesting and entertaining minigames.

An all around mess of a game, Mike Tyson Heavyweight Boxing is officially one of (if not THE) worst examples of digital boxing we've ever seen.

You're given all of the headaches of a bad fishing trip but without the beer.

The single player is boring, arrestingly conventional and entirely forgettable. The multiplayer is slightly better, though mostly because of its options and not because of its gameplay.

It's ugly, clunky, and it'll go nicely sitting right next to "Lowrider."

To be honest, this game has the staying power of a snowflake in hell. The single player is bad, and the multi-player is worse. Forget it.

Pretty as it can be, Real Pool 2 is bland at what it does, and even manages to not do much. Older efforts are far preferable.

Demon World is an easy contender for what is quite possibly the most horrid interface I've yet to see in an RTS. Not only is it unresponsive, backwards, and twitchy, but nothing is clearly defined.

The player control is awful, the AI is completely laughable and the play-by-play and commentary work is completely substandard stuff.

For the love of God, buy "SSX Tricky." Shaun Palmer has a strong graphics engine and solid control, but if IGN gave out a "Fun Factor" score, this sucker would get a big, fat goose egg. Zero.

Terrible. Probably the only good thing to come out of the whole experience is the game's opening song. Just imagine a driving 80s, generic pop anthem with cheesy power chords and lyrics about how war is love and love is war.

If you're looking for a slow moving game with sub-par graphics, poor gameplay, and horrible controls, then Mistmare is the game for you.

The game is simply not fun. There is too much of a clash between real time and turn-based strategy that translates into a magnitude of frustration.

A poor game, with all of the markings of a bad game, from shoddy control, no skill required, and simply too many things happening on screen simultaneously.

Rail detection is suspect, and simply controlling your skater's movements after an ollie is difficult at times. The level design doesn't help matters, with short lines, confusing visual layouts that are easy to get lost in, and architecture that will frequently get you stuck in corners.

The game's control is about as bad as it gets...Character movement is very choppy, the jumping is imprecise and it's all made even worse by the game's many camera problems.

I didn't like this game a bit. It's badly designed, weak on tricks, obvious, slow, and light years behind the best, or even the most average extreme sports games.

The interface needs work, folks. The mechanics need work. The fun factor really isn't there, and there isn't even a compelling story to make it worth wading through a game that feels like it should have come out as shareware several years ago.. I liked the music, though.

The single player is boring, arrestingly conventional and entirely forgettable. The multiplayer is slightly better, though mostly because of its options and not because of its gameplay.

You even remotely on the fence about drag racing, you still go far, far away from IHRA Drag Racing 2005 for it is one of the worst ideas for a racing title to hit the PlayStation 2 and it makes little to no effort to make this sport accessible to anyone.

This is an even worse game than Empire Earth 3 for the simple fact that the design shows promise, but it's utterly undermined by the horrible execution.

Easily one of the worst Nintendo DS games released yet. It's extraordinarily hard to see any good in all this bad, and honestly I can't imagine any DS owner working their way through the progression because they're enjoying the clumsy, clunky, chunky, buggy, and most likely unfinished gameplay.

You don't get to rampage in the city, you don't get to climb the building, you don't get to fight off planes ... you don't even get to enjoy the change in visuals after playing 17 stupidly-short levels that all looked the same.

Leave this one alone and stock up on some Sudoku paperbacks instead.

Repetitive gameplay and limited replayability and difficulty settings are just the tip of the iceberg of a game that could've explored so much more of the characters from the movie, but just barely scratched the surface of the film.

Repetitive gameplay and limited replayability and difficulty settings are just the tip of the iceberg of a game that could've explored so much more of the characters from the movie, but just barely scratched the surface of the film.

An unqualified failure. While the old-school Bombermans -- specifically Super Bomberman and Saturn Bomberman -- had their fair share of weaknesses, flaws, and were indeed getting old, this new mess isn't the answer.

There's simply zero reason to even take a passing look at The Science of Evil.

A poor collection of simplistic mini-games with terrible load times. Fans will find clips and such from the show, but they're much better off with a DVD set of said cartoon.

God Hand quickly becomes a boring, annoying and frustrating game.

There’s no reason any self-respecting gamer would pick up Zatch Bell! Mamodo Fury. The game is broken at times, painful during others, and sports and overall felling of frustration for anyone brave enough to endure it.

Instead of a compilation of good times, Ultimate Board Game Collection is a horrifying pile of examples of why some developers should spend their time focusing on gameplay instead of showing off their environments.

The controls are horribly touchy to the point that the only way to succeed in the game is to let the computer do all the work. And that, pretty much, goes against the very definition of a “game.”

The graphics, gameplay and AI seem like they fell out of a time warp from too many years ago. With much better games that came out just a short while ago available at a comparable cost, there isn’t a good reason to purchase Iwo Jima.

The game’s transition to Wii was especially rough in the gameplay department though, featuring a reeling function that only works at one solid speed, a noticeable half second lag between any action and the on-screen result, and generally unresponsive Wii motion control.

This game is better than Wiffle Ball DS, but it's not much of a step up. Skyworks has embarrassed themselves less with this game than that atrocity. However this is a major league game and as such, 2K games should have put a more able development team behind it.

Not only should you never buy, rent, or play this game, you should not even look at it on store shelves. Also, don't even give it to people you hate.

None of the recent Godzilla games have been very good, but at least they were fun. Godzilla: Unleashed Double Smash cannot make this claim. It looks terrible, and reduces the King of the Monsters to a mush of no-texture polygons, then puts him in a tedious series of punching planes and kicking boats.

Devilish was a bad and uninspired port of a forgetable Genesis/Game Gear title when it hit the Nintendo DS in Japan a couple months after its launch, and it coming out as new two years later doesn't do that design any favors at all.

Each fighter feels nearly identical, uses the same three super attacks, and there’s no real depth to the experience to add on top of that.

Wii-makes walk a thin line already, but when a game can't iron out even the most blatant bugs (three second freezes occurring constantly in general play?), it's obvious that it's more about making a few quick stacks of cash than putting any real effort into a package.

It's a shame that a classic could be given such poor treatment with meager graphics, bad sound, and inaccurate controls. The one new element, the online multiplayer, runs poorly and is no fun to play. All-in-all, one of the worst XBLA ports to date.

We wish we could say that diehard Midway racing fans will get enjoyment out of this one, but we're that exact crowd, and we'd go back to "Rush 2042" long before booting this up again.

A frustrating, unfocused and ultimately soulless product.

Even when viewed as the budget title it is, Ducati World Championship doesn't make the grade because you simply can't have fun when you're feeling this frustrated.

Skip this game. It looks terrible, the concept is stale, the storyline is lazy and full of racial stereotypes, and it feels like an unfinished idea.

But to try and sell it as a 20 dollar game on a system without the spin knob? It doesn't work.

It’s as if the developers combed through a bunch of established games and stole bits and pieces without thinking about how it all works together. Using a calculator is more fun than playing this game.

The game is a total relic from an era that has been long put to bed and then made even worse by poorly implementing the Wii's controls. Moving Elviz around is a chore, even when the controls are responsive and the camera keeps its end of the bargain.

Even if John Deere: Harvest in the Heartland worked perfectly, it would be an uninspired, unattractive game that beats the player over the head with its sponsor.

If you absolutely need to try it out, we suggest you give either the 360 or PC version a try. Then again, you probably shouldn't bother. This is just a bad game, and Jonathan Farrell needs to find himself a better job.

It's clearly a budget made cash in that's trying to sucker some parents into buying it for their kids this Christmas. The game is not rewarding in the least, and offers no motivation to play the uninspired minigames. Plus it's over in a few hours.

Falls squarely into the "crap" category, but even as I bumbled through the game's clunky, unintuitive menus and regularly found my xtreeeem mountain biker getting high-centered on various little rocks or riding straight up tree trunks, I couldn't help but feel like the game could have been rather neat.

Commercial mascots make terrible videogames. M&Ms should be the mascot for bad mascot games. M&M's Kart Racing has nothing to do with the candies, and barely uses the license at all.

Go! Sports Skydiving is slightly better than Go! Sports Ski. 'Nuff said.

Rig Racer has lifeless, generic trucks and a maximum multiplayer potential of 2. It can be entertaining for a few minutes to command these rigs and watch them run into one another head-on, but Rig Racer 2 is certainly nowhere near worth your money for a full purchase.

Puppy Palace ends before it ever feels like it begins. It's almost like this entire game is just the set of extra option menus that were meant to accompany some actual, real, fleshed-out gameplay experience – somebody just forget to include the core gameplay.

Effectively a series of tweaked, disassembled, or otherwise altered medium-grade photographs and illustrations, The History Channel: Lost Worlds is neither solid edutainment nor exciting entertainment.

Normally when someone has to experience this level of tedium and frustration they at least get paid minimum wage. Instead you'll have to buy Toy Shop if you want to have all the monotony of working a terrible job in the palm of your hand.

Zen Studios didn’t spend much time or money on Rocky & Bullwinkle, so why should you?

The game has some of the clunkiest controls we've seen, the presentation is insultingly stupid, the minigames are hardly games at all, and on top of everything it's really short.

If you're a puzzle game fan, do not buy this game -- even at its twenty dollar price tag.

It's an infuriatingly unbalanced, unpolished and underwhelming experience that nobody -- not even fans of the movies -- should spend money on.

Nearly every gamplay mechanic fails in one way or another. While the game is functional, Alone in the Dark is a clear case of something that needed to be baked in the oven longer.

Yes, the Wii version makes the PS2 one look like a sick joke, but a pile of crap that's twice as nice as the pile sitting next to it is, in the end, still a pile of crap.

No matter which angle you decide to look at Vampire Rain: Altered Species from, the game is bad. The graphics scream PS2. Sounds such as the death groan and boss grunts are laughable. The story is boring. The acting is hammed up in the worst way. The HUD is hideous. The levels are linear. The majority of weapons are useless. The AI is retarded. The enemies are too powerful while the bosses are too weak.

When all is said and done, all the mini-games technically work, but that doesn’t change the fact that they’re boring and completely uninspired.

But since this is a PC game, and since there are about three billion better shooters out there, there's not much, if anything, to redeem Code of Honor 2. If you want a laugh and you're desperate, stay away and watch Lionheart instead.

When the essential gameplay mechanic is this flawed and there's nothing else to save it, there's simply no reason to play it.

Bratz Kidz Slumber Party (or just "Bratz Kidz," according to the final packaging) is another in a long line of forgettable mini-game compilations on Nintendo's DS.

Playing Rock Revolution is like getting kicked in the teeth, and not in a rock 'n’ roll way. The cover songs are bad, the gameplay is unintuitive and dull, the options are extremely limited and the drum peripheral is horrid.

Playing Rock Revolution is like getting kicked in the teeth, and not in a rock 'n’ roll way. The cover songs are bad, the gameplay is unintuitive and dull, the options are extremely limited and the drum peripheral is horrid.

MLB Stickball is bad to the core. It has few redeeming qualities. It's overly simplistic, it's poorly thought out, it looks bad and it's boring.

Yummy Yummy Cooking Jam is so repetitive that repetition even affects the name of the game.

Dynasty Warriors 6 isn't necessarily broken, but the fundamental formulas that govern the gameplay are terribly stale.

I'm sure Di-Gata fan boys will have a lot to say, but I bet even they would question their faith after playing this game. If Canada as a country has an IGN account, please leave your apology in the comments section below.

Regardless of the version, Tale of Despereaux is the type of game you need to avoid at all costs.

The overall experience, despite being uniquely funny in its introduction, and obviously oddball in design, is just far too sloppy, and it’s obvious at every turn that this game was created by a team that’s still getting the feel for exactly what’s needed in a good little arcade-inspired action game.

Onechanbara is a digital disaster in nearly every way. It's ugly, sounds awful, handles poorly and has a premise that is as shallow as they come. There are simply too many other better options out there to waste time with this mess.

I realize that there are several pet owners out there that would like a fun, educational tool to help them properly condition their dogs. Unfortunately, Cesar Millan's Dog Whisperer is not that tool. At the end of the day, this game feels more like a chore than anything else. For those wanting to better their dogs, I'd recommend you get yourself a good book at the library.

No one part of the game is exceedingly worse than the others, but rather they all combine to create a kind of listless malaise that makes you hate the fact that you even wasted a few hours playing through everything. So save yourself the trouble and don't. Please don't.

It's just greed by Nintendo to not include the clock with the calculator.

Let’s not be delusional here. Rolling Stone: Drum King started and finished as a total cash-in product, and isn’t going to hold a candle to the bigger music game efforts out there. Unfortunately, it’s not only way under the bar, but borderline unplayable for anyone looking for a competent music effort on the Wii.

Like Animal Crossing Clock before it, Photo Clock proves itself to be an unworthy investment at even the lowest possible pricepoint of two dollars in the DSi Shop.

I'm really hoping this is the last time I have to review something from the DSiWare store that's existence is absolutely pointless.

This isn't a game, it doesn't work separated from its source, and you shouldn't consider spending five bucks on it at all. If anything, save that five dollar bill, add a few more to it and pick up the full Rabbids Go Home game instead.

Happy Holidays Christmas was crippled by a poorly-timed arrival in the American Wii Shop that only gave it half a week of relevance before its timeliness was lost. Even if had enjoyed more days of availability before the holidays came and went, though, it still wouldn't have been worthwhile -- it's a terribly limited e-card creator.

Last Rebellion simply doesn't need to exist. I would gladly take its battle system in another, full-blown RPG, but tucked into a painfully bland story and world, it ends up being nothing more than a waste.

The absolutely horrid presentation brings down any and all fun that might have been had here.

So, 5 Arcade Gems? Not at all. 5 Weak Mini-Games All Dumped Into One Download. Not worth your cash.

So skip right past Brain Drain here, and consider joining me in my new campaign -- ensuring that bad games don't have access to names that good designs might have wanted to use.

Naughty Bear could've been cool, but it isn't. It's a bad game. You shouldn't play it.

Clash of the Titans is the not only one of the worst license games I've ever been tasked with reviewing, but is also just an awful game in every sense you can think of. It's ugly as sin, has terrible character animations and voice acting, and feels like it should cost next to nothing as opposed to as much as a retail game.

This is one of the most limited, shortest and least-worth-your-cash offerings yet in the Wii Shop.

If repetition and mindlessness is what you're looking for in your life, go do some pushups or eat cupcakes till you're sick – either would be more satisfying than purchasing and playing Samurai Warriors 3.

Ghost Recon for Wii marks a low point for the series, and should be avoided by Wii owners and Tom Clancy completists alike.

It is uncertain whether a bit more time in development could have shaped The Fight: Lights Out into something mildly enjoyable, but as it stands the finished product is a mess that is not only frustrating to play -- it is also tiring and boring.

Fighters Uncaged is the worst game to come out of Kinect's launch, hands down. It looks and plays like it was rushed.

Even the threadbare appeal of hot chicks in little clothes is botched, as these plastic maidens look as dead-eyed as blow-up dolls.

Dead on arrival, this latest Mortal Kombat could have seen better days.

This game sucks!

The game is ugly, it's a pain in the ass to play, it has horrible audio and is a completely nauseating experience.

I know what makes good pinball. KISS Pinball is not good pinball. Dump the ten bucks you'd pay for this game down a real pin, if you can find one anywhere near you.

It's a real disappointment, it's not fun, and it looks bad. It's not even a potential contender, and if Apollo Creed or Mr. T. ever got ahold of this they'd eat it for breakfast, and they aren't even real boxers.

I hated the movie, and I don't think any better of the game.

There's only so many pixelly tan solders you can kill before it all begins to suck. I think that number is 4.

A rehash of the GBC game, which hardly had any heat for the 8-bit sluggo -- the same game that got canned for not measuring up last year.

This game is an absolute embarrassment to the Shrek name.

Without nearly enough sight gags or over-the-top style to actually put that humor in the game, it's kind of pointless.

Just an awful game all the way through.

It's a slow and dull action game with very little technique. Top that off with NO MULTIPLAYER SUPPORT, and there's really no reason to play this game. It's not fun.

You go, girl -- go play a game that's worth your time and that you'll really enjoy.

Of all the things you have to collect in this game, what the designers really needed was a "fun" power-up.

It's an extremely bad kart racer with no strategy, no challenge, and no charm.

Quite literally, a headache inducing game design...but not in any good way.

The lack of depth and attention to detail makes this product an amazingly hard sell, and we honestly can't recommend it to even the most avid of fans.

Do not pass go, head directly to jail. It's bad. Boring. And also bad.

Repetitive gameplay and limited replayability and difficulty settings are just the tip of the iceberg of a game that could've explored so much more of the characters from the movie, but just barely scratched the surface of the film.

The developers have eliminated the personalities and blank-slate design decisions that make the show worth watching. Worse still, the designers have simply reproduced challenges from the show virtually ensuring that anyone who might have the least interest in this game won't be surprised by any part of it.

The graphics, gameplay and AI seem like they fell out of a time warp from too many years ago. With much better games that came out just a short while ago available at a comparable cost, there isn't a good reason to purchase Iwo Jima.

Poor presentation, the lack of any multiplayer modes, repetitive gameplay and frustrating controls doom Major Malfunction from the very start.

Pure tedium.

It's awful... A standout in crap execution.

Ladies and gentlemen, this game sucks... a real, stinking pile.

Much like Aquaman himself: pathetic...unoriginal, uninspired, and sleep-inducing.

Not even in the same league as AAA puzzle offerings like "Bust-A-Move."

Whether you're a 45 year-old rocket scientist or a five year-old monkey, this game sucks.

So lackluster in so many aspects of execution that it pains me to see a company be so desperate that they feel like they have to release such garbage on the public, because it honestly has no business on a next-generation console.

Truly horrible.

If I haven't made my point excruciatingly clear by now, let me be very blunt -- do not play this game. It's plodding and dull, and isn't even fun in an unintentional way. Just stay away.

If I haven't made my point excruciatingly clear by now, let me be very blunt -- do not play this game. It's plodding and dull, and isn't even fun in an unintentional way. Just stay away.

Kung Fu Panda 2 could have been an OK game if you weren't forced into using the uDraw in an unintuitive way to play an action game.

So Monochrome Racing is a dreary disappointment. Move along.

A prime example of a film-to-game adaptation gone wrong. It perpetuates the stereotype that games based on movies aren't good with a missed opportunity to use established mechanics effectively.

A prime example of a film-to-game adaptation gone wrong. It perpetuates the stereotype that games based on movies aren't good with a missed opportunity to use established mechanics effectively. Frustrating fights, clunky combat, and a bunch of broken, bad ideas destroy what could have been a childhood dream come true.

Falls victim to the same problems the Kinect's worst games suffered from a year ago. Imprecise controls ruin the uncomplicated games. It started out unfulfilling and didn't get much better. It's the kind of mindless thing I'd load up on my phone for five minute bursts. At home I'd rather be doing anything else.

To use an easy analogy crutch, the Xotic aesthetic is what I imagine would come from Terry Gilliam's seed and Tim Burton's egg. The worlds have a distinct, twisted, colorful look. Each space is so littered with warped objects and fluorescent lights, though, that it becomes difficult to separate enemies, point items, and multiplier and damage pickups from the environment.

NeverDead sways between boring, frustrating and painful.

NeverDead sways between boring, frustrating and painful.

A baffling proposition: a racing game with barely any content. It might be cheap, but it's inexcusably lazy.

Ninja Gaiden 3 is a gash on the face of the franchise and one of the worst games the action genre has yet suffered...It's a nightmare that's as easy as it is uninteresting, and it abandons what used to work for awful new ideas that don't work together. Under no circumstance should you ever waste your time on this self-indulgent and abysmal wreck.

Ninja Gaiden 3 is a gash on the face of the franchise and one of the worst games the action genre has yet suffered...It's a nightmare that's as easy as it is uninteresting, and it abandons what used to work for awful new ideas that don't work together. Under no circumstance should you ever waste your time on this self-indulgent and abysmal wreck.

It's one of the best ideas on Xbox this year, but ultimately it's also one of the system's worst games.

It has a lot to it, and I love the idea of taking a board game with so many elements and making it playable online. The problem is that I don't think it's a very good board game in the first place, and the folks who recreated it as a video game did it absolutely no favors with the terrible visuals and animations.

It's a brawler that's too focused on amusing you with 80s flair, and it comes at the expense of worthwhile gameplay. Double Dragon: Neon doesn't bother to keep up with contemporaries such as Castle Crashers, Shank, and Scott Pilgrim – and you should let it fall behind.

Everything ESPN Sports Connection does has been achieved already. Older sports games - including the original Wii's pack-in, Wii Sports - accomplished the same goals better and without embarrassing technical issues.

A prime example of a game that oversells and underdelivers.

An uninteresting and soulless game in an otherwise charming series. This poor attempt at an isometric strategy-lite game is clumsy to control, overly simplistic to play, and lacks the usual charming storytelling.

Don't be fooled into thinking this is a credible piece of software, cause it's not. It's an interactive ad mobile, and in that it's quite exemplary.

Bad, boring, and frightfully trite.

A good idea that went horribly astray and ended up disastrous.

The game is extremely short, the gameplay doesn't offer an impressive amount of depth, the puzzles can be overly confusing at times, and the character voices can get annoyingly repetitive.

While the cutscenes do a nice job of capturing the energy of the Pimp My Ride TV show, the game design kills any chance this game had at being fun.

An abomination of a videogame that doesn't even deserve a rental. Stay far away from this one--though if you get close, the enemies probably won't even see you.