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Rating: 3.5/5 | Ghost Squad | Manic, mindless fun or torturous slog? It all depends on what you're in the mood for... |
Rating: 2.5/5 | Trauma Center: New Blood | Solo surgeons had better have their malpractice insurance paid up. |
Rating: 3/5 | Rayman Raving Rabbids 2 | Rayman steps back in this new mini-game collection: it's bunny time! |
Rating: 4.5/5 | Contra 4 | Konami's classic series has turned 20. Celebrate by experiencing a new game that plays like an old one. |
Rating: 4/5 | College Hoops 2K8 | 2K looks to school the competition with its latest NCAA release. |
Rating: 3/5 | Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops + | Konami marches an old soldier onto the field once too often. |
Rating: 4/5 | Final Fantasy XII: Revenant Wings | Vaan and company are off to save the skies from some dastardly pirates, though not in the way you might expect. |
Rating: 3/5 | Kane & Lynch: Dead Men | Io Interactive's gritty crime caper has the presentation of a sleek master heist but the grace of a botched snatch n' grab. |
Rating: 3.5/5 | Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi 3 | Goku and the Z Fighters return for one last appearance on the PS2. |
Rating: 5/5 | Mass Effect | BioWare's space opera is one of the greatest role-playing games ever made. |
Rating: 3/5 | WWE SmackDown! vs. Raw 2008 | It's not the giant leap forward we'd like to see but wrestling fans will enjoy it. |
Rating: 3.5/5 | Sonic Rivals 2 | Sonic's latest portable adventure races to the finish in fine form. |
Rating: 3.5/5 | Beowulf: The Game | It's tough to be a good king... being an evil one is way easier. |
Rating: 3.5/5 | Medal of Honor Heroes 2 | This whirlwind tour of enemy territory might be short and its replay outlook dim, but it's still exciting enough to be worth the enlistment commitment. |
Rating: 4/5 | Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction | Just when you thought you'd had enough of jumping from platform to platform. |
Rating: 3.5/5 | Resident Evil: The Umbrella Chronicles | Resident Evil's backstory rises from the grave once again in this new Wii shooter, but should it be put back in the ground? |
Rating: 2/5 | Bleach: Shattered Blade | Perhaps providing the full blade would have made for a better game. |
Rating: 3.5/5 | Dementium: The Ward | Spend an afternoon in this twisted labyrinth and your next trip to the local under-staffed emergency room circus of pain will seem like a trip to Disneyland. |
Rating: 4/5 | Company of Heroes: Opposing Fronts | The new expansion pack for Company of Heroes adds plenty of great stuff at the cost of some of the game's elegant simplicity. |
Rating: 1.5/5 | Naruto: Uzumaki Chronicles 2 | It's ninjas vs. robots, and everybody loses. |
Rating: 4/5 | Killzone: Liberation | Get ready to swear at those blasted Helghast soldiers again in an all-new handheld hell. |
Rating: 3.5/5 | Supreme Commander: Forged Alliance | It's still an acquired taste, but Forged Alliance offers some fun new stuff for any supreme commander. |
Rating: 4/5 | Silent Hill Origins | Konami takes Silent Hill fans back to the beginning, telling the tale of the town's dark legacy. |
Rating: 3.5/5 | Scene It? | Movie buffs (and Achievement scroungers) unite: here's a party game for you! |
Rating: 3.5/5 | Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games | 16-bit dreams become Wii realities as two mascots you never thought you'd see together compete for the gold. |
Rating: 4.5/5 | LEGO Star Wars: The Complete Saga | Every saga has a beginning, but LucasArts and LEGO's latest collaboration has the whole darn thing. |
Rating: 4/5 | Dragon Quest Monsters: Joker | Square Enix creates the perfect cross between an RPG and a monster-collecting game. |
Rating: 5/5 | Disgaea: Afternoon of Darkness | Another top-tier strategy RPG arrives on the PSP. |
Rating: 3/5 | Viva Pinata: Party Animals | There's some fun to be had at this party, but don't be surprised if you get tired of the party games. |
Rating: 4.5/5 | Naruto: Rise of a Ninja | Welcome to the best Naruto game ever created. |
Rating: 4.5/5 | Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock | The latest in the series rocks as hard as ever, only occasionally falling out of tune. |
Rating: 3/5 | The Simpsons Game | EA goes for laughs with this game based on our favorite family, but will we deem it to be perfectly cromulent? |
Rating: 4/5 | Ace Combat 6: Fires of Liberation | Your country's under siege and all you've got are some fighter jets. You know what to do. |
Rating: 2.5/5 | Namco Museum Remix | Namco Bandai attempts to liven up its stuffy, old museum tour with fresh remixes, but some key exhibits are missing. |
Rating: 3/5 | Naruto: Path of the Ninja | Here's yet another game that follows the exploits of the popular ninja wannabe. Can the young fighter survive in an RPG environment? |
Rating: 4/5 | Front Mission | Square Enix delivers a thinking man's robot-a-thon. |
Rating: 5/5 | Company of Heroes | Relic's stunning World War II RTS raises the bar for every other strategy game out there. |
Rating: 1.5/5 | You Are Empty | What if Serious Sam went to Russia and got really, really depressed? |
Rating: 2.5/5 | Fury | Fury was built for fans of player-versus-player combat, but the construction is clearly still in progress. |
Rating: 3.5/5 | Victorious Boxers: Revolution | Stylish art and responsive controls are always a winning combo. |
Rating: 3.5/5 | Thrillville: Off the Rails | LucasArts puts you in charge of another theme park. Prepare to ride the rollercoaster of love. |
Rating: 3/5 | Hellgate: London | There's some good stuff behind this Hellgate, but it probably should have waited a little while before opening. |
Rating: 5/5 | Team Fortress 2 | The classic mod for Quake and Half-Life makes its long-awaited return in style. |
Rating: 4.5/5 | Portal | Valve's physics-based first-person puzzle game is a memorable and trippy treat. |
Rating: 4/5 | Half-Life 2: Episode Two | Gordon Freeman returns in another excellent Half-Life adventure, even if it's a little inconsistent at times. |
Rating: 3.5/5 | Star Wars Battlefront: Renegade Squadron | The Force is strong in this PSP-exclusive shooter... at least when you take the fight online. |
Rating: 5/5 | Final Fantasy Tactics: The War of The Lions | The best strategy RPG on the PSP, and quite a few other systems as well. |
Rating: 5/5 | The Orange Box | Valve's uber-bundle collects several killer new games into one amazing package. |
Rating: 4.5/5 | FIFA Soccer 08 | For the first time this console generation, EA hits the back of the net. |
Rating: 2/5 | .hack//G.U. Vol.3: Redemption | You can't pretend to be surprised the third time jack comes out of the box. Or is that the seventh time? |
Rating: 3.5/5 | NBA '08 | Sony rebounds from last year's PS3 debut, but '08 won't be rattling any rims. |
Rating: 4/5 | MLB Power Pros | Despite its agonizingly cute exterior, this is a refreshingly entertaining baseball game. |
Rating: 2.5/5 | Dragon Blade: Wrath of Fire | This dragon isn't grounded, but it never quite learns how to fly, either. |
Rating: 2/5 | Coded Arms Contagion | It's hard to get too excited about hackable turrets and upgradeable weapons when the foes you face are as dumb as a sack of doorknobs. |
Rating: 3.5/5 | MySims | Having a whole town (and its local weirdos) in your pocket is more fun than you might think. |
Rating: 3.5/5 | Juiced 2: Hot Import Nights | THQ attempts to wow gamers with racing, drifting and genetic modification. |
Rating: 5/5 | skate | Watch your back Tony, 'cuz a new kid wants a shot at the title. |
Rating: 4.5/5 | NHL 08 | The coolest game on Earth indeed. |
Rating: 3.5/5 | Drawn to Life | This sketchy new take on platforming is a bit of a one-trick pony. But it's a really good trick. |
Rating: 4/5 | DK Jungle Climber | Donkey Kong returns to put a new spin on platform games. |
Rating: 3.5/5 | Guild Wars: Eye of the North | Guild Wars veterans will love it, but Eye of the North isn't quite the grand expansion it wants to be. |
Rating: 1.5/5 | Lair | Dazzling in a very few ways, disappointing in way more. |
Rating: 4/5 | Medieval II: Total War Kingdoms | The expansion pack for Medieval: Total War adds a ton of great content, but little else that's new or improved. |
Rating: 2.5/5 | Naruto: Ultimate Ninja Heroes | Naruto's latest fighting game isn't bad, but it's a little too simple for its own good. Believe it! |
Rating: 4/5 | Monster Hunter Freedom 2 | Forget what you know about monster hunting or this game will eat you alive. |
Rating: 3/5 | Dynasty Warriors: Gundam | Not even the least bit groundbreaking, but what did you expect? |
Rating: 4.5/5 | Metroid Prime 3: Corruption | Samus' 3D trilogy goes out on a high note. |
Rating: 4/5 | Tiger Woods PGA Tour 08 | Six months later, EA finally gives Wii owners something to get excited about. |
Rating: 4.5/5 | Jeanne d'Arc | Succeeding where so many have failed, this is a great tactical RPG for the platform. |
Rating: 3/5 | Boogie | EA's party piece for the Wii has its moments. |
Rating: 3/5 | Mega Man Star Force: Pegasus | Mega Man's latest adventure comes in three flavors, but why do they all taste like leftovers? |
Rating: 3/5 | Mega Man Star Force: Leo | Mega Man's latest adventure comes in three flavors, but why do they all taste like leftovers? |
Rating: 3/5 | Mega Man Star Force: Dragon | Mega Man's latest adventure comes in three flavors, but why do they all taste like leftovers? |
Rating: 4/5 | Brave Story: New Traveler | A sleeper hit -- if you don't fall asleep before stuff gets good. |
Rating: 3/5 | Dynasty Warriors DS: Fighter's Battle | Fierce battles are being fought in ancient China, but are these fights too kiddy for their own good? |
Rating: 3.5/5 | PaRappa the Rapper | Want to relive one of gaming's most-loved cult classics? Money money money is all you need! |
Rating: 3.5/5 | All-Pro Football 2K8 | Visual Concepts and 2K Sports make their return to the gridiron. But is it a triumphant one? |
Rating: 4.5/5 | Traxxpad: Portable Studio | The next generation of music sequencing is in the palm of your hands. |
Rating: 4/5 | Smash Court Tennis 3 | Namco Bandai's tennis debut takes the reigning PSP court king to a tie-breaker set. |
Rating: 3/5 | Manhunt 2 | Manhunt 2 brings all the fun of a killing spree to the comfort of your living room. |
Rating: 5/5 | Ninja Gaiden Sigma | The ultimate ninja adventure has never looked better. |
Rating: 4/5 | Final Fantasy | Only a few innovations, but it's still the best RPG on the PSP. |
Rating: 2/5 | Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix | After spending some time in this version of Hogwarts, you'll be longing for the simple life of a Muggle. |
Rating: 3.5/5 | Prince of Persia: Rival Swords | Ubisoft's slight Wii-mix is a virtual carbon-copy of the third game in the Prince's trilogy. |
Rating: 2.5/5 | Hot Brain | Take that thermometer out of your ear. Midway has a better way to measure your brain's temperature. |
Rating: 4/5 | DiRT | DiRT proves that there's more than one way to make a great racing game. |
Rating: 2.5/5 | SimCity DS | When Paradise City became the City of Eternal Ugliness... |
Rating: 3/5 | Brothers in Arms DS | DS owners finally get a chance to fight in World War II. Should Hitler be nervous? |
Rating: 1.5/5 | Fantastic 4: Rise of the Silver Surfer | One of the least fantastic movie tie-in games of all time. |
Rating: 5/5 | BioShock | Ladies and Gentlemen, prepare yourselves for Rapture... literally. |
Rating: 3.5/5 | Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Vegas | Team Rainbow's PS3 debut has solid single-player, but its online gameplay seems to have tear-gassed itself. |
Rating: 3.5/5 | Big Brain Academy: Wii Degree | Last year's smash hit jumps from the double screen to the big screen, but is it worth the price of enrollment? |
Rating: 3/5 | Touchmaster | This unassuming collection gets the job done but doesn't do much more. |
Rating: 4/5 | Mercury Meltdown Revolution | Adopt a seemingly sentient blob of defenseless liquid metal, and roll through a colorful exercise in enjoyable befuddlement. |
Rating: 2/5 | Atelier Iris 3 ~Grand Fantasm~ | The third try is the...third mediocre title in the series. |
Rating: 4/5 | Tiger Woods PGA Tour 07 | An amazing, but slightly frustrating, experience for fans of the Wii or golf. |
Rating: 2.5/5 | Tetris Evolution | This "evolution" seems to represent a very narrow branch of the Tetris family tree. |
Rating: 2.5/5 | Call of Juarez | We ride into the wild West and find out it's only a little bit West, not very wild. |
Rating: 5/5 | Planet Puzzle League | Hop online and experience one of the greatest puzzle games of all time. |
Rating: 4/5 | Cookie & Cream | You got your mini-games in my platformer! These two rabbits embark on a genre scrambling adventure. |
Rating: 4.5/5 | Ratchet and Clank: Size Matters | Size doesn't seem to matter much to this newly-portable pair, because they're just as effective on the PSP. |
Rating: 4/5 | Mario Strikers Charged | Headbutts are for amateurs: the Mushroom Kingdom's next World Cup comes to the Wii. |
Rating: 4.5/5 | Crush | Sega's smashing new puzzler delivers monstrous difficulty... just the way we like it! |
Rating: 2/5 | Shadowrun | Too many burdens drag down what could have been a fun game. |
Rating: 5/5 | Forza Motorsport 2 | Racing done right for both Sunday drivers and hardcore racers, realistic driving games don't get much better than this. |
Rating: 2/5 | Tamagotchi: Party On! | On second thought, let's not get this party started. |
Rating: 3/5 | Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops | Konami marches an old soldier onto the field once too often. |
Rating: 5/5 | Halo 3 | Master Chief's fight may be finished, but yours has just begun. |
Rating: 3.5/5 | Overlord | Who needs quest rewards when you can pick the peasants clean? |
Rating: 2.5/5 | 300: March to Glory | What should have been a glorious march turns out to be a tedious hack and slash slog |
Rating: 5/5 | Resident Evil 4 | Leon and Ashley are back for another blood-drenched run through Las Plagas territory. |
Rating: 4/5 | MLB '07: The Show | Better late than never, Sony goes deep with its PS3 baseball debut. |
Rating: 2.5/5 | Brooktown High: Senior Year | Not only can you watch movies and play games on your PSP, now you can take it out on a date. Therapist not included. |
Rating: 3.5/5 | Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End | Disney delivers a surprisingly capable caper based on the final part of the Pirates trilogy. |
Rating: 2/5 | Naruto: Ninja Council 3 | The spiky-haired martial artist in orange (no, not Goku) comes to the DS. Do you want to sit through this council meeting? |
Rating: 3/5 | .hack//G.U. Vol. 2: Reminisce | The sixth installment of the RPG-within-an-RPG serves the faithful more of the same but leaves noobs in the cold. |
Rating: 2/5 | Touch The Dead | This uninspired zombie shooter has almost none of the charm of the franchise that it hopes you'll confuse it with. |
Rating: 3/5 | ArmA: Combat Operations | ArmA redfines "realistic" and "hardcore" and is definitely an acquired taste. |
Rating: 3/5 | Lost Planet: Extreme Condition | It's hard to get too excited over Capcom's by-the-numbers port of a by-the-numbers game. |
Rating: 3/5 | Clive Barker's Jericho | Hey kids, like blood? Wanna bathe in it? Tough, that's what's happening! |
Rating: 2/5 | Aedis Eclipse: Generation of Chaos | An ambitious but fatally flawed PSP strategy RPG. |
Rating: 1.5/5 | SNK vs. Capcom Card Fighters | SNK's cult classic card battler has returned, but changes and bugs have lessened our excitement. |
Rating: 2/5 | Empire Earth II: The Art of Supremacy | While not completely valueless, the Empire Earth II expansion pack shows a real lack of focus. |
Rating: 4/5 | Empire Earth II | It's not the most accessible game in the world, but the strategic depth of Empire Earth II make it a winner. |
Rating: 3/5 | Mortal Kombat: Armageddon | Quantity over quality is stressed here as we see more characters, more modes, more unlockables, and more Mortal Kombat than ever before. |
Rating: 5/5 | World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade | Everything we loved about WoW, but improved |
Rating: 5/5 | World in Conflict | World in Conflict is the coolest thing to come out of the Cold War era since "Red Dawn," Ronald Reagan and sunglasses being worn at night. |
Rating: 5/5 | Galactic Civilizations II: Dark Avatar | Conquering the universe just got a lot tougher with Dark Avatar, the brilliant addition to our 2006 turn-based strategy game of the year. |
Rating: 2/5 | Enchanted Arms | Only the most fervent JRPG fans will be able to withstand a hug from these Enchanted Arms. |
Rating: 4/5 | Super Paper Mario | Mazza's first outing on the Wii has enough to fill the void until Super Mario Galaxy lands. |
Rating: 4/5 | Command & Conquer 3 Tiberium Wars | Nod and GDI square off once again in a tried-and-true RTS formula. |
Rating: 4/5 | Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell Double Agent | Sam Fisher may be playing for a new team, on a new generation console, but is he still the same agent? |
Rating: 4.5/5 | The Red Star | Don't argue, comrade. This one's worth your capitalist American dollars. |
Rating: 3/5 | Cooking Mama: Cook Off | Taito's Wii port aspires to be the Mario Batali of games, but ends up tasting more like Olive Garden. |
Rating: 2/5 | Blazing Angels: Squadrons of WWII | The Wii version's almost the best, but this is one case where almost isn't good enough. |
Rating: 3.5/5 | Dragon Ball Z: Shin Budokai - Another Road | Kamehame-here we go again. Goku and his DBZ buddies return in a very familiar-feeling fighting game. |
Rating: 2.5/5 | Armored Core 4 | If you're not already a fan of this series, this updated version won't make you one. |
Rating: 3.5/5 | UEFA Champions League 2006-2007 | EA Canada is turning soccer into a twice-yearly franchise, but is it really necessary? |
Rating: 5/5 | God of War II | Kratos returns from Olympus with a titanic chip on his shoulder. |
Rating: 3/5 | Silent Hunter: Wolves of the Pacific | Ubisoft's latest Silent Hunter submarine sim is both fantastic and frustrating. |
Rating: 4.5/5 | TMNT | The Turtles are back in what could be their best game since the early '90s. |
Rating: 3/5 | Mario Party 8 | Planning a Wii party, but you're tired of Wii Sports? It may not hurt to make it a Mario Party. Or maybe it will! |
Rating: 2.5/5 | Rayman Raving Rabbids | Rayman's leap to next-gen left most of the fun behind. |
Rating: 5/5 | Super Mario Galaxy | Mario's interstellar adventure marks his triumphant return to glory. |
Rating: 4.5/5 | The Godfather: Blackhand Edition | Here's an offer that you can very reasonably refuse, but if you take it up, hey, good on you. |
Rating: 2.5/5 | Heatseeker | This by-the-numbers air combat game is six years too late. |
Rating: 2.5/5 | Silverfall | Find out what happens when you mix Diablo, Arcanum, and tedium into your alchemy set. |
Rating: 4.5/5 | The Lord of the Rings Online: Shadows of Angmar | It's been a long time coming, but Turbine's brilliant new MMO has opened up Middle-earth for the masses. |
Rating: 4.5/5 | The Witcher | The Witcher delivers professional monster-hunting at its finest. |
Rating: 4/5 | The Elder Scrolls IV: The Shivering Isles | A wonderful place! Except when it's horrible. Then it's horribly wonderful. Good for a visit. Or for an eternity. |
Rating: 3/5 | Spider-Man 3 | Can this latest big-budget installment possibly compare to Spider-Man 2? Yes, but not very well. |
Rating: 4/5 | Unreal Tournament 3 | The fragtastic series returns, filled with tight combat and great graphics but a bit overshadowed by its predecessors. |
Rating: 4/5 | John Woo Presents Stranglehold | Midway's over-the-top shooter hits you like a Tequila slammer (or six). |
Rating: 5/5 | Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2 | It may have taken five months, but the wait was well worth it. |
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