Brad Shoemaker

The madcap cartoon warfare in this team-based online game is a lot of fun, provided your team knows how to work together.

This remade version of the Turtles' second arcade beat-'em-up is technically competent but not particularly exciting.

This loony, breakneck, tough-as-nails 2D platformer is a great way to kick off the Summer of Arcade and totally worth your $10.

Despite some frustrating early network issues, this lean, mean sequel to the grandaddy of all Battlefield games still has it where it counts.

The physics-based action in this puzzle-oriented platformer from FrozenByte is inventive, satisfying, and visually stunning.

This decent movie tie-in has competent combat starring the robots in disguise--but fails to do a whole lot with it.

This endearing DS platformer is sickeningly cute but a little too light on challenge and complexity.

Dynamic, pinpoint-precise combat and a sprawling urban landscape define this great open-world action game from Sucker Punch.

This is a great puzzle game in its own right and one of the most challenging, satisfying games on DSiWare so far.

Tedious, contrived, repetitive stealth mechanics make this a game you should try your best to hide from.

First-person action fans shouldn't miss Zeno Clash's unique mix of deep melee combat and wonderfully bizarre art design.

Dark Athena joins more content to the brilliant, grim Escape From Butcher Bay, which for the most part has aged quite well.

This demanding new PlayStation Network shooter offers rewarding score-based action--once you commit to learning its complex, unique mechanics.

Retribution is a surprisingly good third-person shooter on the PSP, a platform where you don't see a lot of good third-person shooters.

Equally long on endearing personality and challenging strategy, this stylus-driven tower defense game makes a great travel companion in bite-size chunks.

Frustrating combat and a half-hearted approach to the source material drag down EA's latest Rings game.

Stunning presentation and an engaging open-world reprisal of the series' trademark platforming action make this newly reimagined Prince of Persia easy to recommend.

Inventive, hilarious, inexpensive, and tons of fun--that's Nuts & Bolts in a nutshell.

Sony fleshes out its chaotic off-road racing series with this rough-and-tumble sequel.

This sequel trades mutant-infested islands for a war-torn African savanna with mostly positive results.