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Skate 3's offline portions feel flat and sterile, but its deeper online focus helps bring more meaning to every facet of the game.

Picross 3D's twist on the traditional picture crossword takes a bit of work to learn, but it's terrific fun.

Dead To Rights: Retribution has its moments, but its generic, last-generation feel makes it a tough purchase to justify at full price.

Telltale sets up its third season with some slick presentation, a few new gameplay tricks, and enough lightly absurdist, self-aware gags to keep the adventure brisk.

This is absolutely the right way to repackage and sell old arcade games.

Conviction modernizes Splinter Cell's stealth-action formula in a lot of ways, and it's partnered with a quality story that makes playing it worth your while.

Jungler's mix of shooting, snakes, and mazes gives you just enough variety to make Game Room's challenge system worthwhile.

You might be able to find this sort of reflex-based gameplay in a free Flash game nowadays, but Road Fighter still holds up pretty well.

It needs an easier way to track down user-made games, but the tools and concepts in WarioWare DIY are really sharp, which makes the process of making your own "microgames" a lot of fun.

Just Cause 2 refines and expands on everything that made the first so charming, delivering a joyous blend of B-movie goofiness and physics-defying open-world shenanigans.

The atmospheric world of Metro 2033 is exciting while it lasts, but feels diluted by poor gunplay and monster AI.

Command & Conquer 4 attempts to be a smaller game than its predecessors, but rather than going back to basics, this new approach makes for a dull experience.

Bad Company 2 is a terrific multiplayer shooter that offers the scope and strategy that made the Battlefield series so great in the first place. The single-player, however, feels a little flat this time around.

That Dante's Inferno is almost proudly derivative of Sony's God of War series isn't inherently a bad thing, but its lack of unique accomplishments makes for a hollow experience.

A few technical hiccups barely temper the emotional impact of this tense, character-driven thriller.

This short, nostalgic add-on is cheap enough to make it worth returning to the old mansion.

While there's still a certain charm to its interspecies play, AVP is plagued with issues across the board.

Tomena Sanner is a silly little game. You'll burn out on it quickly, but it's cheap enough that you might be totally OK with that.

While the story doesn't always hit as hard as its predecessor, there are plenty of great gameplay changes that make BioShock 2 a worthwhile experience.

Grasshopper Manufacture punches you square in the nose with this double-live gonzo action sequel that's leaner, faster, and--in a feat that borders on the impossible--crazier than the original No More Heroes.