IGN

• X360
• 9 / 10
• États-Unis

• DS
• 5.4 / 10
• États-Unis

Ant Nation might provide a brief diversion for the desperately bored or the blind. But the simple mission requirements are too shallow to really sink your teeth into and these visuals are a joke. The Bonus mode is more fun than the campaign, because it relishes in the absurdity of blowing up swarms of ants with a rocket launcher. The regular game has bizarre elements, too, but then gives the player a bunch of mundane tasks to complete. Still, at $7 it's considerably cheaper than a real ant farm, comes with no risk of being knocked over and spilling ants into your house, and includes a rocket launcher. When I put it that way, I guess it sounds pretty awesome. It's not, though.

• PC
• WII
• 7 / 10
• États-Unis

The episode's biggest weakness is the clear lack of any kind of grand finale. While the music swells once you leave the island, the finale lacks epic triumph and the denouement amounts to a cliffhanger, leaving more questions than answers. And there are plenty of questions to be answered as the designers have planted plenty of seeds for future installments. So episode 1 gets high notes for bringing us back into the Monkey Island universe, but at the same time, it looks like we'll have to wait for the rest of the episodes to roll out over the next four months or so to get all the answers.

• PSP
• 7 / 10
• États-Unis

Overall NCAA Football 10 is a step forward from last year’s game, but not as big a step as I would’ve liked. There are still a lot of gameplay annoyances that will be troubling to diehard football fans. The structure of Road to Glory is both good and bad for different reasons, but the fact that’s the only new mode is a letdown. Others like Freshman Mode, Mascot Mode and Rivalry Mode provide for a decent amount of fun, but it doesn’t last very long. If you’re trapped in a car for hours on end, pick up this one and have a bit of fun running through Road to Glory, but if other versions are available to you, you’ll find a stronger game there.

• WII
• 8 / 10
• États-Unis

This one's an easy recommendation, and anyone who's previously downloaded and enjoyed either Fantasy Zone or Super Fantasy Zone should feel completely comfortable with investing a further five bucks to grab this great follow-up. It's not a revolutionary sequel, as it didn't try to introduce very many new features or gameplay ideas -- but that's why it works. Not fixing what wasn't broken and putting extra effort into the visuals was just the right strategy for SEGA with this sequel. We're just not sure why, with a game this solid, Opa-Opa just keeps on crying.

• IOS
• 7 / 10
• États-Unis

The obvious audience for Resident Evil 4 on iPhone is the hardcore gamer -- especially the hardcore gamer that is already a monster Resident Evil fan. Resident Evil 4 is an improvement over Degeneration. It looks much, much better thanks to better textures, improved animations, and the stages are not just a series of corridors and rooms. The controls, though, are a problem. The pacing is wonky because of all the virtual button tapping and lack of easy precision aiming. This is certain to disappoint a lot of gamers. I suspect the highlight reel design will also disappoint, but that's more of a problem with expectations than Capcom's design choices. At $7.99, I must resist recommending the game because it can be so frustrating to play. Should Capcom release a lite version, I suggest you try that out and see if you can manage the controls. There really is a good game in here. It's just struggling to get out.

• WII
• 6 / 10
• États-Unis

Altogether, Secret Command isn't a great value, it's got some annoying gameplay aspects and it's certainly going to disappoint the dedicatedly shirtless Rambo supporters from the '80s who fondly remember the license-intact edition that shipped on cartridge in America 20 years ago. But if you brush past all that, it's still capable as a co-op Commando clone -- and fans of that game, or Ikari Warriors, or even Konami's Jackal might still want to give it a look.

• WII
• 9 / 10
• États-Unis

• WII
• 7.5 / 10
• États-Unis

• WII
• 5 / 10
• États-Unis

I was pretty quick to dismiss Epyx's Summer Games II when it arrived on the Virtual Console earlier this year, because I felt that, across the board, trying to figure out its varied and frustrating control schemes wasn't worth the time or effort required. California Games is similarly crippled, in that you're just never really going to perfectly translate the experience of these Commodore 64 compilations -- classic though they are -- without the original hardware, joystick and keyboard from an actual C64 system. California Games feels better overall than Summer Games II, thanks to a couple of its events (Flying Disk and Foot Bag) feeling like they haven't been too damaged in the transition to Wii Remote control. But you're still going to end up frustrated with the others, so I can't really recommend spending five dollars to download this whole package. As an artifact of the 8-bit era and a nostalgic look at what the summertime sports compilation concept looked like in the '80s, it's certainly still notable. But, today, we've got Wii Sports Resort filling that same role -- and it has play control that won't leave your on-screen characters face down in the dirt.

• WII
• 8 / 10
• États-Unis

The entire gameplay concept, control scheme and feel all come across beautifully, and there's little negativity to level against Pulseman. The game might be a bit on the short side, as it only has seven stages (but each of those seven is fairly long, individually). It might also be a little bit difficult, as it can be a bit too easy to damage Pulseman when you're jumping, running and Voltteccering around the screen -- and he can only take three hits. And then there's always the money factor. Pulseman, since it never had an official cartridge release in America, counts as an Import category game in the Wii Shop -- and so it's 900 Wii Points to purchase, instead of the Genesis standard eight bucks. But all of these complaints are minor at best -- nothing should stop you from downloading Pulseman, especially if you're a fan of Game Freak's later work in the Pokemon series. And even if you're not, it still stands on its own as one of the best games to hit the Virtual Console in a long time.

• X360
• 9 / 10
• États-Unis

• WII
• 8.1 / 10
• États-Unis

• PS3
• 9 / 10
• États-Unis

Shatter is a delight from beginning to end. The new ideas it brings to the table for this aging genre will make it hard to go back to Arkanoid. A multiplayer mode or something more substantial to do after completing the story would have been nice, but those minor disappointments don't keep this from being a must-play game. Shatter stands right up there with Breakout and Arkanoid as one of (if not the) best brick-breaking games ever made.

• WII
• 8.5 / 10
• États-Unis

Little King’s Story misses the boat in a few key areas for me personally – the largest of which is the lack of IR pointing in a game specifically based around real-time strategy elements – but at the end of the day there’s no denying that this title has serious staying power, an immense amount of charm, and is downright fun despite its faults. Yasuhira Wada of Harvest Moon fame is back with a series that – while still very early – has the makings of being just as big, if not even bigger, than his most well-known franchise. There are a few quirks I don’t personally dig, such as the use of public domain music when the amazingly talented Yoko Shimomura is on the project, and I’ve made my gripes with a Wii-exclusive game not using Wii-exclusive tech, but at the end of the day it comes down to whether or not this is an entertaining game despite any of its faults, and it absolutely is. If you – like I – have been waiting for this game for over two and a half years now, the wait is over, and the final package is one developer Cing should be proud of. This is a game with impressive humor and style, a beautiful design, and a world I can’t wait to play though again and again in a hopefully very successful franchise. On the control front though, more could be done, and Little King’s Story leaves me wanting in ways that are both good and bad. Hopefully this is just the beginning for our newfound king.

• PC
• 7.3 / 10
• États-Unis

• X360
• PSP
• 5.8 / 10
• États-Unis

Unbound Saga isn't a bad game, the dialogue is funny, the story is interesting, and the levels look like they're pulled from comic books. Still, the gameplay isn't all that fun, and the title's definitely not that deep of an experience with its 10 levels that are about 15 minutes or so each. In general, the content here doesn't warrant the $15 price tag. I mean, I wanted to get to the next cutscene to see how the story was set to unfold, but there were plenty of times I didn't feel like playing the game to get there. That's not good. Old school beat'em up fans might be thrilled with the game's adherence to that genre's principles, but everyone else might be a bit let down by the sluggish controls and maddening hit boxes.

• PSP
• 7.7 / 10
• États-Unis

Holy Invasion of Privacy, Badman! is an extremely quirky, challenging title that has a few frustrating elements that keep it from being a stellar downloadable. But even though there are some things I didn't like about Badman, the unique gameplay, old-school graphics, super-adorable music and numerous anime/TV references make this a good experience. I think a lot of PSP owners will be happy to have this game saved onto their PSP's memory stick.