IGN

• WII
• 7.8 / 10
• États-Unis

With that said, there's still a lot to see in Alien Crush Returns, and it makes for a fun experience. Online leaderboards are available for every map, and include both score and time trial modes. You can connect online with friends, region players, or worldwide and play four-player vs. ball, and the promise of additional downloadable content in the form of extra stages (the game is a little too short now) and action abilities could open up the package substantially. While story mode is a bit simple, the animation and overall visual presentation the game is pretty impressive overall, and at the end of the day, the game is fun enough to warrant an 800 point purchase if you're into pinball, or were a fan of the older Alien Crush/Devil's Crush games. It isn't perfect, but it's certainly a fun game to play between lengthier, full-fledged Wii titles. Hopefully the downloadable content delivers, as it could really flesh out a package that is -in its current state - fun, but shallow. Oh, and as a message to Hudson, we'd have no problem paying $50 for a gigantic space epic Alien Crush with dozens of stages, extra modes, local multiplayer, and a more fleshed out "guilty pleasure" story. Alien Crush Returns is fun. Now we want more.

• WII
• 4.5 / 10
• États-Unis

And it's a shame too, as there are some great ideas happening within the package. The Wii version, for example, is the only one to offer split-screen multiplayer, and while you still have online options (albeit very simple, and nothing compared to what we expect from Treyarch's upcoming World at War Wii) the option of doing local play with a few friends was added specifically for Wii, and it holds up relatively well on a technical basis. Even online, which we mentioned was very simple, runs relatively well, and is an area of the game where things work by design, and could have been fleshed out much more for a larger audience. Then again, we'll be getting what sounds like a pretty impressive Call of Duty online product from Treyarch, so since Bond was limited to you and a couple other cronies running around a few levels with only two main modes, hopefully that's just a taste of what's to come in just a couple weeks. You've also got a control setup for the zapper, IR-based interactive sequences, and Mii integration for online and local profile management. It's obvious there were ideas at work here, but the overall tech crippled the game in a big way, partially due we're sure to the fact that it was developed in tandem between multiple consoles, and multiple teams, all using the same design. Even the control options, which attempted to include pre-sets, as well as a bounding box editor for specific control tweaking just didn't end up working like it should have in the final version, with the end result a half-functional, rushed effort that we're sure could have been impressive with enough time to get everything working. Even Treyarch's Call of Duty 3 controls better than Quantum of Solace, and Bond isn't a launch game like COD3 was. We've played and reviewed lots of "bad" games on Wii, but unlike those before it Quantum of Solace feels like a title that has a real soul to it, and somewhere in the mess of unprecedented frame issues, visual bugs, and sloppy port code is a game that really could have been a blast to play. Instead, it's one you want to avoid at all costs, as Bond's first Wii effort doesn't deliver over some of Activision's previous (and upcoming) efforts on Wii.

• WII
• 4 / 10
• États-Unis

If you love games like Order Up! or even (on some level) The SIms, you might find Home Sweet Home interesting for a few short-lived minutes, but if you fancy yourself a hardcore gamer you will loath this title. Any way you slice it, this is not a game worthy of 1,000 Wii Points -- half that would be pushing it, as far as I'm concerned. Supposing you really want to decorate some rooms, go online and tool around with the thousands of websites that enable you to do this with real furniture. Or wait for PS3's Home Network, which will let you walk around your IKEA-inspired virtual apartment.

• PC
• 3.2 / 10
• États-Unis

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. I'm not even sure I could recommend this game to hardcore fans of the TV show, but I will admit that getting a bunch of people together to laugh at the game is fun enough. Watching the fifth grade girl get denied a high five was certainly the highlight of my time with Make the Grade. Hopefully that tells you all you need to know.

• PC
• 7 / 10
• États-Unis

• PS3
• 10 / 10
• États-Unis

• X360
• 5 / 10
• États-Unis

Are You Smarter than a 5th Grader? makes a worthy attempt at doing trivia right. Though it ultimately fails, it doesn't seem as if this was a game just thrown together. Work was put into 5th Grader, but it falls short of other quiz games on Xbox 360. If you're truly smarter than a fith grader, you'll pass on this game.

• PS3
• 9 / 10
• États-Unis

• X360
• 10 / 10
• États-Unis

• PS3
• 9 / 10
• États-Unis

• X360
• 3 / 10
• États-Unis

• WII
• X360
• 6.9 / 10
• États-Unis

Crash Bandicoot: Mind Over Mutant is exactly like its predecessor: a mildly enjoyable platforming romp that's sure to satisfy younger players, but won't provide much that seasoned players haven't already experienced before. If you believe yourself an absolutely die-hard Bandicoot fan or if you already liked Crash of the Titans, by all means check this title out. There's some good humor housed within, the gameplay mechanics work well enough and the platforming challenges, while very traditional (if not simple) are usually enjoyable. But if your idea of a good platformer is Super Mario Galaxy, you will find Nintendo's plumber in a completely different universe than this game both in terms of innovation and polish.

• DS
• 4.9 / 10
• États-Unis

What's Cooking? Jamie Oliver is an admirable effort but it doesn't go far enough beyond regular cookbooks to make it worth it. Truly interactive features like voice commands (so you don't get your DS grubby while cooking) and video tutorials would have been useful -- and will appear in Nintendo's first-party cooking title later this year. Plus, the game aspects here are more annoying than anything. Gamers who want to get their hands dirty in the kitchen should wait a bit for Nintendo's effort.

• PS2
• 5.3 / 10
• États-Unis

In the end, Spider-Man: Web of Shadows is a missed opportunity. Activision, Treyarch, Aspyr and Shaba were given a blank slate to create whatever Spider-inspired tale they wanted, and they put together a game starring a whiney hero, a foggy story, repetitive gameplay, and a focus on pretty combat combos instead of engaging combat mechanics. Web of Shadows is better than the last Spidey game to make it to the market, but that's not a ringing endorsement. If this game makes your spider-sense tingle in a good way, I'd suggest renting or waiting for a price cut before taking the plunge. Web of Shadows has its moments of fun, but they're lost in a sea of gaffes that True Believers are likely to revile.

• DS
• 7.4 / 10
• États-Unis

While I may not like the series as a whole, it’s hard to slam Transformers Animated: The Game because it’s honestly a solid action game with a good amount of challenge. It’s a shame that the transforming part was a bit of an afterthought, but the developers put more attention to the personality more than their transforming capabilities.

• PC
• 8.2 / 10
• États-Unis

Red Alert 3 feels like a bubblegum version of real- time strategy. It's silly and campy, yes, and it's also fun. Keep in mind that it's just a familiar sort of fun, one that's almost unchanged over the decade the series has been around. While it'd be nice to see the series start pushing in new directions, we also know that there are fans out there who like to wrap themselves up in the RTS equivalent of comfort food.

• WII
• 8 / 10
• États-Unis

That said, some people will absolutely detest Disaster: Day of Crisis. It’s an awkward combination of extremes -- old-school adventuring burdened with new-fangled mini-game sensibilities; abstract game mechanics wrestled into a single plot- driven narrative; sometimes lackluster visuals and pacing thoroughly at odds with that bombastic spectacle and massive ambition. It’s also fundamentally shallow, remarkably inconsistent and chronically naff. Like the disaster movies it takes inspiration from though, Day of Crisis is ultimately more than the sum of its parts. When it works, it’s a relentless, thrilling assault on your senses; a huge grin of game. And when it doesn’t, when it starts to wobble precariously on its own flimsy parts, it’s still compulsive in its creativity, inexplicable in its uniqueness and, most importantly, one thoroughly fun ride.

• PC
• 8 / 10
• États-Unis

We, as gamers, generally want the same things from developers as professional sports teams want from athletes -- effort and desire. In X3: Terran Conflict, EgoSoft has clearly given us both. Lovingly concocted, generally well executed, and hampered only by a few niggles, this is a game that not only achieves its goal -- plunking us into another time and place to live the life of an entrepreneurial spaceman -- but shows us that some titles can truly take us places.