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This is some fast, well designed gameplay with enough options to allow players to use their own style of attack with satisfying suit abilities and weapons. Crytek has upped their attention to detail in presentation and dropped the worst parts of Far Cry's story. The multiplayer, while probably not enough to draw players away from their favorites, is also worth the time. While the Halo 2 type of ending for the single player left a bad taste in my mouth, it wasn't enough to deter me from heartily recommending action fans pick this one up.

If you were hoping that The Complete Saga would push the series into new territory, you'll be disappointed. At its best, the game is a well-polished collection of a pair of quickly-ageing gems. At its worst, it feels a tad stagnant, and we hope TT's upcoming LEGO-based games, LEGO Batman and LEGO Indiana Jones take the idea in a fresh direction.

It's a sprawling RTS experience that requires your constant, undivided attention, an ability to react swiftly and intelligently to the shifting tide of battle, and the patience to plan and execute long-term strategies and manage a complex resource system. It's most rewarding only when you've learned all the back-and-forths, attacks and defenses, tech tree lines and strategies, which takes quite a while, but which we were more than willing to do.

Epic's year-old action beast proves just as enjoyable on PC as it was on Xbox 360. The mouse and keyboard allow for more precise control, and the graphics have been improved as well. With the additional single-player content, King of the Hill multiplayer mode, extra maps, and a map editor, Gears offers an even more impressive feature set than before.

Basically, only play Ratatouille if you're the most hardcore fan of the movie, and you just adore rat platforming action. Otherwise, there's really no need to give this one a spin, especially with so many other better games out there. It's really a shame too, because it had the potential to be a bit of fun, but this rat just can't pull his weight.

Your own enjoyment of Hellgate will naturally depend on your tolerance for the repetitious levels and your overall desire to find the perfect combination of skills and items that will allow you to take on the toughest of the game's challenges with ease. Unfortunately for Hellgate, our tolerance and desire levels just aren't what they used to be.

The controls are great and make the act of wrestling shine. However, I can't score this game as high as last year's title or pervious installments of the franchise. Single-player 24/7 Mode is a step backward for the series, the Create-A-Superstar and GM 24/7 are basically rehashes of last year's product, and the same complaints we've had for years -- awful AI, lame commentary, poor collision detection -- are still rampant.

Virtua Fighter 5 is a fantastic fighting game. The fighting system is deep, complex, and wonderful. If only the other elements surrounding VF5 were of equal measure. The presentation is fairly standard stuff and the Quest Mode should be online. It would be unfair to hold the 360's poor d-pad against AM2, but know that if you want to get the most out of VF5, you should pick up the HORI arcade stick. If you love fighting games, there's really no choice but to pick up VF5.

The Witcher really is a good game and one that PC RPG fans will surely enjoy. It combines some entertaining and fast-paced combat with a well realized world and pretty decent story that branches and can end in three different fashions. With a load of choice in character creation on a point assignment and morality level, there's plenty of reason to want to come back and play the 40-50 hour game again.

The Simpsons Game is exactly what it had to be, but nothing more. Had it offered online cooperative play, or local co-op play that was actually as much fun as the single-player game (if not more so) then the score would definitely be higher, but as it stands The Simpsons is a very enjoyable, though very, very short, single-player game that both hardcore and casual Simpsons fans will love.