Clearly, tremendous effort went into the game's unique fully 3D presentation and into formulating the similarly unusual play mechanics.
Wild Wild Racing lacks any real punch and stands as the quintessential middle-of-the-road off-roading game.
Many games try to test your skill, but Super Runabout works to exercise your sense of frustration.
It's a definitive role-playing experience, and the only reason it can't be called the best game in its class is because in a sense there's nothing available that compares to ...
The derivative action in New Worlds does only one thing well: It reminds you how exciting a well-designed real-time strategy game can be by comparison.
It lacks the excitement and strategic challenge you might expect from a game about the cutthroat high-tech market.
Soulbringer's lackluster graphics and poor interface compromise what's otherwise a fairly standard action/role-playing game with an interesting combat system.
Caesar's Palace 2000: Millennium Gold Edition lets players try their luck at six card games, five slot machines, and other table games such as roulette and craps.
It's well suited for fans of Black Isle Studios' previous games, classic hack-and-slash AD&D computer games, and anyone looking for an action-packed role-playing game with a lot of depth.
It's an extremely ambitious simulation that provides plenty of original gameplay but fails to adequately refine its presentation.
It's a third-person squad-based action shooter whose original design concept actually succeeds in adding to the overall quality of the game.
With inviting gameplay and an abundance of hidden characters, Gekido is worthy of the acclaim given to Streets of Rage 2, Guardian Heroes, or Die Hard Arcade, provided you're a ...
It improves on the original's technology and expands its gameplay without losing the off-kilter sense of humor that helped make MDK so unique.
Messiah is relatively short, and the memorable set pieces are interrupted by too many uninspired jumping puzzles.
Super Hornet contains none of the extras that make a flight simulation a complete package, even though there's a good flight simulator at its core.
It's the kind of game that titles like Eidos' Deathtrap Dungeon and Universal's Xena: Warrior Princess should have been.
Its gameplay is wholly uninspired and singularly uninventive, especially considering the cloth from which this game was cut.
The developers made a very impressive attempt to make a financial simulator that's worthy of being called a game.
Screamer shuns the pit stops, personnel moves, and car equipment upgrades that have become familiar to racing fans in favor of colorful, straightforward, hard-driving action.
It's a video game, it's a cartoon, it's a toy, it's a lunch box, and now it's a PC CD-ROM game.
Though the tabloid alien-abduction plot feels a bit dated, there's more than enough splatter and gags to compensate.
M1 Tank Platoon II is still an extremely well-done and researched simulation, and is almost worthy of the name.
Mission Studios has essentially taken the Jetfighter III engine and wrapped it all in a cinematic narrative that would have shamed Digital Pictures.
Starfleet Command is undoubtedly the best combat-oriented Trek game yet.
It improves in almost every conceivable way on its predecessors and reestablishes the series as the premier example of the play style it single-handedly pioneered.
If you don't already know the dos and don'ts of castling etiquette, don't expect to win many games here.
Virtual Pool 2 succeeds as being both an entertaining game and an instructional tool.
Heart of Darkness is the latest platform/puzzle game from the creators of Out of this World and Flashback.
The core elements of 1997's best role-playing game are intact and, in several ways, have been improved.
Baldur's Gate largely manages to meet, and even surpass, gamers' high expectations for this ambitious game.
If you're not adverse to a little lowbrow humor and a lot of violence and mayhem, you'll find plenty of action and still more fun in Carmageddon II.
Earthworm Jim 3D has something to discourage all types of people from playing it.
Baseball 2000 feels, plays, and looks just the way its name sounds: generic.
If you're a fan of powerboat racing and think it's neat that it has been turned into a video game, don't get your hopes up.
The real shame of it is there is a fine, fine flight simulator at the core of Aggressor.
It's clearly the best traditional computer role-playing game of the year and is bound to be an all-time favorite for many of its inevitable fans.
FreeSpace 2 is one of the best space sims ever made and is a solid candidate for game of the year.
This is a great deal for those who've never played the games.
Atomic Bomberman is one of this year's biggest missed opportunities.
Baseball Edition 2000 is more of a "my favorite team just got whipped in real life so I think I'll take out my aggressions on the computer's weak AI" sort ...
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