Plants vs. Zombies

Leave it to PopCap to deliver yet another deceptively trifling game of the highly addictive kind, one that can easily lure the casual player and hopelessly ensnare serious gamers as well. Plants vs. Zombies is all that, a one mouse-button puzzler that takes no time to learn but maybe a lifetime to quit.

F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin

The long awaited sequel to one of the very best games of 2005, F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin simply fails to live up to its pedigree.

Ditti & Dotto Preschool: Mother Nature's Visit

Though decent pre-schooler games are few and far between, you can always rely on Kutoka Interactive to deliver the goods. Ditti & Dotto Preschool: Mother Nature's Visit is the Montreal-based developer's latest in a line of tyke focused "edutainment" titles.

Bejeweled Twist

Just when you thought there was nothing new left to do with the match-three puzzle game convention of Bejeweled and its 10,000 knock offs, PopCap games comes out and does something new.

Fallout 3

Fallout 3 follows in the auspicious footsteps of role-playing/shooter hybrids before it, Elder Scrolls IV Oblivion and BioShock, widely accepted as Game of the Year in 2006 and 2007 respectively. '08 just might be the year of the Fallout. But maybe not...

D.I.P.R.I.P. Warm Up

Though "die in pain, rest in peace" seems a weak slogan for a car-combat game, D.I.P.R.I.P. is nonetheless a solid smash-bang vehicular shooter, mainly because it's based on Valve Software's superlative Source code. Think Half-Life 2 goes destruction derby.

UberSoldier II

Apparently, what the world needs now is another World War II themed first-person-shooter (FPS) in which you kill many, many Nazis. Well, the world also needs cheaper games, and UberSoldier II certainly fits that bill.

Spore

Better and more sadly described as a "Life Simulator for Dummies," Spore is not quite the evolution of videogaming most hoped it to be, though it is all about evolution.

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