NFL Head Coach

Surely Electronic Arts paid a pretty penny for the much ballyhooed NFL licensing exclusivity, so you can't really blame them for using it at every turn. You can blame them for using it so very badly.

Marvel Ultimate Alliance

Also known as "Wolverine and Friends," Marvel Ultimate Alliance does, indeed, have a lot to marvel about. Ultimately, however, it smacks of been-here, done-this, got-the-t-shirt, washing-my-car-with-it.

Family Guy

With Family Guy for PS2, the tone and humor is pretty much dead-on, but two-thirds of gameplay, to quote one of the show's more memorable lines, has "a weenie like a Christmas-tree light."

Tiger Woods PGA Tour 07

Tiger Woods PGA Tour 07 is pretty much the same old same old, which, fortunately, still makes for same old addictive golf greatness.

NASCAR 07

"Improvement" is a word that can be loosely associated with NASCAR 07 for PlayStation2 and Xbox. But while there are things that make it marginally better then NASCAR 06, none of it is a particularly big deal.

Lego Star Wars II The Original Trilogy

Though essentially the same game as Lego Star Wars II The Original Trilogy for Xbox 360, the GameCube, PlayStation2 and Xbox versions of the game just don't quite measure up, mainly in the graphics department.

Madden NFL 07

Though graphically inferior to its bug-riddled Xbox 360 counterpart, Madden NFL 07 for the current general consoles (GameCube, PS2, Xbox) is a slightly deeper football game--despite little advancement from the previous year’s version.

FlatOut 2

More established racing series like Gran Turismo or Burnout are respectively more intricate and polished than FlatOut 2, but this is the only game that can actually make you laugh out loud.

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