Review: Saw II: Flesh & Blood

Players will certainly think twice before running around like a headless chicken, given the sinister surroundings and the numerous traps waiting for them around each corner or closed door.

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Review: Medal of Honor

That Medal of Honor feigns reality but delivers only standard video-game combat makes it no more reductive, misleading, and insensitive to the wartime experience than its legion of genre brethren.

Review: Hydrophobia

Hydrophobia works hard at making water move like water—surging forward, leveling out gradually, and moving back and forth based on the velocity with which it emerged.

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Review: Mafia II

Mafia II is overloaded with such chores, which put a far greater premium on commuting toward choppy pre-rendered cinematic sequences than it does on letting you wreak inventive havoc.

Review: Halo: Reach

It remains fundamentally about proceeding straight to the next skirmish, killing every enemy in sight, and then escaping to a checkpoint so an ignorable, if attractive, cutscene can begin.

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Review: Disney Guilty Party

Where Disney Guilty Party shines is in the mystery elements—not so much the actual assembling of clues, which is fairly automatic, but the style with which the mystery is presented.