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• CNET Editor rating:
  2.0 stars Mediocre

  Overall score: 4.2 (2.0 stars)
• Average user rating: 0 stars No reviews, write one!

The Bottom Line: The game simply doesn't provide a compelling reason to keep on playing. Read review

Specs: Everyone, Magenta Systems

• CNET Editor rating:
  0.0 stars

  Overall score: 0.0 (0.0 stars)
• Average user rating: 0 stars No reviews, write one!

Specs: Everyone

• CNET Editor rating:
  4.0 stars Excellent

  Overall score: 8.8 (4.0 stars)
• Average user rating: 1.0 stars out of 1 review

The Bottom Line: Pokemon Red is an excellent RPG for players of all experience levels. Read review

Specs: Everyone, Nintendo, Role-Playing, General Role-Playing

• CNET Editor rating:
  0.5 stars Abysmal

  Overall score: 1.2 (0.5 stars)
• Average user rating: 0 stars No reviews, write one!

The Bottom Line: If you're unfamiliar with Dragon Ball Z, you're excused from reading this review and should just know to avoid Dragon Ball Z: Ultimate Battle 22 at all costs. Read review

Specs: Teen, Bandai, Action, 2D Fighting, 1-2 Players

• CNET Editor rating:
  2.5 stars Average

  Overall score: 5.3 (2.5 stars)
• Average user rating: 0 stars No reviews, write one!

The Bottom Line: Basically a port of the PC version, Dune 2000 is lackluster at best, because it is a port of a lackluster PC game. Read review

Specs: Teen, Westwood Studios, Strategy, Real-Time Strategy, Sci-Fi, 1-2 Players

• CNET Editor rating:
  4.5 stars Spectacular

  Overall score: 9.5 (4.5 stars)
• Average user rating: 0 stars No reviews, write one!

The Bottom Line: Never before have technology, playability, and narrative combined as well as in Final Fantasy VII. Read review

Specs: Teen, SquareSoft, Role-Playing, 1 Player

• CNET Editor rating:
  0.5 stars Abysmal

  Overall score: 1.3 (0.5 stars)
• Average user rating: 0 stars No reviews, write one!

The Bottom Line: KISS fans will be disappointed by the distinct lack of KISS, and pinball fans will be disappointed by the distinct lack of pinball. Read review

Specs: Teen, Wildfire Studios, Pinball, Pinball, 1 Player

• CNET Editor rating:
  2.5 stars Average

  Overall score: 5.8 (2.5 stars)
• Average user rating: 0 stars No reviews, write one!

The Bottom Line: The license goes a long way to keep the game and story interesting, but it's frustrating that the game itself wasn't better. Read review

Specs: Mature, Iguana Entertainment, Action, General Action, 1-4 Players

• CNET Editor rating:
  4.5 stars Spectacular

  Overall score: 9.3 (4.5 stars)
• Average user rating: 0.5 stars out of 1 review

The Bottom Line: The premise of the game is gimmicky, but after its sordid skin is peeled away, a true gem of a 3D platformer is revealed. Read review

Specs: Mature, Rare Ltd., Action

• CNET Editor rating:
  3.5 stars Very good

  Overall score: 7.6 (3.5 stars)
• Average user rating: 0 stars No reviews, write one!

The Bottom Line: If PaRappa left you wanting more games in that vein, Bust A Groove makes for a good follow-up. Read review

Specs: Everyone, Metro, Music, General Action, Fantasy, 1-2 Players

• CNET Editor rating:
  4.0 stars Excellent

  Overall score: 8.4 (4.0 stars)
• Average user rating: 0 stars No reviews, write one!

The Bottom Line: Fans of the original game are in for a treat, but not enough has changed to make the game attractive to those who didn't click with the original. Read review

Specs: Everyone, Whoopee Camp, Action, 1 Player

• CNET Editor rating:
  3.0 stars Good

  Overall score: 6.9 (3.0 stars)
• Average user rating: 0 stars No reviews, write one!

The Bottom Line: WipeOut 64 isn't horrible, it just feels like the developer's first effort for the system at times - which it is. Read review

Specs: Everyone, Psygnosis, Driving, Futuristic Racing, Sci-Fi, 1-4 Players

• CNET Editor rating:
  3.0 stars Good

  Overall score: 6.2 (3.0 stars)
• Average user rating: 0 stars No reviews, write one!

The Bottom Line: Sony seems to have put a lot into this game, but it lacks polish. Read review

Specs: K, SCEA, Sports, Baseball Sim, 1-2 Players

• CNET Editor rating:
  0.0 stars

  Overall score: 0.0 (0.0 stars)
• Average user rating: 0 stars No reviews, write one!

Specs: Everyone, Banpresto, Role-Playing

• CNET Editor rating:
  2.0 stars Mediocre

  Overall score: 4.4 (2.0 stars)
• Average user rating: 0 stars No reviews, write one!

The Bottom Line: Compared with more recent spy games for the PlayStation, Mission: Impossible just doesn't stand up. Read review

Specs: Teen, X-ample, Action, General Adventure, Science-fiction, 1 Player

• CNET Editor rating:
  0.0 stars

  Overall score: 0.0 (0.0 stars)
• Average user rating: 0 stars No reviews, write one!

Specs: Everyone, Argonaut Games, Adventure, Fantasy Action Adventure, Fantasy

• CNET Editor rating:
  0.0 stars

  Overall score: 0.0 (0.0 stars)
• Average user rating: 4.0 stars out of 1 review

Specs: Everyone

• CNET Editor rating:
  1.0 stars Terrible

  Overall score: 2.5 (1.0 stars)
• Average user rating: 0 stars No reviews, write one!

The Bottom Line: It's pretty hard to believe that someone at Activision saw this game and felt that it was worth bringing out in the States. Read review

Specs: Teen, Gremlin Interactive, Action, General Action, 1-2 Players

• CNET Editor rating:
  0.0 stars

  Overall score: 0.0 (0.0 stars)
• Average user rating: 0 stars No reviews, write one!

Specs: Nintendo, Action RPG, Fantasy

• CNET Editor rating:
  4.0 stars Excellent

  Overall score: 8.4 (4.0 stars)
• Average user rating: 4.0 stars out of 2 reviews

The Bottom Line: The third game in the Spyro series is an obvious rehash, but when a game is as well produced as Year of the Dragon is, such a thing is easy to forgive. Read review

Specs: Everyone, Insomniac Games, Action, General Action, 1 Player

• CNET Editor rating:
  4.5 stars Spectacular

  Overall score: 9.5 (4.5 stars)
• Average user rating: 0 stars No reviews, write one!

The Bottom Line: Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2 represents nothing less than the best skateboarding game the system has to offer. Read review

Specs: Everyone, Edge of Reality, Sports, Skateboarding

• CNET Editor rating:
  4.0 stars Excellent

  Overall score: 8.8 (4.0 stars)
• Average user rating: 0 stars No reviews, write one!

The Bottom Line: While it isn't that much different from the last SmackDown!, SmackDown! 2 makes enough incremental changes and upgrades to be significant in its own right. Read review

Specs: Teen, Yuke's, Sports, Wrestling, 1-4 Players

• CNET Editor rating:
  1.5 stars Poor

  Overall score: 3.5 (1.5 stars)
• Average user rating: 0 stars No reviews, write one!

The Bottom Line: Are those two fighters really smoking opium in that igloo? Read review

Specs: Teen, Capcom, Action, 1-2 Players

• CNET Editor rating:
  1.0 stars Terrible

  Overall score: 2.4 (1.0 stars)
• Average user rating: 0 stars No reviews, write one!

The Bottom Line: Somewhere inside the Dreamcast version of Urban Chaos is a decent game, struggling to escape. But the layers and layers of flaws completely negate any strong points the game could have had. Read review

Specs: Mature, Mucky Foot Productions, Action, General Action

• CNET Editor rating:
  3.5 stars Very good

  Overall score: 7.5 (3.5 stars)
• Average user rating: 0 stars No reviews, write one!

The Bottom Line: There's little doubt that Star Gladiator's animated 3-D backgrounds are the best going. Read review

Specs: Teen, Capcom, Action, General Action, 1-2 Players