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• CNET Editor rating:
  3.0 stars Good

  Overall score: 6.6 (3.0 stars)
• Average user rating: 0 stars No reviews, write one!

The Bottom Line: Kingdoms suffers from a long list of problems that collectively prevent it from exceeding its ancestor or from rejuvenating a tired genre. Read review

Specs: Teen, Cavedog Entertainment, Strategy, Real-Time Strategy, Fantasy, 1-8 Players

• CNET Editor rating:
  2.0 stars Mediocre

  Overall score: 4.6 (2.0 stars)
• Average user rating: 0 stars No reviews, write one!

The Bottom Line: The truth is that Emergency has so many faults that it could use some major rescue work itself. Read review

Specs: Everyone, TopWare Interactive, Strategy, General Strategy, 1 Player

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

Specs: Games - simulation, Games - racing / driving, Simulation - bike races, Realistic

• CNET Editor rating:
  0.0 stars

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

Specs: Everyone, Sports, Basketball Sim

• CNET Editor rating:
  4.0 stars Excellent

  Overall score: 8.4 (4.0 stars)
• Average user rating: 4.5 stars out of 1 review

The Bottom Line: Abe's Oddysee balances its action and puzzle elements perfectly. Read review

Specs: Teen, Oddworld Inhabitants, Action, General Action, 1-2 Players

• CNET Editor rating:
  3.5 stars Very good

  Overall score: 7.4 (3.5 stars)
• Average user rating: 0 stars No reviews, write one!

The Bottom Line: It definitely improves the original game and also reflects Cavedog's commitment to fix what needs fixing. Read review

Specs: Teen, Cavedog Entertainment

• CNET Editor rating:
  0.0 stars

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

Specs: Games - sports, Sports - hunting, Realistic

• CNET Editor rating:
  4.0 stars Excellent

  Overall score: 8.1 (4.0 stars)
• Average user rating: 0 stars No reviews, write one!

The Bottom Line: What we have here is an avalanche of new material, which, depending on how you view it, may or may not be a good thing. Read review

Specs: Teen, Cavedog Entertainment, Strategy, Real-Time Strategy, Sci-Fi, 1-10 Players

• 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: Anyone who's still playing Total Annihilation presumably knows the ropes by now. While Battle Tactics is certainly a strong product by typical standards, it is disappointing in light of Total Annihilation's ambitious history. Read review

Specs: Cavedog Entertainment, Strategy, 1-10 Players

• CNET Editor rating:
  4.0 stars Excellent

  Overall score: 8.5 (4.0 stars)
• Average user rating: 0 stars No reviews, write one!

The Bottom Line: Driver's core game design is so strikingly original and fun that it can be enjoyed without embellishment. Read review

Specs: Teen, Reflections Interactive, Driving, Mission-based Driving, 1 Player

• CNET Editor rating:
  0.0 stars

  Overall score: 0.0 (0.0 stars)
• Average user rating: 1.0 stars out of 1 review

Specs: a.k.a Studios, Sports

• CNET Editor rating:
  4.0 stars Excellent

  Overall score: 8.9 (4.0 stars)
• Average user rating: 0 stars No reviews, write one!

The Bottom Line: Duke Nukem Atomic is a heck of a fun addition to the original episodes. Read review

Specs: 3D Realms

• CNET Editor rating:
  4.5 stars Spectacular

  Overall score: 9.3 (4.5 stars)
• Average user rating: 0 stars No reviews, write one!

The Bottom Line: Cavedog has done a commendable job of taking the basic mechanics of real-time strategy and using them to create something new. Read review

Specs: Teen, Cavedog Entertainment, Strategy, 1-10 Players

• CNET Editor rating:
  1.5 stars Poor

  Overall score: 3.3 (1.5 stars)
• Average user rating: 0 stars No reviews, write one!

The Bottom Line: Hexen on the PlayStation is a huge and terrible mistake. Read review

Specs: Mature, Raven Software

• CNET Editor rating:
  2.5 stars Average

  Overall score: 5.4 (2.5 stars)
• Average user rating: 0 stars No reviews, write one!

The Bottom Line: Illusions has left this fertile comedic ground largely unplowed, thanks to a severe shortage of characters for the boys to interact with and a paucity of places for them to spread their endearing form of mayhem. Read review

Specs: Teen, Illusions Gaming Company, Adventure, General Adventure, 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: SCi

• CNET Editor rating:
  3.5 stars Very good

  Overall score: 7.3 (3.5 stars)
• Average user rating: 0 stars No reviews, write one!

The Bottom Line: Only a couple of years after they took an interest in computer games, Hollywood finally got one right. Read review

Specs: Tribeca Interactive

• CNET Editor rating:
  0.0 stars

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

Specs: Everyone (6+), Games - miscellaneous / entertainment / educational, Miscellaneous - pinball

• CNET Editor rating:
  0.0 stars

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

Specs: Digital Reality

• CNET Editor rating:
  2.0 stars Mediocre

  Overall score: 4.9 (2.0 stars)
• Average user rating: 0 stars No reviews, write one!

The Bottom Line: Time stands still for no one. Especially not Doom clones. Read review

Specs: Mature, Probe Entertainment Limited, Action, First-Person Shooter, Modern, 1 Player

• CNET Editor rating:
  2.5 stars Average

  Overall score: 5.7 (2.5 stars)
• Average user rating: 0 stars No reviews, write one!

The Bottom Line: Tigershark could have been a really fun game, but there are simply too many imperfections. Read review

Specs: n-Space

• 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: What King of the Jungle has achieved here is impressive and bodes well for future efforts from this fledgling collection of industry veterans. Read review

Specs: Everyone, King of the Jungle, Action, General Action, 1 Player

• CNET Editor rating:
  3.5 stars Very good

  Overall score: 7.4 (3.5 stars)
• Average user rating: 0 stars No reviews, write one!

The Bottom Line: It's hard to fault Blood II for not doing anything new; it sets out to be a traditional shooter and does a good, if not great, job. Read review

Specs: Mature, Monolith Productions, Action, First-Person Shooter, Modern, 1-32 Players

• CNET Editor rating:
  1.5 stars Poor

  Overall score: 3.9 (1.5 stars)
• Average user rating: 0 stars No reviews, write one!

The Bottom Line: Mediocrity, in this case, is a fatal sin. Read review

Specs: Teen, Lemon, Action, General Action, 1 Player

• CNET Editor rating:
  2.0 stars Mediocre

  Overall score: 4.0 (2.0 stars)
• Average user rating: 0 stars No reviews, write one!

The Bottom Line: NAM strives to deliver the fun and intensity of a first-person action game and the realism of a simulation - and because of that indecision it ultimately fails on both counts. Read review

Specs: Mature, GT Interactive, Action, General Action, 1-8 Players