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The third installment in the Mario brothers' handheld RPG series is the funniest and most engaging one yet.

Ratchet and Clank Future: A Crack in Time manages to play to its strengths while adding enough to make this the best in the series.

The gameplay is pretty clunky, but everything else surrounding it makes WWE SmackDown! vs. RAW 2010 a really interesting package for wrestling fans.

A Boy and His Blob is a charming all-ages affair that one-ups the game it's based on in virtually every conceivable way.

Almost in spite of itself, this is both a solid tower defense game and a good piece of fan service for South Park fans.

Whether you're on the track racing or off the track tuning and designing cars, Forza Motorsport 3 is incredible.

The heavy metal fantasy world of Brutal Legend and the characters that populate it are far more well-realized and engaging than the ambitious-but-flawed gameplay.

Nathan Drake's latest outing is one of the most exciting and memorable action games in years, and one you need to play for yourself.

With an excellent visual style and middling gameplay, Lucidity tries hard to be more than average.

Katamari Forever doesn't change much about this quirky, long-running series, and you know what? That's totally OK.

Zombie Apocalypse brings dual-joystick shooting and zombies together in a really unimaginative way.

Extraction gets a lot of mileage out of the Dead Space setting, with a decent light-gun campaign that's worth playing through... once.

Vanillaware's lush and layered visuals and the game's razor-sharp combat elevate Muramasa well beyond your average brawler.

Eagle-eyes will notice a few rough spots, but there's enough good, solid virtual pinball here to keep players satisfied.

Physics and sadism combine to great effect in this motocross action game on Xbox Live Arcade.

Improvements on the original in every area make Dirt 2 the one to beat when it comes to off-road racing.

In spite of its wonderfully unique concept, Scribblenauts struggles to fulfill its potential.

If you like the way Bungie makes first-person shooters, you'll enjoy Halo 3: ODST.

It trades its predecessor's goofy fan-service enthusiasm for something approaching relevance and seriousness, but MUA2 still packs a superhero punch.

Need for Speed: Shift does a lot of the things you'd expect a sim-style racing game to do, but it does so in a passionless way that's really off-putting.