Ubisoft

Game Description:  Engineered specifically for the PC by Red Storm Entertainment, Rainbow Six returns to deliver the tensest close-quarter battles ever experienced online. In this episode, Rainbow faces independent terrorist threats, tied together by one common element—the Legion virus. Rainbow must determine the connection between the terrorist threats and the virus.

But if there has ever been an example of how to completely bastardize a fantastic game, it's hard to sink lower than the utterly lousy Rainbow Six: Lockdown. A backwards step in every single respect, Lockdown abandons the core elements that made Rainbow Six 3 and its expansion Black Arrow such fun, challenging and rewarding games.

According to the ESRB, this game contains Blood, Language, Violence

According to the ESRB, this game contains Blood, Mild Language, Violence

I have yet to play a videogame that makes me jump the way Ghost Recon does when I hear the "thuck!" of a bullet hitting my on-screen commando, leaving him gasping for air as he shouts to his comrades, "I've taken a hit!" That is, of course, if he's lucky enough to take the hit on his body armor.

Game Description: Ghost Recon 2: Summit Strike is a fantastic new peek into the world of the Ghosts, offering new levels and new gameplay for fans of military and shooter action. Travel to Kazakhstan, a Central Asian republic on the brink of chaos. When the Kazakh President is murdered by a Pakistani warlord trying to conquer the country, the Ghosts team up with UN forces and head in for the hunt.

There's something despicable about this game. Something unsettling. As I played through it, I found it bothered me more and more. The limits of technology and control devices ensure that games can only be so realistic. Players understand this restriction, and generally only ask games to be as realistic as their settings require. What unsettles me about this game is that the gameplay is nowhere near as realistic as its setting requires it to be.

According to ESRB, this game contains: Blood, Violence

Game Description: America's Army: Rise Of A Soldier offers the most true to life Army experience possible. Built in partnership with the U.S. Army, this game allows you to create a soldier and take him through the high risk excitement of an Army career. Intense single player missions and high adrenaline multiplayer action build the skills of your soldier and advancing him through his career.

The game is just wonderfully average most of the time, which given the history of games based on films should actually be enough to earn this title praise. The only problem is that expectations were raised for this title thanks to the presence of legendary game developer Michel Ancel. Ancel, who's made games like the Rayman titles and the criminally underrated Beyond Good and Evil brought a certain amount of expectation along with him when he took over this project—and unfortunately, only some of those expectations are actually realized in the finished product.