Shadow the Hedgehog (Player's Choice)

A misunderstood title. Much like a teenager, this game can't quite make up it's mind what it wants to be. It lacks identity and has some flaws, but is still a good play-through; 7/10

Mario Kart DS (DS Bundle)

This is what got me in to Mario Kart. There are loads of tracks, tonnes of challenges, more characters and Karts than you can shake a stick at, and it has a brilliant local and online multiplayer. You can even customise your every own emblems and place it on your Kart for other people to see. This is the quintessential DS game; PERFECT.

Super Mario Bros.

The epitome of video games. Holds up exactly the same as it did the day it was released. Unfortunately, this GBA port has some glaring graphical issues and the controls feel a bit floaty. Odd. 7/10.

Blazing Angels: Squadrons of WWII

Shooting Nazi's in planes has never been more fun, though the game is restricted due to the very content it offers; it can get repetitive, though the semi-realistic controls with the Wiimote and Nunchuck are refreshing. 7/10.

Sonic Rush Adventure

As good as the first, but with the addition of sea travel. It feels like the Wind Waker fused with Sonic Rush, which isn't a bad thing. 9/10

Super Mario Galaxy

The spiritual successor to Mario 64. A great game, though the hub world is frustrating and repetitive to navigate. 8/10.

Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare

A good game. Nice controls, a fun multiplayer, and decent single player. Shame the graphics weren't better. 7/10

Tomb Raider: Anniversary

The original was good, and this is better. Shame it doesn't lend you a hand sometimes, as it ca be pretty difficult to figure out what you're doing later on, which isn't fun when you're staring at dark blank tomb walls for hours on end; 8/10

Medal of Honor Heroes 2

Though the controls are a little stiff it plays well and the button layout is well thought out. The single player is a blast and it also has an additional on-rails arcade mode which is pretty cool. Unfortunately the multiplayer was unbalanced and enemies often took rounds of ammo before they'd die. This was the last conventional Medal of Honour on home consoles before the reboot, and was worthy of being the final call before the reboot. 7/10.

Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi 3

Tied with Super Smash Bros: Brawl for the best fighter on the Wii. Well over 100 characters, tonnes of maps, an awesome story mode with well voiced characters and neat new combo's and special moves. The only let down is that the game's online is laggy and slow as heck. However, the online is an afterthought, and this beats Tenchaichi 2 hands down, which didn't even have an online mode; 9/10.

Link's Crossbow Training

A decent rail shooter with a Zelda theme. Nothing remarkable, but fun nonetheless: 7/10.

Sonic the Hedgehog

Before the update this was an emulated version of the classic, and it was emulated well. Since the update, this game has become a full widescreen HD version of the original classic, complete with every feature imaginable; an online leaderboard, additional playable characters, secret beta functions and even items from later games. It also now sports a retro menu with a 3D replica of the original game case. Unfortunately I cant' rate this an 11, so it just has to get a PERFECT 10/10.

Mario Kart Wii (w/ Racing Wheel)

An accessible and fun entry in the Mario Kart series. Lacks any major innovations that weren't in the previous DS entry, and the graphics could have been better, but the online is great and the single player is a blast too. It also has it's very own Wii Channel which even as of 2014 has loads of online worldwide challenges to enter- a game with lots to offer; 8/10.

Star Wars: The Force Unleashed

A great game, but the graphics aren't too great, which was a major selling point of the other versions. 7/10.

Sonic Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhood

A disappointing game. It's a simplistic RPG, but it fails to level you up and progress you as you go. Instead, you'll need to sit and repetitively fight the same enemies over and over. if you don't, you'll be forced to reset later when the enemies become too strong to face with no way of turning back. The soundtrack is also terrible, with awful chiptunes in place of actual music. 5/10

Guitar Hero World Tour

Another Guitar Hero. Still nice, but lacks anything innovative. 7/10

Call of Duty: World at War

Another good DS shoot 'em up, though the controls are still a little blocky. 8/10

Call of Duty: World at War

An excellent game. Though it's missing an entire level, Zombies mode, half of the online maps and vehicles that are all present in the other versions, the online is still awesome, the sound and graphics are decent, and it portrays WWII remarkably as a grittier affair than most games. The controls are also perfect, and set the standards for any Wii/Wii U shooter; 8/10.

Sonic Unleashed

If only the Werehog stages weren't so bland, repetitive, full and lifeless, this would be a great game; 6/10.

Tomb Raider: Underworld

Sonic and the Black Knight

Despite the effort from Sonic Team, this game falls flat due to the insane difficulty in some areas, and sometimes problematic controls. Not a bad game by any means, but nothing you'll want to play through again once you've finished it. 7/10

Assassin's Creed: Altair's Chronicles

Not as good as I'd hoped. When I bought this though, touchscreen mobile gaming was in it's infancy. Not bad though; 7/10.

Art Style: PiCOPiCT

A funky puzzle game with a lot of retro charm. Addictive as hell too. If you love Tetris, you'll love this. 8/10

Asphalt 4: Elite Racing

Like Need for Speed, but without the pumped up soundtrack. Okay game, but nothing more, nothing less, 6/10

The Conduit

A decent game with nice fluid controls, a thoughtful story and cool weapons. It unfortunately suffers from a broken online multiplayer. You won't have a good time when all the online players choose the same map and explosive weapons... and then hack to win. 6/10.

Streets of Rage

This is emulated, so it's the standard Streets of Rage you've played before- however it also has a wireless two player mode. It's a shame that the button layout can't be changed, as it makes this port a bit awkward unless you play it in letterbox format, which makes the screen tiny; 8/10.

Guitar Rock Tour

No lyrics? MIDI style songs? What a let down. 5/10

Guitar Hero 5 (Guitar Bundle)

Yet again ANOTHER Guitar Hero, but this has nicer graphics and more customizable avatars. Still nothing really new to the table. 7/10.

Command & Conquer: Red Alert

The best of Command and Conquer on your pocket, complete with a simplistic skirmish mode and local head-to-head mode. Works surprisingly well and is a definite must-buy. 9/10.

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare - Reflex Edition

Despite having less options for the Wiimote cursor than more recent instalments meaning that it feels slightly different to control, this is a near perfect port of the shooter that redefined war games, and the online is also pretty sweet. 8/10.

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare - Mobilized

The best Call of Duty on DS. Great soundtrack, much better controls and graphics, and a nice multiplayer with ranking system. 9/10.

New Super Mario Bros. Wii

Better than the DS prequel and now with 4-player local multiplayer! Yoshi returns and brings a tonne of new items with him. This doesn't really add anything much more, but then again, it's Mario. What more do you need? 9/10.

Call of Duty: World at War - Zombies

Call of Duty Zombies in your pocket complete with 4-player local or online multiplayer, achievements, and a multitude of control options. The gyro controls make this game and it's the best FPS experience on a phone or tablet around. 9/10.

Driver

Not as good as Driver 2. This game has really started to show it's age, and has difficult AI which seem to catch you no matter what. 6/10.

Angry Birds

The game that started the Angry Birds war machine. Whilst the later games have become little more than the mindless products of hungry executives, this game retains everything you'd want about a game where you fling birds at little green pigs. Fun and addictive. 8/10.

Ridge Racer Accelerated

A great arcade racer on the iPod/iPhone. Decent controls and simplistic but clean graphics, and a customizable soundtrack; 7/10

Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing

This game actually handles more like Mario Kart Double Dash than Mario Kart Wii does, and is a lot cooler too. Unfortunately the online has always been more or less dead, and the framerate dips sometimes; 8/10.

Sonic the Hedgehog 2

Before the update this was an emulated version of the classic, and it was emulated well despite the lack of an options menu and character select. Since the update, this game has become a full widescreen HD version of the original classic, complete with every feature imaginable. it sports an online leaderboard and multiplayer, additional playable characters, secret beta functions and even items from later games. As with the previous game on mobile devices, it too has a retro menu with a 3D replica of the original game case. It even has a recreated version of the beta level Hidden Palace hidden among the normal levels. Truly a mind blowing experience. 10/10.

Sonic 3D Blast

Isometric gameplay works, and Sonic 3D Blast proves this. It's a bit long though, and is more repetitive than previous entries to the nature of the game. Having to collect Flickies and keep them safe is hard work. Luckily, the soundtrack eases the pain, and it's easily the best Sonic soundtrack ever; 7/10.

Xenoblade

A robust RPG. The story is compelling and immersive, and the world is well built and fantastically detailed. Unfortunately it's a very long game and combined with the repetitiveness of combat, quickly tires. 7/10.

Carnivores: Dinosaur Hunter

The game has aged since it arrived on the PC back in the early 2000's, but on the iPod/iPhone it's still enjoyable. There's not much to it other than shooting dinosaurs and running around. It really shows it's age, and part of the fun is provoking the AI creatures and seeing how close you can get before they can munch you to death. Sometimes they'll even work their way up mountains to get you. 7/10.

Sonic the Hedgehog 4: Episode I

Not quite the Sonic 4 we were all hoping for, but an alright effort. A great game scarred by an overall lack of attention, causing the game to have silly issues that shouldn't exist. This version also has some slight changes, including an entirely different Casino Act. 8/10

Sonic the Hedgehog 4: Episode I

Not quite the Sonic 4 we were all hoping for, but an alright effort. A great game scarred by an overall lack of attention, causing the game to have silly issues that shouldn't exist. 8/10

GoldenEye 007

GE 007 is a decent package, but it has some disappointing flaws which keep it from acheiving its full potential. 8/10

Call of Duty: Black Ops

With the addition of Zombies mode and a robust online, this is one of the best shooters on the DS. It has it's flaws, and the controls are still stiff when walking, but it's utterly playable and has the essence of the home console versions at it's core; 8/10.

Call of Duty: Black Ops

Better controls and graphics than the previous entries, and has a tonne of extra killstreaks and features too. Unfortunately, it suffers because the game streams from the disc, which can lead to game freezes and a faster wearing of the Wii's internal optical lens. It also lacks DLC which is necessary for the Zombies mode. Other than that, this is a decent port. 8/10.

Sonic Colours

The best Sonic game on the Wii, full stop. The only thing that lets this game down is the zoomed out camera which makes the action difficult to see on some of the 2D platforming sections. 8/10.

Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit

A lazy port- the physics are unrealistic, and it brings nothing new to the table that the previous dozen NFS games haven't. 6/10.

Real Racing 2

Effectively Gran Turismo on handheld tablets. Tight controls, realistic features, great graphics, decent soundtrack, and an online multiplayer for a fraction of the price of a home console game make this a fantastic game to own. 9/10.

Sonic 3 & Knuckles

Th second half of Sonic 3 is an epic one. You know what to expect from Sonic- PLAY IT! 9/10.

Conduit 2

Better than the first, but the controls are less customizable. The online is at least fairer to play, and the graphics and combat system have had an overhaul. 8/10.

Sonic & SEGA All-Stars Racing

A port of the home console game to the iPod/iPhone. It's let down by some touchy controls. Great stuff! 8/10.

Early Bird

A game where you bounce the bird via well placed items in to a goal ring. Surprisingly deeper than it sounds, and addictive too. 9/10.

The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords Anniversary Edition

As a standalone game, Four Swords is still fun, though it's better with friends. Luckily, this version allows wireless play between 4 friends too. 8/10.

Batman: Arkham City

Battlefield 3

Sonic Generations

A really good game. Sonic Generations does everything that you'd wished the rpevious decade of games had. 9/10.

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3

The best Call of Duty on the Wii. Tight controls, well thought out online with a plethora of modes, an amazing single player campaign with tonnes of twists, and the most cinematic combat of any of the Modern Warfare games. I also has a cool survival mode where you can receive the help of a friend to fight AI opponents in waves of increasing strength. It's let down by the amount of hackers who ruin the experience, but that's because the Wii is easy to hack, not because of the game; 9/10.

The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword

A slightly different take on the normal Zelda formula. The motion controls work fantastically, and the artistic style is lovely to look at. It has as much meat as the previous entries, and the story is fascinating. There's tonnes of new stuff here, and the only downside is that your tag-along helper Fi won't shut up for 5 minutes. if you've played Ocarina of Time though, that's really nothing new. 9/10.

Sonic CD

A remastered version of the original in glorious widescreen HD. The perfect game just got better. PERFECT.

Sonic the Hedgehog 4: Episode II

Better than Episode I- this has better physics, less conventional level tropes, and more difficult bosses. It also has the best 2-player a 2D Sonic can offer. A welcome addition to the franchise. 9/10.

Bad Piggies

A truly creative game that really works your mind. You can do some amazing things with the tools your'e given too. On top of that, it's a really nice game when you're sat on the train too. 8/10.

Assassin's Creed III

Mass Effect 3: Special Edition

Have you ever watched a film and walked away sad, happy, or angry because the emotion on-screen was so well portrayed that it immersed you to the point of feeling those emotions too? Mass Effect 3 does this with all of your feelings. Never have I beaten a game before feeling proud that I paid attention to all the scripts, details and wants and needs of the in-game characters and achieved the outcome I wanted. This is a game which you don't just play, you immerse yourself in; you become the character. There are times when you have to make a difficult choice which may affect a race of people or team mate, and makes you feel guilty for doing this. This is a game that makes you sacrifice things for the greater good. When the ending came and I had to make a choice about what I thought was right- I did this, and I got the very best ending after all my 40+ hours of effort. This is a fantastic game. A real work or art. Fantastic graphics, soundtrack, characterization... Play the game and find out. PERFECT.

Call of Duty: Black Ops II

More of the same Call of Duty, but now with weapons conceptualized for the future. It's definitely a step in in most ways from the previous games, and offers the same frantic online as always. Shame though that it released with tonnes of bugs that had to be patched. Oh, and they still haven't gotten rid of quickscoping. When will they learn, eh? 8/10.

New Super Mario Bros. U

The best 2D Mario since Super Mario Bros 3. What would I change? Nothing! PERFECT.

Nintendo Land

A collection of arcade/funfair style mini games. This really shows off what the Wii U and the touchscreen Gamepad can do- plus it's a hell of a lot of fun. Of particular note are the Zelda and Metroid games included, which are some of the most enjoyable co-op games I've ever played.

Tank! Tank! Tank!

Rayman Legends Challenges App

New Super Luigi U

The DLC to NSMBU breathes new life in to it, making it more difficult, but still utterly playable at the same time. PERFECT.

Disney DuckTales: Remastered

As good as the original NES version with added longevity and additional features. It has stunning artwork and tight controls. 8/10.

Sonic: Lost World

7 Sonic Lost World is a great game that's almost a classic but is instead mildly disabled by poor design decisions. 7/10.

Call of Duty: Ghosts

Another great game from the Call of Duty series. However, whilst it adds a slew of new content such as the guard dog killstreak, extra weapon classes, a squad mode, enhanced sniping view and larger, more destructive maps, it fails due to the fact that existing issues such as host-lag and 'quick scoping' aren't rectified, and new issues such as eve more terrible spawning during multiplayer arrive as additions to the existing problems. 8/10

Super Mario 3D World

Another fantastic Mario, which is the greatest Mario yet. Whilst there are a few minor issues to iron out, none of the detract from this fantastic game, which offers a fantastic experience in single or multiplayer. Perfect sound and music, perfect controls, perfect graphics, perfect length... PERFECT.

NES Remix

A great game in the style of WarioWare, replacing random mini games with challenges created for classic NES games instead. A great test of skills for retro gamers and newbies alike. Great fun, and cheap too! 8/10