I really feel sorry for poor Harry. He had such a promising title in "The Order of the Phoenix" videogame. There are many innovations and good ideas that EA manage to include into the game. But we will see in the next lines why some small key elements make the playing experience of this game only mediocre.

After a mediocre title (Secret of the Silver Earring), Frogwares comes out with a new adventure game starring Sherlock Holmes and his mate Dr. Watson. Some of you who already played the first title might thing that this is just a sequel, but that's not true. The Awakened is a new way of telling a story of Conan Doyle, involving the two international heroes Holmes and Watson.

Driver: Parallel Lines is the fourth game of the Driver series and is the most violent one receiving an 18 rating in the UK. There is no comparison for GTA: San Andreas' violence, but still you can find here a lot of 'dirty' things. The story no longer follows undercover cop Tanner, instead it focuses on T.K. (a wheelman) and his adventures in a 1978 and 2006 New York.

The tactical shooter genre is hard but at the same time very rewarding. Games like America's Army, Brothers in Arms series, Delta Force series, Ghost Recon series, Rainbow Six series and let's not forget SWAT series made millions of players part of a deadly team involved in counter-terrorist actions.

One of the most original games ever, Overlord isn't like anything you've seen so far amongst the games. It has a bit of everything, all combined into one package. If you want to compare it with something, it can help if you think at a big pizza. Basically it's a big pizza where you add a little salami, some mushrooms, pepperoni, cheese, and all that you like – in small quantities. Overlord is the good pizza that we've all been waiting for.

Lost Planet was first released for Xbox 360 on January 12, 2007. When I saw the game on Xbox 360 I realized that it was an addictive game with a strong gameplay and story. On June 26, it was released for PC and I had the privilege to test the game. I must say that it's an almost perfect replica.

Halo 2 for the PC benefited by a huge hype. The Microsoft marketing department created so much hype around the game that every player wanted to have it. Long time after the XBOX version of Halo 2 was released, the PC version, Vista only, was made available for the public.

Nine years have passed since Codemaster released the first Colin McRae Rally game. Nine years in which the franchise earned six more episodes. Every episode brought something new to the rally games scene even though there were good or bad things. With its ups and downs, the franchise remains the best in the rally games scene. As a result over the years the Colin McRae Rally games were developed and published for several consoles besides the PC including: PlayStation, PlayStation 2, PlayStation Portable, Game Boy Advance, Xbox, and N-Gage. The last episode called Dirt already appeared for PC and XBOX 360 and probably will have also a PS3 version later this year.

Space sim is surely one of the first genres that appeared and a lot of space sim games enjoyed a huge success. Star Riders, Elite, Wing Commander, Traveller and X-Wing. Starlancer and Freespace, the X series and the list can go on - they all entertained us over the years.

I can't believe how some series manage to release game after game in such a short period of time. I know that EA does it brilliantly, and I'm not talking about the quality of their games, but still .... The same goes for UFO series. Only a couple of months passed since Afterlight was released and now we have the Extraterrestrials on the table. Let's see what's in the package.