Pepsi Max Extreme Sports

The controls feel stiff at first and aren't configurable (lame!), but racing pros will like learning to finesse tight responses from the controller.

One of the neatest extreme sports games I have played; sadly, it is also one of the most stale, gameplay-wise.

Great game, horrible music. Very addictive gameplay, and different sports that are all crammed into one game combine to make a very innovative and fun game.

If you're in the mood for a game where each event is reasonably well designed and integrated into a greater, meatier whole, then Infogrames' Xtreme Sports should prove satisfying.

Xtreme Sports offers pretty graphics and varied gameplay, but the individual events are simply too limited for this to have a long shelf life. However, the new events really sets XS apart from other sports titles.

You're flying down a mountain, and you look like your going to run into a rock wall, and all of a sudden, the wall MOVES and makes way to snow. Now if this was a science fiction game, then I could understand. But it's not.

The biggest flaw with the game is it's insane difficulty. We're talking "MDK 2" like difficulty. So bad it will have you either frustrated before you can get past the first mode or so mad at the cheating AI that you'll stop playing after a few races.