Fable II, a new role-playing game from Microsoft for the Xbox 360, is a thoroughly insightful piece of entertainment wrapped in a colorful, almost deceptively simple package.
Melding intellectual depth with a relatively easy-to-grasp graphical presentation, Sid Meier’s Civilization Revolution is by far the best strategy game to grace a living room console.
Professor Layton and the Curious Village, the simultaneously addictive and stimulating new game for Nintendo’s handheld DS machine, has emerged as the first sleeper cult hit of 2008.