Sports Reviews

This game lets you control 21 riders, including top pros Dennis McCoy, Fuzzy Hall, Andre Ellison, Leigh Ramsdell, Jamie Bestwick, Reuel Erickson, and Matt Beringer. There are 10 huge street, vert, and dirt courses and more than 1,500 tricks. Rider animations benefit from more than 400 motion-captured moves. Two-player competitions include graffiti, race, horse, and team attack. The game also includes behind-the-scenes DVD footage, Gravity Games competition footage, and Fuzzy Hall riding in his backyard.

Get past the broadly sketched X and O graphics of past football simulation games with the finely detailed NFL Quarterback Club 2001. Precision artificial intelligence (AI) brings out the chess aspects of the game without taking away any of the sport's brute power. The team-management functions let you draft rookies and sign, trade, and release players, all while managing your salary cap. There are 31 team-specific playbooks to work from, or you can create your own playbook--heck, you can even create your own players and team! You can also settle those "what if" questions by replaying key moments from historical Super Bowl games using authentic game stats. This installment of the series brings incredibly detailed player models--including injury tape, eye black, and breathe strips--motion-captured animation, and the all-new shoulder charge for breaking through defenders. And for you third-string players, there are E-Z Pass and E-Z Catch functions.