Champions: Return to Arms.(Product/Service Evaluation)

Good: Neat "good versus evil" branching story lines

Bad: Bang-your-head-against-a-wall boss battles

And Did They Really: Have to throw in that stealth mission?

JENNIFER: Return to Arms does a ton of stuff right--beautiful graphics, interesting environments, and satisfying, no-frills, action-RPG hacking and slashing, plus an online mode to keep you happy once you've beaten the offline game. I played for dozens of hours without tiring of the endless maps and mazes. It induces a sort of Zen-like state, that nice and easy middle ground somewhere between mind-blowing and mind-numbing.

Last year's game got repetitive at times, and that's fixed …