1Up.com has a review up on Rockstar’s Table Tennis. I have been wondering if this game was going to live up to the hype, and even if it was worth renting, and finally I have the answer.

And while it’s conceivable you’ll be playing head-to-head matches obsessively, you really have no other choice. Bare-bones features include only exhibition, tournament, and online play. I gotta wonder, where’s the dorm-room staple 2-on-2 match? (Or beer pong, for that matter? For shame, Rockstar.) The lower $40 price point helps offset these negatives, which is pretty good for a game that can so easily suck in both sportos and your nongaming friends.

The game, which some basically everyone have given it an above average rating earns an average rating of 7.0 from the editors, and 7.9 from visitors to the site. Looks like there is still a big audience for these types of games.

Xboxic has a review of Kameo: Elements of Power, a game that was one of the launch titles for the Xbox 360, but recently got a price reduction.

I’ve got some mixed feelings with this game. It has a nice atmosphere, and the sound is really great. But when you’re done with the main quest, there’s just not much left to do unless you’re an achievement whore. It’s definitely not a bad game and with its price cut it’s definitely worth the money. And finally because it’s the only action adventure available on the Xbox 360 and the only one that’s next-gen worthy, I still give it a good rating.

And so in the end, the launch title still comes out looking pretty good, especially at its new lower cost, and they gave it a final score of 8 out of 10.

Someone over at Joystiq was able to score some time with John Woo’s Stranglehold, an upcoming game for the Xbox 360 that has John Woo’s name attached to it.

Take the gun out of your mouth folks. John Woo’s Stranglehold looks like more than just a shot-to-sh-t cash-in on the Hong Kong action auteur’s single-syllable last name. Senior Game Designer Patrick Curry (a loyal Joystiq reader) pulled me out of the crowd for a little quality time with Midway’s homage to Woo’s bullet ballets and I came away impressed. This 360 game is from the same team that did Psi-Ops: Mindgate Conspiracy, an awesome Xbox title that was on everybody’s “best game that no one played” list. After commiserating with the staff over the inexplicable disappointing sales of that game, I picked up the controller to try out its “spiritual” next-gen sequel. Stranglehold plays like Max Payne with, better graphics, more style and more ridiculously cool slow-mo moves. Midway’s pitch focused on the destructable environment, which allowed me to blow up everything from wall tiles to frozen pigs.

I will hold off on giving it a thumbs down until I get a chance to play it, but so far it does not sound as though there is really anything innovative in this game. Red Faction mixed with Max Payne…yawn.

Pocket-lint reviewed the Xbox 360 game, Blazing Angels, WWII arcade style flight sim.

When it comes actually flying the plane, everything is very simple and although the planes don’t have any real differentiating flying physics they are easy to control.

In game you aren’t left to your own devises, but have other wingmen to help you fight it out against the axis of evil. These wingmen can be commanded into different formations, and gamers who’ve played any of the Ghost Recon series will be right at home ordering them around.

They give it a rating of eight out of ten though wish there was more difference between planes in the game.

Pocket-lint reviews Top Spin 2, a tennis game for the Xbox 360.

Sometimes you just have to get the bad out of the way first. In the case of Top Spin 2 that means you’ve got to be prepared for plenty of load screens and more annoyingly for those load screens to load, load, and then load some more. Just like an old Spectrum +2 loading from tape the game takes an age between matches and training sessions. This is noticed even more so when some training sessions last seconds rather than minutes.

After that, it is all good stuff about the game and in the end it earns a nine out of ten thanks to the graphics, gameplay, and depth of game. Pretty good for a Tennis game in my opinion.