Advice on CMS System

[loki]

After a bit of advice on what you think the best CMS system from your experience. I am thinking of restarting a project I had going which was for Games News and Opinion from the industry.

Previously I have used Joomla as the breadth of addons to make it a fully functional web site were quite amazing. Maybe to the the point there is too much by way of addons. However I had a tinker around with Wordpress the other day and it's something that I thought was a good system although a little bit more rough around the edges than what Joomla is.

What I don't want is for the website to be a complete blog style site as I want it to be a more appealing than that. However it's nowhere near as bloated as what Joomla, Drupal or PHP Nuke is for example. Where I was strugling was the whole menu system. I really like to have menu's at the top to navigate to sections such as News, Previews etc.

From your experience which have you tried and which offers the best performance and funtionallity