Requirements Engineering is a sub discipline of Software Engineering, which is an important and vital phase in the overall software engineering life cycle. Software as a final product is deemed to fail if it does not fulfill the needs of its users. A number of contributions have been made to refine the requirements engineering process. Most of them attempted to link requirements to goals. This new trend is called as GoalOriented Requirement Engineering (GORE). A number of goaloriented RE methods have been subsequently derived by various researches. This paper reviews some of the significant research works done in GORE. The comparative study may serve as a guide for readers to select an appropriate goal-oriented technique for fulfilling his/her requirements engineering needs.