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Big Beach Sports (Wii)

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from: THQ

June 27, 2008
I brought this game a couple of weeks ago because it was only £12 but when I finally got it I was so disappointed.I am not a serious gamer and yet I still found it really boring after 40 minutes and I was even playing with 2 other people. I would recommend people rent it before they buy so they can make there own minds up but for me I don't think I will be playing it again.

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Civilization IV: Colonization (PC)

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from: Take 2 Interactive

September 26, 2008
Like many others on here, I bought the game with great expectation but can't get past the first hurdle. As soon as the game starts I get an error message with "Colonization has encountered an unexpected error". Not sure if this is related to SecuROM but there is no online help for this issue so I'm left with no option but to retrun to Amazon. Very dissapointing

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Xbox 360 Console (60 GB Hard Drive)

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from: Microsoft

August 15, 2008
To start with I am not "a gamer", but I am an IT systems engineer in Microsoft products. I bought this as a sort of media centre with the games as a sort of bonus. In the games dpt it is pretty good, great graphics, sound even on a std TV.
However there are a no of things I just expected this thing to do which it either doesn't do at all or doesn't do very well.
The reasonably large 60GB hard drive is next to useless at present because it is impossible to store anything other than XBL downloads (mostly trash trailers and demos) and music you rip directly from the DVD drive. You cannot transfer any files to or from the XBOX, even to your PC running an MS OS.
I have a large amount of music and video (much of it Microsoft) on usb hard drives. The ... Read More:

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Gears Of War 2 Limited Collectors Edition (Xbox 360)

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from: Microsoft

November 07, 2008
To start with I am not "a gamer", but I am an IT systems engineer in Microsoft products. I bought this as a sort of media centre with the games as a sort of bonus. In the games dpt it is pretty good, great graphics, sound even on a std TV.
However there are a no of things I just expected this thing to do which it either doesn't do at all or doesn't do very well.
The reasonably large 60GB hard drive is next to useless at present because it is impossible to store anything other than XBL downloads (mostly trash trailers and demos) and music you rip directly from the DVD drive. You cannot transfer any files to or from the XBOX, even to your PC running an MS OS.
I have a large amount of music and video (much of it Microsoft) on usb hard drives. The ... Read More:

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Halo 3 (Xbox 360)

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from: Microsoft

September 25, 2007
It was over a year ago now I came home and unwrapped this game, and whats changed since then?
The new title update (TU2) provides many awesome upgrades that the game didn't need but i still welcomed. This game is still the on I play most even after a year. It is a truely epic game for both multiplayer and Campaign a MUST BUY

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Grand Theft Auto IV (PS3)

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from: Rockstar

April 29, 2008
It just shows that you can't depend on reviews when choosing games.

I was disappointed with this game and have now traded it in after about three hours of game play. I couldn't be bothered to play any more.

I felt the general game play was nothing special. I couldn't get a hang of the driving and found myself having to restart some of the missions over and over again until I just got frustrated. Also, it is frustrating having to go back to all the same location again and again to do a mission that involved chasing someone round in a car. Not very interesting really.

On the other hand, I admit that the general presentation of the game was second to only Mass Effect. And I admit Nico was quite a likeable character.

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Wii Wheel (Official)

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from: Nintendo

April 16, 2008
A Wii wheel comes with MarioKart the game but MarioKart comes into its own when you are racing someone else.

With one wheel and 2 children it was arguments every time the game was played - an extra wheel was a must.

The wheel transforms the game and the official wheel feels the best and is worth a couple of extra pounds.

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The Sims 2: Apartment Life Expansion Pack (PC DVD)

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from: Electronic Arts

August 29, 2008
From the blurb on EA's site, I wasn't expecting great things from this expansion. It sounded as though you just get a new building type, but there's much more to it than that.
Sure, a large element is the apartments, but even those are better than I anticipated. If you've ever been stuck with a homeless family with low funds, or if your single guy is friendless, apartments provide the perfect solution. If your sim feels lonely, they only have to go and tap on someone's door (at a reasonable hour), and some apartments cost less than 1k a week.
There's also a hint of magic in the air, but I suspect that it takes more than the hour that I played to find that

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Call of Duty: World at War (Xbox 360)

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from: Activision

November 14, 2008
Well i am willing to give this game a shot (literally), hold all bias and just play it. You cannot review a game based on past experience, especially when Treyarch will most likely do their best to change bad points players have expressed for cod3.

What happened to a clean slate?! Each game is different and unique, they aren't going to bring out the same game if it was unpopular for the most part...

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Gears of War 2 (Xbox 360)

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from: Microsoft

November 07, 2008
Well i am willing to give this game a shot (literally), hold all bias and just play it. You cannot review a game based on past experience, especially when Treyarch will most likely do their best to change bad points players have expressed for cod3.

What happened to a clean slate?! Each game is different and unique, they aren't going to bring out the same game if it was unpopular for the most part...