good and not so good

It is a really good game and i would highly reccomend it .
The only problem is is that unlocking the secret characters, corses, carts and bikes is a bit of a pain. I couldnt unlock any for ages so i ended up buying a cheats book !

Baaaaaad

I have owned a 360 for about a year and after getting this console free from a raffle i can saw one thing:

This is bad.

Had fun on the first night i had it. The day after i turned it on for 15 minutes... but after realising all i could do was hit a slow moving tennis ball against an AI opponent, i soon turned it off and went for COD4 on the xbox 360.

Decided to go for"Wii Play" mainly to get the extra controller. Fun to start with, thought things weren't so bad for the Wii. Played each mini-game twice or so ...... back to COD4.....

Truly the most boring console for me.

ON THE OTHER HAND my cousin who's 11 years old came to visit us for the weekend. She absolutely LOVED it.

Overall:
Only ever use on occasions with more than 4 people- it's quite amusing with 4 people playing tennis. If you own one of those 11 year old girls who loves TV then this is a good console.

Otherwise BAD! severely...

NOTE: Havn't bought any"proper" games but frankly i didnt want to waste the money.

Great game, shame we have still not received it

Pre ordered this game for my son who is a big wow fan, i cant tell you how disappointed he was to still not have it on 14th. We pre ordered it in the hope we would get it the same day if not the day after release. We will definately not be using Amazon again after this.

needed for some games.Some notes about nunchuks

A nunckuk is a simple atachment to the Wii remote that gives you extra control over a game.So far 4 out of 6 of my games need it.If it has a nunchuk icon in the top-right corner of the box it needs it for all or part of the game.You get one free with the console,but you can get another for multiplayer. Here are some notes:
1.The control stick has a special feature:you can move it a little bit and it does the action a little bit,like a steering wheel!
2.The upper button is called"c" and the lower button is called"z" so if you see c and z mentioned in reviews you`ll know what they`re talking about. Don`t get them the wrong way round!
3.It fits in your hand perfectly-no need to worry about it being uncomfortable.
4.Don`t put the control stick in your mouth (if you do it goes all yellow).
5.The cord length is fine(almost the armspan of a quite tall 9-year-old).

So overall the nunchuk wins 5 stars for its special control stick feature; fitting into your hand nicely; and its cord length, and only has 1 bad point which is being just plain white and even this is hardly a"bad" point because you never look at the nunchuk when you`re playing and even this can be fixed by buying a skincase for it.

Wii Remote + Play

Once you have purchased a Wii, make sure this is your second purchase. You will certainly need a second remote(plus a 3rd & 4th maybe later on).

This is ideal with play included, the game is not mind blowing ... but its great and simple to play with a slection of games. Its well worth the purchase

Essential to get the most out of your wii but far too expensive

You only get one wiimote in the standard kit wii console and while this is a fantastic controller hence why I have given it 5 stars for fun I think it is over priced as unlike other consoles there is no 'after market' 3rd part alternatives that are cheaper.

I would welcome a reduction in the price by nintendo to make the additional wiimotes more accessible for more people. Your looking at the best part of £150 to get 3 more wiimotes and nunchucks required for 4 player mode. I have got 4 and it really does make play more fun and allow more people to join in.

Is The game itself acctually good?

I am thinking of buying the game. All these reviews seem to tell the same thing, but is the game (excluding instilation) any good?????

What a let down!!!

To be honest this game is a complet letdown...after finity ward took over and made COD4 and made it modern and they recieved awards for it and it was the most played game ever you'd of thought that once the makers of COD3 made this that they would'nt be stupid enough to go back to WWII...its a rubbish game...the weapons are awful and the maps are too big for the game types...COD4 will still be beating COD5 within a few weeks once the hype about the game wears down...i was a true COD4 player...loved the game and played it a hell of a lot...and i chose Gears of War 2 over COD5...COD5 is such a let down.

AWESOME!!!

this game is truly amazing...was looking forward to cod5 but chose this over it and glad i did...cod5-apalling...gow2-game of the year!

Professor Layton and the Curious Village

I bought this game on pre-order and couldn't wait for it to be delivered after reading reviews and looking at it on line, I have played it non stop or so it seems as it is very addictive. I don't think the TV advert does it justice, the puzzles are varied and plentiful, sometimes it is annoying when stuck and you buy a hint, for the hint to be so basically obvious you feel that you have wasted your coins. I haven't tried to download the new puzzles as I am still working through the ones in the game, but I feel that this is a great addition to the already excellent game. Everybody should try this game, puzzle addicts or not as it has something for everyone, even my husband who is very anti computer games was getting invloved in the puzzles when I was stuck.
I am really pleased to hear that a new game is going to be released and a third soon after, if they are anything like this one they have a winning formula.

call of duty 5 world at war

This game could of been great if they had finished it so everyone could play on-line without any problems. Activison did the same with cod4. Shoddie sub standard company.

Brain training review

This game is excellent fun to start with however I find some of the activities increadibly tedious. However for this price I would recomend this product.

Wii Music plays a 'B Flat'

I love music. I DJ, produce my own tracks, have a garage full of old keyboards (yes, I'm a saddo!) and record interesting sounds... Like alot of people, I guess music's my life, but theirs always room for fun elements to my work and play. So it came as a big surprise when I saw the Wii Music ad on TV.

OK, so this isn't trying to compete with Ableton, Logic Studio, or daftly any other software, This is Nintendo's apparent fun take on making some music on your Wii at their usual fair price. And fair do's to them! Theirs already Guitar Hero and the alike out, so how does Nintendo's approach fair?

It's a mixed bag, to say the least.

Presented under a plush card case that's very funky, it sends all the signals that this would be ideal for Christmas. Even the release date, a month ahead of the maddest time of year, suggests they want this to be a gift to which alot of people can relate to.

An induction session (similar to most of Nintendo's own Wii games) takes you through the 3 main different ways of using the Nunchuk and Wii Remote. Suffice to say, all 3 are genuinely easy to pick and make sense, using a combination of buttons and movements. Unfortunately, a little of the 'spark' is lost once you realise that you don't need to hold the Nunchuk and Remote in the exact position it tells you to, which already signals a pulling factor for a younger audience who won't think of such things. Hopefully!

Jam, Videos, Games, and Lessons make up the main menu, and each accordingly do what they say.

The Jam mode is essentially the core of the game; made up of Improvise, Custom Jam and Quick Jam. All three grasp the same idea that you are basically putting your Wii Remote/Nunchuk movements to backing music, but they offer different ways of implying this. Obviously Custom Jam and Improvise are the funnest, and allow you to 'build up' to a peak after your solo. But among all three modes, the strengths and problems lay throughout.

Lets take the Guitar as an example. Naturally, you'd expect their to be different notes being played to the different position you strum, Wrong. All the instruments for this matter are set to pre-defined note patterns, meaning you have no control over creativity, aside from picking an instrument and the song. This goes for all instruments, and even more surprising on hammer-action instruments such as the piano or vibraphone, which could have very easily incorporated varying notes to your wish. Instead, its just a wash of waving your hands about, which is indeed fun, but as I'll keep saying, it just wears off once you realise you have no control on what you want to hear.

But what about the song choice? Thankfully, a challenge element has been incorporated; you must unlock all the other songs, to which their are 50+. However, after unlocking the majority and viewing whats ahead, it's hard not to be demoralized by the lack of excitement put into the track list. Indeed, simple songs, lullabys like Twinkle Twinkle cater for younger people, and Nintendos own game songs are nice, but their are no golden oldies to which we can all relate to, or at least not heard over and over. The backing tracks themselves lack spark in their MIDI fashion, and sometimes almost drown out your own music.

Games mode offers 3 further choices; Open Orchestra, Handbell Harmony and Pitch Perfect. Open Orchestra is basically just a game in which you must play the chosen at the right tempo (timing). Hardly groundbreaking, but offers a nice little break and has some humor elements if you don't keep in time... Handbell Harmony isn't much better either either; relying on you to play 'handbells' in time with the music. Difficulty isn't so much the problem, but understanding and grasping the concept is, as it isn't clearly explained what the objective is. Finally, Pitch Perfect is an almost opposite as it's incredibly easy - your task to merely match a Note being played to which of the Mii's on the screen is copying. Nice but their are plenty of levels at least which get more tasking due to different music definitions and concepts; some of which I fear many people which become frustrated at, such as 'harmonies' where it make take someone with a genuine musical ability to pick out the sounds rather than those without.

Lessons speaks for itself, though as you begin the game for the first time, you get tutorials and you have the option of playing them on each mode anyway, as well as instructions only a button away.

Video's mode is a fantastic idea that allows you to save your song and video together, thus being able to play them back from the main menu. You are able to create your own videos after performing a piece of music, which then goes on to allow you to choose a design for your 'album cover' and arrange the characters on it. A nice concept, but it wears off after you've explored the few templates.

Throughout all the modes, the music quality is fairly descent. Some will not approve of the MIDI quality, which is indeed sub-standard given the Wii plays 750mb CD's; and it's hard imagine the production team not being able to use this all up, Then again, if all the samples were in WAV format as an example, how long would be loading times be extended? The most disappointing instrument is the guitar, which sounds more like an elastic band being flicked.

The drum mode is interesting. Hidden away unless you own the Wii Balance Board for full functionality, it was perhaps the mode I was most looking forward to - letting off some steam without the space needed for a full set-up. Unfortunately this time round, the problem doesn't occur with the level of creativity you can persue, but with functionality. While there are six different 'movements' you can make on the four different drum kits, the level of sensitivity on the Balance Board is much to high. This results in both a snare and a kick being played at the same time, because once you step on one side of the board, it registers the movement on the other side. The only way to get round this (still sitting down) is by placing your feet right on the edges of the Board. The Nunchuk and Remote registrations are OK, but again, lack precision to interpret real movements. It's safe to say modes like this are in desperate need of the Wii Motion Plus to create 1:1 simulation that would ultimately engage the person into creating real movements.

But in all honestly, the whole of Wii Music needs this functionality. Without it, you are limited to merely waving your Remote around and being told to"imagine" the instrument, as you are not actually required to hold the equipment in its correct place, which takes away some value, challenge, and indeed 'gaming' elements of this software. Combined with a disappointing lack of support for expressing your creativity, relatively poor song choice, and fairly simplistic online option, I honestly feel this is Nintendo's final straw in the market of casual gaming, as this is a concept which has been partially flawed by making it too simplistic, even for the younger gamer. I'm in no way being synical or too harsh. I love my Wii, and I love music, and I understand such concepts should not be taken too seriously. However, their is a fine line between it being too simple, and too complicated. And it has to be said, Nintendo have crossed the line too far to cater for lack of creative input.

Good but let down.......

When it got this game I thought it was brilliant after 2 months I still thought it was brilliant. BUT after 3 months this game was pretty average the reason being the lack of events, yea sure I got hundreds of world records but there is just NOT ENOUGH EVENTS!!!!!! The graphics are very good there are some good characters to choose from, there are some dream events which are quite fun that you can't have anywhere else. Another thing with the game is that if you get a world record on 2 player mode it doesn't count, for example I threw 113 meters on javelin in 2 p mode when the record is only 98 meters and it says 'new world record on the results table but when you start again next time you play it will be 98 meters!

Just take my advice GET SUMMER ATHLETICS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

FIFA gets a whole lot better

The best FIFA yet.... by a long way.
Now I look at FIFA through tinted glasses as I have always been a fan of the series. But after 08 I was getting fed up with the slow player reations, stuttery gameplay and stupidity of the refs.
Well for the moist part the flaws are ironed out. Yes players tend to look ovet their shoulder when revieving a pass over the top and it can lead to silly goals of missed chnces. But you can work over this with experience. Defence is massively improved and I have found on a number of occasions no matter what you do the ball wont find the net (like in real life). On the other hand you can score repeat goals if you are in the groove! keepers are good and charge quickly, reach well but do let in suspect near post goals. as usual kits and stia are all there (minu the bernabeu) and plyer likenesses and graphics are very good.

I enjoy this immensely and the games modes offer so many options from online to Be A Prop and manager mode.
Very enjoyable game and a big improvement on previous years.

A bit of a let down

I didn't really get this game. I found myself completing it in a day. Getting all the top prizes. it isn't worth the price tag. I suppose it is okay for kids of a young age. I didn't think the multi player was very fun either. I think you should of been able to choose which game you played against your family and friends instead of the computer choosing a number of events. It'd be okay it it was only 7 pound but... ach it's ok i guess if it's a rainy day and you'd got not other games to play

Value and quality!

Its hard to review a small lenght of cable, its looks are what you expect, it has two ends and it plugs easily into the back of your telly and the back of your playstation job done.

But theres a little more to it, this cable is good value for money, ive seen some comparitive products charge excessivly for the same product. It aids your gaming experience, your playstation will allow a higher setting and although it doesnt change the digital streaming it will boost the quality!