Gift Pack - Blur

Advantages: Just brilliant in every way
Disadvantages: None

...a joy to read from start to finish, and really had me sitting and thinking as I turned the final few pages. It is really a moral story, with a bit of magic thrown in to cheer it up, but come the ending everything comes together in a quite shocking ending which really made me sit up and reread what I had just read! Ahern seems to have the ability to create a magical world on paper which you can visualise yourself so deeply that you are thrown so deeply into the story, you want to keep reading right until the end all in one go! The shiny snowflake cover allows this book to be a great Christmas gift as well as a book that is going to be great to bring out for Christmas again and again. I borrowed by copy from the library but will getting myself a copy as soon as its out in paperback. Highly recommended, I absolutely loved it - this is one book... Read review

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Advantages: Great control. Good graphics. Innovative soundtrack. Longevity.
Disadvantages: Fiendishly difficult. Less character customization than before.

...SSX Blur is the fifth incarnation of the classic snowboarding series from Electronic Arts (EA). Previous versions on other consoles such as the PS2 and Xbox were huge successes thanks to their extravagant graphics, pulsating soundtrack, vast array of tricks, challenges and extras and great modes of play such as Career and Multi-player. With the Wii version, EA have seen fit to radically overhaul the control system, so much so that it seems the Wii's revolutionary controllers have been invented solely for the purpose of playing this game. They're not of course but the Wii's nunchuck and wii-mote fit this style of game perfectly. Playing PS2 or Xbox games on the type of controller that comes with those systems, a lot of players tend to move the controller as well in an effort to turn the skier around an almost-impossible corner (well... Read review

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Advantages: Fun game to play
Disadvantages: Controls are hard to get used to.

...My kids only got the Nintendo Wii there at Christmas 2008, we got them a few games but after a while they were getting bored with the same games over and over, so they saved up their pocket money and decided to buy themselves a game. At first they couldn?t decide which game to choose, they all have different game categories that they would prefer, the boys like games like wrestling and racing games, while my daughter likes High School Musical and Hannah Montana, so trying to get them to agree on a game that they all liked was a total nightmare. After quite a bit of time had passed we eventually came across SSX Blur, at last they all agreed on this game, they already had it for the Play station 2 and they really enjoyed playing it. So for £19.99 we bought the SSX Blur from Game, as we sat on the bus they got more and more excited they... Read review

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