Rae Road - Mark Rae

Advantages: Some good tracks, great music to relax too.
Disadvantages: A little too much of the same thing

...After having had a phenomenal start to the year with the fabulous 'Put Your Records On', Bailey Rae subsequently brought out this much in demand, self-titled debut album. The album starts with the track 'Like A Star', which is a slow, jazzy number. Her vocals are still distinctive but the song is not as catchy or as memorable as 'Put Your Records On'. 'Enchantment' is less jazzy, and also quite unmemorable, fortunately the CD then redeems itself with 'Put Your Records On'. This is followed by 'Til It Happens To You' which whilst being another slow number has a nice beat with a definite blues feel followed by another single 'Trouble Sleeping' which is a bit livelier again. The haunting strings that play during the introduction of 'Call Me When You Get This' reminds me of a 1960s film soundtrack, although the rest of the track... Read review

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Advantages: great game
Disadvantages: none

...simple game to get the hang of if you have had previous experience on racing games. The sound is not too bad I feel, and you have directions given to you by Nicky Grist (co-driver to McRae) in the rally mode. Those unaware of rallying, the driver has a co-driver, giving directions on where they have to go. If you do not quite catch what he says, do not despair! The reason is because you have the directions shown for you too on the screen. Graphically the game is superb. I found very few flaws in the design. A lot of detail has been included (even a flapping bonnet once the car has encountered a lot of damage). Tyre marks and dust clouds rise when you skid around a corner (although this does look very cheap because they are always the same length regardless of how much you actually do skid). There are five camera angles provided when you... Read review

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Advantages: Truly realistic handling, long lifespan
Disadvantages: No of official WRC licence

...The Colin McRae Rally series returns for 2005 and is now even better than ever. Firstly there are more cars available to drive, over 30 in total in fact. These range from present day turbo 4wd machines,-such as the subaru impreza or citroen xsara- to classic rally cars-such as the ford escort mk2-, also included are some of the now outlawed "Group B" cars boasting upwards of 450 bhp if you really fancy a challenge! The realistic control and handling of these cars however is what impresses me the most. The handling of cars in previous editions has always been spot on, but the makers have again improved this even further. As someone who has driven rally cars for real I can testify that this games handling is by far the most realistic out of all other rally games. With hundreds of different variations of track surface... Read review

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