Second Winter - Johnny Winter

This Winter Wii Are Going To Vancouver

Advantages: Some great events and a chance to dress your Mii up for winter.
Disadvantages: This game will hold your attention, but for how long is a different matter.

With the Winter Olympics fast approaching it?s time for the old rival companies Nintendo and Sega to reunite for their third game outing together to feature characters from the two respective gaming series? in the form of Mario & Sonic at the Winter Olympics. The game is the first in the range of various games that are being released to coincide with the upcoming Winter Olympics in Vancouver and will be exclusive to the Wii and Nintendo DS, well after all Nintendo aren?t going to let Sony and Microsoft get their grubby little hands on their prize characters now are they. For those of you who did not have the pleasure of playing the Summer Olympics game that Nintendo released for the Beijing games this game works in a very similar fashion with you taking control of your chosen character/athlete and competing in ...

HarryKgh 28.10.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Mario & Sonic at the Winter Olympic Games (Wii)

Mario & Sonic at the Winter Olympic Games (Wii) is an 'ok' game.

Advantages: Lots of sports, can play with balance board, ability to play with a mii, dream events are fun.
Disadvantages: No real story, Balance Board controls poorly on most mini-games, might get boring quickly.

First off, Mario and Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games is yet another mini-game collection. The Wii has seen a large amount of these types of games lately, so if yet another one is going to appear on the Wii, it had better be a good one. And that's the problem with this particular game. In no way is this game terrible, but it isn't that remarkable either. If it released on another console i might have been a bit more forgiving, however on a console with such a large number of mini-game collections already, there are probably quite a few collections out there already that surpass this game. *Appearance and Sound* GRAPHICS The graphics in this game are as you'd expect them to be, although there are a few places where the graphics are exceptionally good. One example of this is when you are on the 'Sport Select' screen, the backgrounds ...

JugglingT 16.12.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Mario & Sonic at the Winter Olympic Games (Wii)

Decent Winter Reading

Advantages: A beautifully layered story
Disadvantages: Too expensive for a purchase

A few years ago, I read Christopher Fowler's ''Full Dark House'', a detective story partly set in the midst of the Blitz. The restrictions imposed by being in the middle of a major city at war put a different spin on solving a crime and I'd never read anything quite like it until I came across Rennie Airth's ''The Dead of Winter'', which was set under similar circumstances. During the blackout, an Air Raid Warden in London bumps into a young woman out alone. A short while later, he literally stumbles across her dead body. It appears to be a crime without motive and with very few clues. With police resources already stretched by the war and by criminals taking advantage of it, it's a crime that looks likely to remain unsolved. Especially as witnesses are murdered almost as quickly as the police can find them. However, the murdered woman ...

Soho_Black 16.11.2009 · Read full review
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Review of The Dead of Winter - Rennie Airth