Advantages: Gives sports outside the mainstream the coverage they need Disadvantages: Sports round up format can appear out of date
A long running programme on Channel 4 since the late 1980s, it would be easy to dismiss TransWorld Sport as another one of those sports programmes to fill the air time in the early morning schedules. For my generation, It isn't that fashionable to watch either. When I watched it on a regular basis a few years ago (in the mid to late 1990s), I should have been watching the Ninja Turtles or Round the Twist. Now it's on at a time when I should be lying in, an option I often take up.
Not that TransWorld Sport is particularly bad or lacks appeal. Providing a round up of the global sports news from the previous week plus features of sports and athletes on the fringes of the mainstream, the format seems very simplistic now, but when you consider that this was devised before the advent of Sky Sports News and the Internet, it was arguably ahead ...
Advantages: Three or four really great sporting games Disadvantages: The need to 'calibrate' Wii Remote
Let the games Begin...
As a game which came free with the Wii console, 'Wii Sports' had little to prove - a title designed to show off the ingenious controls of the new machine, which at times meant that it felt like a bit of a glorified tech-demo. The sequel 'Wii Sports Resort' is tied in with the release of MotionPlus - the little white box that plugs into the bottom of the Wii controller, offering much more accuracy and finesse of controls - but does the game make the most of the new technology, or is it a missed opportunity?
Set on the tropical island of 'Wuhu', Sports Resort allows you to compete in twelve different sporting disciplines, each one designed to push your skill and co-ordination to the max. In this review, I'll take a look at each of the sports, whilst briefly explaining and summarising my feelings towards them ...
The GM f-bodies. Namely: Camaro Z28 and SS as well as Firebird Formula and Trans Am. Brothers by birth. Great cars by far. Despite the plummeting sales, and the possibility of GM taking them off of production, these will be some of my favorite sports cars ever built. If not for the American sports V8's that started off with Ford's ponies in 1965, we would all be driving supercharged 4-bangers watching Porches and Beamers wiz by us. True sports cars are supposed to cost a lot. Real power can only be appreciated by those who can afford it. That is how it would have been, if not for the GM's f-bodies that place 305 horses under the hood and will give any beamer owner some sweaty moments.
The two brands are brother cars. They share a 5.7liter V8 that might be crude, but they both roar with power. The Z28 and the Formula are the only cars ...
