SSX on Tour Official Strategy Guide

Advantages: this guide is very helpful with most things like main and sub missions
Disadvantages: for the photo ops quite alot of the maps show the wrong numbers on them and do not pair with there photos

...For Christmas I asked for a copy of san andreas (almost definitely the best game on earth so far) and me being me I love to complete games 100% without using any cheats so along with the game I thought it would be a good idea to get the official walk through guide (published by Brady games). Anyway Christmas came and I got my game and my guide and I thought "great" ill jus sneak away from the family to go and play san andreas. So I started playing and all was fine until I got to one of those hard @ss missions where u just feel like giving up and throwing in the towel. It was only until I stopped playing san Andreas that I realised I had my guide. So I thought perfect now I can put to use some of the books tips. So I opened it up and flicked through the pages to find the right mission. As I was flicking through I noticed the map with all... Read review

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Advantages: Helps you understand how to play the sims 2
Disadvantages: You may follow certain storylines and be afraid to explore the game

...This is very useful if you are new to the game. When I first started playing the game I did not have this which resulted in most of my families dying out. Once I purchased the guide I found out where I was going wrong, it also offers help and advice as well as many tips as to how the game works. The guide also includes full career listings which includes how much you get paid for each job and what hours you work. As well as this, the guide lists all objects in the game as well as their descriptions and what effects they have on your sims. Sim relationships are also explored in the guide which tells you how you can improve or decrease someone's relationship with another sim by listing all the interactions and what effects the have on sim relations. The guide gives you tips on how to manage the pre-made Maxis families which come... Read review

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Advantages: Addictive gameplay
Disadvantages: Lack of enthusiasm, no commentary

...The SSX franchise has been the best snowboarding franchise for a long time. Competitors have tried to overthrow Electronic Arts with games such as Amped but SSX always seem to be the king of the slopes. Well now after two years of waiting the fourth development of the popular SSX series is here, and the riders are going On Tour! So what have EA added to the game this time round? Well the first noticeable difference is the fact that you know longer control one of the already created riders in World Tour mode, infact you have to create your own rider to ride the slopes on. Choose between male and female and between skis or board, yeah that's right, you can now choose to ride of skis or a snowboard. So what's the difference between being a skier or a snowboarder? Well not much really, the Monster Tricks are different (more about... Read review

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