Gear4Music Black Strat-Style Guitar and Accessory Pack

Advantages: Cheap, gig bag is decent
Disadvantages: Amp and guitar are terrible

...I bought this about a year and a half ago and in my opinion there are two things I need to review from this. The amp and the guitar. Firstly, the guitar. It is a budget guitar and it plays like that. The tone isn't great and the action is quite high. It is medium to heavy weight but is easily balanced with the included strap. It is also unreliable. The jack in mine broke after four months and I had to have it replaced. It is not a good guitar by any means, but it is so cheap I could live with it. Now the amp. This is frankly not very good. It is dull, muddy and distorts unless the gain is at 0. It is also quiet and hazy. You can tell when you plug a phone or mp3 player into the auxiliary port. Overall, this is not a good pack. The bad amp and guitar make each other sonud even worse than they are. But for the tiny price...

B1GM3 28.08.2009 · Read review
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Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots

Advantages: storyline, graphics, online, solid snake
Disadvantages: hours and hours of cutscenes, to complex for newbies, end of an era

...(No spoilers) Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots is the long awaited sequal to the Metal Gear Solid franchise. It wraps up the story of who the patriots are and how Solid Snake will live his life. Ive been a fan of the MGS franchise since MGS1 for the PS1 and I believe that this sequal is a pleasing and fullfilling end to what has been a great 10 years of gaming. You take the role of ex-pentagon and FOXHOUND agent Solid Snake. Your mission is yet again to save the world from terrorists and bring the world to peace. It is set 14 years after MGS2 and takes your to 5 different locations around the world. The selection of places is great and each one has their own special characteristics and different kind of weather conditions and landscapes. You start off with the standard set of weapon but during the game you collect...

dan1991 23.07.2008 (24.07.2008) · Read review
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Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots

Advantages: +Amazing Gameplay +Brilliant Graphics +Cinematic +Immersive Storyline
Disadvantages: -Install (only a very slight negative)

...and often seamlessly blend with the game. I'd strongly advise watching these as they are interesting and are very good graphics-wise and are very high on detail, you can even see the scars on people's necks from where they inject themselves with nanomachines. The graphics in the game are very good! There is lots of detail on the faces of the characters and the graphics in general are really good, possibly the best I've seen on PS3! The audio is also superb, you can hear the sound of footsteps or birdsong in the distance and it is truly brilliant. You can also choose the background music through the in-game i-pod, but you can’t use your own songs from the PS3's HDD yet. Gameplay MGS4 has a fairly standard health system on the surface, you lose health by falling, being shot etc. and this slowly recovers as you seek cover and aren't shot...

01wojtowicz 19.06.2008 · Read review
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Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots

Advantages: Breathtaking cinematics, superb gameplay, Kojima at his best.
Disadvantages: Game can be completed in under 10 hours, Metal Gear Online is a disappointment.

...Firstly, im going to make clear to those of you who dont know - 'Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots' (MGS4) actually comes with an additional game 'Metal Gear Online' (MGO) included. There are so many reviews of the main MGS4 game here already that im going to talk more about the lesser emphasised MGO. Not many reviews point out this aspect of the game so im going to give you a little insight into it. Do not make the mistake of believing that MGO is anything along the lines of you controlling Solid Snake battling with MGS4 allies against familiar MGS4 enemies through MGS4 environments. Im going to make it clear - its not. Metal Gear Online is, put simply, a letdown. You create your own character and fight Counterstrike-style against your opponents in deathmatches/ team deathmatches etc...seemingly similiar to what you...

echo786 08.08.2008 · Read review
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Metal Gear Solid 4

Advantages: Good multiple ways to play, incredible sound and graphics, cutscenes
Disadvantages: Cutscenes, Installs

...Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots. I got this with my PS3 from Currys. First the case: The normal plastic ps3 case covered by a card slip case. The slip case bears the same design as the normal case, I can't really see the point of it. Inside the case you can see the rear of the package design, which is plain red with the Kojima logo on the left panel and Metal Gear Solid 4 printed beneath the disc. Two booklets, one is the manual and the other is an advert for the strategy guide. The manual has a page of story in and then usual manual fare in the rest. Though it is explained by half-page black and white comic-like drawings. Most of the manual is dedicated to Metal Gear Solid 4 (MGS4), noted by the red page edge, but the last few pages are assigned to Metal Gear Online (MGO). The manual is 9/10, losing only one...

Valad_Amoleo 25.06.2008 (26.06.2008) · Read review
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GoGear Music

Advantages: Great Sound
Disadvantages: Non

...So you need some music to help you get to the commute to work, well this fine little MP3 player is ideal. Style The look of the Philips GoGear is a little basic but basic can be good, the main colours are silver and black with the black on the front and the silver on the black. The buttons are a little too close together making it easy to go on the wrong thing on the menu. Sound The sound is really good, clear (Mostly depending on the mp3 quality), and as loud as you want, also helpful for the parents there is a volume control block setting that allows the mp3 to only play mp3s below a certain. To add to the clarity of the sound the equaliser is outstandingly helpful and can make a big difference to what you are listening, there are lots of different pre- set settings all from rock to jazz with the rest...

Samsky11 11.01.2009 · Read review
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Gear4 Houseparty III

Advantages: Great menu scrolling ability on remote and fantastic sound quality
Disadvantages: Low range on remote and quite heavy

...I received the Gear4 Houseparty III speakers for Christmas and have so far been delighted with them. The box is a suitable shape and gives a short description of the speakers on the back which is very informative: The HouseParty III is a high-quality stereo speaker system for iPod with FM radio. Also included is a fully functional remote control with direct access to the menus of your iPod and an audio cable to link up to other portable music devices and laptops. Its sleek design fits superbly into any room of the house, so you can sit back and enjoy your crystal clear tunes in style. Also on the back is a list of the speakers' main features: -30 Watt total speaker output -Built-in FM radio -Retractable dock for iPod -Hidden LED display -Charges iPod while playing -Compatible with all iPod models with dock connectors...

killercatt 04.01.2008 · Read review
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Metal Gear Solid 4 - Best Game Ever Made

Advantages: Amazing graphics and sound, fun and original, huge longevity and too many others to mention
Disadvantages: The cutscenes could be a little shorter, but they do tell the story very well

...From the first moment I played this game I was hooked, everything about it is brilliant, there is only one negative point that I can find. The gameplay, graphics, storyline, voice-acting and playability are all better than on any other game I've played. The only bad thing about the game is the cut-scenes, although they tell the story well, some people (Especially those who have not played previous MGS games) may find they are too long. To try and keep you on your toes a number of 'flashbacks' and alternative camera angles are available when prompted. The gameplay in MGS4 follows the same formula as previous games, stealthly complete your objectives and incapacitate anyone who gets in your way. However, in this game it is much easier to go in guns blazing if you wish, although it's possible to complete the game without being seen...

bondy100 08.08.2008 · Read review
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The Gear4 Blackbox 24/7 explained.

Advantages: Very good value for money, bright clock display and great design.
Disadvantages: IPhone turned on Airplane mode to have clear sound.

...Not another Apple Ipod speaker dock and FM radio really. Yes it may be one of many Ipod speaker's out there in the market. But the Gear4 Blackbox 24/7 is very different in some obvious ways and some less obvious ways as we'll see later. The Gear4 Blackbox 24/7 as you can see is a beautiful piece of kit especially regarding the £50.00 price tag. The dock is compatible with all of Apple's iPods and iPhones. You'll need to turn your iPhone to Airplane mode if you want to avoid occasional squeaks. Between the base and the speaker is a hidded blue light that provides a usefull glow in your room this helps for when your room is dark and you want too find something. This is manually turned on and off by using the power button on top, or the remote control. The next feature that is on this speaker is the clock display that is big...

jamesbimson 30.06.2009 · Read review
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Gear4 Brings Wireless Sound to your mobile

Advantages: Wireless A2DP bluetooth technology, design, good sound
Disadvantages: Build quality feels a bit cheap

...Gear4 have a nice range of iPod related products now, but with the HouseParty Blu they certainly seem to have upped the design ante. This sleek unit has a nice grill to the front, with some backlit touch sensitive controls. Yes, this is an iPod speaker system, with the mandatory dock, but it goes one step further by adding bluetooth. OK, so the iPod does not have bluetooth as standard, although this can be added afterwards. Where the 'Blu' scores is that you can hook up any A2DP Bluetooth device, like your mobile phone and stream your tunes to it. In practice this work brilliantly. I am not a big mobile phone user, as I use my iPod all the time, but for the purposes of this review some of my fave tunes were transferred to my mobile. The quality was pretty darn good, not as good as docking my iPod, but certainly detailed and very...

davomrmac 30.07.2008 · Read review
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