Microsoft Official Xbox 360 Wireless Racing Wheel

Advantages: Very robust and firm wheel. wireless
Disadvantages: MAY STRIKE SOME AS "CHEAP" LOOKING

...This wheel comes extremely well packaged and may take you a few mintues to actually get into it but atleast this lends assurance that it will transport well when it was shipped. The packages comes in 3 separate parts: >Wheel >Pedals >Table attachement WHEEL: The wheel itself is covered in a highly durable rubber covering making it very easy to keep a grip on it, which is an important feature if like me yours hands can sweat in the middle of an intense race. The wheel also has all the buttons you would find on a normal controller and they are all intuitively placed. The X,Y, A,B buttons are placed in easy reach of the thumb so when driving they are easy reachablt. The trigger buttons are also present as large levers placed directly behind the wheel so as you can easily use them but with enough room between them and the wheel...

James.Egginton 25.12.2006 · Read review
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Race Driver: GRID

Advantages: Graphics, sound, gameplay
Disadvantages: No split screen multi-player

...Race Driver: Grid captures the atmosphere of every race, from the starting grid to the finishing flag. It's spectacular graphics set it apart from the rest with realistic and licensed cars that make the game as thrilling as it is. When you first start the career mode you set in an American muscle car race in the streets of Detroit. Your aim obviously to win the race but, this is the first time that you see the extent of the graphics and realistic sound effects. After finishing this race you have to race for other teams so you can gain enough money to refurbish your Ford Mustang Boss to mint condition. Once you have done this you are able to create your own team,this allowing you to enter any race that you wish, which you have a car for, as you work your way through you gain enough moeny to buy different cars. After a few races in every...

ljelliott1993 19.04.2009 · Read review
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a racing zebra??

Advantages: great film
Disadvantages: n/a

...I watched this film one Sunday afternoon and I could not believe that I had not seen it before this was a great children's film and was very entertaining. Just when you think your eyes are deceiving you yes it really is, it's a Zebra and he is really cute. This film like all animal films has animals that can talk. The film begins when a travelling circus accidently leaves a zebra in Kentucky on a miserable stormy night. The zebra is later found by Nolan Walsh played by Bruce Greenwood, a horse trainer who's given up his job after a riding accident killed his wife, his daughter Channing played by Hayden Panettiere who wants to be a jockey like her mum when she grows up, although her dad has other ideas for her, she decides to name the zebra Stripes who is voiced by Frankie Muniz. Stripes then grows up and as he lives near race...

jo_field26 14.11.2008 · Read review
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Review of Racing Stripes (DVD)

Racing stripes, Always follow your dreams.

Advantages: Lots of fun and entertainment.
Disadvantages: Can be predictable and farfetched.

...One thundery night a box is accidentally abandoned in the middle of the road by a traveling circus. Nolan Walsh is driving along this road and comes across the box and discovers a baby zebra inside. He decides to take the zebra home to his farm next door to a racing track. Nolans daughter Channing names him Stripes. As stripes is growing up he decides he is going to race at the local track, not knowing in fact he is not a race horse. Stripes sets about training for his dream using things such as the mail truck to race against as practice. On the farm he makes many friends such as Tucker, Franny and reggie. Tucker helps Stripes with his training as before Nolan retired from training race horses Tucker helped to coach some winning horses. Channing also has a dream to make herself big down at the race track but her father stands in her...

Lele76 06.12.2009 · Read review
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The race is on

Advantages: Brilliant fun family film, would make a great Disney ride!
Disadvantages: Not a classic

...either but human form is more realistic than robot. He looked more like something out of Star Wars and I just felt this didn't fit with the general idea of aliens that the film carried. Race to Witch Mountain is a remake of the 1975 film Escape to Witch Mountain which has been modernised to create a much more exciting and adventurous film. With Disney's spark of magic, and lots of action and special effects, this makes a brilliantly fun movie which will be entertaining for the whole family to watch. As I was watching the film I could just imagine what a perfect name and ride this would make at the Disney parks so I'm hoping that it will spring up somewhere within the next few years! Running time: 98 minutes Certificate rating: PG Director: Andy Fickman...

frankiefromings13 19.08.2009 · Read review
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Review of Race To Witch Mountain (DVD)

The new age of racing is here

Advantages: Amazing graphics and audio, stunning and immersive environments, different racing styles
Disadvantages: Will take time to get used to each car

...Race Driver Grid is an excellent new offering from those who used to offer us up the TOCA racing games all those years back. This is a terrific game with numerous different racing styles, glorious graphics, amazing audio and such an addictive speed about it. The racing varieties available mean that every racer should be covered and with a different feel to each different racing variety you never get bored or feel like you understand the full dynamics of the game. I truly love the replays and once you have raced hard and come first you have the joys of the replay showing it and how accurate your driving style is with the numerous movements of the front wheels but the part that now makes this game even more amazing is that you build points as you gain results which adds such a new slant on this game style that it is likely to open this...

tangoman1984 28.10.2009 · Read review
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Review of Race Driver: GRID (PS3)

Race Driver Grid

Advantages: Graphics, Wide Variety of Cars
Disadvantages: Lack of qualifying, No set up options

...This is by far in away the best racing game that i have played in a long time on any format. The graphics are spectacular, the secenery surrounding the tracks and the cars themselves are brilliant. There is a large selection of cars of many different types and quite a lot of tracks. I particularly like the ability to create your own team as part of the career mode, this lets you paint the car pretty much any colour you like and as you win more races pick sponsers to provide money. However this game is quite arcadeish with how it goes about things. There is no qualifying to decide the grid, you seem to start where ever it feels like putting you and there are no set up options for you to fiddle with and ruin the performance of your car. Having said this these negatives don't really take away from the experience of the game, i just felt...

empireofdoom 09.06.2009 · Read review
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Death Race

Advantages: A bit mad maxy
Disadvantages: Same old same

...Death race. = Set in 2012 when the United States economy has collapsed, with Unemployment becoming a desperate problem and crime soaring, the prisons are at breaking point. The prisons are handed over to privately run businesses and that's when 'Death Race' is begun. They are the modern day gladiators made up from prison inmates. They must fight for survival and privileges. Into this melee comes Jensen Ames, wrongly convicted of the murder of his wife. A onetime NASCAR racer, he is forced into the games as soon as possible. The games consist of heavily Armoured vehicles equipped with all kinds of armaments and weapons attempting to complete a course, come first, and along the way kill as many of their opponents as possible. On Terminal Island there is no escape but Jensen has a plan. Sadly, despite a good...

MaldivesHoliday 01.04.2009 · Read review
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Review of Death Race (DVD)

Death Race - A Real Killer!

Advantages: Entertaining, tons of action, great special-effects.
Disadvantages: Cheesy cars, flimsy storyline.

.... Jensen Ames has never had such a rough day, until he's given a life sentence and sent to Terminal Island. Managing to outwit the prison heavyweights who have decided they don't like his face--or his accent--Jensen is escorted to the warden's office for a small chat. The prison, which is famous for its deadly car races where prisoners race in order to win their freedom, is run by a conniving and calculating warden with an obsession for television ratings, and at that precise moment, the televised prison races are number one on the box. Unfortunately for the warden, the star driver, Frank (short for Frankenstein) was killed in the last race, and the only way the warden can save the ratings from falling is to hide his death. Lucky for her, Frank wore a mask in order to hide severe facial injuries, so replacing him isn't a problem - the only...

GoFigure 02.03.2009 · Read review
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Race Pro - Good And Bad

Advantages: Hugely Realistic and Emersive Gameplay, Great Cars, Realistic Handing and tuning
Disadvantages: sometimes frustrating, bad graphics.

...Race Pro is my favorite racing game on the Xbox 360. its increasing difficult gives it many hours of game play and at the hardest difficulty will take a long time to master. its increased complexity gives it many settings that you can fine tune, it emerses you in a very realistic world. surround sound suits this game perfectly and it makes great use of 5.1 Dolby surround sound. the graphics have room for improvement but when fully emersed you take little notice of the graphics the racing is difficult and gets increasingly more difficult throughout the game including everything from Mini cooper racing for Formula 3000, the steering wheel adds great realism and is what really makes it the best racing game on Xbox 360. with downloadable content expected i think that this game has some serious potential in the racing simulation market...

RawwBrown 29.05.2009 · Read review
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Review of Race Pro (Xbox 360)