A huge expansion

Advantages: huge expansion, new enemies, weapons, armour and items, great environment, outstanding plot
Disadvantages: may crash too often, most of the characters are stupid

...Disk Space DirectX 9.0c (included in the CD/DVD) 128 MB Direct 3D Compatible Video card DirectX 9.0 compatible Video driver DirectX 8.1 Compatible Sound Card Keyboard and Mouse * The system should have Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion installed. ENTER THE NEW SHIVERING ISLES The Shivering Isles leads to a new, entirely different world with a new storyline. The player will hear news about a strange door being opened near the city of Bravil in an island in the Bay of Niben. A map marker will be added to make sure that you don't lose your way. As you go to explore this strange door, you will find a soldier talking about it and also another buy who has gone completely crazy after going through that door. You will be adviced not to go through the door, but as this is a game and we got this expansion after some difficulty, we will go...

existtoinspire 23.09.2007 · Read review
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Review of The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Shivering Isles Expansion Pack (PC)

A magical expansion pack for The Sims.

Advantages: Adds a lot of new gameplay.
Disadvantages: None really, unless you don't like The Sims.

...~~~*~~~ Sims Makin' Magic Expansion Pack ~~~*~~~ I have been playing The Sims for years and I have never used one of the many expansion packs until just before Christmas. I was on Amazon trying to spend some of those lovely Dooyoo Miles and I stumbled across the Makin' Magic expansion. (I ended up spending the Dooyoo Miles on something else though as this was SO cheap on the marketplace side of Amazon). ~~~*~~~ The Sims? ~~~*~~~ The Sims is a life simulation game made by Maxis. I am not going to write a whole load of stuff about the Sims but if you have never heard of it before look for some reviews of it or check out Wikipedia for loads of really useful information. As previously mention Makin' Magic is an Expansion Pack for the original Sims game. You need to have a version of the original game installed on your PC before...

donnabroom 17.01.2008 · Read review
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Review of The Sims: Makin' Magic Expansion Pack (PC)

Excellent Expansion

Advantages: Many new campaigns and new units
Disadvantages: Few bugs

...This expansion is totally worth buying if you liked the original Medieval 2 Total War game. It includes 4 new campaigns and more than 140 new units. The campaigns include The Americas conquest, Battle of Britannia, The Crusades, and the Teutonic campaign. Each of this campaigns have very in depth historical details on them, unlike the original game which is somewhat a more generic european campaign without many historical events happenng besides the black plague and the mongols invasion. If you liked the campaign mode in the original game your basically getting 4 new games with this expansion. As each of them is a standalone enjoyment that will have you hooked up for many days. Expansion packs are divided into bad ones, regular ones, good ones and must buy ones, Medieval 2 Kingdoms stands right between the Good and Must...

rfm767 20.08.2008 · Read review
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Review of Medieval II: Total War Kingdoms Expansion Pack (PC)

The great expansion

Advantages: An even better game than before
Disadvantages: Need the main game to play

...on the expansion pack but you also need the following minimum system requirements: ? Windows XP or Vista ? Processor 1.6 GHz ? Memory 512 MB RAM ? 3.0 GB of hard drive space ? 8 Speed dvd-rom ? 64 MB video card ? Directx version 9.0c ? (If you plan on going online) 512 KB or faster Thanks...

seanbv1 06.05.2007 · Read review
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Review of The Lord of the Rings: Battle for Middle-Earth II The Rise of the Witch-King Expansion Pack (PC)

A great expansion pack

Advantages: Now add stunts, new effects, new sets
Disadvantages: still only runs untill 2000

...OVERVIEW: This game is an expansion pack for the Lionhead game The Movies. This pack adds the ability to put stunts into your films. GAME PLAY: The game is set up exactly the same as The Movies. You are in charge of a new movie studio in the 1920s and you have to; build up your studio. Hire stars and maintenance staff, and most important of all make movies. This new expansion pack introduces the ability to add a variety of stunts to the movies. For this to happen successfully you have to employ stunt men. Actors that you already have can perform their own stunts but they are less likely to pull them off. If the do though it makes your film have a higher rating. Stunt men/women are employed from a stunt building. They then have to be trained on 3 different types of training apparatus. The more they train the better the stunts...

gdaisyp 22.08.2007 · Read review
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Review of The Movies: Stunts & Effects Expansion Pack (PC)

the sims 2 pets expansion pack

Advantages: great new features
Disadvantages: i prefer holiday pack more

...The product I am reviewing is "the Sims 2 pet's expansion" About a year ago I loved playing on the Sims 2 games. I paid £14.99 for this game from play.com Id purchased : The Sims 2 University, The Sims 2 Nightlife, The Sims 2 Open For Business, The Sims 2 Family Fun Stuff Pack, The Sims 2 Seasons ,The Sims 2 Bon Voyage and of course last but not least the Sims 2 pets . The thing that appealed to me the most about purchasing the expansion and stuff packs were the fact they offered great new furniture, hair styles, clothes, dialect, houses, cars and many other things my Sims could experiment. Buying the expansion packs made playing on the Sims 2 so much more entertaining, when you buy a game and you play it religiously after so long you get bored of it but with the large choice of expansion and stuff packs available you always had...

Sarahhhx 06.12.2008 · Read review
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Review of The Sims 2: Pets Expansion Pack (PC)

By far the best expansion!

Advantages: Adds a lot to the game, speeds it up
Disadvantages: A bit buggy at the moment

...It's a busy life for a Sim. If they aren't at work, they're probably working on building up their skill points, trying to forge relationships, and of course, trying not to die of starvation or wet themselves. And now for those moments in between comes the latest expansion park, Free Time. For me, Free Time has been exactly what I was looking for. It can be hard work managing the lives of your families, but once you've got all that out of the way, well, there isn't exactly much for them to do. While there are games like chess for your sims to enjoy, I just wasn't convinced that enough people in reality enjoyed chess for my sims to take that much interest in it either. And so, many of my games resulted in all of my sims just sitting there watching TV for hours on end. But now, Free Time brings your Sims some all new things to do...

hi_nicola 10.03.2008 · Read review
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Review of The Sims 2: Freetime Expansion Pack (PC)

By Far The Best Expansion

Advantages: Adorable cats and dogs, lots of interactions
Disadvantages: Not many other pets

...I have owned Pets since it's release date, and it is easily my favourite expansion pack for the game. None of the other expansion packs have really appealed to me so far (though I have bought or played all of them at some point), but Pets is the only one that I feel really adds a lot to the game. It's quite obvious from the title exactly what Pets brings to the world of the Sims - pets! Your Sims now have the chance to own dogs and cats. They can also own tropical fish, parrots and a strange creature called a Womrat, but these do not add nearly as much to the game as the canines and felines do. These two really become part of the family - although you cannot directly control them. The dogs and cats are absolutely adorable. They are very well made and look realistic. There are also literally thousands of breed variations you...

hi_nicola 05.02.2007 · Read review
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Review of The Sims 2: Pets Expansion Pack (PC)

Diablo II Expansion Set: The Lord Of Destruction

Advantages: new characters, items and Act
Disadvantages: it's still not Diablo III :p

...A datadisc to Diablo II, it requires a full version of Diablo II to play. It's pretty much to same game, same style, but by bringing one new Act, 2 new characters and uncountable new items it manages to more than double the play time. WHAT'S NEW Characters If you wish to update your Diablo II installing the Expansion set and play further with your Diablo II characters, you have to transform them into Expansion characters first, which only means you won't be able to play them in "bare" Diablo II, but always only with the datadisc installed, so it might be smart to save copies of the character files if maybe you would wanna uninstal the Expansion and return to your old Diablo II. In multiplayer all the characters have to be either Expansion or not, you can't mix them up. New characters: Assasin...

jeaniecz 08.07.2008 (09.07.2008) · Read review
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Review of Diablo II: Lord of Destruction Expansion Set (PC)

Rise of the Great Expansion

Advantages: Add loads to the game
Disadvantages: Takes time to get use to!!

...Return of the Witch King, this expansion to the original battle for middle 2 takes the strategic game to better level. It main focus is the "Rise of the Witch King" which i guess everyone has grasped. The first thing you notice is the new single player campaign, (this shows the story of The Witch-Kings rise to power) during the campaign you will fight using the new Angmar faction (including snow trolls, sorcerers and much more). The story line advances on the previous and creates a whole new one based on the Witch-Kings adventures. The new Angmar faction introduces a slightly different way of fighting/spawning your troops, instead of creating your units straight from the the structures, you can spawn a taskmaster!. These taskmasters can call a variety of different units to the battlefield! wolves, pike men, worriers..and more. So you...

paulomcbutler 07.08.2008 · Read review
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