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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Review of Microsoft Official Xbox 360 Wireless Racing Wheel

STAY ON THE ROAD!!

Advantages: Durable. Ease of fitting.
Disadvantages: None

...The Race 28 is a road bike inner tube from Continental. It can be bought individually for around £5 but I bought a pack of 10 from the online cycle shop Wiggle, for just under £35 I also saved a little extra in the form of cashback through the Top CashBack website. 10 May last me a while as i have rode all summer (alleged summer) and have only suffered one puncture which would have been repaiable had I had the inclination. I opted for the 42mm presta valve which in my view makes inflating easier on the roadside with a compact pump. They come already coated in powder, which will stop you having to talc them ( a little inconvenient if you are 30 miles from home), in order to prevent punctures when fitting by the tube nipping between tyre and wheel. I run my tyres at around 120psi and I am very impressed, given the state of the local...

cadds8 05.09.2009 · Read review
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Review of Continental Race 28

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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Review of Racing Stripes (DVD)

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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Review of Race Driver: GRID (PS3)

Racing Without The Road Rage

Advantages: Single player challenge, buying and upgrading cars, track design
Disadvantages: Poor sound effects, unrealistic collisions, Time Attack mode

...Rage Racer is the first title from the Ridge Racer series that I played. Unlike Ridge Racer and Ridge Racer Revolution before it, Rage Racer is not an arcade conversion and was developed exclusively for the PlayStation. That's not to say Namco have taken away from its arcade racing roots though. In Grand Prix mode you start off with a bog-standard car. While it won't improve the performance, you can change the appearance of the car, or any of the other cars which can be bought with the money you win by finishing on the podium. The format for racing is that you pick a track to race on, with podium finishes in all courses allowing you to move onto the next class. Faster cars will then be required to compete. Earnings can also be spent on upgrades and there are four car manufacturers, each whose cars have the edge in one department...

scream4bruce 21.02.2007 · Read review
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Review of Rage Racer (PlayStation)

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)

On the Road, On the Mind!

Advantages: The feeling that you're holding the author's hand the entire time.
Disadvantages: Spontaneous prose will not necessarily suit everyone's tastes

...On The Road is an exciting and enchanting perpsective on post-war America's cultural enlightenment, denoting a people's social revolution on the backdrop of an American 'halcyon' idealism. It highlights the desperate yet opportunistic nature of the 'beat' generation as they expand their horizons across the huge stretch of an entire continent. Outlining the experiences and revelations of a fragmented group of college peers and other random associates, it delves into the fiery-hearted life of drug experimentation and liberal thinking, in a decade where the clasp of the state was becoming ever more relinquished. As a psuedo-biographical work the author loosely basis the narrator, Sal Paradise, on his own turbulent past, and specifically that of the character he befriends and idolises, Dean Moriarty. The scope of the events that...

ChristopherAMorrison 29.11.2009 · Read review
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Review of On the Road - Jack Kerouac

Revoulationary Road

Advantages: Good acting
Disadvantages: NA

...This is based on the 1961 novel of the same name by Richard Yates. Set in 1955, Frank (Leonardo DiCaprio) and April Wheeler (Kate Winslet) move to Revolutionary Road in one of New York City's wealthy suburbs, and have a daughter and a son. Everything seemed to be in place for a perfect family. However, after 7 years of being together, April is not satisfied with her life as a housewife, and Frank despises his job at Knox Business Machines, where his father worked for twenty years in a similar position. The Wheelers feel they are trapped in the way of life of the suburb and the normal "happy family scene". On Frank's thirtieth birthday he seduces a young secretary from work and begin to have an affair with her.. Returning home late, April surprises him with a birthday cake and a proposal that they move to Paris, with April...

medgenie 24.05.2009 · Read review
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Review of Revolutionary Road (DVD)

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)