SSX Tour Takes A Tumble Down The Slopes

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 that...

JJBDude 06.02.2006 · Read review
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Review of SSX on Tour (Xbox)

SSX Blur

Advantages: Great control. Good graphics. Innovative soundtrack. Longevity.
Disadvantages: Fiendishly difficult. Less character customization than before.

...SSX Blur is the fifth incarnation of the classic snowboarding series from Electronic Arts (EA). Previous versions on other consoles such as the PS2 and Xbox were huge successes thanks to their extravagant graphics, pulsating soundtrack, vast array of tricks, challenges and extras and great modes of play such as Career and Multi-player. With the Wii version, EA have seen fit to radically overhaul the control system, so much so that it seems the Wii's revolutionary controllers have been invented solely for the purpose of playing this game. They're not of course but the Wii's nunchuck and wii-mote fit this style of game perfectly. Playing PS2 or Xbox games on the type of controller that comes with those systems, a lot of players tend to move the controller as well in an effort to turn the skier around an almost-impossible corner (well...

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Review of SSX Blur (Wii)

taking the tour

Advantages: accessories, ease of use, price
Disadvantages: for some the size might be a put-off

...has a clock and temperature reader. At any point in my journey I can just look down and check the time or when standing outside the school I can know just who cold it is! The wheels turn easily and smoothly. It used to be that some 4-wheel buggies were hard to navigate but this one has no trouble turning a corner. Just to give you an idea I was in town today with my usual Starbucks in one hand and piloting the buggy with the other. I purchased my Graco travel system from Babies R Us for £260 and there was a promotion to get the £100 accessories pack free. There are various Quattro Tour systems and at very different prices. I think the cheapest of which is around £150. The accessories pack made it so I had the buggy itself, the car seat, one car base, changing bag, foot cosy, carrycot attachment, and rain cover. Was a great deal and I saw...

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SSX Blur (Nintendo Wii

Advantages: Fun game to play
Disadvantages: Controls are hard to get used to.

...My kids only got the Nintendo Wii there at Christmas 2008, we got them a few games but after a while they were getting bored with the same games over and over, so they saved up their pocket money and decided to buy themselves a game. At first they couldn?t decide which game to choose, they all have different game categories that they would prefer, the boys like games like wrestling and racing games, while my daughter likes High School Musical and Hannah Montana, so trying to get them to agree on a game that they all liked was a total nightmare. After quite a bit of time had passed we eventually came across SSX Blur, at last they all agreed on this game, they already had it for the Play station 2 and they really enjoyed playing it. So for £19.99 we bought the SSX Blur from Game, as we sat on the bus they got more and more excited they...

jenny967 13.03.2009 · Read review
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Review of SSX Blur (Wii)

A Tour of La Tour

Advantages: Great views, beautiful at night
Disadvantages: Not good if you're frightened of heights, there are better views of the city,

...around a corner and the Tour Eiffel stood majestically before him. Ah oui... Histoire de la Tour Eiffel There's something magical about the Tour Eiffel. It's become the symbol of Paris, the symbol of France itself, and yet it was never meant to stand for more than a year. It was originally supposed to be erected in Barcelona, but plans designed by Gustave Eiffel were rejected. Construction finally began in Paris, where the tower was to create an entrance archway for the Exposition Universelle in 1889. 120 years later...and the Eiffel Tower continues to stand the test of time, despite being branded an eyesore by many of the great French names of the day. One of its greatest critics was Guy de Maupassant, the French writer who allegedly dined at one of the Eiffel Tower's restaurant every day as it was the only place in Paris where he...

lora44 25.10.2009 · Read review
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Review of Tour Eiffel, Paris

SSX 3: The Good Soundtrack

Advantages: All the best songs from the game
Disadvantages: Just the essential elements of the game's soundtrack

...This review is a follow-up to one which I wrote yesterday, please rate that too. This is the soundtrack to the 2003 snowboarding game, SSX 3. It includes most of the songs which were on the game. I bought this because I enjoyed the music selection from the game. The music genres range from Hip Hop to electronica to metal. I feel that this covers all of the genres and cultures which are associated with extreme sports, of which snowboarding is a part of. Disc 1 1. Don't Let The Man Get You Down - Fatboy Slim **Three Stars** This one is from the UK big beat artist, Fatboy Slim. As soon as I listen to it, I automatically think of this game, not that i hear it anywhere else. This is just as many of his other songs, the music doesn't have much sense to it, its very eccentric, but that's what makes it a Fatboy Slim song. It...

XICripZ 30.09.2007 (29.09.2007) · Read review
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Review of SSX3 - SSX3

One of the best snowboarding games

Advantages: Fun gameplay, great soundtrack, good graphics
Disadvantages: Little Story, Few extras, Quite difficult

...SSX On Tour is a the 4th game in the SSX snowboarding series. I bought this for around £15 from Play.com. I like snowboarding games although this was my first game in the SSX series, Gameplay: The game consists of two main sections, "The Tour" which is the main "career" mode, and then "Quick Play" which is for multiplayer gaming and also quick races. In The Tour you compete in two main types of events "medals" which are competitions in race or slopestyle (tricks) form, and "shreds" which are more like challenges. During the career yuo win money to spend on boards, clothes and new tricks. You also win "hype" which improves your rank. You can also play the game with skis although Ive found the controls for that are more difficult. Graphics/Style: The graphics in this game are amazing, some of the best Ive seen for a PS2 game...

Rich444 23.08.2007 (28.08.2007) · Read review
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Review of SSX on Tour (PS2)

Geat portable snowboarding game for PSP.

Advantages: Great SSX gameplay, superb graphics, controls well and sports a great soundtrack
Disadvantages: Recycled SSX 3 tracks, no custom soundtrack support or online multiplayer, limited character creation

...The SSX series has been good to us gamers. In the past we have had games like Coolboarders, 1080, Amped and Snowboard Kids that show how snowboarding can be made into good games. However none of these have really achieved what the SSX games do in terms of better gameplay, better graphics and just better things overall really. So here we are with SSX On Tour on the Sony PSP. Although this isn't the first time an SSX game has made an appearence on the handheld. Both SSX Tricky and SSX 3 were on the GBA but in comparison to their console counterparts didn't really turn out that well. Which is why its good to know that this latest installment is probably the best handheld snowboarding game ever. The trademark SSX gameplay is still there but also the visuals look absolutely amazing and come very close to matching the PS2's graphical...

Franzkill 25.06.2007 · Read review
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Review of SSX on Tour (PSP)

Campaign for Real SSX3

Advantages: Addictive game play, character progression, rewards, stunning scenery
Disadvantages: Not matched by any other SSX game in the genre, not a simulator

...playing it for 5 years, off and on, and I haven't completed it yet. Neither have I grown tired of it! You can find cheats, hints and tips on various websites run by SSX3 fans all over the internet. Don't be fooled into buying SSX on Tour - it's nothing compared to its predecessor. And although SSX Tricky is a very good game, it won't play on the XBOX 360. You can buy SSX3 for the Xbox or the Playstation2 in shops still - you can pick up secondhand copies for around £10, and also they occasionally come up on e-bay. Not often though - as any SSX3 owner, myself included, will tell you, they still play it, so they don't want to sell it. Not at any price!...

JoannaScott 11.04.2007 · Read review
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Grand Tour of LA!

Advantages: get to see lots in short space of time
Disadvantages: don't get much time in each place

...VIP Tours of California - Grand Tour of Los Angeles On my way home from my GAP year away my husband and I decided to stop in LA. We stayed in a Holliday Inn hotel near LAX, once we arrived here we found a brochure on VIP Tours and decided to go on what they call the most popular tour which was called the 'Grand Tour of Los Angeles'. It cost in American dollars $59 (adult) and $40 (child). One American dollar is roughly equal to roughly 0.6 United Kingdom Pounds. It was very easy to book this tour with the representative in our hotel for the next day. We had a few different times we could have chosen to go on out tour. On the morning of the tour a bus lifted us at the hotel and took us to their offices so we could pay for the tour and change buses to start the tour. This annoyed me slightly as I felt that we were wasting my...

DeniseKelly40 07.08.2009 · Read review
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