Advantages: The attention to detail! Variety of Venues! Online play!
Disadvantages: Suprisingly difficult at first!

...And they have done it again. 2K Sports have served up another one of their top-quality tennis games as a follow on from Top Spin 1 and 2. And I would like to be the first to say this is by far the most realistic, well programmed and fun tennis game to date on any console. This version of Top Spin gives you the latest, best and most realistic tennis experience to ever grace a console. Unlike other Tennis games this is the first tennis game which has a superb in-game detail. An example of this is that once your in-game and playing and your in the final set of your match you and your opponent actually begin to sweat and get dirty and also, consequently there stamina lacks and your player begins to miss hits. Unlike the X Box 360 version of the game this is easier to use and features World Number One Rafael Nadal. There is many... Read review

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Advantages: Real players greqat gameplay
Disadvantages: out of date players.

...Top spin tennis exclusive to Xbox is a clever game with your pro tennis players and real courts. Tennis is really brought to life. There is a range of different modes including exhibition with men, women in singles and doubles. Or you can go to tournament mode to create your own player and take through the rankings of the professional Tennis world! You can create anybody you want whether it be you, Tim Henman, Roger Federer or even your best friend, it brings fantasy to life! The players you create can be used anywhere you could put them in the French Open or even Wimbledon. With top spin you get all the action of the tennis world at your fingertips! Creating your own players is great you give them clothes, do their hair and even get down tothe nitty gritty detail of the nose shape. You can bring anything to the life of tennis... Read review

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Advantages: Nice graphics, Relatively easy achievements, Easy to play
Disadvantages: The career mode can be a little long winded and tedious

...Top spin 2 on the 360 is an easily playable game, It does have depth also but the biggest thing about it for me is that I can not play it for months and then when I do fancy a game I can pick it up and pretty much start exactly where I left off. The game has several modes including exhibition match and obviously it plays on x-box live but the main mode is the solo career. In the solo career, as you may expect you have to create yourself a tennis player and then try to get them up the rankings and win tournaments. You start off as a very mediocre tennis player but it is not too difficult to make your way up the first 40-50 rankings to get to a level where you can start to play some of the smaller tournaments. You also have to go through several varied training modes in order to get starts to allocate as skill points to your tennis... Read review

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Advantages: Brightly coloured, eye catching, fun, durable
Disadvantages: Doesn't spin much

...Having 2 children close together creates nothing but a nightmare when special occasions loom on the horizon and the time comes to go birthday shopping. You know the story, the older child already had the toys and they're still in great condition so why buy them again. This is the dilemma I face when choosing a toy for my little girls birthday, she had plenty of things for when she was a bit older, lots of clothes and books but I wanted to get her a toy, all of her own, that her brother hadn't played with before her. We scoured the shops for days searching out a toy suitable for her age, gender and interests, in the end we settled on this spinning top because she picked it out herself, we gave her a choice of several possible toys and this was the one that she got most excited about. Vtech Spin & Teach Top- The Spin & Teach Top... Read review

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Advantages: Choose from top players (and some not so top).
Disadvantages: players reaction after points,to few players to play against.

...at each end then orange with a bit of red in the middle.There is a little line on this bar which starts moving up the idea is to swing down to hit the ball on the orange part or even better the red part.If you hit the bar on the lower part of the grey it will hit the net or if you hit the top part of the grey it will go out.This bar seems to move quickly specially at first but once again is easy to get the hang of.If you hit the orange or red part the ball will stay in so long as you don't put to much direction on it .You can put direction on your serve as soon as you start to swing up but to much and it will go out.You can also move your player before serving.... Read review

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Advantages: Anything you want thats any good
Disadvantages: May be difficult to find if you dont know Newcastle

...Spin have been going for about ten years, although that's something thats based on my memory rather than fact. They are probably one of the best music shops around and specialise in quality rock especially The Grateful Dead and Frank Zappa. But thats just a tiny part of their appeal. They carry a lot of stock that the majors don't and are a lot more helpful if you are looking for a particular item. My recent purchases have been The Nice Immediate Years triple set , and The Fairport Convention Cropredy triple box, both costing a mammoth £12.99 each. If you're looking any rarities or boxed sets, especially from the major American Groups af the sixties and seventies then this is your place. The web site is extremely informative as well , born as much out of a desire to inform people, as to sell music. An excellent record shop.... Read review

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Advantages: Good graphics and gameplay
Disadvantages: Lacks long term interest

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