Lives up to expectations

Advantages: Amazingly constructed singleplayer and incredible online play
Disadvantages: None - apart from gamers who have played COD4 that will have to start from scratch

...it on the XBOX 360 is that there are so many opportunities to add to your gamerscore. You get roughly 25G for every mission complete and 90G for completing it on veteren! The end of the campaign, just like COD4 is incredible and just has to be played! I would be quite satisfied if I had paid £44.99 just for the multiplayer mode. Like COD4 and indeed COD5, the range of game modes, maps and unlocks make is an almost endless game. You are always trying to unlock the next weapon, level up to unlock the next perk or trying to get as many headshots as possible to gain another attatchment. Previous COD player may think that it seems pointless starting again although there are so many new weapons and perks (as well as the new 3rd person mode) that it seems like a fresh modern warfare game. In conclusion, I strongly feel that this game has lived...

Nighthawk160 15.11.2009 · Read review
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Review of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (Xbox 360)

Break Up To Make Up?

Advantages: Jennifer Aniston, very relatable
Disadvantages: Not for everyone, comedy falls flat.

...After meeting at a baseball game and falling in love, 4 years on things aren?t as rosy as they once were for Gary (Vince Vaughn) and Brooke (Jennifer Aniston). They have both become set in their daily routines; Brooke works hard at an art gallery and then comes home and tidies up after Gary whilst Gary works as a popular tour guide but instead of helping Brooke do the housework when he comes home he?s intent on lying around playing PS2 and watching football. After an awkward family meal things implode in Brooke and Gary?s relationship, Brooke decides that she can?t carry on with the way things stand therefore hatches a plan to break up with Gary in order for him to see how good he has it and change his ways however instead of this Gary plays hardball and completely shuts Brooke out. The two carry on their stubborn behaviour...

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Review of The Break-Up (DVD)

Did Not Step Up to the Mark

Advantages: good dancing
Disadvantages: Average acting, weak and predictable storyline

...Tyler gage is a teenager who is from the rundown end of Baltimore. He lives in a foster home and makes a living steeling cars with his two close friends. Tyler and his friends love to dance and it is on one of the nights when they are thrown out of a party after Tyler danced with someone girlfriends that he lands himself in trouble. Tyler, Skinny and Mac end up breaking into the School for Performing Arts and wreaking havoc and as a result Tyler is given 200 hours community service which he must do working in the school. It is at this school doing his community service where he meets Nora, a very well to do girl who is a classical dancer and is working towards a showcase in the hope that she will be accepted by a Dance Company. Nora is stuck as she has lost her dance partner and it is not long before Tyler offers to step in. Nora...

sewbizzie 28.10.2009 · Read review
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Review of Step Up (DVD)

Get up and Go with the Tomtom GO 500

Advantages: Easy to update, user friendly, full postcode search, bluetooth, hands free
Disadvantages: occasional 'dead' moments, occasional strange routes

...I bought the Tomtom Go 500 the week it came out. At this point Satnavs were a luxury rather than an everyday item that most cars seem to posess these days. I had decided on Tomtom based on the fact that they seems to have good reviews of their previous models and they were a lot cheaper than the competition, though at £469 I still wouldnt call it cheap. --Whats in the box -- On opening the box, once you have delved deep enough to get past the various manuals, you will come to the main tomtom unit. the mounting cradle which will fix the tomtom to your windscreen, a 256mb SD card pre installed with software and maps, a mains adaptor with British and European plugs, an in car charger, a wallet to put the tomtom in when not in use, a USB cable to connect to your PC and some screen wipes. In order to get up and running, you only...

craggybuk 24.05.2007 · Read review
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Review of TomTom GO 500

Get Up To Get Down

Advantages: Lots of big tunes
Disadvantages: One average track

...?Up For The Down Stroke? came in 1974 as a return album for the Funk band Parliament as after their debut in 1970, George Clinton and his crew hadn?t performed under this name until this point, where they decided to go back to their more soulful days (which began from their days as a Doo-Wop group going by the name of The Parliaments ? and in opposition to the Funkadelic band which has them doing things in a Rock-based style). Here you get a strong line-up as the likes of Eddie Hazel, Bernie Worrell and, most significantly, Bootsy Collins (who had been missing for a couple of years) all appear as part the unit. 1. ?Up For The Down Stroke? They kick off this fresh Parliament release with a titular track and one that appears to take on the sort of structure that was seen on the titular track to ?Standing On The Verge Of Getting it...

XICripZ 19.10.2009 · Read review
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Review of Up For The Down Stroke [Remastered] - Parliament

KP500

Advantages: Full Touch Functionality - QWERTY Keyboard Layout - 3MP Camera
Disadvantages: Lack of Customization - Handset Crashes Occasionally

...Overall a good phone with some fun features including a drawing pad photo editor and music player to name a few. The touch feature of this phone is highly impressive and very accurate for instance when sending a text message (Default layout or QWERTY) or entering a phone number. A drawback i found with the phone though, was the lack of customization as you are not able to change the menu background or icons in any way, this means that adding your own theme or downloaded ones to the phone cannot be done, this may not be a problem to some though. Since owning the phone it has crashed 2 or 3 times but this has just been a matter of resetting the handset and did not result in data loss or other problems. I would recommend purchasing a memory card for this phone as even if you don't plan to put music on the phone, the internal memory fills up...

Izzy207 20.01.2009 · Read review
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Review of LG Cookie KP500

What else is there to listen to?

Advantages: Fun, laughter, good music and lots of food!
Disadvantages: None

...I have just been rummaging around in the nether parts (oooh-er) of Ciao and have come across a category for 'Wake up to Wogan'. Due to my advancing years (I am now 40), I feel that this is a review that I have been destined to write. When is it on? Wake up to Wogan can be found on BBC Radio 2 on a Monday to Friday morning, from 7:30 until 9:30. It is immediately preceded by Sarah Kannedy's show (The Dawn Patrol) and is followed by Ken Bruce. The Music As it is Radio 2, the music that is played can best be described as eclectic. This morning's (11/08/2009) show began with Amy Grant and then continued with tracks by Maroon 5, The Beatles, Billy Joel, A-ha, Pixie Lot, V V Brown, Lily Allen and Keane to name but a few. All the music is selected by the show's producer, Alan Boyd (but more on him later...

Nolly 12.08.2009 · Read review
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Review of Wake Up To Wogan (Radio 2)

Waking up with Wogan

Advantages: entertaining
Disadvantages: terry has a lot of holidays

...There's only one man who can wake me up at 7:30 in the morning and not expect to get a smack in the mouth(!) and Terry Wogan is the man for the job. From Monday to Friday you can expect to hear Terrys irish tones warming up for the total of 2 hours as he talks about pretty much anything. Throughout that time Terry and his fellow 'underlings or numpties' read out emails and answer phonecalls from listeners. They always seem to use fake names, this morning there was a 'bearded bandit' commenting about heavy traffic in some place. There is also news and traffic bulletins every half hour and the usual banter being thrown about all over the place. There are two main newsreaders which he appears to get on with the most, Alan Dedicoat and Fran Godfrey and then there's another lady known as The Traffic Totty, Lynn Bowles. These people aren...

crezzie 29.07.2009 · Read review
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Review of Wake Up To Wogan (Radio 2)

Breaking up is hard to fake

Advantages: Some amusing scenes, most people should be able to relate to it at least in part
Disadvantages: Lags a bit script wise in the middle, its not all funny

...- Credits - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0452594/fullcredits - Story - Gary and Brooke have been a couple for a while and live together in a condo in Chicago, Brooke working as an art dealer and Gar working as a tour guide. Brooke gets annoyed and disillusioned as she feels that she's not being listened to properly and so she decides to break up with him in an effort to get him to apologise and realise how much he'd miss being without her. Will they be able to reconcile, will Gary realise why she's broken up with him? you'll have to watch the movie to find out. - Thoughts & Opinions - This isn't the sort of movie I tend to watch too often but seeing as I like both Vince and Jennifers acting and I have already seen so many movies, I thought I'd give it a go. It is pretty much as you may expect for what could be seen as a 'chick...

IzzyS 24.05.2009 (27.05.2009) · Read review
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Review of The Break-Up (DVD)

Time To Get Fired Up...

Advantages: Easy to watch and will make you laugh!
Disadvantages: Simple and predictable

...------------------------ Nicholas D'Agosto - Shawn Colfax Eric Christian Olsen ? Nick Rady Sarah Roemer ? Carly Molly Sims ? Diora Danneel Harris ? Bianca David Walton ? Dr. Rick My Opinion --------------- Ok, straight of the mark I will admit this film is drivel. It?s unbelievably predictable and the characters have no depth at all. It?s silly and stupid and isn?t at all serious or for those looking for any intellectual engagement throughout. It is however, extremely enjoyable. The characters of Nick and Shawn are believable within the context of a silly predictable teen romance/comedy. They are likeable from the start and grow on you as a viewer as they start to come around to the idea of treating women with respect and doing the right thing. Of course the storyline is predictable and nothing out of the ordinary happens here. You can guess who ends up...

chugglebunny 18.09.2009 · Read review
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Review of Fired Up! (DVD)