Advantages: Hours of fun for all ages Disadvantages: A simple game, perhaps not as good as other Xbox Live Arcade games
I downloaded the Zuma demo on Xbox Live Marketplace and instantly fell in love. I bought the game with microsoft points and now i'm addicted.
Zuma is a puzzle game developed by PopCap Games.
It is much like the puzzle game "Puzzle Bobble" in which the player rotates a bubble-firing gun with a coloured bubble inside it. A long line of bubbles slowly roll towards you in a given track. When 3 or more of the same coloured bubbles are put together, they disappear. The aim of the game is to get rid of all the bubbles before they reach you.
There are added perks to the game such as exploding bubbles to wipe out more of the oncoming bubbles, or a ball that pushes the bubbles back, buying the player more time before the bubbles reach him/her. I think these perks are what make the game what it is. it adds constant variety to every game. No ...
Advantages: Wide range of topics covered, largely accessible and entertaining Disadvantages: Occasionally overly academic
The Richness of Life - Stephen Jay Gould
Steven Jay Gould was one of America's most prominent experts on palaeontology and evolutionary biology. A prolific writer he produced many books, papers and articles from the 1960's up to his death in 2002.
A teacher at Harvard University he published several academic books but also worked prodigiously to popularise science through a number of more accessible works and the impressive achievement of delivering 300 unbroken articles for the magazine Natural History.
In some ways considered to be America's answer to Richard Dawkins, the pair shared a passion for Darwin and evolutionary theory but famously came to academic blows over a number of issues where their theories came into conflict. Through the 80's and 90's they traded blows through articles and reviews of each others work but ...
Advantages: Some strong songs, some moments of lyricism Disadvantages: Too driven for a pop market, corny hooks
After bursting on to the scene and turning heads with Reasonable Doubt, (see previous review of mine) this second album came in the aftermath of the killing of Notorious BIG who was a close friend to Jay-Z. However that did not derail Jay-Z from progressing and he quickly released this which was to be his second studio album.
The production on this album which unlike his previous album, has much more of a mainstream appeal to it and seems apparent that it was very much a focused effort to garner more sales by appealing to a much wider audience. This is apparent from the style of the production to some soft hooks. In fact this presentation is prevalent throughout the album and is immediately quite a contrast to the previous one.
Unfortunately the production isn't the only change as the lyrics have also had a mainstream makeover ...
