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Shox – PlayStation 2

Shox (PS2) This is an excellent extreme arcade racer brought to you by the creators Electronic Arts and was released for the Playstation 2 on September 27, 2002. The themed track environments snow, jungle, desert provide richly rendered scenery with great effects such as clouds of dust and snow thrown up by cars makes for a realistic and fluid driving simulation.

This has to be one of my many favourite racing games, it mainly appeals because of the game play and it’s very addictive. The main objective of the game is speed, winning races to gain more cash to buy better models of cars. Damaging the cars results in penalties and loses of some of your winnings in the race to repair the damage.

An exciting and unique part to the game is the mini time trials, which are called shox zones each segment of the racing tracks are tallied individually for Bronze, Silver and Gold awards depending on your speed. If you collect enough Gold’s in a straight line you get the Shox zone, which appears as a warp hole and you have to catch up to be inside it this makes you go faster within the game if you win 3 gold’s in a line this will unlock additional bonus cars. If you win the race you get the option of the “Platinum” alternative to speed race against another car to win that car.

A hugely engrossing game fast and furious and is very competitive great to play with friends. I found the split screen rather difficult to view even on a big screen its better to pass the controller over to play it individually. Overall I would recommend this game, it’s a bit dated now but great games never date.

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Microsoft Windows Vista

Windows Vista This is the next generation of Microsoft Windows Operating System Windows Vista.

Formally code named Windows “Longhorn” and now superseding Windows XP to be the next OS. The rumours about the release date say late September to early October 2006, although this is not official as yet.

Check out the new graphical user interface and added features their looks to be some dramatic changes to the API. Apparently the starter edition will be the only release not to support 64-bit processors.

There is a Windows Vista Beta 1 distribution build available to IT administrators and developers of the Microsoft Developer Network (MSDN) and TechNet subscribers and also a selected group of Microsoft Beta testers. This will be an interesting instalment but an expensive one at that as usual with Microsoft.

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