Sports Reviews

well, when i was a kid, which wasn't too long ago, this thing took over. i loved it soooo much, that i've been looking for it ever since i first got to use one. now that i've found it, you bet i'm buying a few...if your kid (or adult, as in my case, ha...) likes more physical platy, this is the thing to get. my goodness...i looove them. later dayz, kiddzoz.

I bought 13 of these from Amazon for my little family members as xmas gifts. What a great idea! They were all having a great time bouncing around. The grown-ups wanted larger versions so they could play. I don't know how to top these gifts for next year!

Like most kids today, our two have more toys than they know what to do with, and they hardly ever play with most of them. The Fun Hop is one of the few exceptions--my children play with it daily (my daughter is 5 and my son is 3). They hop all over the house, and even use it to clean up (hey, it's more fun to "hop" stuff back to your room than to just carry it there!). Our only problem is that we only have one hopper, and they usually both want to hop on it. They are pretty good about sharing, but we will be buying a second one soon. The hopper is made of thick rubber and is very durable. In almost 2 years we've never had to add more air to it, so it is maintenance-free. There are no parts to lose, either, and the kids get a LOT of exercise playing with it. What a perfect toy! Get one for every kid in your house.

Awesome game but dont know to get it or the 2001 ,2000 version

not many changes done so.....

This game is very, very up-to-date. They have the Rams and the Titans as the best teams. The graphics aren't the best but the game play is very good. You are in control of the game 100% no questions asked. You call the plays and there is 3 pages of plays to choose from. This game also has the season and tournament options. The game also has mini-party games. There are many to choose from. They're awesome if you're alone or if you're at a sleepover with a 100 friends. Definetly worth buying. I paid lots for mine!

It is great. I like this better than the regular football games.

My mom wanted one of these so bad when she was a kid. She is 130 lbs I think and even though I have a PW50 when she saw this in the store her eyes lit up..reliving her childhood she says. I get a lot of stuff she wanted...thank goodness she liked cool things as I am a boy. So I am sure when we go down island in two weeks there will be one in the cart and it will be so sweet even though I have to share it with my MOm. Bonding time I guess. Every kid should have a mom that loves cool toys.

YAAAAA is what i said when i first got on this bad boy bike. IT IS SO FUN..It doesn't help educate you though...I know thats all you moms car about, but that this advice this bike kicks..Its the best bikei have ever had. I broke my legs and my right arm riding it..JUST KIDDING calm down you little scared mother..Get your damn kid this bike!!!

i like the huffy green machine its so cool but you get sore legs,arms and maybe a sore face it gose good on grass and up hills i have one and my brother has one we ride them every day.

wow. i just got my gamecaube as a very, very early christmas gift, and the first game i bought was NCAA 2003....i haven't stopped playing since i first popped that little mini game disc in my new GC system! it is i n c r e d i b l e! the graphics are silky smooth...the animations are fantastic...and the gameplay is superb. gone are the days of the "money" plays...gone are the days of the easy sack...this is college footabll gameplay on the highest level. the pagentry...the mascots...the cheerleaders on the sidelines! i can't say enough about this game! the running game can be very tough, and the passing game is very challenging...but, of course, EA Sports included "slider bars" so you can customize whatever you want about the gameplay. the commentary is terrific with Corso and Herbstreit (sp?) in the booth adding color...the stadium sound effects are insane...the crowd goes nuts... and the bands play on!! whew! did you get all that?? look, i bought the GameCube because i did alot of research, and everyone said how great the sports games were on this little miracle box, and they weren't lyin'. if there is one game you MUST own for the GameCube it is NCAA College Football 2003....it is simply an amazing game. Deep deep dynasty mode...creat-a-school, create-a-player, 50 all mascot teams (yes, you can battle it out on the grid iron with Testudo vs. the Nitanny Lion mascots!), career stats, tropy room, rivalry games with trophies on the line....the list goes on.....buy this game, now.
GO PENN STATE!

peace,

cicatelli

I was thinking of just waiting for the new madden but I got impatient and bought EA's NCAA Football 2003 instead. The graphics are great, the gameplay is smooth, and the controls make sense.

Some things I like:

The passing is easy, you don't have to press a button before you can pass, making quick releases possible.

It is easy to set the difficulty to exactly how you want it. They have junior varsity through heisman, but each element of the game from run blocking to pass rushing is yery customizable, which makes for competitive games.

The dynasty mode is fun, and you can even customize your schedule to an extent.

You can knock over the first down chain guys when you go out of bounds, and the crowds sound realistic.

The announcers aren't too repetitive, and they actually use the player's names when talking about them (in the second year of my dynasty when they have names, in the first year they have only numbers).

Recruiting is fun, more fun than drafting players.

Overall, this is a sweet game, and I recommend it highly.

I bought this game and wow! The graphics are amazing and the rosters are right on target. The controls are pretty simple and the play calling is easy. It includes all of the NCAA division one football teams and has all of the players on the rosters. It is really fun because you win trophies from playing your rivals. It also features all of the fight songs for each team. There are also modes where you can create a team and a player, play seasons or own a dynasty, and play mascot mode to have a little fun. All in all, this game is the best sports game I have ever played.

I was at a tournament once where we were sold 5 booster packs for 20$. This tournament was where if you lose a battle you have to give all of your rares, supers, ultras, and secrets you got to the judge, the winner of the tournament gets to pick like 15 of those cards as his or her prize. I lost my first duel so I had to give up those cool cards...,. I enjoy yu gi oh for all of those cards you can get in one booster. Booster boxes are neat caulse you can get a good card, or cards in every booster! My sigunature card used to be Jinzo, till it was stolen, so now I enjoy using Gearfried The Iron Knight. I think that anyone can enjoy this game, if they dont aprove of it, Its no harm, Its still the coolest card game!

Buy this Yugioh LON pack. This pack has good cards/
Heres a reviw of the cards from LON:
Mage Power: For evey Magic/trap on your side, a selected monster gains 500 in ATK/DF. This the best egiup card and you know it. the cards don;'t have to be faced up. If you fill your spaces with M/T then you have a 2500 Bonus!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Magic Cylinder: When your oppenent attacks, reduce his/her LP by the atackk of his/her monster. This is one of the best traps. Only jinzo can whistand such pain. Use in Combo with Enchanted Javelin.
Soul of purriy and Light: Speacel Summon this monster by removing two Light monsters in your graveyard from play. Decrease all of your oppenents monsters by 300. Power up this card with ther Light feild Card. Your oppenent wont know what hit him. No one stands a chance if you have LON cards. Man, Becase of this review I missed X-men: Evolution. Wait I can see the lst 30 seconsds of it. that didn't do anything.

This pack is...AWESOME! This pack has so many great cards. Besides Pharoanic Guardian, this pack is the best ever!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Some AWESOME cards are the cards such as Ekibyo Drakmord and Mask of the Accursed you can equip to your OPPONENT'S monster. They both paralyze them, and Mask of the Accursed attacks them directly with 500 points of damage each turn, and the Ekibyo Drakmord card not only destroys the equipped monster on your opponent's second turn after equippage, but if destroyed that way, it comes back to your hand! There's also Gemini Elf, a Level 4 with destructive 1900 ATK. I have two of the five letters of the Destiny Board-"I" and "A." I also want the card Jar of Greed. It allows you to draw 1 card. And there's Magic Cylinder, which is AWESOME. It cancels the attack of your opponent's monster and sends the attack right back at them. Very useful if you're about to take an attack from a Blue-Eyes. And there's Dark Spirit of the Silent. That card is off the charts GREAT. You can activate it when your opponent has a weak monster and their monster attacks your strong monster...have their weak monster attack and wreck havoc on them. There's also...yup, you guessed it!...DARK NECROFEAR! He might have weak ATK for a Level 8, but you gain control of 1 of your opponent's monsters when he "goes to waste." You'll also want the Masked Beast, a 3200 ATK Ritual monster! If you like beatdowns, look for Amphibian Beast. 2400 ATK, one tribute. There's...THE MASK CARDS! I already mentioned Mask of the Accursed. Mask of Brutality is a worse version of Axe of Despair. It increases ATK by 1000 but decreases DEF by 1000 and you have to pay 1000 each turn. Mask of Dispel forces your opponent to take 500 Life Points as long as they have a Magic card that remains on the field, which teaches them to have Toon World out. Mask of Restrict blocks sacrificing. Just 3 words: Use with caution! The great, GREAT cards are United We Stand and Mage Power. Heck, I thought of a GREAT combo with United we Stand. First off, summon a Blue-Eyes Toon Dragon. And after 1 turn passes, play Scapegoat, then United We Stand. The Toon Dragon will have 7000 ATK points and can attack directly!(Chances are, if you've weakened them, your opponent's LP will be 0 after such a powerful attack.)...sigh. Anyways, this pack is awesome. Buy some packs. Final Grade: 10/10!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Extreme sports video games, up until the year 2000, were usually extremely lacking. The games often suffered from poor play control and graphics, and seemed rushed. But at long last, in the year 2000, Activision set out to correct all that had been done wrong previously with such titles. They went the extra mile to try to make the perfect skateboarding game. Did they succeed? Read on for my review of Tony Hawk Pro Skater.

PROS:
-UNLIKE A NUMBER OF EXTREME SPORTS TITLES, THIS ONE USES ACTUAL PEOPLE! As the title of the game may have implied, Tony Hawk is a playable character. In addition to Hawk, there are a number of other pro boarders selectable.
-THE GAME USES ACTUAL MUSIC BY ACTUAL BANDS! Most extreme sports titles feature lame, generic music that sounds like it would be better off elsewhere. In this game, that is NOT true. Bands like Goldfinger and Primus contributed music to this game, and their contributuions are one of the things that make this game so great. The other bands that contributed aren't as well known, but their songs are no less excellent.
-NO TWO CHARACTERS ARE EXACTLY ALIKE. Although every character plays in a similar fashion, each one has his or her own special moves. Likewise, what one character may lack in one area he may make up for in another, while with another character it may be vice versa.
-THERE ARE A NUMBER OF INTERESTING LOCATIONS. This game's settings are another great strength that it has. You'll go everywhere from an abandoned warehouse to an abandoned mall, and even a dam! There is no shortage of cool places to go in this games.

CONS:
-CONTROLS TAKE SOME GETTING USED TO. If you've never played any game by Activision that uses this same game engine, expect to take some time adjusting to the controls. Once you get the hang of them, though, you'll end up liking them.
-LATER ENTRIES IN THE SERIES WERE CONSIDERABLY BETTER. Although this was a good game, the later games were better, featuring more characters (and some even cooler secret ones), more secrets, and more music. Oh well, this game is still good.
-THE GAME GETS TOO HARD, TOO FAST. This game starts easy, but gets hard after a few short play sessions. Expect to blister your thumbs a lot, and often times accomplish nothing for it.

OVERALL:
Overall this is a very good game. Sure, it's overrated, but that's because it's a good game! If you want the best skateboarding games out there, the games in the Tony Hawk series are exactly what you're looking for.

When it comes to playing video games on either PC or Playstation, I favor mostly RPGs and Strategy games. And as for sports, I focus mainly on football and hockey. It's never too late to broaden your horizons. I finally got around to picking this game up after I bought Tony Hawk 2 for my niece this Christmas. She kicked my arse rather rapidly, but that was okay because in the process I got seriously addicted to playing this game. Seeing as how I haven't done any skating in almost 15 years (I'm 23 now), I kinda allowed my self to forget how much damned fun it was. Yeah, stop laughing. Anyway, I fired up THPS last night and the world just kinda...well...went away for awhile. Graphics are not too shabby, and you never suffer death by camera like in a few other games I've played. Sound effects are excellent. I could do without the punk soundtrack, since I never got into that. I prefer the soundtrack on THPS2. But that's okay, since I just load Outkast into my stereo and continue to bust some sick moves. Controls are near-perfect, and get even moreso once you master the moves. I'm going to be playing this one for a while.

From warehouses, schools, and malls to big citys and a ship, Tony Hawk's Pro Skater is an awesome sports game! So many moves available, it has to be one of the best games i own. It has awesome features like options to save and replay your runs in any level any time you want, you can do a two minute run in any level with Single Session, and you can play in any level as long as you want in Free Skate.

Although, this game does suffer a little bit of damage. The first mistake is the lack of challange up to the sixth level:

1st Level: Warehouse - Way too easy, i got all five tapes in one turn.
2nd Level: School - SIMPLE, if you can't get all five tapes then there's something wrong with you.
3rd Level: Mall - Easy as well, took a few trys to get the secret tape, but, now that i know where it's at this level is easy as ...
4th Level, 1st Competition: Skate Park - Come on! These judges are way too easy to impress, you don't even have to get 10,000 to win the gold!
5th Level: Downtown - Bit more challenging, but most of its easy.
6th Level: Downhill Jam - The hardest level in the game, there are several things wrong here. First, S-K-A-T-E, how in the ... are you supposed to get SKATE when the E is at an almost impossible position? I've seen it done but it's hard as ... to get. Second, the secret tape is way to hard to get, i mean, come on, you have to have slow mode on to get it, otherwise, it's very very hard to reach. Why didn't they put this as the last level instead of Streets? It's way harder than that level.
7th Level, 2nd Competion: Burnside - Great challenge, awesome layout.
8th Level: Streets - The best level for the fact that every challenge is as easy as it is hard.
9th Level, 3rd Competition: Roswell - Very hard to impress judges, but great layout. (Remember, you have to get all gold in all three competitions to get your video)

Hope you enjoyed my review.
Now Get Your ... Out Of The House And Go Skate!

When I started playing with N64, I think I was 7, but I bought WCW World Tour, and while it was all good and all, it was missing SOMETHING.

Enter WCW/nWo Revenge. The game definately puts World Tour to shame. And if you guys know WWF Warzone, you can see that Bret Hart is in this game. Apart from the theme music(Horrible), no cage and no Triple threat, this game is still the best.

THQ could've made this game better. They could've:
*Added cage and triple threat(More Game modes)

*Put in Thunder, Uncensored, Spring Stampede, Slamboree, Great American Bash, Road Wild, Fall Brawl and World War 3 as well (Arenas).

*Replaced the other 2 factions (DOA and another one I can't remember), and it's wrestlers with more wrestlers, like Norman Smiley, The Cat, Johnny Swinger, Villano V, Silver King, Wrath and Ric Flair(More Wrestlers).

*Made the career a little more like Wrestlemania 2000, where you had some storylines and stuff. (Better career).

*Make the edit-a-wrestler like No Mercy's edit-a-wrestler, as well as create new wrestlers. (Better edit-a-wrestler.)

Apart from that, it's the best WCW game EVER, although Thunder was close. Well, that's that. GET Revenge, and you won't rgret it. Also get WWF Wrestlemania 2000... if you can.

"Revenge is just too sweet!!!" The game is almost perfect except for the sound is very weak. The entrance music is bad and the no commentary isn't good at all. The gameplay is a lot of fun. I could play the game for 24 hours straight if I had the chance. My favorite modes are the 40 man Battle Royal and the Championship modes. I like playing for the tag team belts with my friend. The controls are easy to learn. It took me about 10 minutes to figure out the moves after browsing through the guide book. The options are cool to mess around with. Overall I give Revenge a 5 for its cool gameplay, the sweet costume edit, and the neat options. I personally do not own Revenge because I don't have an N64 only a playstation. I have played it at my friends houses though and it is awesome!!!

What a game! This game takes the action packed World Championship Wrestling programs to your Nintendo 64! The game features TV, US, Tag, and World Title Tournaments and INCREDIBLE control! Unlike WWF Warzone, There are no codes to memorize to do a finisher, It's real easy! And the character likenesses are incredible! Some of the characters are Hollywood Hogan Giant Brian Adams w/ Vincent Scott Hall w/ Dusty Rhodes Scott "Flash" Norton Eric Bischoff w/ Miss Elizabeth Big Poppa Pump, Scott Steiner Curt Hennig w/ Rick Rude Kevin Nash Sting Lex Luger Macho Man Randy Savage w/ Miss ELizabeth Konan Raven Lodi Sick Boy Riggs Reese Kidman Roddy Piper Diamond Dallas Page w/ Kimberly Goldberg Bret "Hitman" Hart Chris Benoit Rick Steiner Fit Finley Booker T Saturn Disco Inferno Jim Neidhart British Bulldog Glacier Meng w Jimmy Hart Van Hammer Kanyon/Mortis Yugi Nagata w/ Sonny Ohno Larry Zbysko Barberian La Parka Stevie Ray Chris Jericho Eddy Guerrero Psychosis Rey Mysterio Jr Dean Malenko Juvintud Guerrera Chavo Guerrero Jr Ultimo Dragon Alex Wright

As wella s several "fake" wrestlers that have similar moves to Ric Flair, The Rock, Taz, and more.

Greatest wrestling game I've ever played. A combination of good graphics and GREAT gameplay make it that. until WCW/nWo Mania comes out, which will feature alot of this as well as a Cage match and create your own, and the abillity to fight in the parking lots!, This will be the best game. Attitude can't hold a candle!

Enjoy it! And like Hollywood Hogan said "Revenge is ust too sweeet!"

I love this play yard. We have four children so we are always lugging heavy strollers and diaper bags with us when we go places. It's nice to finally have a play yard that our children are safe in, easy to set up and put away, and light to carry. The sun shade is a god send, and it is so easy to put on and off. We spend a lot of time outdoors in the summer and this has made our time outside even more enjoyable. There are two things that bother me about the play yard.
1.) The pad on the floor of the play yard can't be removed to wash it. This makes it difficult to clean off spilled juice or milk.
2.) Our youngest son uses this for his naps when we are out and about, and the padding leaves something to be desired. I found myself making a pad that I can take out to wash and that adds a little more softness. It's a shame that Graco didn't make another pad that you can buy as an accessory.

I have a regular graco play yard but my 19 month old son is over the weight limit so I bought this play yard. I needed somewhere for him to sleep and play on our vacation that was easy to travel with. I love, love, love this play yard. It's very easy to carry and set up is quick. The only problem that I found was that is doesn't come with a padded bottom like the other play yards and therefore was not good for sleep. So, I bought an egg crate, cut it into three layers to fit the bottom and placed a fitted sheet over them. Works great now. Would recommend this to anyone for travel and for home use. My 4 yr old daughter loves to play in it with my son. They pretend it's a tent and they're camping in the jungle. Great for the beach and anywhere outside you need it.

I purchased this item to take to the beach for my 9 month old. It was great on the beach and easy to clean (we vacuumed out the sand) once we got back. She slept in it that night. Once we returned home, it served as a playpen upstairs. She spends tons of time playing with her toys in here because it's nice and roomy. Easy to set up and take down, it gets moved to the porch, garden, yard...anywhere I want her to have freedom to move around, but to also be safe. Great product!

The game is great, you get the best basketball players. The multiplayer is good. And the the story is well-built.

In the beginning, there was NBA Jam. And it was good.

But lo, then the NBA Jam series began to be less good. Various other basketball games came along, and for a while it seemed that we would be subjected to "serious" basketball simulations for the rest of eternity, or else just horrible ripoffs of NBA Jam. And it was not so good.

But then, along with the next-gen systems came NBA Street, a slick basketball game that wasn't a full-strength simulation and yet wasn't a (complete) NBA Jam clone! It was good.

And now there is NBA Street 2. And lo, it is very good.

They've taken the gameplay of the original NBA Street and polished it up real nicely. The new cel-shaded engine looks awesome -- it gives everything a sort of cartoonish 70s edge without becoming goofy or overly unrealistic. They added dozens of new trick moves, tons of new (and old) players, and some much-needed new abilities (such as trick counters, special passes, and a way to control someone who's not the ball carrier). You can also play 3- and 4-player games now, while Street 1 limited you to just 2.

Other improvements include the new "Be A Legend" mode, where you can build a custom player up from humble beginnings (you start out at a neighborhood court in New York City) to be a national powerhouse on the street-ball circuit. There are a number of real-life courts featured in the game, rendered in fairly amazing detail (including a great-looking 3D crowd). They've also ditched their annoying announcer (Joe "The Show") for a real NYC DJ, who provides some high-quality (if occasionally odd) commentary that takes much longer to get old. Custom teams can now only have 5 players on them (down from 15), which means you can no longer have *every* good player in the game on your team at the same time. Gamebreaker shots (which subtract points from your opponent) are back, as are new, hard-to-pull-off-but-unblockable "Level 2 Gamebreakers" (which are just pretty damn cool to watch). There's also a new set of music, featuring the new "EA Trax" feature (basically, EA licensed a bunch of artists whose music is featured in all their games now).

Is there a downside? Well, you can play 3- and 4-player games, but you can't put 3 human players on the same team! That's kind of a bummer. Also, the AI is still pretty weak, even on the highest settings (the game compensates by basically crippling your characters stats' at the higher settings, which is *not* the way you should do it!). But it's still a lot of fun, and the multiplayer's great.

Anyone who enjoys arcade basketball will find NBA Street 2 to be a great game, and a big improvement over the original. If you're not sure, give it a rent, and it'll probably win you over.

The first NBA street had alot of cool characters that you could rally up against or place beside you on your team. Also you can create your own player and the items that you the player have to unlock are countless. This is the exact same for NBA Street Vol. 2 but with a little more. I love how they suped all modes up and the pace of the basketball game is even better on screen than before. I still wish they had a few different camera angles to play the game but that works easily for instant replay mode where you can move around your whole character to watch every millimeter he made to make that fabulous dunk. Anyways this is a good game to buy mainly because I'm not a real basketball fan but I really like this game and the length it takes to complete everything and unlock every cool hidden item the game contains is very lengthy!

I love Pharaoh's Servant. Jinzo, Legendary Fisherman, Fiend Megacyber, Beast of Talwar, and Call of the Haunted. But truthfully those are the only useful cards in this set. In Metal Raiders there is: B. Skull Dragon, Gate Guardian, 3 pieces of G guardian, Summoned Skull, Garnecia Elefantis, Mirror Force, Barrel Dragon, and Change of Heart. Plus MRD introduces us to "Harpie Ladies". I love this set and I forgot to mention Buster Blader. But for 79.99, 36 packs is cheap.

These are great booster packs for one of your friends who mostly rely on a Pegasus Deck or Toon Cards because you just might be able to pull out a card called Mystic Probe which is a trap card that negates the activation of a continuous spell or trap card and destroys it. (...)

yu gi oh cards are very fun,educational,and semi-durable. I got these cards 3 days ago and I already customized a deck,and battled my friend. the cards teach reading,math,and strategys.They also help kids be more social and make frends.