Overview: Although Safar'Wii wasn't the safari experience I expected, I learnt a lot about creature tracking. It looks the part and for those who want to spend hours tracking animals it's ideal. With my kids finding it too slow for them though, it was left to me and my wife to take on the challenge.

Conclusion: There's not many things that my kids like more than going to see animals at the farm. Safar'Wii promised a much more exotic ride, taking us to the plains of Africa to deliver a detailed virtual safari that would just as awesome as the real thing. Predictably both my kids and I were very disappointed with Safar'Wii's offering which felt constricted by linear design and silly minigames.

Overview: I got home from work on Friday to find my wife and kids playing Super Smash Brothers Brawl (SSBB) - button bashing and engrossed.

Conclusion: I watched for a bit and soon realized that this game was cut from the same cloth as Melee. I sat back, closed my eyes and listened to the music - ringing out the same familiar themes from the original Smash game - and I smiled. Now, with the kids in bed and pizza ordered it's grown up Brawl time. And it is simply fantastic.

Overview: The characters in Super Smash Brothers Brawl (SSBB) present a wonderful large colourful spectrum of choice. Each character not only has vastly different animations and moves but also plays very differently. I plunge deep into the bowls of Brawl, and discover an expansive world in which to play.

Conclusion: The more you play Brawl the better the characters seem to get. Characters that are often dismissed early on for being hard to pick up or somewhat dull slowly grow and grow on you. As you get better at each character they in turn get better with you. Sounds strange, but has prooved true for me time and time again. Fed up with King Dedede's slow but powerful attacks, well sucking in your opponent and dropping them off the edge is more powerful than you think. Think Samus is a bit underpowered, well don't forget his Final Smash- simply devastating.