Nintendo DS Review

Good Points
Brain train is fun and does work so is the raving rabbids game you can take it to the toilet with you instead of the newspaper or magazine it is compact and easy to carry around. Brain training was made for the ds, beats pen and paper.

Bad Points
The games for the ds arent very challenging as they dont include many levels and you find yourself completing things like mario in a space of a week and the mini games start to become boring as I had to stop when I got to level 300+ on most wanted mario mini game. Spore was a massive let down for ds it was this that made me realise ds wasnt for me I now have an xbox 360 and a laptop ds cannot match up (fun wise!) to that type of technology. The stylus on the ds is another issue which needs to be addressed you have to learn which way to write with it. It can spoil your record attemps on brain train because you think you have wrote 21 and all it recognises it as is a squiggle then after you want to stab the screen with the stylus it just puts a big question mark there instead and you have to start all over again.

General Comments
For kids the DS is ideal it is easy to use and very tough to break if dropped. the games are easy enough for kids to I know they are bringing out games such as gta now but I can't see how you could really get into something like that on the DS as the game itself is huge since I have it on the xbox360 and previously on the playstation2 which were both great (massive thumbs up). DS is a novelty don ' t expect too much or you will be disappointed if your after a little disposable gadget a you plan on getting every new gadget out there (you want it too show off I mean) buy one, if you actually want to play proper games then don ' t. If you like sudoku or any type of puzzle game then it is ideal because you don ' t need fancy graphics for that. Sadly I sold my DS for 45 pounds to Grainger games and used the money to buy a USB modem which I get more out off frankly.