European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 25, 2007, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 10 scene stars and sunday March 25 2007 games 0 q i c 2 cd shake and slide Wii controllers help sex feel More real it certainly is a Slippery slope just pop the disc into the Wii pick up the Remote and nunchuck and its All downhill from there beware sex blur the latest extreme snowboarding game by a sports big can get addictive you get those easy rushes that encourage you to keep coming Back even when the going gets challenging the big draw of course is the motion sensitive Wii controller traditional extreme sports games require that gamers Man Euver their onscreen characters with Joysticks and buttons however sex blur takes advantage of the Wii controller to connect the gamer More closely with the action on the screen All of the steering and jumping is controlled by turning and jerking the nunchuck attachment most tricks such As flips and spins Are handled by waving the Remote in different directions the Basic moves Are easy to learn and to put to use however More advanced sex blur by a sports big features extreme stunts on skis and snowboards skills require quite a bit of practice string ing together a series of jumps flips spins and grinds boosts a characters Power which can be unleashed in a spectacular Bertrick nailing the Bertrick can be quite difficult at the beginning gamers can compete in a variety of competitions slalom downhill tricks against compute controlled opponents or against a Friend the graphics Arent on the cutting Edge but they still look pretty Good Overall the game is a solid upgrade to the downhill genre on the web Gutsy girls find place in games about 41 percent of video game players Are female according to the entertainment software association but consider your typical game hero a gun toting muscle bound Lunk with All the personality of a Side of beef where Are the heroines there have been a few Lara Croft in Tomb Raider Samus aran in metro id Jade in beyond Good evil a handful of games knights of the old Republic and the elder scrolls in oblivion come to mind let you choose your characters gender but most of the women in video games serve merely As Eye Candy for the presumed audience of adolescent boys younger heroines Are even harder to find yes there Are familiar characters like Barbie and Nancy Drew who have their own compute game franchises but Why int there a super Mario sister lets look at a few potential role models for the girl gamer in your family guru min a monstrous adventure anyone who Ever been accused of having an overactive imagination will identify with Parin the heroine of guru min stuck in a Boring town without any playmates Parin finds a secret passage to monster Village a town under siege by evil phantoms armed with the legendary Drill the girl ventures into a series of vibrant color Ful landscapes to Rescue the Friendly Mon sters the Levels will look familiar to fans of games like the leg end of Zelda with pits to jump Over doors to unlock and treasures to unearth while it looks like a kids game players of All Ages will be Happy to discover that its got a lot of depth with plenty of ways to enhance Parins skills not to mention her wardrobe theres a Monkey costume that to die for guru min is filled with a uniquely japanese sense of whimsy that translates Well into English and its one of the nicest surprises of the year so far platform playstation portable on the web  Ituna legend of the unemployed ninja Ituna is a Sassy teenage ninja who loses her Job during a flurry of Feudal downsizing after wandering into a Small Village she inadvertently riles up the local gods who promptly drop some Nasty curses on the townsfolk to lift the curses Ituna has to venture into a series of increasingly deadly caves where the game suddenly be comes a lot less cute a warning for parents despite its ador Able appearance Ituna is really difficult and will tax the patience of Young players who Arent accustomed to Long methodical Dungeon crawls on the other hand older players male or female who relish a Challenge will enjoy exploring its unpredictable randomly generated mazes aboveground Ituna has plenty of Charm and comedy but most of the time its an old fashioned hard snails role playing game that requires a High tolerance for frustration platform Nintendo is on the web Kim possible global gemini parents of Young girls Are no doubt familiar with Kim possible the Disney Channel cheerleader who moonlights As a globetrotting crime fighter As her latest game begins the villainous gemini has escaped from jail and is Bent on rebuilding his criminal Empire kims Mission to Stop the evil Genius takes her around the world but most of the time youll find her jumping around obstacles or battling geminis minions in fairly nondescript locales global gemini plays smoothly enough and has some decent snowboard ing and driving sequences but Doest offer anything special to anyone who int a diehard fan of the to show platform Nintendo is on the web  news bytes Home invasion when the aps mat Slagle reviewed Sony online o few weeks ago he said there still int much to see or that should change in at the game developers conference in son fran Cisco Sony trn Vertedo Home a 30 virtual universe for ps3 owners it Bob Frank y a lot like second use although theres evidence that Home has been in development since big before second become o phenomenon within Home you con Creole on avatar and Send it oat to meet other s buy stuff or even own personal introduced Anet a colourful you by Eland i proper i projects Ore part of on initiative Sony scheduled to Bunch foil  due next Victory Lap Micro soft gears of War has been making like Helen All Winter scooping up every award the Industry could throw at it and leaving the legend of Zelda Twilight like an also ran the on the tour was the game awards were Cap coms and Nintendo online action is a huge element of of making it try  tide on Microsoft Roox live service number one is Halo number three despite its Lack of exploding Boay parts is Mexic he Microsoft reports that Box live membership has passed 6 million which is More than half the people who own an Box 360 if youre More interested in completely useless stats heres a doozy since its launch in november 2002 gamers have spent Over 23 billion hours More than 260000 years on Box live no wonder our thumbs Are tired