I really enjoyed one of my first hip hop records I ever heard titled 'Paid Tha Cost to Be Da Bo$$', so I looked forward to this and bought it close to it being released. Upon hearing it though, I was fairly disappointed as it is so different to his previous album and what I'd heard from his other albums. It did grow on me but was never as good as I hoped it to be. It was nice though to see Snoop not making the same album twice I guess. Track for track, this album is fairly hit or miss. You have some great soulfully produced tracks such as the 'Intro, 'Ups and Downs' and 'Lets Get Blown' but then you have a lot of boring songs in between. The beats on tracks like 'Can I Get a Flicc Witchu' and 'The Bidness' ain't my thing and the album never really gets on a roll with a string of good tracks. In saying that, there are some harder tracks like Lil Jon's 'Step Yo Game Up' and 'Oh No' that get the head banging. Overall, it is Snoop's poppiest album for sure-beaten in 2008 though by 'Ego Trippin'- and while there is quality present, the skip button always gets a work out when I play this album. Best Tracks: Intro, Ups and Downs, Drop It Like It's Hot, Lets Get Blown, Step Yo Game Up, Oh No, Pass It Pass It

I loved this game. With Tony Hawk's 2, it's my favourite extreme sports game. Along with completing tricks, there are also racing modes against the AI or human and other modes offer variety like half pipe, big air, slalom and others. I think the first two games in the series are poor but this was a huge leap from the previous Cool Boarders games, not only regarding the gameplay but it also looked a helluvalot better than Cool Boarders 2, and I'd say it's one of the better looking games of its kind on the console. Gameplay 4/5 Graphics 4.5/5 Sound 4/5 Difficulty 4.5/5 Originality 4/5

The missions in this are probably the most lackluster a Lego game has been. They are quite simplistic and repetitive, with about 5 of the 15 featuring the same enemy. However, there are a greater selection of heroes to use, with Superman coming into the game fairly early, and late on into the missions others are available to use such as the Green Lantern and Wonder Woman. There are a number of new features. Unless the recent Harry Potter Lego games have had talking characters, this is the first Lego game to have characters with voices during the cut scenes, and it works well with many of the cut-scenes being very humorous, mainly due to the banter between Batman and Superman. Kind of like GTA, away from the missions there is an open world to explore and master to complete the game 100% by collecting all of the hidden Lego bricks as well that was missing from the previous Lego Batman adventure.

As far as the overall gameplay goes this doesn't offer a huge amount different to the previous Lego games. It does improve slightly in a few areas such as weapon/item usage which give the levels a bit more of a different feeling than before. Also there is more driving to be done with quite a few levels requiring a vehicle to be used to smash items, destroy villains' vehicles and collect items. The major difference however in comparison to the Original Adventures is that in the Original Adventures you were in the school and went up to that blackboard to pick your level and characters, which was fairly easy to navigate. However, in this game the school is a fairly large world with levels scattered everywhere for each movie. It is confusing at first because the entrance to a level you completed earlier can be an entrance to a future level so you find yourself backtracking and not really knowing where you have been before and where the next level is. The major annoyance though is that you need certain characters to complete levels as they have unique abilities and in normal mode you can't just pick a a character - you have to go back to where that person is in the world - get close to them and then select them - it becomes frustrating. One thing I did think going into this, as this game again offers the first three movies to be played, was that they would feel repetitive, but the developers have done a good job offering new and different levels based on the films that were in the Original Adventures. Overall, there are a few bugs but if you enjoyed Original Adventures or any Lego game this is well worth a try.

Nothing out of this world but an addictive fun game to play with some challenging puzzles and humour. Because the lego characters don't speak though in the cut scenes, I reckon you would have had to have seen the Indy movies to get the most out of the storyline that is given. Gameplay 4/5 Graphics 4/5 Sound 4/5 Difficulty 5/5 Originality 4.5/5