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What sets AntiGrav apart from earlier EyeToy titles is its appeal to both casual and serious gamers alike. Previous titles, on the other hand, suffered for appealing only to novices. In AntiGrav, however, mastering complex tricks like the gravitron (that's a backflip plus a 360° spin to the right) takes skill. The better you get, the more you are rewarded with surprises and new challenges. On a level called the Aerodome, for example, you ride through man-made lava, ice and jungles. In the Falls, you soar past waterfalls and skyscrapers. As you jump and duck, flip and soar...
Watching "The Mirror Has Two Faces" is a little bit like riding that Gravitron thing at the local carnival: you know exactly what's going to happen, but you still hope that maybe, just this once, you won't get sick to your stomach. No such luck. Even though director Barbra Streisand tries so hard to spin it just the right way, when the credits roll out and Bryan Adams starts crooning, you're groaning along with everybody else in the theater...
...joined a health club a few weeks ago and tentatively began trying out the various machines they had. Nothing seemed particularly new or startling to me--with the exception, perhaps, of the "Gravitron," a torture device cum hydraulic contraption that inverts your center of gravity. And since spending an hour with an aspiring model in a thong is not my idea of fun, I certainly was not interested in your basic high impact aerobics. Let's face it, my Flashdance days are over...
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