My Word Coach Review

February 7, 2008

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So Ubisoft picked up on the unlikely wheel-tracks of the successful Brain Age bandwagon. Here’s another useful interactive product designed to make the user marginally smarter for having been exposed to it (or at least to make him/her

Functions superbly
Thousands of words/definitions
Helps you <i>sound</i> smarter, at least
Superior to the Wii version
'Restricted' sessions
Not much of a 'game'; some weak activities
Minimal audiovisual presentation
Somebody might see you 'playing' it

Chris Hudak is a writer, former San Francisco Zoo penguin recorder, frequent-flyer junkie, self-proclaimed lucid dream expert, poolshark-in-minnow’s-clothing, “student” of all things Japanese, borderline alcoholic (see “writer”), video-gamer-with-a-life, and moonlighting, kinda-sorta actor in his copious spare time. He writes weird fiction, and contributes articles to Playboy, Wired, The Toronto Star, and whoever else has money. Chris is the protagonist of the Harlan Ellison short story “Keyboard”—no, really—and someday wants a house in Walt Disney World.

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Functions superbly Thousands of words/definitions Helps you <i>sound</i> smarter, at least Superior to the Wii version 'Restricted' sessions Not much of a 'game'; some weak activities Minimal audiovisual presentation Somebody might see you 'playing' it

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