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Lego Star Wars - The Complete Saga (Wii)
Lucas Arts and Traveller's Tales created the perfect combination of nostalgia and geekery with the 2005 release of Lego Star wars. This innovative, cartoony, action adventure game that took advantage of a multi-generational love for both the Star wars film franchise and every kid's favourite toy, Lego bricks. In 2006 the game's sequel was more refined, largely because it was based on the much loved original trilogy rather than the prequels which some what disappointed the Star wars fan base. Now developer Traveller's Tales has rolled both games into a single package and released it as Lego Star wars: The complete Saga. At 2 games for the price of one, especially with improved visuals, this is an excellent release. Both games have been very successful and critically well received and having both in a single package is a great deal... unless you have played both games through to completion.
The basic appeal of the Lego Star Wars video games series is that it lets you the player and fan, act out some of the most memorable scenes from the Star Wars movies with cute little Lego people, symbolised the world across as a source of joy. This concept hits so many different nostalgic memories, with such ruthless precision that it almost seems sinister. The game play itself is a blend of action platforming, puzzle solving and co-op play, having to switch between 2 or more controllable characters to get around an obstacle. You'll make your way through various backdrops of the Star Wars movies, such as Naboo palace, the cloning facility on Kamino, the streets of Mos Eisley, even the corridors of the Death Star. There are many characters to be unlocked both during play and for collecting in game items and exchanging them like a currency for characters, outfits etc. The characters themselves are all neatly sectioned off into appropriate classes for play, all with unique abilities to help you pass various obstacles. You can control only one character at a time but you can switch between a party of many trailing characters in order to advance beyond the problems you are presented with. They all have unique abilities to allow you to navigate past big ledges, vents and even using the force to create Lego objects to pass laser fences. Of course, all the in game items, characters, vehicles, and even environments and designed in the 3d software from Lego bricks and appear in the style physical models in the game creating a surreal, fun and overall unique look to the Lego games. The game breaks away from the action platformer genre occasionally for a vehicle themed level. These are less puzzle based and more about just plain old having fun, collecting shiny things and in the case of a pod race, getting the best time. They're rarely as polished or intuitive as the action when you're on foot, but they do a good job punctuating the normal flow of action of the game. The group-based game play has made Lego Star Wars ideal for playing with a friend. In The Complete Saga for the PS3 and Xbox 360, you can now play the game cooperatively over the Internet. This is by far the best addition to this package, and it has been integrated fluidly, making it child's play for another player to jump into your game at any point. The Complete Saga does offer a few more, less significant changes and upgrades. A few new levels have been added, whilst others have been changed. Overall however, the games play pretty similar to the original released versions.
Since this is the first time the content from the original Lego Star Wars games have been ported to the new generation of consoles, all of the visuals have been enhanced for the Xbox 360 and PS3. It allows the entire game look as polished as Lego Star Wars II was on the 360 last year, with sharper, bigger textures, a well implemented plastic shine on the characters and objects, and tons of focus effects. Apart for widescreen support, the Wii version's visuals are far too similar to the original PS2 graphics and it makes very little use of the Wii's motion capture capabilities. Without the greatly improved visuals, or indeed the online play in the Xbox 360 and PS3 versions, The Complete Saga on the Wii feels a little less complete and less easy to recommend. The game will no doubt do well, as it has a full back catalogue of fans who pine for Lego Star Wars Mini Figures in any shape or form. Overall, a good package for people new to the series, but perhaps not quite as attractive to veterans of the series.
7/10.
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Aliens Among Us - Top Alien Invasion Movies on Satellite TV
Aliens have always played a significant role in the movies; most of time, these creatures from outer space have been less than friendly. In the world of movies, what more could you want than ugly, green, space creatures coming to attack we the good people of Earth? It's an excellent set up that leads to lots of thrills and chills. Here are some of the top alien invasion movies of all time-check your satellite TV guide for show times.
war of the worlds: There's the modern version starring Tom Cruise, and then you've got the original from 1953. It's hard to top a classic, but the lastest version does a pretty good job with all the special effects. The brain sucking aliens and their gnarly looking space ships look quite realistic, especially in HD. But, if you're one who likes to stick with the classics, Byron Haskin's version is frightening and beautiful in its own right, without all the killer HD effects.
Mars Attacks: This is an absurd comedy, but it is hilarious. With an all star cast including Annette Benning, Jack Nicholson, Glenn Close, Danny Devito, Pierce Brosnan, Martin Short, Jessica Parker and a young Natalie Portman, this movie isn't one to miss. It's directed by Tim Burton and it's a great spoof of 1950's low budget sci-fi movies. You'll enjoy the slapstick humor and the rather funny looking aliens.
The Day The Earth Stood Still: Again, you've got the classic 1951 version directed by Robert Wise, and then there's the remake starring Keanu Reeves as Klaatu, the Earth bound alien, and Jennifer Connelly as the scientist who tries to save him and Earth. The remake had its moments, the effects are pretty compelling especially on a huge flat screen HD TV, and Reeves is convincing as an alien, however, many would probably say the movie lacked in many ways. Robert Wise's original was much more gripping, despite its old school fx.
Independence Day: This is the ultimate alien invasion movie. There are explosions. And then there are more explosions. The Empire State building is blown to smithereens and all of Manhattan is engulfed by a raging fire ball. The Whitehouse is subsequently destroyed and all havoc breaks out as the aliens seek to destroy the entire Earth. Luckily, Will Smith and Jeff Goldblum save the day with their quips and guns. Watch this movie in high definition-all that fire power needs to be seen in crystal clear def.
Predator: Starring Arnold Schwarzenegger before he decided to take care of illegal aliens in California, this movie sees the governator kicking some nasty alien hide. The predator in this movie has some excellent tricks up his sleeve, including the ability to turn invisible and he sports some killer rasta style dreads. This one will definitely give you the chills.
Signs: This is another M. Night Shyamalan classic. It doesn't depend on explosions and incredible FX to get under your skin. It's well crafted and definitely creepy. The execution of the storyline and its tie in with the title of the movie was handled expertly. The subtle details in this movie make it well worth the watch. This is a great alien film on many fronts.
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Thursday, November 24, 2011
Are Online Games a Bad Influence Or Not?
Online gamers are a different breed of individuals. For one they can spend days playing with people they have never met and even forget to eat. It's like a drug, they can yell, scream and cuss whenever their parents or family are not around and no one can say different. Even if your loved one does not use foul language in front of you it is still present online. The headsets that allow communication while in a game seem to be a breeding ground for foul mouth people trying to be "over the phone tough guys and girls". So what do you do?
Try limiting their play time to daytime hours when you can hear what is coming out of their mouths. Make them take a break every couple of hours if they have been engaged to long. Be aware that these games can be addictive because of the adrenalin rush they provide. Your kids will act like they are on crack. I have seen this behavior from my son when I take it and lock it up for a week or two. He goes nuts for the first two days then he is fine.
Does online gaming change kids? Absolutely it does and not always for the best. The only positive behavior I noticed was that my 15 year old is much better at defending himself from high school bullying and peer pressure than other kids. I raised him to be a good person and defend others that are in trouble and he has still held onto that. But at home he has a whole different attitude. I let him play online as long as he does his homework and keeps his grades up. He also has to do his chores without arguing. Could it be normal behavior? I would have said yes until I started taking it away for different periods of time.
Like I said earlier he is a different person when he doesn't have his game. Some studies have shown an increase in violence when kids play violent games. I personally have not witnessed this, but the disrespect for elders is a very real problem. It seems that since they can speak to other gamers any way that they want due to anonymity, then they can do it outside of the game environment as well. Control is a big issue because you want your kids to succeed in life but they want to be left alone to their own devices. Give them space but limited space. Otherwise they might choose the game over you. You laugh, but I have seen it with my friends children.
When it comes to letting them play online it's up to you to keep track of how much time they spend online and how they are developing as people. As far as them being addicted to the games, I like it because it gives me leverage for when he has gone too far with misbehaving. Just for the record I like to play myself, but not online. I don't enjoy hearing little kids all over the world swearing and using racial slurs towards one another. Not my cup of tea. If you just bought a system for your children please take a snap shot of how they act now and reflect on that in a year or so and see if I am alone in my conclusion.
©2009 David Gasser
About the author: My name is David Gasser and I have two children who I adore. While it's not easy raising teens it can be very rewarding. My philosophy is simple, let them grow and try to guide them with good advice, knowledge and a sense of being. They are individuals like you and me so let them be themselves.
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Thursday, November 17, 2011
Setting Bowling Alley Pins in the 50's
Before the days of automatic pin setters in bowling alleys, they used a rack that one could throw the pins into, then push a lever down to set the pins in the correct position. This provided a good job for young men that liked a little excitement. The pin setter would sit on the edge of the pit with his feet clear of the bowling ball that would come crashing down the alley. Most of the time all the pins would remain in the pit, but sometimes they would fly out and if you were not alert you may get hit.
When the bowler would throw the first ball, the pin setter would pick up the ball and place it on the return rail, then as fast as he could, pick up the pins and place them in the rack. If the pin setter was too slow and the ball reached the bowler before the pin setter was through in the pit the person bowling may throw the ball and catch you in the pit. They usually cannot see you down in the pit, or maybe they can and like to see you jump! We would learn to pick up two pins in each hand and sometimes a fifth pin between the two hands. If it was a strike, you could then pick up all the pins by only bending over twice, five pins each time. The object was to always complete the action before the ball reached the return rack.
During the slack time and while waiting for the bowlers to arrive, we would gather around the pin-ball machine and see who could rack up the most games. We would set the front legs on the soles of our shoes to the make the ball roll slower, until it would tilt, and end the game. Someone figured out where the solenoid for added games was located in the back and cut a hole there so we could save a nickel by pushing in just the right spot.
This was my first really paying job and when I got my social security card. We had just moved from Englewood, Tennessee to Lakeland, Florida. We lived in a trailer park on the edge of town and on one of the many lakes there. It was another great place for a fifteen-year-old, I could swim and water ski. You just had to watch out for the alligators. I meet a most interesting friend there about my age, can't recall his name. He was a 15-year-old pilot and Ham Radio operator. He never took me up in his plane, but I sure enjoyed listening to him talking to the world on the ham radio.
Years later when I was working for Lockheed Air Craft, I took a course on Single Side Band radios used in the C-141 Cargo Plane and I thought back about those hours we spent on the ham radio. I was working at Lockheed when the President was shot in Texas.
Now that I had gotten my first job, I felt that I could do anything and go anywhere and make a living. However, I was still only 15! School was a problem for me, it may have been because we moved so much and I seem to never be able to complete a full year at one school. And I believe that I also may have been bored. I spent two years in the seventh grade, two years in the eighth grade and was starting on my second year in the ninth, when I gave it up and left home at 16.
There was another family in the trailer park that had a problem son who ran away a lot and there was a lot of talk about how hard it was to keep young boys at home. I was still 15 when we moved again back to my hometown of Providence, Kentucky. I was working at a drive-in movie theater at night, cutting school in the day time and always on the edge of getting into trouble. The owner of the theater rented our three story home in Providence and we lived in the trailer parked behind the house. My younger sister was getting older and the trailer was getting crowded, so I was given the basement of the house for my bed room.
I would ride to work with the theater owner and run the projection equipment all night until the last show was over. The movies came in two boxes with two reels of film in each box. We would have to wind the film through our hands to inspect for bad splices before showing the movie. If you had a bad splice, the film would break or jam in the middle. The image would stop on the screen and a hole would start to burn in the middle. It would really look strange on the screen. Then the horns would start blowing all the time you cleared the mess out of the projector and re-spliced the film. One night during the second showing, I made an error and played reel number 1 followed by reel number 3, then number 2 and ended with number 4. No one complained, but if they were watching, I bet they were confused. Lots of time I would splice the cartoon or news on backwards and you would see the sound track running down the side.
During intermission time we sometimes would have some kind of entertainment and one night we had a group that bought junk cars and would jump them over each other and crash them in the area in front of the big screen. They had trouble getting a 1948 Plymouth started that night and could not crash it. I offered them $60.00 for it and I had my first car, but no driver's license. You had to be 16 in the state of Kentucky to get a license. After the show that night a friend push me off and we got the car started so I could drive it home. Dad was slightly upset and said that it could just set there in the back yard, until I was old enough to get a license.
I was back to walking home after closing the theater. The owners would usually not stay after the concession stand closed and unless I knew someone that was at the movie I would be stuck with walking the 5 miles home in the dark. I don't know how many times I walked off the road and almost fell into the ditch on those nights when there was no moon.
In the storage space behind the large screen, there were all kinds of junk and I found some old 16 mm film reels of old b-movies. The owner had stored them there, well I borrowed a few of them and at home under our sun porch there was a crawl space of about five feet. I found an old 16 mm projector and set up my own theater. For the 50's some of the films were sexy, and by to days standards would be rated PG. The only problem with my theater was that I used a lot of cardboard for building material and soon the termites were every where. Dad made me creosote everything that touch the dirt floor. Well the smell of creosote was just too much, so that ended that project. The owner reported to the police that someone had broke into the storage and they questioned me about it. I was never sure if someone else had stolen something or if he was looking for those films.
I did drive the old Plymouth one more time, some friends and I were going out to the coal mine strip cut to go swimming. There was a lot of strip mining in west Kentucky and at that time they would just leave the big cuts open to fill with water. They made fine swimming holes, they were deep, usually over 100 feet and had steep banks that we could dive from. We pulled the old Plymouth out onto the road and pushed it down the hill until it started. It had very little compression so you had to get up a little speed before it would start. After our swim we started back home on the long gravel road and one by one the thin tires started to blow. I continued to drive it on the rims, if I stopped we would never be able to push it fast enough with two flats to get it started again. I think that dad hauled it back to the junk yard after I left home.
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Tuesday, November 1, 2011
Castle Age Game Review
Castle Age is a massively-multiplayer online (MMO) game hosted on Facebook. You get to quest in a lore-rich world, team up with friends to fight monsters such as dragons and hydra, and even invade and duel thousands of other Castle Age players!
The game is based on a turn-based concept that has been around for decades but has only recently become popular due to successful Facebook and MySpace games such as Mafia wars and Farmville. The core concept is that the turns are time-based. For example, you can perform a move every 5 minutes. However, since most players aren't able to stay online and play the game 24/7, these games feature a turn-accumulation mechanism where you can accumulate "energy" while offline, and use it all up the next time you log on to perform multiple turns. This levels the playing field between hardcore gamers and the more casual players, making these games very popular with a lot of people.
There is so much to do in Castle Age that it is surprising that this game is free to play. You get to immerse in the fantasy land of Castle Age any which way you want to. If you are more inclined to explore the world and experience the many wonders and inhabitants it has to offer, then questing is for you. If you wish to team up with other valiant players to defeat powerful and mythical monsters, then there are plenty of dragons waiting for you. Or if you'd rather fight other players, then invading, dueling and looting them are available options.
Questing involves visiting the different lands in the world of Castle Age as you help the mystical Celesta retrieve powerful crystals in order to safeguard the world. As you journey, you will encounter quests that present challenges that you will need to overcome. Each quest tells the story of a small part of your great undertaking with Celesta.
The quest system in this game is based on requirements. Firstly, you will need energy to solve them, with higher level quests requiring more energy. In addition, each quest will require you to hire certain units such as wizards and knights in order for you to be successful. You will also have to hire specific heroes to lead your units and help you complete each quest. As you complete each quest, you will be rewarded with experience, gold and treasure!
If you prefer to play with other players rather than quest on your own, there are plenty of epic bosses roaming the world for you to summon and fight. Some monsters are weaker and can only be fought by you and your friends, while the more powerful bosses such as the World Hydra can be fought by a team consisting of anyone playing the game, making this feel epic with a great sense of teamwork and achievement. Killing these monsters will provide you with powerful followers, weapons and armor to make you stronger for future battles.
Another aspect of the game is the ability to attack other players, commonly known as the player-vs-player (PVP) portion of the game. There are 2 ways in which to fight other players: by invading them or dueling them.
Invasion represents all out war. You muster your friends, followers, heroes and equipment, and attack the other player. Or you can challenge them to honorable combat, dueling them mano-a-mano with your best weapons, armor and magic. And to the victor go the spoils!
The more successful you are at PVP and the more players you defeat, you will be able to climb the battle ranks. You start off as a lowly scout, but with persistence, you might be able to attain ranks such as knight, general and even duke! And with each rank you gain, you are entitled to special rewards that help you stand out from the crowd.
One thing that makes Castle Age different from typical games is that its contents are updated on a very regular basis. You are able to fight new monsters, face new bosses and find new treasures almost every week! The amount of constant updates and improvements that the developers provide to the game is what makes it really shine.
There is also an element of collectability and surprise in this game. Killing monsters gives you a chance of acquiring the coveted favor points. These favor points can be used to buy limited edition heroes and equipment that are only available for short periods of time. And if you're feeling lucky, you can use these favor points to open treasure chests. You might find an unimpressive shield, or you could end up in control of an ultra-rare hero with the power of a demi-god!
Rating: 4.5/5.0
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