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Another film directed by Uwe Boll that was below par as his normal standard is lower than B movie class.

At the beginning of the film you have a two actors playing an American couple. Terrible, terrible acting there. The next problem is that the location seems off compared to what should be the South Pacific.

The main actor Til Schweiger who plays Jack Carver is okay, seems to have the look of a hardened warrior, but he looks a bit small for the part! Emmanuelle Vaugier as Valerie Constatine is okay in the casting as are most of the other people. Nobody stood out and nothing really stood out that much. Chris Coppola as the food guy was funny-ish and probably one of the better elements to the cast. But it made the feel lighter in regard to what is probably a dark setting.

The filming it’self is clean and there are no problems, but the lack of depth and the fact that Uwe Boll has to get ideas from a computer game say it all. He is determined not to try anything fresh or original. He just seems content on filming C movies for us to destroy our minds.

Mash out ppl!

1.5 out of 5.

I have been listening to the NASA podcasts a while and I really do find some of what they have going very interesting. Other parts, so so. The thing that gets me has to be the really cheesy music they have running in the background. Hideous!!

But yesterday I listened to an edition which had a segment going on about a Moonbase Alpha game, a 3D moon base with a problem that needs to be fixed. I downloaded the game off from Steam and it seemed like a bit of fun. But there really isn’t much there. Fix up the base in 30 minutes and then you get bored!

Saying that, I would like to hear some other peoples thoughts on the game.

http://www.nasa.gov/offices/education/programs/national/ltp/games/moonbasealpha/mbalpha-landing-collection1-overview.html

I knew we couldn’t win this world cup, simply on the basis of bad decisions. Some say Fabio Capello is ruthless, I say he really doesn’t know the English premiership that well. If you are going to be England manager, you must have Premier League experience. Simple on the basis, know the players you are picking.

We made it to face Germany, but it was a slog, only to be humiliated. Players such as Emile Heskey and Matthew Upson placed into the World Cup squad when they really haven’t done enough to warrant inclusion. A player of Michael Dawson who has the quality wasn’t even given the chance. Gerrard played out of play on the left side and to be honest, he was pretty shit. As a captain? I didn’t see that which was needed. Maybe next time Lampard can be captain. Heskey and Rooney didn’t gel well at all throughout the competition and Heskey continued to unimpress along with Capello including a useless player in the squad! Why?

The next problem is Joe Cole, he is a good player, plays really well on the left side, so you put him on the right? That’s way out of position Mr Capello!

As for the few that stand out, James Milner played well and Ashley Cole worked his socks off, for most of the others, I didn’t see much that I would want at White Hart Lane. Lampard had a good go, having that goal disallowed is a very strong call for goal line technology. But that isn’t going to help a very poor campaign I just hope the Euro’s will be better and by that point someone else is in charge.

http://www.looki.com/gaming/empire_universe_2_s75.html

Here we have another Java based game via the browser. O how it can look good from those screenshots, but yet again looks can be deceiving.

Gameplay starts with building, just like you build on evony, basic building which is based on the Age of Empires style of gaming. However this is as far it goes for building your city on your planets, boring, as you have to wait on time just like on evony! Once you get your space port up and running you can build ships. How much research do you want to do also depends on how much better a ship you want to build.

Yep, I said research, this is endless, and clearly not worth waiting for, all you do is research, build buildings, build ships, mine astroids, colonise other planets and finally explore space.

The idea sounds great, shame it is more boring than daytime tv and far more boring than any other game in existence.

I really can’t rate this game. That’s how bad it is!

I start playing this dam game again, what made me stop again?

It must of been the fact that after two weeks of gameplay I got raped and destroyed. Not only did it destroy my heart but it destroyed everything I felt I had accomplished in the game! I found it hard to get into the alliance I wanted, then some guy with the nickname Ridout in the 129 server just for no reason raped my city to the ground, took everything in it, destroyed all the fortifications and wiped my army out in one blow.

So I tried to rebuild, got back up a bit, sent him an in game mail, for what reason did you destroy me. “Lakes and wrong answer” was all I got back along with him destroying everything, taking my city and made me feel sick.

Clearly the problem isn’t me, the problem is people must spend their own life playing a game to get so dam good, they can destroy you in that game with a few number of clicks. It makes it so uninviting to new players.

My suggestion to all, firewall block the game so you can never get near it again!

I had a neighbour across the road who I have never met as long as I know, he died on Saturday, but his death solves a mystery I have been wondering about for a while.

Why does my stereo turn itself on, all on it’s own?

Well it seems that Bernard had lots of radio control devices that turned on all his lights, TV and radio! It seems that maybe one of his devices had been transmitting across the road and turning on the stereo. Now there is a logical answer other than thinking it was a ghost trying to contact me!

I feel in the zone, or am I? What do you call the zone when you are in it? Or what is the zone when you are out of it?

There are many faces for who am I, but there is only one face, sadly my mind is going round in circles, I look at the browser, flicking through each tab in my window between the different pages and not really doing much. I have ordered a new game, Microsoft’s Age of Empire III. Hopefully that will keep me occupied for a while. Alas, waiting for something can be longing and seem like a long time. One has to keep ones self occupied.

Right now I have a song playing in YouTube by John Clarke, he is pretty good at his guitar playing. A new type of talent that I don’t see that much.

As for me, I should probably get some sleep!

I was reading the 20 Feb 2010 edition of the Telegraph Magazine and Olivia Williams who plays Adelle DeWitt in Dollhouse low point was:

Being a corpse in a real morgue in a real drawer on a real zinc bed in a real fridge, naked.

For a cop show.

http://www.evony.com

Formally called Civony this browser based game brings you a very basic medieval game in which you create your city and expand your empire. This is really a cross between Age of Empire and a Sim City type game.

You start with following the basic quests given to you which is a tutorial that lasts for seven days building up your city, from cottages to barracks, town hall, farms and works. Each building is time each upgrade is time, hence the meaning running in real-time. I have to say I do get rather bored by this game, there doesn’t seem too much depth to it.

A direct copy of Age of Empire’s is the farming system, collecting food, wood, stone and metal. The same again when building your army.

The landscape is repetitive all over the place. There is no continuity, structure or beauty to this game, the graphics look okay but there is no glamour. There are level changes in the map structure and this doesn’t really happen in reality and shouldn’t happen here. It looks wrong and seems wrong.

A feature of the game is the shopping which is very expensive and isn’t worth spending any of your money on. I don’t want to increase boredom by descressing boredom.

Game score:
1.5 out of 5