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I didn’t know what to expect when I went to see the film, for I loved the last three and was hoping for more of the same. The action was good, the script seemed okay and there were some good gags here and there. But I found the ending disappointing and was left with wonderment on, how on earth did it get worse?

The film started off well enough, or did it? For some reason parts at the beginning didn’t seem to fit, a few little jokes with the Ark of the Covenant in one frame and the statue of his friend being desecrated seemed funny. But on the whole I enjoyed the film and then was mythed at how it can go from one extreme to another.

3 out of 5.

I was walking around a car-boot sale on Sunday and a lot of the stalls had VHS video tapes for sale. I know I wont need them and I am sure a lot of people wont buy them any more. I was struggling with my thinking and wondering if these video tapes are retro or just scrap.

Now I look above my head and see I have a load of video tapes, lots in fact and I know I haven’t watched one in about 2 years. I guess they are not needed no more. Bye Bye Video tapes.

I love going back in time and playing old games and I have to say I rather liked Tides of Darkness. The graphics are always good and I would have to say exceptional for the time.

Although I am not sure what came first, Command & Conquer or WarCraft but they both have the same type of feel. Warcraft tends to be a classical fantasy and I am rather fond of the gene. But this version doesn’t seem as tactful as the predecessor, as the AI is considerably more intelligent even know I can beat it fairly easily. There are simply more options, more to do and the cut scenes are great.

I love building my base, making sure the church goes in the right place. I like the towns to have a unique feel and my citizens to look happy! But then again this is war. Being able to build a big fleet of ships makes for a great sea battle and I do love having the ctrl function that allows you to have multiple armies to send into battle. All the upgrades and levelling up of the units in my army does add that addiction factor and I could easily spend hours a night on the game.

So I am grateful there is a Dark Portal expansion pack to add to the last ability which Tides of Darkness lacks. Even still Warcraft II is an excellent game with good background music, excellent graphics and great functionality.

I first phoned up three weeks ago when I had no internet and it had already been down a few days. I got through to one of those machines, “Press 1, press 2, ect.” I went through that system, they did their tests and that didn’t work. I told them I had tested my router, ADSL filters and I couldn’t work out the problem. I told them there was nothing wrong with the Netgear router they sent out to me. But alas, they wanted to send another one out, which I gladly tested and had to phone back up. Nope! That wasn’t the problem like I had explained.

The worse thing on the second phone call is that they had closed the ticket information thinking they had fixed my problem! WRONG! So basicly I have an extra router modem which might be of use somewhere. But the problem remained and I went through their tests again. Finally after 45 minutes on the third time I called up about not having a connect I got through to 3rd line support. This time the guy ran some sort of different tests and figured out the problem along with telling me lots of what I already know! Finally he set the speed to 3MBit and fixed the problem, even know I am suppose to get 16MBit, but I guess the BT systems round here do not support that.

So now I have my internet back with £15 compensation, I felt the tech-support service they have at Sky Broadband was long winded and not very good. Not very efficient and the 1st tech support level should be able to do what the 3rd level support guy can. Not a very good service, one can only hope it gets better.