metadigital

The XBox 360 got RAVE review in the UK Christmas issue of PC Format (yes, a console got rave reviews in a PC magazine) because of M$ now-revealed big-hands-on-little-maps strategy. Their view is, basically, screw the XBox 360 versus PS3 debate: the XBox 360 is a perfect PVR platform to link into the wired home of the future. It runs Windows Media Centre Edition and plugs seamlessly into a Windows network to manage all audio- and video-on-demand functions for the third millennium house. That's the big picture. The PS3 is trying to leapfrog the M$ strategy like they did with the original PS when they instigated the compact disc revolution. We live in interesting times.

All basically the same game. The first one I played on PS (one). I am still playing the series (not high on the game-playing priority list, to be sure) currently on number three. The last one (Angle of Darkness) was a total failure of gameplaying design. I refused to complete it once I reached the first "end boss" after the "change of avatar": over half-way through the game, you get to control a Templar-Knight-alike boy. Unfortunately, the woeful controls on the PC version (poorly converted from poor console controls in the first place) became even worse at that point. I didn't see the point in destroying my Dell laptop keyboard under the necessary button mashing mess that was required to kill the wolf-thing. It is (check out the trailer) a terrific console franchise, though, and the backlash from the last game should mean Eidos makes amends this time. I guess that depends on the definition of "limited".

Is Take Two listed on the US stock market? Aren't they, therefore, bound by Sarbannes-Oxyley (SOx) legislation, brought in especially to counter Enron-type legerdemain on the balance sheet? ... Does this mean Bioware's financial foundations are built on sandy ground? Edit: Yah! The bunny ^ is back.

Hot off the press - Lara Croft Tomb Raider: Legend

TURNBASED = Better for strategy Also, Civ invented strategy while Real Time may have referred (erroneously) to total length of time it took for celluloid films or yarns to unroll. What is kewl about Civ 4 is the richness of options available for progression towards success, and the multiplicity of different interactions between these options as manefested against a backdrop of different background environmental particulars Culture and religion are particlarly interesting for me (as I still ain't played SMAC): but I soon discovered that changing to a new prophet each time one pops up is not the best strategy ... "

Jaynestown is a great episode. I would expect the censors would edit any unsuitable seconds from the telecast. Not really sure what bits you are referring to as unsuitable: maybe the disfigured guy in the sweatbox? Death doesn't qualify, per se: mature themes do (innuendo, sexual reference, profanity, etc). They would just play it after the watershed (9pm) to avoid ANY censorship, and children could record it with a PVR for watching later.

Talentless whores of media, men and music. Really? After she's opened her mouth? I wouldn't drink a moderately tasty diuretic beverage in preparation for extinguishing their rapidly-immolating bodies. And she looks like a skeleton with a pole up her bum.

Only if they couldn't spell. Otherwise they would spell it Googol. If only some super-eidetic ... um ... what was the question?

Who thought that your PC was deranged and trying to end the game universe and therefore their virtual lives ..!

Stop spamming my Firefly thread. Spelling is and always has been maleable in its long and windy evolutionary path (check out some old manuscripts for some whacky spelling). Syntax is not."

With a "chosen bot" who must save the universe from some unspeakable boredom that will engulf the audience in a few hours of game time ...

Doesn't it contravene some sort of union rule or United Nations edict to yoke elder women into sweatshops to produce computer games.

... With giant stompie robots.

I used to know but I forgot.

Did Metadigital make a typoe? " <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Were you eating a potatoe, Mr Quail? btw I didn't make a typographical mistake.

<{POST_SNAPBACK}> One of my favourite films, I watched it the other day. Much enjoyment to be had in the detailed scrutiny of dialogue. Paul Verhoeven directed Showgirls, too, with the unforgetable award-winning "Dolphin impersonation by a Lead Actress in the Throes of Ecstacy Whilst Copulating in a Pool" scene. And Robocop. And Total Recall.

You need to drive your De Lorean back to the middle-to-late eighties, when it was cool.

That film was released at a very awkward moment in Australian history, just after the (temporarily) largest homocidal rampage in the world in Tasmania ... the (still imprisoned) fruit loop looks just like Jake Busey's Johnny Charles Bartlett, so it kinda tanked in the cinemas and always takes the edge off for me. Very spooky in the end, too. Currently watching Gangs of NY. Very pedestrian, I guess I might have got more out of it if I had devoted more attention to it ... "

He has been fruitful and multiplied. (Exponentiated, even.)

Let him post; his innane writing is our greatest weapon in disarming him. ^_^

Hanging '. I see your email account thinks my email account is late with the rent. My email account asked me to pass on any necessary apologies so that they can work out their differences and get back on speaking terms ...

I think all you automated responses are fixated on self-aggrandization; those of us who aren't automated are the ones who create reviews (unless the automatons are creating reviews to keep their delusions camouflaged).

Did they suture his lips together as punishment?

Maybe it's anorexic under all that fur? It has some pretty sizeable clod-hoppers, though; they'd do an eliphant proud ...

You North Americans and your teeth fetish ...