Tag: review

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  • Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction

    Posted on Sept. 1, 2008 at 22:50 +0200 Tagged with , , ,

    I love Ratchet & Clank. I really do. So far I've played every single game of the franchise (except for Secret Agent Clank and the new PSN title Ratchet & Clank Future: Quest for Booty) and absolutely loved every single one of them. The first installment of the franchise on the Playstation 3, Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction is no exception there ... at least for the most part.

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  • Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - Fearful Symmetry

    Posted on July 17, 2008 at 22:00 +0200 Tagged with , , ,

    I will try not to spend too much time on this book here since I'm rather pissed right now. When "Warpath", which was released in March 2006, ended it was quite clear in what direction the next book would go: the mirror universe and the whole story behind Iliana Ghemor. This book does at least the later, but leaves the first one open to the next books ... and that's my problem with "Fearful Symmetry" by Olivia Woods. The book doesn't really progress the story. It answers basically all questions you could have had about Illiah, but the actual timeline progression is veeery minimal. I guess I couldn't even spoil anything here even if I tried.

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  • Star Trek: Mirror Universe - Glass Empires

    Posted on June 28, 2008 at 15:32 +0200 Tagged with , , ,

    Cover picture taken from OpenLibrary.orgIf you remember how the TOS episode "Mirror, Mirror" ended it had introduced a whole new universe to the world of Star Trek: The mirror universe, where everyone was more or less the evil counterpart of the universe Star Trek fans were used to. When 30 years later the Deep Space Nine episode Crossover) continued the plot, it just gave small hints of what happened in between and between the Enterprise double-episode In a Mirror, Darkly and "Mirror, Mirror". And this is exactly where the two "Mirror Universe" books, Glass Empires [OL] and Obsidian Alliances come in.

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  • Uncharted: Drake's Fortune

    Posted on April 12, 2008 at 23:38 +0200 Tagged with , , ,

    The first time I saw the trailer for Uncharted: Drake's Fortune I wasn't overly excited about getting my hands on this game. Sure, it looked great, but just a little bit too much like Tomb Raider but with a dude (so back to Indiana Jones). Then when some folks over at 1UP got a change to play it, they described the main character as your normal dude who also acts like that. No über-hero, but someone you often get the feeling that he is scared, that he has a problem keeping his balance on a pole etc.

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  • Resistance: Fall of Man

    Posted on March 29, 2008 at 15:53 +0100 Tagged with , , ,

    I have to admit it: I'm an Insomniac fanboy. I played every single Ratchet & Clank game (except the PS3 one) and loved them. So when I first learned about Resistance: Fall of Man it was clear to me, that I eventually had to have it. Now that I finally have a PS3, Resistance was the first game (not bundled with the system) that I got.

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  • Burnout Paradise

    Posted on Feb. 22, 2008 at 23:58 +0100 Tagged with , , , ,

    Burnout Paradise is probably one of the biggest time-suckers of all times. Since I bought it about 3 weeks ago, I've been spending most of my free time on it. So far it took me about 25 hours to complete around 65% of the game. It was definitely a risky move by Criterion to make Burnout more an open-world game, but at least for me, Burnout Paradise could become my favorite installment of the franchise. I started with Burnout 2 on the Playstation 2 and so far only missed out Burnout Dominator, which I still plan to get, but none of them (perhaps with the exception of Burnout 3 got me that excited).

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  • Star Trek TNG: Q & A

    Posted on Jan. 14, 2008 at 21:38 +0100 Tagged with , ,

    One of the longest story-lines in the Star Trek universe is definitely the one about those almighty beings called the Q. They, together with their most well known representative Q (portraid by John de Lancie), had their first appearance right in the first episode of the second Star Trek show: Star Trek: The Next Generation and since then appeared in not only a couple of other TNG-episodes (including the last one) but also in DS9 and Voyager. With Q & A Keith R.A. DeCandido extends the world surrounding the Q Continuum with another story that brings Q again down onto Captain Picard and the crew of the Enterprise to finally explain some things.

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  • Star Trek TNG: Death in Winter

    Posted on Dec. 20, 2007 at 19:51 +0100 Tagged with , , ,

    Next book in my travel to Star Trek literature and again a TNG book. Death in Winter is set right after the end of Nemesis or even I guess after Trust yourself when all men doubt you, the last story in the TNG anniversary anthology The Sky's the Limit with Captain Picard trying to deal with his close friend and secret love (secret for whom isn't really the question here, I guess) transferring over to SF Medical.

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  • Star Trek: TNG: The Sky's the Limit

    Posted on Dec. 2, 2007 at 14:18 +0100 Tagged with , , ,

    So Star Trek: The Next Generation is now 20 years old (which probably makes it just a little bit last generation ...) and CBS and Simon & Schuster take this anniversary as an opportunity for releasing a couple of TNG-related books. The first one I got is Star Trek: TNG: The Sky's the Limit

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  • Star Trek: Vulcan's Soul II - Exiles

    Posted on Sept. 22, 2007 at 10:12 +0200 Tagged with , , , ,

    The second book of the "Vulcan's Soul" trilogy is once again a book for those of you out there, who might want to get to know the Vulcan people a little bit better. Or especially their history, for that matter. Luckily it's now also available as paperback, so you can save some money compared to the horrendously expensive hard-cover version :D

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