Nikos The Impaler (DVD)

Advantages: Superb graphics, mass multiplayer modes, pure freedom, and excellent music/sound
Disadvantages: Weak storyline, sometimes too realistic, and nothing to do when game is completed

...Ah yes, the next Grand Theft Auto in the popular franchise. The first game I played with my new Playstation 3 back in July 2008. It was a tough choice to put in Grand Theft Auto 4 or Metal Gear Solid 4, but it just had to be GTA 4 for sure. My console did come with Haze, but that doesn't even compare to this bonified work of art! Thanks to the usual addictiveness of a new Grand Theft Auto game, I didn't even touch my other new PS3 games for weeks until I completed the storyline. Opening the box, I was immediately greeted with a massive two sided map of the game's city. Knowing this would come in handy for a large sandbox type of game like Grand Theft Auto is. Along with that, was a unique game manual wrote in a form of tourist guide. Thought that was rather amusing at the time and a little different. Plotline Niko Belic... Read review

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Advantages: Mostly super-presentation, interesting concept, plenty of extras
Disadvantages: Under-developed plot, film only 42 minutes long, characters aren't memorable

...Having recently sampled in the delights of undiscovered anime classic 'Princess Mononoke', I decided it was time to investigate the genre a little closer. Blood - The Last Vampire was the next DVD I bought. A manga animation, Blood is a curious film set in 1966, just before the Vietnam war started. Events focus around the young, mysterious girl Saya, who we first see travelling on an underground train, staring peacefully into space. Things begin to get a little more interesting however when she slaughters the other passenger in her carridge with her not particularly well-hidden sword. It emerges that Saya is working with a team of undercover agents (think Men In Black-types and you've got it), whereby she seems to be some kind of demon-slayer, sent to kill beasties who can morph in and out of human form. The undercover agents track... Read review

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Advantages: Profound and entertaining, what more does one want?!
Disadvantages: none

...I know nothing about Greek literature, so when I looked for adequate reading matter for our hols on Crete I turned to google and found Nikos Kazantzakis? ?Zorba the Greek?. Ah, yes, suddenly the wonderful film from 1964 came back to my mind, older readers may recall Anthony Quinn in the role of Zorba. I didn?t know that the film was made after Nikos Kazantzakis? novel, in fact I didn?t know anything about the author at all, now I?ve learnt that the author is not only the most famous Cretan author but he is the most written about and most translated Greek author of modern times, an internationally acclaimed novelist, dramatist, poet and journalist; he narrowly missed out on the Nobel Prize for literature by one vote in 1956. (from the net) ?Kazantzakis was born in Heraklion, the capital of Crete, in 1883. He studied law in Athens... Read review

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