Advantages: Great visuals, groundbreaking scale, and superb gameplay Disadvantages: High end system required for best performance
Games like Supreme Commander, it is safe to say, do not come around very often. The enormous hype, anticipation, and mass hysteria that has surrounded this game since its announcement is a testament to its rarity. After a few years of no real improvement and few new benchmarks, real-time strategy needed a game like Supreme Commander. It needed it not just to push the boundaries, but to shove them violently to the wayside in a moment of awesome gaming splendour, mocking the memory of everything that has come before, and setting the standard for years to come.
In its size and scale, this game is groundbreaking; in its visual quality and presentation, it is stunning; and in its gameplay it is unrivalled in the genre. For the hardcore fan of real-time strategy and the average gamer alike, Supreme Commander is a must. Innovative, engaging ...
Advantages: Easy to assemble and use and very efficient Disadvantages: A little bit noisy
When my baby was born 5 months ago, we quickly found out that he wasn't taking enough breast milk from me - bless him, he was falling asleep before he had a chance to fill his tummy. So, my midwife suggested that I use a breast pump to express some milk off, and that I give him 20 ml in a small cup towards the end of every feed.
Now I had bought a manual breast pump when my daughter was a baby, but to be honest with you, I'd never really got on with it. I found it quite uncomfortable on my breast, and it really made my hand ache trying to work the thing! So, I decided to look into the various options available for an electric breast pump.
I eventually settled on the Medela Mini 'Electric breast pump, which I bought for £50 from Boots.
When I got the pump home, I unpacked it (nicely packaged) and popped the non-motorised bits ...
Advantages: Great insights, highly motivating Disadvantages: Some elements were staged
All things considered, Arnold Schwarzenegger has had an interesting life. He arrived in America with almost no money and barely able to speak a word of English, then through sheer hard work and determination went on to win bodybuilding's biggest title a record-breaking seven times, became arguably the greatest action movie star of all time and got elected as the governor of California. Clearly you don't achieve all that without having something a little special, and Pumping Iron gives us an insight into this.
It's 1975 and Arnold Schwarzenegger is preparing to defend his Mr Olympia title for the sixth time in a row. He's been king of the hill for the last five years, but now there's new competition in the shape of Lou Ferrigno - a massive 6'5" bodybuilder who is younger, bigger and hungry for success. The documentary charts their ...
