Advantages: Challenging, plenty to explore and shoot Disadvantages: Frame-rate not steady, silly story, cannot skip ship sequences
*A review which is primarily based on the single-player experience of the third-person action-adventure game, Jet Force Gemini.*
Jet Force Gemini sees you taking on the evil tyrant of Mizar in a battle across the universe, and although the story, aimed at children (above the age of eleven - thanks ELSPA), can seem silly in places, the plot twists are simply stupid:
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When an asteroid is set on a collision course with Earth, an ancient starship is needed as the Jet Force ships won't be able to get there in time. However, not only do the Jet Force Team have to search for the ship parts, but they are also asked to save all of the Tribals - as if this doesn't take time (not the only thankless task which is a pain in the ass)! It's a farce as they would crash the starship on the Asteroid, yet still allow for players to travel to ...
Advantages: A nice read Disadvantages: None of note
been a fan of Shaun Hutson from his very early books like slugs and Spawn and I thought I had read all that he had to offer. Imagine my delight therefore when I discovered Hybrid lurking on the pages of Amazon.co.uk and the realisation that I had not actually read it. Hybrid is a very clever piece of writing from Hutson in that it contains a story within a story, I sometimes forgot I was reading about a struggling author so engrossing was the story about Sean Doyle and his Counter Terrorist work, I actually found myself caring far more for Doyle?s character than for that of Christopher Ward. The first two thirds of the book are largely taken up with the story within the story but then as the manuscript is finished it switches to the author and his struggles to find out how and why the story was being written. Hutson himself says in his ...
Advantages: Great plot and plot twists, good characters. Disadvantages: Abrupt end in ending and forced romance between the two main characters.
Written by David Thorpe
304 Pages
Can be bought as new for £4.49 on Amazon.co.uk and new and used on Ebay.co.uk for £4+.
Hybrids is a sci-fi thriller set in the future, where technology has left the people of Britain in fear. A new sickness called Creep is infecting humans, making them merge with technology they are using. The Government have begun to round hybrids up and take them to the Centre for Genetic Rehabilitation, but no one is ever seen again after being taken there.
Kestrella and Johnny Online are hybrids; Kestrella with a mobile attached to her hand and Johnny with a computer merged with him. Kestrella tracks Johnny down through the internet so that he can use his computer skills and intelligence to find her missing mother who has recently come down with Creep. But as new laws against the hybrids begin to appear, they ...
