A breath of fresh air to the Call of Duty series...

Advantages: Fantastic Gameplay & Online Multiplayer
Disadvantages: Story could have been a little longer..

..."Modern warfare ; technology has advanced tenfold since the second world war, this means, nowadays weapons are bigger, faster and more dangerous." This is the case in the 4th installment of the Call of Duty series, developed by Infinity war. It shifts the series away from the second world war, and puts us smack bang in the present day. You start the game as "Soap" MacTavish who is part of the 22nd S.A.S regiment, you complete your basic training before being whisked off on your first mission. Somewhere in the Bering Sea, your character along with his fellow S.A.S squad, board a cargo ship that is suspected to have a nuclear device on board. The suspicions were correct, there is one on board, however before you can do anything about it the ship is attacked and you have to escape with little more than the ships cargo manifest. Which...

kellface85 11.05.2009 · Read review
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Review of Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (Xbox 360)

A Great Stereo Amp and a Great Used Option

Advantages: A very, very capable all rounder. No real weakness in any variety of music. Bags of OOmph.
Disadvantages: No second set of speaker option making bi-wiring a bind.

...This is a great amplifier. You are probably looking here as you are considering buying a used one - well go for it as you will not regret it. I have owned one for a number of years as both my main and then bedroom amp. I have used it to drive all manner of speakers from bookshelf to standmounts to floorstnders and it struggled with none of them. I have mine rigged up to a pair of Mission 773s and they are great in combination. In the past I had a pair of Eltax Liberty 3 standmounded speakers with a Celestion CS135 passive subwoofer and this setup punched WAY above its financial weight and impressed a friend of mine used to spending thousands on pre-amps alone. I will not go into detail bere about how this amp reacts to what specific song as that to me just sounds pretentious. They do not favour one type of music over another so this...

joeyjojoe1971 06.06.2009 · Read review
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Review of Marantz PM 66 SE

Was "Hooked" after one episode

Advantages: Real-life documentary
Disadvantages: none

...While there was nothing on tv a few months a go i started channel flicking and came across Deadliest Catch on the Discovery Channel. After watching for 15 minutes i was hoocked. Deadliest Catch is all about the men who risk there life for the catch of a life time - Alaskan crab. The Alaskan crab are fished of the coast of dutch harbour in the Bering sea. The men and crew fish for the crab twice a year in the winter for two types of crab King crab- which are bigger and the largest of the crab. make more money per pound of crab... Opillio crab which is the smaller of the crab, also known as snow crab due to there white colour, takes in less per pound... Each season, approximately 250 crab fishing boats converge on Dutch Harbor, Alaska, in search of Alaskan king crab. Crab vessels cost several million dollars to build...

scottishWARRIOR22 08.08.2007 · Read review
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Review of Deadliest Catch (DVD)

Call of Duty 4: Can you hear it?

Advantages: Fantastic Graphics, Brilliant gameplay, The Sniper Mission
Disadvantages: To short.

...and Sgt Paul Johnson of the US Marines. Missions revolve around arms dealers in Russia and revolution in the Middle East and they are split pretty evenly between the two characters. The first thing is the graphics which are amazing. Each environment and character are rendered with skill and detail. The very first mission (after the prelude) takes place on a Cargo ship on the Bering straight. The cut scene of the helicopter ride busting through the storm is brilliant and things just get better and better from then on. The cut scenes look amazing and really could be part of an animated feature film, so much work has gone into the graphics that alone is worth the money. After all that praise I must point out that I played COD 4 on a dodgy old TV which is at least ten years old and about as far from HDTV as humanly possible. I can only...

zero1010 11.02.2008 (20.02.2008) · Read review
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Review of Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (Xbox 360)

Grab a blanket and a warm drink.The cold is catching

Advantages: Gripping, spine- tingling book
Disadvantages: A little slow at the beginning and some violence.

...'s Arctic Circle in search of the Northwest Passage. The two ships had been fully stocked with plenty of canned goods, salt pork, and coal to keep them heated and warm and crewed with an experienced crew, many of the men having been on similar expeditions to Antarctica. Sir John's life on the Erebus, was hardly difficult; he and his officers on dined of silver, china and crystal and there were more than a thousand books in the ship's library. It was a different story for his crew, they had to endure tight sleeping quarters, unbearable cold, a diet of salted pork and weevil infested biscuits, fear of starvation, and winter darkness lasting 23 plus hours a day. Franklin was confident that within two years he would have reached the Bering Sea and that he would be a national hero. He was if anything, too confident, when things start to go...

oldchem 09.09.2009 · Read review
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Review of The Terror - Dan Simmons

Enough to freeze your Baltics off

Advantages: Entertaining and well paced
Disadvantages: Not completely absorbing

...I must admit I enjoyed this book a lot more than I expected to and only got my hands on it through a swap on readitswapit as I use that site to get hold of books that I would not normally read. On the face of it the only factor that was in its favour was that it was a thriller based around a murder however the setting of a Russian factory ship was not something that really appealed to me however it was this location and the subject matter that added greatly to my enjoyment of the book. The Plot Based on a Russian factory ship called the Polar Star the story is set during the height of the Communist regime with the Cold War in full swing. The Polar Star is part of a joint venture with the American fishing fleet whose trawlers catch the fish in the ice cold Bering Sea and transfer their catch for processing to the Polar Star. When...

atticusuk 20.03.2007 · Read review
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Review of Polar Star - Martin Cruz Smith

The majectic ocean liner "Antonia Graza".

Advantages: Great cover!!!!
Disadvantages: Lack's gripping drama!

..., she was gone. And ever since that day, every Captain and his mother would be looking for her, just hoping that she hadn't gone down. The salvage crew aboard the tugboat Artic Warrior is the best in the business. Captain Sean Murphy (GABRIEL BYRNE), and with the team leader Maureen Epps(JULIANNA MARGULIES), First Mate Greer(ISAIAH WASHINGTON) and technicians Dodge(RON ELDARD) Munder (KARL URBAN) and Santos(ALEX DIMITRIADES), they can locate any abandoned vessel, patch them up intill they were seaworthy and drag them back to shore for a price. The story really begins when a Canadian Air Force pilot Jack Ferriman (DESMOND HARRINGTON) recruits the team to investigate a mysterious vessel that he says he spotted floating adrift off the coast of Alaska in a remote area of the Bering Sea, But they soon discover it's the remains of the Antonia...

scottishkat 12.08.2004 · Read review
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Review of Ghost Ship (DVD)

It could have worked, but it didn't...

Advantages: You will release a small amout of adenalin...
Disadvantages: The space in this rectangle is too short to tell...

...The movie opens with a party scene on board of an ocean liner sailing over the Bering Sea. It is the year of 1962. On board of the ?Antonia Graza?, fine European people dance slowly, to the sound of Francesca?s (Francesca Rettondini) nostalgic voice. It is chic, slow paced party. Katie Hargrove is bored, sitting on a corner with a little game until the captain takes her to dance. The girl travels alone and is on her way to America (where else) to meet her parents. All is well. The movie would appear to be all so innocent if it wasn?t for that false sense of security that lingers in the air. Things have to go wrong and they will! What happens next is arguably one of the goriest sequences of scenes in the history of cinema. It led me to think that the movie, with the silly cover of a boat shaped skull saying ?it will scary you...

lazuli77 02.09.2004 · Read review
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Review of Ghost Ship (DVD)

Ghosts have feelings too

Advantages: well made
Disadvantages: similar stories told a thousand times before

...This is my first review on the horror genre. Ghost Ship was released in the US for the Halloween season and made its way to the UK recently. The Ghost Ship was an Italian luxury Cruise liner Antonia Graza built in 1954. On its voyage to US in 1962 it suddenly disappeared never to be seen again until 40 years later. The story moves onto a motley crew of a salvage ship. Gabriel Byrne plays Murphy, a sympathetic Captain and father like figure to the remainder which includes Epps (Julianna Margulies) the only woman in the crew. They just had a successful salvage and are celebrating when a stranger appears. He tells them that he is a pilot and has seen a wreck of a cruise liner in the Bering Sea. For a percentage of the salvage profit he agrees to give them the location. After little bit of debate the crew decide to salvage...

razmao 01.03.2003 · Read review
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Bring on that Branston Tang!!

Advantages: yummy!
Disadvantages: heartburn and indigestion

...I was just wondering what to write a review on and it suddenly occured to me - Branston Pickled Onions.... well what made me want to write a review on these I hear you ask!?! - well being a few months pregnant I'm sure you will understand these wierd urges I have for certain foods! Branston Pickled onions are available in most supermarkets and grocery shops! They are easy recognisable by the well known and easily identifiable Branston label bering the Crosse and Blackwell logo. They are in a clear jar (although the vinegar makes it look brown!!) which is wider at the bottom than at the top. The lid is a gold screw top one. The jar is 454g and mine cost me 39p from Home Bargains although they do range in price up to about £1.65 from Sainsbury's (Tesco and Asda are slightly cheaper!) They currently have the jars with 33% extra...

little_miss_sunshine1982 27.09.2005 · Read review
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