Fear Effective

Advantages: Cool graphics and settings, great twists to story, challenging
Disadvantages: Can't save options, loading up from last save on death

...Fear Effect featured Motion FX for the first time ever; although you can see when the FMV loops, the backgrounds feel very much alive. A third-person adventure; the anime-style characters are well animated, but, in combat sometimes you are fighting several virtually identical enemies. Plus, picking up items can be tricky because of the camera angles; it's no surprise to see the game opt for tank-like controls - the characters do come complete with an 180-Degree Quick Turn, a highly effective evasive roll, and a Crouch Walk which allows the player to sneak up on an enemy for a Silent Kill. Also, as our playable characters are weapons experts, they are thus capable of firing double guns at different targets. The game has its fair share of puzzles - these go beyond the find-keys-for-doors type, and though their solutions are close-by, one...

scream4bruce 16.08.2009 · Read review
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Review of Fear Effect (PlayStation)

Massive, if not Effective

Advantages: Cinematic presentation, the start of an undoubtedly successful series
Disadvantages: A lot of lesser flaws that stack up

...Innovative studio BioWare make their most ambitious effort yet with "Mass Effect", a sci-fi Role Playing Game that has you kicking ass and taking names across the Milky Way galaxy. Featuring impressive character interaction and a plethora of sidequests which double an already lengthy playtime, Mass Effect is also uncharacteristically rough in many places, so liking it depends on whether this includes the areas you actually care about. The Story A century from now, mankind colonizes its incredibly unappealing neighbour-planet Mars, presumably just because it can. Luck favours the bold, however, and ruins from an ancient, all-powerful, all-extinct alien civilization are soon discovered. Unprecedented breakthroughs in space travel follow and lead to First Contact with the various sapient aliens that have long been exploring...

Magrippinho 07.12.2007 · Read review
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Review of Mass Effect (Xbox 360)

Mass Effect. It had a massive effect on me.

Advantages: The best storyline I have found in a game. Its not just Oblivion with guns.
Disadvantages: Texture loading issues.

...Mass Effect by Bioware is one of the best action - rpg's I have ever played. It follows Commander Shepard on a epic space adventure in order to save the galaxy, accompanied by an assortment of characters, human and alien. There are games that claim to allow the player to choose where they want to go and that their actions have true consequences on their game. Most do not deliver on this promise. Mass Effect on the other hand delivers this in spades, explaining these in detail would ruin the truly amazing storyline as most of the choices come at pivitol points in the game, sometimes however you can make a choice which changes the game without even realising it. * Graphics The graphics are stunning, the game will take you to many planets, some snowcovered, others barren deserts, some tropical rainforests to name a few and they all...

tribalsj 12.10.2009 · Read review
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Review of Mass Effect (Xbox 360)

A game with massive effects

Advantages: RPG with FPS elements, whats not to like?
Disadvantages: Dodgy interface can cause problems for any gamer

...-----The Story----- Mass effect is set about 100-200 years in the future, the planet earth has advanced dramatically after finding ancient technology on mars which led to the discovery of a Mass Relay which can "catapult" starships across the galaxy in the fraction of the time it would usually take. You play Commander Shepard aboard the Normandy Alliance spaceship sent out to Eden to retrieve an alien beacon. From here on you are thrown into an intense story across the galaxy to discover and destroy an ancient threat along with your recruited heroes, but you will have to make some extremely difficult decisions along the way, one part even made me put down the controller as I just couldn't decide what to do. -----The Game----- The game itself follows the standard RPG format of leveling and talking to strange creatures, but this...

sim721 12.11.2008 · Read review
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Review of Mass Effect (Xbox 360)

Any 'Effect' Would Be Good!!

Advantages: Pleasant scent.
Disadvantages: Isn't an effective anti-perspirant for me!

...an advantage over many other ones that I?ve used, where you can?t see when you are about to run out until it dries up! It's really easy to apply and so far the 'rolling ball' has never 'jammed' which I have sometimes found with other roll ons. It glides very easily on my underarm but sometimes a little too much fluid is distributed! This does mean that it takes a few minutes to dry which isn't great if you are in a real hurry. As a lot of you ladies may know, some deodorants are unbearable after shaving your underarms and you have to wait an hour or so before applying them. But this really doesn't sting after shaving which is a real bonus if you have given your underarm the quick once over with the razor before going out. -The smell ? This has a very feminine, light floral scent to it when first applied. - Effectiveness- This is...

neenn 07.12.2009 · Read review
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Review of Nivea Double Effect Anti-Perspirant

Outstanding Effects

Advantages: Just superb
Disadvantages: way way too pricey for most of us

...I like to play about on my PC and see what it can achieve with a little help from some good software and of course my innovative genius. One such way of doing this is by experimenting with video and editing. There are numerous programs on the market to enable even a novice to produce some excellent results, but if you are totally serious about doing this then there is no other package on the market that can produce the dramatic results achieved by using Adobe After Effects. The problem here of course is that the initial outlay is in the region of £1000 yep that's right about a grand to edit videos. Not having a spare £1000 at hand I was fortunate enough to know someone who did have that kind of cash to splash out on a piece of software, and he was kind enough to let me try it out. After a fairly lengthy installation I was...

donf18 21.08.2008 · Read review
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Review of Adobe After Effects Standard 6.5 Media

The Butterfly Effect

Advantages: thought provoking
Disadvantages: commercial cinema ending is awful!

...Film - The Butterfly Effect Stars - Ashton Kutcher, Amy Smart You'll like this if you like - Smart Thrillers, Supernatural Plot - Evan (Ashton Kutcher) has been plagued by blackouts his entire life, most of them being during traumatic events leading doctors to believe he is mentally ill. His childhood sweetheart Kayleigh (Amy Smart) and friends Lenny and Tommy stands by him throughout. As Ashton grows up he keeps a diary of day to day events as part of his psychiatric counselling. While at college he decides to read through some of the diaries causing him to be transported back to the moments where he blanked out previously and irreversibly changing everyones lives forever. While attempting to improve past he invariably destroys the future. Is there really any way to make everything right? What it like? - There are two...

fionad86 22.09.2008 · Read review
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Review of The Butterfly Effect (DVD)

Mass Effect the best RPG on the 360?

Advantages: Stunning graphics, lots and lots of dialogue, great value for money, replayability
Disadvantages: Can be overwhelming to some.

...Mass Effect is a third person RPG about human's rise through galactic civilisation and the challenges that they must conquer, and is the first in a planned trilogy. The player plays as Commander Shepherd, who has recently been promoted to a "Spectre", a special agent of the galactic government. Commander Shepherd has been entrusted with the simple task of saving the entire galaxy from mysterious robotic invaders, whilst maintaining order wherever he or she can (The player gets to choose the sex of the main character). Mass Effect is one of the most immersive RPGs that is featured on Xbox 360. The game is designed to look as much like a theatrical experience as possible, with conversations with NPCs taking very high priority in the game. The scope of this game is huge, with dozens of planets to explore and over 100 different quest...

JamieJCO 15.08.2008 · Read review
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Review of Mass Effect (Xbox 360)

The Butterfly Effect 2

Advantages: Mildly Entertaining
Disadvantages: Weak storyline

...In this sequel to the much better film The Butterfly Effect, we see Nick Larson celebrating on the beach with his girlfriend Julie played by Erica Durance and his two friends Trevor (Dustin Milligan) and Amanda (Gina Holden). Whilst celebrating Julie's birthday Nick receives a call summoning him back to work, and on the drive back to town, Nick and his friends are suddenly involved in a terrible accident from which only Nick survives. We then move a year later and Nick is just about getting through each day the best way he can, but he is still experiencing memory flashes of the last moments he spent with Julie and his friends. His work is suffering and he is subject to seizures and violent headaches from which he almost collapses each time these occur. These attacks tend to occur especially when he is looking at pictures in which he...

Merced 15.09.2007 · Read review
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Review of The Butterfly Effect 2 (DVD)

the butterfly effect.

Advantages: Mindblowing story, crazy twists, really interesting
Disadvantages: can be confusing, some criticsms have been made..see review

.... The interpretations of this film are differing to that in case you are sat there thinking hold on ive seen it and that isn't right. The film is based around real ideas and it covers the concept of time travel and the chaos theory. The chaos theory in basic says the slightest change in what I suppose you could call destiny could disrupt everything in a big way. The quote is something to the effect of the smallest flutter of a butterfly's wing can cause a tornado half way around the world... roughly. I know it's not exactly right but it's almost there word for word. Like with an experiment, you change one thing and the result can be completely different to what it should. For anybody interested more in this there is bonus footage on the DVD that explains both the chaos theory and the ideas behind time travel, which is a lovely plus to the DVD...

widdleAj 03.03.2006 · Read review
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