Why Katana?

Advantages: Long play time
Disadvantages: Pretty much everything is awful

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atytyut2434 26.07.2008 (12.05.2009) · Read review
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Review of Daikatana (PC)

very good quality cooler for AMD CPU's

Advantages: Very cool, easy to install
Disadvantages: copper on the cpu side far from mirror ( needs a polish )

...Test system: processor - AMD Athlon FX62 (2 x 2800 MHz / 125W TDP) motherboard - ASUS M2N32 DeLuxe Wireles Edition (passive cooling system with HeatPipe) Cooler is very easy to install just one lever. More experienced users will probably remove thermal compound and polish the surface of the cooler ( it is far from being a mirror ) and then apply high quality thermal compound. This will give You another 1-2 C less and faster cooling down after stress. all tests were done using Zalman STG 1 ( high quality thermal compound ) Temperature readings after 60 minutes in idle: Akasa AK-876 37 Arctic Cooling 64PRO 38 Scythe Katana II 39 Temperature readings after 60 minutes in 100% load: Akasa AK-876 56 Arctic Cooling 64PRO 58 Scythe Katana II 61...

piotrekpol 19.09.2007 · Read review
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Review of Akasa AK 876

Enter the Trucker!!!

Advantages: High kicking action, guns, moves and sharp wit
Disadvantages: The female co-star is really annoying

...John Carpenter gets to do a kung-fu movie, where could it possibly go wrong. This is a rollercoaster martial arts film about one trucker?s fight with an oriental crime lord with supernatural powers, to save a girl and to honour a long time friend ? but most of all ? to get his truck back. Great one liners and catchphrases are provided by Kurt Russel, a favourite actor for John Carpenter, along with appearances from Dennis Dun (Midnight Caller) and Kim Cattral. The effects are great, the fights are over the top and all the better for it and the wit is as sharp as a katana....

pabdesign 31.08.2000 · Read review
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Review of Big Trouble In Little China (DVD)

Highlander sequel fails to wow

Advantages: Good handling of a mediochre script
Disadvantages: Script and constant darkness

...Highlander II: The Quickening is the 1991 sequel to the 1986 film Highlander, which pitted immortal Connor MacLeod against an evil immortal at an event known as the Gathering. Director Russell Mulcahy returns for the sequel, as does Christopher Lambert as MacLeod. The film was less successful than the first, with a rather dubious and other-worldly plot and a low level of special effects reducing it to a more cult status than a commercial success. Follwing the events of Highlander, Connor MacLeod (Lambert) joins forces with scientists to protect a dying ozone. With much of the world unprotected against the sun, they construct a shield, which protects the planet, but has the side effect of causing eternal night. Years on, in 2024, MacLeod is visited in a vision by his old friend Ramirez (Connery) and he sees the evil of General Katana...

pmcds 09.11.2008 · Read review
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Review of Highlander 2 - The Quickening (DVD)

An awesome next-gen hack and slash horror.

Advantages: Engrossing plot, vast array of weapons, Dark and visceral style, some cool backstories, innovative
Disadvantages: linear, easy in places.

...Available fror Xbox 360, PC and PS3: From the brilliant mind of horror genius Clive Barker comes this innovative and utterly playable supernatural survival-horror shooter. This dark and sinister game takes place over many different locations eras in history, including Nazi Germany, The Roman Empire and Ancient Sumeria. The player is part of the Jericho team, a top-secret government group of seven elite soldiers well-versed in occult warfare, all possessing some unique and creative magical, psychoactive and combat skills as well as individual weapons such as customizable pistols and a katana. Each member has a fascinating backstory, notes on which can be unlocked by completing certain levels on various difficulties and in certain ways. The games main protagonist is Captain Devin Ross, a Jericho soldier with the ability...

Mutalisk 05.09.2009 · Read review
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Review of Clive Barker's Jericho (Xbox 360)

Dead Rising- zombie killing fun

Advantages: Lots of weapons, shops and Zombies!
Disadvantages: Bad firearm aiming, not much else other than zombie killing.

...This was a game that I knew I wanted as soon as it came out, it seemed to have lots to offer, and no-one ever gets bored with running around killing zombies, right? As soon as I bought the game I rushed straight home and began to play, the first thing that struck me was that Frank (the main character) moved slowly and this was really frustrating. The game play itself features a variety of different challenges aimed more at the skilled player. The targeting with firearms left much to be desired. The movement of seemed much to sensitive to make quick head shots and the characters twitch at stupid moments. On the other hand, there are some lovely novel weapons such as bowling bowls and Katanas. Overall I felt rather disappointed with this title, running around killing zombies begins to bore you after a while, and there was...

crompton_jd 17.07.2007 · Read review
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Review of Dead Rising (Xbox 360)

East meets West....... and they actually get along

Advantages: Interesting plot, strong performances
Disadvantages: may be overlooked for more modern made westerns

...East meets west in a spectacular clash of gunfire and steel. This movie stars Toshiro Mifune {Seven Samurai, Yojimbo} who once again plays the part of a samurai extremely well, and Charles Bronson {Once Upon a Time in the West, Magnificent Seven, and Death Wish 1-4} who is extremely well experienced in western movies. Cast: ~~~~ Charles Bronson, Toshiro Mifune, Alain Delon, Ursula Andress. Broson plays Link, who is a member of an outlaw gang led by Gauche, {Alain Delon} that holds up a train. On one of the train carriages there happens to be two Samurai's {One Mifune} guarding a treasure, a very ornate, jewel encrusted Katana {Samurai Sword}. This sword is to be a gift to the American president from the emperor of Japan. In the hold up, Mifune's fellow Samurai is killed attempting to protect the sword. However, after...

tayloa22 24.08.2007 (25.11.2007) · Read review
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Review of Red Sun (DVD)

An unoriginal mixture of adventure with hack and slash

Advantages: A few hours of playable fun if you don't take it too seriously.
Disadvantages: There are other games that handle the individual elements far better.

...on occasion as they keep you on your toes and stop you dozing off during the cut scenes, but when overused as they are here they tend to take over. Veterans of 80s gaming may well remember Dragon's Lair, in which the game consisted entirely of sequences played out on a laserdisc which were selected by pressing the correct button at the right time, and things haven't really changed much in the intervening quarter of a century. As such, it's with something of a relief when you get back to the more conventional parts of the game. These are a fast paced mixture of acrobatic platforming and hack and slash. Your character Ken, the Japanese for blade, is as agile as they come and wielding his katana will give plenty of exercise for your button bashing skills. There's nothing terribly original here, but it works in a sub-Ninja Gaiden II fashion. Indeed...

Phantom_Wombat 30.04.2009 · Read review
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Review of Ninja Blade (Xbox 360)

Dead Rising to triumph

Advantages: massive map, lots of weapons, open story, good graphics, fun to play
Disadvantages: nothing

...follow strict times and rules or you will find your case files expired or impossible. Leveling and weapons- capcom include a leveling system for old frank which increases as he gains more PP. this is done by helping people in game, beating psychopaths, killing zombies and following game storys. by leveling up you can learn new fighting moves and gain more bars of health and makes him faster. The weapons are amazing you can use anything around you, lego toys, water pistols, lawn mowers, chainsaws, katanas, swords, nail guns, sniper rifles, shotguns, handguns, tazers, baseball bats the list is almost endless its quite incredible how they have managed to cram so many things onto one disc. you can combine certain equipment with others to create more powerful weapons adding a strategic or more complex element to the game. Are...

gav-o 07.08.2007 · Read review
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Review of Dead Rising (Xbox 360)

Secret Security

Advantages: Impossible to remove
Disadvantages: Only a deterant

...Imagine if you can, the safest place to leave your Motorcycle. How about locked up outside the window of the living room where you are sitting, in the back garden, out of site from the street. To get to it from the street you would have to walk down the drive, past the side of the house where there are motion activated lights, through a gate and then behind the house. Think that's safe? No chance. A friend had his Suzuki GS550 Katana, a classic motorbike which is very distinctive, stolen from the back of his house not long ago. The strange thing is that the Katana is unique in the area we live so nobody is likely to want it as they would stick out like a sore thumb. OK, it could have been stolen to be broken down for parts. Another odd thing was that my bike was also in the garden, locked up exactly the same way, but untouched. OK...

stevecook 12.11.2003 · Read review
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Review of Datatag Security system