Rise of Nations

Advantages: Nation boundaries, All ages from prehistoric to modern
Disadvantages: None

...Rise of Nations is a real time strategy combined with a turn based tactical game. It was released in May 2003. --- the BASICS --- In RoN, the player is challenged to take over the world following individual battles. In addition to the campaign, gamers can also choose to play maps against AI or online opponents. In this game, the player have to gather resources (food, wood, coin and metal; oil later in the game) and amass knowledge in order to build / upgrade units and advance through the ages, while fighting against the enemy. There are 8 ages of the game - Ancient, Classical, Medieval, Gunpowder, Enlightenment, Industrial, Modern and Information age. With each age come better units and more powerful vehicles / ships. --- the AGES --- (Ancient) This is where the standard game start. During this age the units are virtually useless...

ecolier 17.10.2009 · Read review
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The Birth Of A Nation

Advantages: Important film in film making history
Disadvantages: Contraversial. I don't agree with the views of the film, a little too long

...The Birth of a Nation is a black and white silent film from 1915. It?s not a film I had heard of before, and the reason I watched it was because it was on the film list for a course I am taking at university. The film is based on a novel by Thomas Dixon called ?The Clansmen?. I had read up a little bit about the film before I started watching it so I wasn?t as surprised as I might have been about the content. The film was (and still is) controversial for promoting white supremacy, and I thought most of it was quite racist! The film was regarded as a very important film in its day as it used many new filming techniques which hadn?t been seen before. This is one of the main reasons that it was chosen as part of my course. I found the film interesting as I had never seen anything like it before, although I understand why it is seen as...

ivytoad 21.09.2009 · Read review
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National Treasure

Advantages: read opp
Disadvantages: read opp

...National Treasure has to be one of my favourite Disney Movies in the last 10 years, and even though I think of myself logically too old for Disney films, this particular film has such a likeable, watchable quality to it, and at times reminds me of my younger years. For me national treasure has everything, action, comedy, family feel movie, yet at the same time not too cheesy. The cast is brilliant, and with the addition of Nicholas Cage, Sean Bean and Jon Voight, this film certainly has some of Hollywood's best. Plot: The story is set in America, and the plot centres around Benjamin Franklin Gates (Nicolas Cage), who is a obsessed historian, who's family through generations have believe in a legend that their was gold hidden somewhere in America, by the founding fathers of America, to protect it from British Soldiers. However, to...

jaygami1986 27.10.2008 · Read review
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National security

Advantages: great action and great humour
Disadvantages: none

...release from prison he starts to search for the man with the tattoo, unwittingly bumping into Earl during another warehouse robbery, as both Hank and Earl happen to be working for the same security company?National Security? With both men now searching for the same target they begrudgingly team up to do it? --------------------------------------------------- *Characters Martin Lawrence - Earl Montgomery Steve Zhan - Hank Rafferty Colm Feore - Detective Frank McDuff Bill Duke - Lieutenant Washington Eric Roberts - Nash Timothy Busfield - Charlie Reed Robinne Lee - Denise Matt McCoy - Robert Barton Brett Cullen - Heston **IN CONCLUSION** I have watched this a few times and have never become bored with the fast action of what is a well written movie? Although the story is nothing new, with it being your standard...

blissman70 24.08.2008 · Read review
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Express around the Nation?

Advantages: cheaper than flying/trains at short notice
Disadvantages: much slower than most other transport options

...So after my happy experience travelling the other weekend I'm off on my travels again, this time risking a foray in to the world which my parents inhabit. So as Bolton has no airport, Lydd has no train station but both have bus stops it seems logical that I would consider getting the coach to Bolton. This is as far as I know the only national coach service in the UK (although in Scotland it is run under the City Link name) and is a member of the european Eurolines coach network. I booked my travel using the nationalexpress.com website the site is mildly confusing if you don't want to use one of the their funfare or travel from one of their more popular stops. A full list of their stops is given if you click on the red text below the drop down boxes 'Cant find your destination' which gives you the option of typing your departure...

scuba_angel 24.04.2007 (15.04.2007) · Read review
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National, yes. Express, no.

Advantages: wide range of destinations; cheaper than train
Disadvantages: journey times sometimes excessively long

...When you need to get home from university for a weekend and can't get a lift from your parents, or if you're visiting someone on the other side of the country in the holidays, you need a method of transport that's cheap and reliable. After hours of looking through train times and realising that even the shortest journey would cut quite heavily into my student loan, I decided to give National Express a go, hearing that their fares were relatively cheap, and that they travelled to a wide range of destinations. BOOKING: Booking your coach tickets is easy. If you have Internet access, and are willing to submit your credit/debit card details online, then this is probably the easiest option. Tickets booked online are mailed to you free of charge if you book far enough in advance, but if your ticket is for travel soon after the tickets...

emmorticia 06.05.2003 · Read review
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English National Opera - A National Treasure

Advantages: Accessible staging, good balance in programming, great education programmes
Disadvantages: Singing is not always consistently amazing

...As an aspiring opera singer (currently working in admin - oh, the glamour! - but hoping to go back to college in the near future), I try to attend as much live opera as I can. Living in London is great for this - we are spoilt with 2 international level opera houses, as well as numerous touring companies and high standard amateur productions. English National Opera is generally seen as the Royal Opera House's more accessible sibling - slightly cooler, slightly more modern. All productions are staged in English and the singing is generally of a very high standard. English National Opera's home is the Coliseum on St Martin's Lane, just off Trafalgar Square, so easily accessible from Charing Cross Station (Mainline or underground) or bus routes 3, 6, 9, 11, 12, 13, 15, 23, 24, 29, 53, 77a, 88, 91, 139, 159, 176, or if you're travelling by...

bubblegum_princess 02.03.2009 · Read review
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Rise of Nations

Advantages: Plenty of game play and options
Disadvantages: Multiplayer a bit slow

...Rise of Nations is a strategy game similar to the Age of Empire and Civilisation games. Game play As in similar games you have to take command of a nation, you get a choice of 18 each one having special units and bonus to help you along. You have to start of by exploring the world and building your cities in your territory, and invent new technology, build armies to help conquer and protect your lands, you can only build a limited amount of cities so you have to select there location carefully although you can conquer enemies cities to increase your amount. There is quite a bit of different type of resources to collect more than in typical games which makes you have to priories what you want your workers to collect. There is a large selection of units to choose from, each having their own unique advantage over others...

sharpe106 17.11.2008 · Read review
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National Treasure review

Advantages: Engaging story
Disadvantages: Can drag a little

...National Treasure is an action adventure starring Nicholas Cage and directed by Jon Turteltaub, who also directed "Cool Runnings". In this film, Benjamin Gates (Cage) is descended from treasure hunters, and, as a boy, his grandfather tells him of a treasure over 1000 years ago that has changed hands many times and has most recently been hidden by the founding fathers. Clues have apparently been hidden on the one dollar bill and on the back of the Declaration of Independence. As we catch up to Gates as an adult, he believes he has found the treasure, only to come up with another clue. One of his associates, Ian (Sean Bean), leaves Ben to die in order to steal the declaration and find out the clue. Ben knows he is less than trustworthy and figures the only way to stop him is to steal it himself! Thus starts an epic journey across...

Walter_Kovacs 14.01.2009 · Read review
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National Disgrace

Advantages: cheap
Disadvantages: dirty, cramped, no sustenance, disgusting toilets, no air-con, unreliable timekeeping

...Until yesterday, I hadn't been on a National Express coach for about 13 years. However, my car had broken down in Exeter the weekend before where I had left it to be mended, and I needed to get it back. After considering my options, and my precarious bank balance, I thought I'd give National Express a try, wondering how much it might have progressed over the years. The train was out of the question for several reasons. Firstly, my local station (stoke on Trent) was closed for track works, and this would have meant a part-bus, part-train journey for full train price. Secondly, the price of the train was a completely outrageous NINETY QUID as against just over thirty quid for the coach. The train also necessitated several changes, as opposed to one on the coach, and as I was also returning my 5 year old nephew to Exeter after he...

sandrabarber 01.06.2003 · Read review
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