Most of us feel that video games/computer games are such a waste of time or intellect! Well maybe, but at times when boredom grips you, and you have nothing better to do, these provide some entertainment too!!
What’s new is that the virtual world collides with our real world to provide a virtual reality real time games! Sounds techie isn’t it?! And I warn you these games are highly addictive too!!
I’ve been up to playing one such computer game recently. Although, I’m not too good at computer games, this one particularly caught my attention coz of many reason, two main being, its easy and user-friendly and secondly it’s real-time. So this game called “Virtual Villagers” is absolutely incredible.
The game kicks off as a bunch of villagers land on an uninhabited island ‘Isola’. The villagers need to complete a list of tasks to uncover the ‘Mystery of Isola’ and complete the game. Each villager can master a skill like building, research, healing, farming, etc.
This game continues real time, meaning it keeps going even when you close the game and switch off your computer. If you assign a task to a villager, and switch off your computer the villager completes the task for you. Interesting eh? Well it doesn’t even begin yet. Villagers have their own set of likes and dislikes and even more....’brains’! Sounds funny... isn’t it! A villager can be stubborn enough to do what he or she likes no matter what you try to make them do.
Well, of course there are awards for special achievements, and finding rare collectibles results in extra points and level increases.
Finally over time, you manage to uncover all the secrets and complete all the puzzles and Voila the game is completed!!
Absolutely a five starer and completely gluey (addictive) game!! Enjoy!
P.S: A few interesting screen shots and presentation that I created from the game.
Movie Reviews… who writes movie reviews? Definitely NOT me! Although, I love reading them, I’ve always felt it would be a waste of my time and effort to write them. But this time however an effort needs to be made.
Recently I was told my by dear bro, to watch a movie ‘Twilight’, saying I’d totally like it. I believed him, as I always do. And got the movie downloaded and watched it at home on a lappy. As I begun watching the movie, I fell completely in love with it!
Twilight is a 2008 American romantic-fantasy film directed by Catherine Hardwicke and based on the novel of the same name by Stephenie Meyer
Plot:
Seventeen-year-old Bella Swan, who has always been a little bit different, never caring about fitting in with the trendy girls at her Phoenix high school; moves to the small town of Forks, Washington to live with her father, Charlie, after her mother remarries to a minor league baseball player. She is quickly befriended by many students at her new high school.
At first, she is intrigued by a mysterious group of siblings known as the Cullens. And then she meets the mysterious and dazzlingly beautiful Edward Cullen (Robert Pattinson), a boy unlike any she's ever met.
Edward Cullens is a Vampire, who can read everyone’s minds except Bella’s, which makes him curious of her. He is attracted by her scent, which drives him to frenzy and has to control him self not to eat her!!
As friendship and attraction builds up between the two, Bella eventually finds out that the guy she is attracted to is a Vampire, but she unconditionally loves him. Edward is a completely cute, sweet guy who is over-protective of Bella, a guy every girl want! He finds his soul mate in Bella.
The romance between the two is unorthodox, erotic, innocent all at the same time...and manages to touch you.
The music is soft. And the dialogs, well they touch your soul...and caste an imprint for ever.
The movie tag line is superb! “When you can live forever, what do you live for!”
It’s a love story everyone wants!
I’ve fallen madly in love with this movie, and I think no review can do justice to the movie or the book!
Hence, while I wait for the sequel for this movie… you go watch the movie for yourself!!
If you have read "GodFather" this is definately not a book to read!
Like Godfather, the author tries to create a plot around the Mafiso family.However, the plot is not strong enough to make you bite your nails.The author gives detailed description of many characters that are not directly involved with the plot..making the reader lose interest! Also, when the plot finally gets stronger towards the end, you almost guess the climax!!
Here's a quick recap about the book incase you want to just give up on getting really bored!The story is about "Clericuzio Family". Don Clericuzio oversees the double christening of two infant boys, Dante and Cross, into the Clericuzio family. Later, when Cross is tapped to take over as the "Hammer" of the Clericuzios, their prime hit man, he proves not cold-blooded enough for the role. Dante takes his place, and Cross moves from Las Vegas to Hollywood, which proves to be an even worse den of iniquity. When he falls for a movie star Athena Aquitaine, he exhibits the "fatal flaw" the old don always warned against: loving a beautiful woman. A taut novel of sex and money, of love and power. The plot of the story revolves around the fact that 'Dante' is the son of the Don's daughter Rose Marie and Don's enemy Santido!(The Don has ordered his son's and Pippi to murder the Santido family) At some point when Dante figures this out, he conspires and plots revenge against the Don's sons, Pippi and Cross. And to cut the long story short... "THIS IS ONE BOOK YOU CAN GIVE UP ON!!"
A typical Robin cook book! Keeps your eyes glued to the book and your mind glued to the story line even after you are through reading!!
In this plot-twisting novel the villains, (who are doctors at Winsgate Clinic) with no sense of ethics or social responsibility get their greedy hands on the newest cloning technology. It starts when a couple of Harvard graduate students (Debhora and Joanna) answer the Wingate Clinic's ad for egg donors. The women figure on financing a year in Venice and the down payment on a Boston condo with the extraordinary sum they're promised. But a year later, the heroines feel the emotional need to seek out the children they've made possible for infertile couples. So they disguise themselves and seek jobs at the clinic in order to access the identifying information. The clinic, as it turns out, has plenty of secrets to protect, so it's hard to believe that a pair of computer neophytes could bypass its security and reveal the dirty secrets of cloning and try to escape the grounds of winsgate clinic!!
This one keeps you turning the pages until the final denouement, though the last chapter ends abruptly, leaving the reader to wonder whether he ran out of steam or is just setting up a sequel in which he'll recycle the villains in a new scheme with a new pair of victims
Personally, I dont enjoy open - ends too much! Yet.. the book deserves 3 1/2 stars! ;)
And if you do like this one.. you should definately go for "Chromosome 6" if you have not already read it! :-D
This is one of the best books i've read so far..Not only does it keep your eyes glued to the book while your reading it but it also, keeps your thoughts glued to the plot long after you have finished reading it!!
Robin Cook, makes Abduction sound so real and logical in a scientific way. The book is basically about double evolution on Earth.
To breifly describe what goes around; Perry Berg is president of Benthic Marine and a passenger aboard The Benthic Explorer, a 450-foot research ship endeavoring to drill into, and sample for the first time, the earth's magma core. Also onboard are the lovely Dr. Suzanne Newell; ex-navy commander and present submersible skipper Donald Fuller; and navy-cum-Neanderthal divers Richard Adams and Michael Donaghue. It is this cast of characters who, with the reluctant Perry, dive to the stilled drill site in order to make repairs. En route, they are sucked (or suckered) into a defunct undersea volcano and deposited into an otherworldly wonderland. That takes about 75 pages of fairly cogent spadework.
The next 375 pages sprout some of the looniest, most derivative, made-for-TV-movie science fiction imaginable. Our heroes, you see, have been abducted to Interterra, an undersea world of staggering beauty and unheard of technologies--intergalactic travel and eternal life, for starters--populated by stunningly beautiful, toga-wearing, first-generation humans.
First-generation humans are the one's that were the result of the first evoluation on Earth, after the 'dark Ages' another evoluation takes place resulting into us the 'Second Generation' humans. The first generation had been doing very nicely until their scientists realized that the earth was about to be "showered with planetesimal collisions, just as had happened in its primordial state," and that they had better start digging. While the Interterrans prospered and thrived undersea, we, the second generation, began hauling our single-celled bodies up by our ooze-straps and started all over again. They main characters like Arak and Sufa speak strangely, giggle at the primitive second-generationists, recoil at the very thought of violence, press their palms together to show respect, greeting and to make love, and direct "worker clones" to do the dishes while the second generation does its stereotypical best to, in turns, exemplify, define, and defile humankind. What the Interterrains are scared of is, the fact that us 'Second Generation' will discover Interterra. Hence, when the main characters of the novel decide to escape, from Interterra the plot thickens. In the end, the powerful Interterrians decide to send 'back in time' the culprits! All in all a very exotic book! Would love to re-re-re-read!!! :)
