Tuesday, June 16, 2009
DVD Review #3
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DVD Review #2
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Book Review #3
House of Night: Marked
By: P.C. Cast and Kristen Cast
Marked is the first of many in the House of Night series. I first picked up the book, just because it was vampire related and I have a severe obsession with vampires; however now a days who doesn’t. From the first page I feel in love with it. It wasn’t like Twilight, in any way, but more so like Harry Potter.
The book starts out with a normal teenage girl, named Zoey, but with all vampire stories you know that something’s going to happen. A man goes to her school towards the end of the day and “marks” her. When this happens you’re considered to be a social outcast among your friends, and her boyfriend Heath and Best Friend, keep telling her they will still be together, but of course things change.
When you’re marked, you only have a certain amount of time to get to the House of Night school. Now the House of Night is a school for vampires in training, or fledglings is what they are called. Zoey becomes frantic because her mom doesn’t seem to care too much about her possibly dying to even bring her. She ends up going to see her grandmother and on her search ends up passing out not far from her house. When she wakes up she is at the House of Night.
The book continues in a Harry Potter way, there is girl who is much like Draco Malfoy and her name is Aphrodite. Zoey becomes close friends that are like family with a few others. Her family disowns her except for her grandmother who acts just like Mrs. Weasley. Zoey is also special in a way. She learns she has an affinity to all of the 5 elements, which many vampires don’t have, never mind fledglings.
Marked is a great novel for those just wanting to get into the vampire world, but if you’ve been in it for a while, it’s just another take on the vampire legend, and maybe not your style. Unless you’re a teenage girl, or still one at heart this book may not be for you. Thankfully I am still one at heart, and I did enjoy this book despite the amount of similarities it has with such the incredible Harry Potter Series. I would give this book a 6 out of 10.
I would’ve liked to have seen maybe something a little more unique rather than a kind of rip off from another story. It does feel like they took Harry Potter and what made Harry Potter so unique and basically stole some ideas from J.K. Rowling. I wish it was a little more unique of a story, however this has yet to be done in the vampire world.
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer S1 EP1
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Sunday, June 14, 2009
Game Review #5
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Tuesday, June 9, 2009
Book Review #2
New Moon
By Stephenie Meyer
So as promised, here is a review to the sequel of Twilight. As Many know, the story follows Bella Swan and Edward Cullen, two people from very distant worlds that are destined to be together. A modern day Romeo and Juliet if you will. Our story starts around Bella’s Birthday, in September and, well I’ll just say it, all hell breaks loose. Edward and his sister Alice have planned a special birthday night at their house for Bella. And the newest vegetarian, Jasper, plays a very pivotal character in this scene, but I won’t spoil that for people that haven’t read it.
After her birthday, for several days Edward is very distant and depressed. He loves Bella, but he knows that if he sticks around for much longer she may winde up dead or just like him. Eventually he opens up and confronts Bella on what is wrong. Which causes her to go into a complete depression, which no one can really seem to pull her out of. That is until Jacob Black comes along.
Jacob Black not really the boy next door, but very close to it. A young boy who is a family friend, goes to Bella’s rescue. They end up becoming best friends and when Jacob starts to become distant and moody with Bella, she starts to sink again, until he tells her what has been going on. Jacob his gang have a dark secret, that if it gets out could cause a lot of commotion. So when he tells her, the others don’t think it’s a good idea and don’t take too well to her being in on it. However considering the other secrets Bella has kept and is still keeping, many end up being ok with it.
Bella becomes a thrill seeker, because when she does something dangerous she hears Edwards voice in her head, and it makes her happy. With Alice’s ability to see the future, it makes it look like she is attempting suicide. When Alice sees this she of course lets her brother know, who says he cannot live in a world where Bella doesn’t exist.
New Moon captures audiences back into the world of Forks, Washington. It’s Another hit for Stephenie Meyer. And with it’s captivating scenes, heart-breaking events, and hilarious antics I give this book a 8 out of 10.
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Monday, June 8, 2009
Game Review #4
Recently I have acquired a Playstation 3, I know lucky me right! Well because I absolutely love singing and love singing games, SingStar Vol. 1 was one of my first PS3 games. I had played the previous versions on my Playstation 2, but was very excited to take a look at the online content for the PS3.
One of the first things I noticed was the ability to swap discs. If you have the Playstation 2 SingStars you will be able to swap those discs out with ease with the push of a few buttons. This allows you to not just sing songs that are on one disc, but the ones that are on all of them.
One of the features that was carried over onto the PS3 version was the ability to save your songs that you perform well, and with the added ability of being able to put up to 5 audio files onto your community profile online, you can get your voice out into the world, but be warned you will be rated and people can be brutal. If you have the Playstation Eye you can put up to 5 videos and numerous photos that people can rate as well. Along with the ability to have an online profile, you can also download songs from the SingStar store. New songs are added every other Thursday.
Now onto the actual game play, when you first buy any SingStar game you will buy it bundled with 2 microphones, a blue and red (1st player and 2nd player). If you have bought the Playstation 2 versions they will still work for the PS3. When you go to sing a song in any mode you will notice that the video plays in the background as you sing (I still sometimes get distracted by the video). You are scored on how well you hold notes, and how well you hit notes. I’ve come to the conclusion that highest score you can get is around 10,000 I have yet to get that but I can’t see it going any higher than that.
Some of the different game modes are solo, battle, duet, and practice. In solo mode, it is just that you sing alone. In battle mode you and a friend go up against each other singing the whole song. In duet mode you and a friend sing a song together and get a combined score. In practice mode you can practice any song without having to worry about a score.
Some of the other games that they have for Playstation 3 Volume 1, Volume 2, Abba, and a soon to be released Queen. Both of the artist titles are just their songs and no others. For the Playstation 2 there are many, here are just a few examples Country, Pop vol. 1, Pop Vol. 2, 90’s, 80’s and a few more.
If you like music, and you like to sing, then any sort of SingStar game would be right for you! For what it is, I rate this game an 8 out of 10.
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