Aug 26

C. S. Lewis: "Prince Caspian" – Book Review

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If you recently watched the movie “The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe”, you might be aware that C. S. Lewis wrote a total of seven books about Narnia:

The Magician’s Nephew

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

The Horse and His Boy

Prince Caspian

The Voyage of the Dawn Treader

The Silver Chair

The Last Battle

“Prince Caspian” begins one year after the events in “The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe” on a railroad platform where Peter, Edmund, Susan and Lucy are waiting for trains that will take them to their boarding schools. Suddenly they are transported into another world, and after a few adventures they realize that it is Narnia, where many centuries have passed in the meantime.

The second plot line involves young Prince Caspian, heir to the throne of Narnia, who has to flee from his usurping uncle Miraz. Deep in a forest he discovers some of the “Old Narnians” – talking beasts and dwarfs – and eventually decides to challenge his uncle for the kingship.

Things turn out bad for Caspian and his small army, and they end up besieged on Aslan’s How, a hill built over the site of the ancient stone table that played such a crucial role in “The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe”. In dire need, Caspian uses his most precious object, Queen Susan’s Horn, to summon help.

This review does not want to give away too much more of the plot and spoil the reader’s enjoyment, so let me just say that the two plot lines intertwine, there are thrilling battle scenes (including a formal duel) and a wonderful celebration at the end.

Lewis does a great job of showing the gradual re-transformation of the four children, who once again turn from being English schoolchildren to becoming Kings and Queens of Narnia.

To me, “Prince Caspian” is one of the three best books in the Narnia series, together with “The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe” and “The Magician’s Nephew”. In many ways, it repeats themes from “The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe”, but adds an interesting perspective by having the events of the earlier book become the stuff of legend.

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Aug 26

Robust Game Copy Wizard Review

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This Game Copy Wizard review will detail the benefits and virtues of this new software program, which allows you to copy games from virtually any system out there, new or old, and make flawless backups. We’ll break down its functions and capabilities, as well as its usefulness to the casual and hardcore gamer.

The first thing we noticed about gamecopywizard was the small, manageable size of their copying software. The newest version of their proprietary game copying software is version 2.3, and the whole download clocks in at just under 2MB. Other developers should take heed of this…bigger doesn’t necessarily mean better. Of all the game copying software we’ve tested, this Game Copy Wizard review introduced us to the smallest and most stable program of them all, while still retaining all the features found in other copying programs.

Before we go further in-depth into the software itself, let’s look into some of the other areas of importance for this Game Copy Wizard review. In addition to the software, we were given a bonus product with our order, Advanced Console Tricks. We’re not sure the book is worth the supposed $30 they claim it is, but it’s a nice little addition nonetheless. We weren’t particularly impressed with the writing on the website, as despite the limited amount of writing on the site, they still managed to infuse it with poorly written and grammatically incorrect writing. This isn’t of great importance, but showed a lack of professionalism.

Lastly, we tested out the website’s customer service by contacting them with a question (not a question we needed the answer to mind you, simply as a means to test out their quality of service). Their response was received within 12 hours, and was personally tailored to us and not a generic response. We were impressed with the knowledge of their customer service staff, and their willingness to go into great detail to help out their customers.

Back to the software itself. We began by testing its compatibility with a wide range of systems. We copied the Sega Saturn game Radiant Silvergun, followed by the PlayStation game Metal Gear Solid. After this we moved up to the next generation of hardware, copying the Xbox’s Halo, the Nintendo Gamecube’s Zelda: Twilight Princess, and the PlayStation 2′s Dynasty Warriors 5. Lastly we moved on to the current generation hardware, making copies of the Wii’s Wii Sports, the Xbox 360′s Lost Odyssey, and the PlayStation 3′s Metal Gear Solid 4.

The copying process was smooth no matter the system or game copied, and we experienced no technical difficulties, which was a nice change of pace from similar programs. Next we sat down to play our copied games. No matter the game or system, we were thoroughly impressed with the results. A good deal of copying software has difficulty with animated sequences and audio, but our copies ran flawlessly, with nary a hitch.

Our last goal for this Game Copy Wizard review was to test out its ability to copy PC games, which also gave us a chance to evaluate the software’s built-in copy protection busting abilities. Again, we walked away impressed with the results. We copied the PC game Spore, which uses the vile SecuROM copy protection. Gamecopywizard sliced through it and copied Spore without any issues, no patches needed.

We walked away from our Game Copy Wizard review thoroughly impressed with the software. It’s backed by some great customer support, free software updates, and even includes a nice bonus. We recommend the software to all gamers.

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Aug 26

Game Reviews

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When you are deciding on which free Internet games to play, you might choose to read some game reviews of the particular free online games and Flash games that you are considering. Game reviews can be useful in helping you narrow down your choices of which games to play, but sometimes they can come with some pitfalls that you might want to avoid.

Although you like to play free games such as Pac Man, Battleship and Tetris on your computer, you likely do not have a lot of extra time to read reviews, because that is time that you could be spending playing the games instead of reading about them. But even so, there are certain aspects that you are looking for when you read a game review. To be respectful of your time, hopefully the author of the review will be concise, and the review will be to the point focusing in on what you want to hear. The point of any review is whether or not the game is any good and why.

Some reviews, you will notice, use a number system which provides an at-a-glance rating for the game being reviewed. But in order for this to be informative for you, you will likely have to read several reviews for games you are familiar with, and see what number they got and if that matches with the number you would give it if you were rating it. Then you will begin to see how closely the written reviews match the number ascribed to it, and how closely they match your particular preferences.

By reading several reviews of games that you already know well, you will also be able to determine if the reviewer really knows the game. The reviewer will hopefully have played the game at several levels so he or she is well-versed with all aspects of the particular game. This will help ensure that you will get a useful analysis when you read a review for a game new to you.

There are several online sites that offer game reviews. Although no longer in publication in a hard copy format, Computer Gaming World Magazine is archived at the Computer Gaming World Museum, and contains articles and reviews concerning online games. 8dimensional.com offers a game review index featuring thousands of online game reviews. Gamespot.com offers a fairly extensive review portion on their site. You simple choose “pc,” and they will take you to your particular game’s reviews. At the beginning of the review it gives a very brief overview of the reviewer’s impression of the game, along with a numerical score. It then gives, quickly, the good and bad aspects of the game. After this, it provides a more in-depth review, with pictures from the game in question along with the reviewer’s commentary. If used wisely, reviews of Free Online Games can be helpful in aiding your decision to play a game or not.

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