Tuesday, October 25, 2005

The earth is being shot at ! Now you are in the firing range. where ever you be.

This is my vision on Google Earth.
Lots of controvorsies. Its good or bad or ugly, doesnt matter. you can never stop technology. See the case of comupters, the mobile phones, cable TV, all were the same. Google this time brings another version of this.

The massiveness of our Earth was nothing that you have ever thought of, if you might have thought it then too, I'm sure you will realise it only when you see GE.

I spent a lot of time 'browsing the earth'. Navigation, as always with Google was so easy. And with the complete information avaialable, as presently in any state of US, Best thing I found was you just need hte address to find out the place. Just imagine how easy it would be when you are planning a trip to a place for the first itme. You can pin point the shops , can plan your stay, even show the cabbies the shortest way!. Thats ewhere it is going to reach.

Its really necessary when u are in some cities like Chennai, where the autowallas will take you round and again.

And if you dont have the address, go through the streets and find it out yourself ! :)

The Negetives : Terror attack. But I dont think banning GE will help this. You can get a good map, well enough for you to make a plan, and of course you are assumed to know your own targets for such an attack.

I dont think anything like that will be able to stop Google. Afterall we are familiar with their marketing skills. And those who oppose this move are all politicians.

Wednesday, October 12, 2005

F.E.A.R. fully Loaded

Wow !

That was the first impression.

Although it took a fair amount of time to load on my Athlon 2100, with 512 DDR and 128MB Radeon 9200 SE machine, The output was really worth the wait.
It could load only to medium level, but boy its really amazing , the quality of texture is wonderful.

Aaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhh!

That was the second expression.

The little thing really wrecks ur nerve, yeh.. u call it a GIRL !.. its a monster !
well, I havnt been frightened by any monster in My PC like this. May be some creatures in Halflife had similar effect. but this is realy different.. a situation in which a soldier is made to fear by a little girl !

The most unforgettable experience was the occasion when I was on the Ladder, and there she stood in front of me. I skidded along to reach fast below so that I could arm with the best one I had, I looked up to see her vanish ... and the next frame I saw it just besides me.. that was a terrible effect. It was so effective tha it took my brother away from the system. Poor guy had stopped playing when he heard a window pane crashing. :)

The AI is great. HTe enemy soldiers look more real when they smashed the objects on the way.. hiding behind the tables. But one thing was missing - they came from hte same place, no matter how many tiem u replay. So the replayability of hte game is very poor. That was the only thing make me feel that SWAT is a lot more COST EFFECTIVE. U get bored even with EAs 15 Season FIFA 2005 !

And, as always, these HI-Fi games come as bulkier on Disk as it is on Processor. The Demo took lesser time to complete than to Install. They could have included much more in the mission with all hte files alerady loaded.. Imagine u dont have a DVD drive and have to install the game from around 6 CD's.

May be i can conclude here . the game can be given 4.5 stars outta 5.
I'll take the 0.5 for the replayability.
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