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NY City FireFighter 2017

Games and Entertainment

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Want to serve humanity? Like rescue, action, driving and parking games? NY City Firefighter 2017...

Dean (6925 KP) rated WRC 8 in Video Games

Nov 26, 2020

WRC 8

Racing, Simulation

5.0

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Very much a simulation

Unforgiving learning curve

Stalled

I'm a fan of driving games and like Rally ones as well. So when I had a chance to get this free on Xbox live I checked it out.
It looks great, although trees are a little flat and lighting can be harsh on some stages. The cars and scenery look great. The sounds of the engines are loud and realistic.
This is a very realistic simulation giving you control over many aspects in career mode. The main problem is that it's very difficult and unforgiving even if you are used to more serious driving games. The tracks are very narrow, the slightest rock or tap of the brake can often spin you off course. The cars handle like a brick and don't seem to drift around bends as you would hope. Before you know it the steering and transmission are damaged making it handle even worse!
The co-driver tends to shout out the next 3 bends at one go which makes it difficult keeping track which direction the next bend is. There's no mini map anywhere to give a clue either, leading you to look at the signs at the top of the screen to keep track. It makes it very difficult to get a decent time.
It's a shame but the handling of the cars along with the difficulty of the tracks and just trying to navigate the stages will leave you frustrated. You'll be going back to Forza or something else pretty quick. One for hardcore fans only.

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Pocket Rally

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Pocket Rally is an attempt to combine the best of both old school rally racing games and smart...

Dalicat (20 KP) rated The Tin Roof Blowdown in Books

Sep 1, 2018

The Tin Roof Blowdown

James Lee Burke | 2008 | Fiction & Poetry

10.0

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A novel one lives rather than reads

Each of the fifteen Dave Robicheaux novels which preceded this one are masterpieces and this is the Grand Finale. The plot and characters move within the devasted landscape of New Orleans following the destruction wrought by Hurricane Katrina. The scenes of environmental destruction are described with heartbreakingly beautiful poetic prose which serves as a counterpoint to a seering indictment of the socio-economic political landscape of the time. The extreme conditions under which the plot develops drive the characters to their limits of good and evil. The plot is as relentless as the driving force of the hurricane. Often difficult to read due to the sheer emotional weight of the work but too compelling to put down.

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Matthew Krueger (10051 KP) rated The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003) in Movies

Oct 22, 2019 (Updated Oct 23, 2019)

What Noise Does a Chainsaw Make? Remake

This remake is actually good, its different but its good. Its the first time in the franchise to actully go into a slaughterhouse. Which amazes me.

The Plot: In this remake of the horror classic, a group of young travelers -- including Erin (Jessica Biel), Andy (Mike Vogel) and Morgan (Jonathan Tucker) -- comes across an isolated rural home while driving through Texas. Unfortunately for them, the decrepit house is the residence of a family of deranged backwoods killers, most notably a hulking masked brute known as Leatherface (Andrew Bryniarski), who begins to hunt the stranded youths down. Will any of the friends survive the nightmarish ordeal?

Yes this is the first Platinum Dune's horror remakes. Thnkz Michael Bay.

Anyways I do reccordmend watching this film.