Emily (1430 KP) rated Sid Meier's Civilization: Beyond Earth in Video Games
Feb 18, 2020
Uses the hex grid of the other newer versions of the game and also has indigenous alien life on land and in the sea. This can be quite tough to deal with early in the game, particularly the worms (think Dune-style enormous things) and the sea life, but is easily dealt with later on. It alternatively you can try and work with it so you kind of become allies, although it's not easy to achieve.
The best thing about the game is the tech tree. Every other version of Civ has a branched linear progression, this one has a web. The first few moves are relatively common to all play styles but then you can just go anywhere and what you pick changes what type of faction you end up as (which ends up like a combination of religion and ideology of the other versions of Civ).
If you're getting bored with normal Civ, this is definitely a fun alternative.
Tamed: 10 Species That Changed Our World
Book
10 species that changed our world...For hundreds of thousands of years, our ancestors depended on...
War Crimes Trials in the Wake of Decolonization and Cold War in Asia, 1945-1956: Justice in Time of Turmoil: 2016
Book
This book investigates the political context and intentions behind the trialling of Japanese war...
ArchEnemy (The Looking Glass Wars #3)
7.7
Rate It
Book
Imagine this... The power of imagination has been lost! Now it's all about the artillery as...
King of Fools (The Shadow Game, #2)
6.0
Rate It
Book
Name your price and claim your throne. On the quest to find her missing mother, prim and proper...
Hitler's Secret
9.0
Rate It
Book
The most anticipated spy thriller of 2020, from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Corpus. ...
Hitlers secret Rory clements Hitler Ww2
Ares Is Mine (Rise of Hades #3)
8.0
Rate It
Book
I’m a Hero. Created to fight Chaos. Sworn to act as Zeus’ spear to avenge Olympus. And I need...
Harvest (Hyddenworld, #3)
6.0
Rate It
Book
ONLY SACRIFICE CAN SET THEM FREE It is August, time of the first harvest, traditional time of...
Awix (3310 KP) rated The Eagle Has Landed (1976) in Movies
May 22, 2018 (Updated May 22, 2018)
Good performances, mostly, and some well-staged action in the closing sections of the film; what's curious about it is the way that the Germans are mostly presented sympathetically, at least as much as the British and American characters. It's a war movie without bad guys, but without much sense of moral or emotional investment either - as a result it's enjoyable as a piece of action cinema, but rather shallow. (It doesn't feel like the moral ambiguity is a deliberate creative choice: Caine thought the director was more interested in going fishing than in overseeing the final edit.) Fun in a disposable sort of way; you could be forgiven for expecting more, given the talent involved.
Erika (17789 KP) rated Witness for the Prosecution in TV
Jan 20, 2019 (Updated Jan 20, 2019)
This adaptation is alright, it's nothing to write home about. There were too many shots of Toby Jones walking through allies or in his dungeon-like office. I felt like this went on too long, and the added length didn't necessarily add anything to the story.
I feel like with a lot of these modern adaptations of Christie's novels, they're tending to insert sex scenes when they're genuinely aren't needed and just slow up the story. It actually makes it hard for me to suggest the new adaptations to my mother, who hates when Christie's work is altered in that particular way.
Skip this one, and watch the original film with Tyrone Powers and Marlene Dietrich.