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Dsk (1 KP) rated ARK Survival Evolved in Video Games

Dec 14, 2017

ARK Survival Evolved

2017 | Action/Adventure

7.0

(24 Ratings)

Video Game Rating

The survival aspect and the lore created. (0 more)

The devolpers greed for money. (0 more)

Amazing Concept

Like many of the survival/crafting games of the genre it partially helped popularize, ARK dumps you on the beaches of a massive, foreboding island with just enough clothing to stay modest and your own two fists. From there, the challenge is to stay fed and hydrated while avoiding a huge variety of terrifyingly detailed dinosaurs and other beasts long enough to progress up the tech tree. Early in the life of a character, you might be taking out dilophosaurs with throwing spears and hoping a triceratops doesn’t come and knock your thatch hut over in the middle of the night.

From there, there’s a really nice flow of technological progression that makes advancement feel like more than just an increase in stats. Thirty hours later, you may preside from a sturdy stone castle from atop which you snipe pterasaurs out of the air with a rifle. By the endgame, it’s possible to have a massive steel fortress full of blast furnaces, complete with electric lighting and gas generators, churning out components for building rocket launchers and SCUBA gear.

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Chelsea (449 KP) rated The Call in Books

Sep 7, 2017

The Call

Peadar O'Guilin | 2016 | Fiction & Poetry, Science Fiction/Fantasy

8.0

(2 Ratings)

Book Rating

25 years ago all of Ireland was cut off from the rest of the world and were made to endure the revenge of the fairies or the Sídhe who were driven into a terrifying alternate dimension by Ireland's ancestors. Now, all children at some point are called, one by one, into this dark world of the Sídhe to be hunted, mutilated, and tortured before being sent back to their world dead. Sometime between the ages of 10 and 17, the call happens unannounced. You disappear from this world, leaving behind nothing but a pile of clothes for 3 minutes. However, you awaken in a dark, stinking, murderous, gray world alone and naked. Your time here will be much longer than 3 minutes. You have a whole day to run and fight for your life in a world where beasts made from human bodies will either turn you in to the Sídhe for torture, or eat you themselves. The odds of survival are now 1 in 10 instead of 1 in 100 thanks to survival schools that take in and train all youth, but is it ever enough?

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Vegas (725 KP) rated Bird Box (2018) in Movies

Dec 23, 2018 (Updated Dec 23, 2018)

Bird Box (2018)

2018 | Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi

7.1

(144 Ratings)

Movie Rating

The cast (2 more)

The suspense

The story

Clever, but slightly weak ending. (0 more)

Grips you from the start

Not having seen any of the previously mentioned film as yet, I cannot compare this,, so I am not judging based on them.

A very good cast works well together to bring a story to life that sounds like it shouldn't work, 3 blindfolded people on a boat, with flashbacks... It can't work.. Can it?

The answer to that for me is, yes it can - It starts well, grabbing your attention right away, before having a flashback explaining what is going on... These flashbacks work well, which sometimes isn't the case in films and actually are probably more important than the scenes along the river (which are also shorter than the flashbacks)

The terror the people feel when faced with the unexplained happenings is pitched just right and it isn't a gore based film - it is a survival film...

So as long as you can ignore that it is quite far fetched (which most horror films are) - settle down to one of the better survival horror films of recent times.