James Bond Devil may care

Greetings, Devil may care is the latest James Bond book out, as far a I know anyway and is written by Sebastian Faulks as Ian Felming. This is the first novel of 007 that I have ever read, the other being Silverfin when Bond was still in school. The story is set in the 1960's with James on a three month Sabbatical, a holiday in which he has to decide whether he wants to return to his normal job or spend the rest of his career completing office work. This is until he is confronted by a female banker in Italy by the name Scarlett Papava who asks him to help her rescue her sister from a villain called Dr Julius Gorner who plans to destroy Great Britain by flooding it with drugs. Scarlett's sister was a drug user and easily captured by Gorner, who has a grudge against her father. As the plot expands Bond receives help from old allies such as Leiter and his boss M, in his attempts to save his country learning more of Julius' plan. The writing is simple to understand and easy to follow, this should be a treat to 007 fans. It isn't the best Bond experience I've had but it is enjoyable and would encourage you to read it if you're a fanatic of the James Bond collection. The tenth chapter of the War for humankind is up in the Warehouse.

Plot=7/10

Characters=8/10

Wording=8/10

overall=8/10

Quote of the day

Why don't you make like a tree and... get out of here?

Biff Tannen

Back to the future

Written by Falcon, Saturday 25 September 2010

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Bioshock 2

Greetings, Rapture may have taken a lot of damage since the original game but now that Fontaine and Andrew Ryan are deceased, the underwater city is taken under control by a psychiatrist who aims to destroy the self named Sofia Lamb. In 1959 one of the Alpha series Big Daddies known as Delta, the main character of the sequel lost his little sister, Eleanor to her real mother Sofia before Lamb gives the command for Delta to shoot himself. Ten years after Delta's death, he is brought back through the vita chamber and has to save his daughter, then escape Rapture and to do this he has to defeat the opposition of Sofia Lamb and what she calls her family. Throughout the game Delta will have help from allies such as Sinclair and Tennenbaum who returned to Rapture to save the little children.

Bioshock 2 is a worthy sequel to the original game and like it's predecessor receives the award Super Duper fantastic 100% the best. This is the fourth game to earn this title and deserves it. It has built on the original plot and managed to improve the storyline which could have easily have ruined the game's reputation, the first one did have a hard plot to compete against. It has new enemies called the Big Sisters who Delta fights after saving all the little sisters in a particular area.Now with two very satisfying games completed I look forward to what Bioshock infinite will bring, hoping it will continue to improve on the storyline. The War for Humankind chapter nine is up in the Warehouse.

Plot=10/10

Characters=10/10

Special effects=10/10

Overall=10/10

Quote of the day

Sons of Gondor! Of Rohan! My brothers! I see in your eyes the same fear that would take the heart of me! A day may come when the courage of men fails, when we forsake our friends and break all bonds of fellowship. But it is not this day. An hour of wolves and shattered shields when the age of Men comes crashing down! But it is not this day! This day we fight! By all that you hold dear on this good Earth, I bid you stand! Men of the West!

Aragorn

The Lord of the Rings The Return of the King

Written by Falcon, Thursday 16 September 2010

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Sherlock Holmes, the 2009 film

Greetings, the latest Sherlock Holmes film starring Robert Downey Jr and Jude Law was released to the cinemas in 2009. The plot was a little hard to follow at times, occasionally because I found it hard to make out Jr's English accent which was good but at times difficult to understand. At the end it is explained so all the loose ends are tied and leaving the viewer content. Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson had put away a retired lord called Lord Blackwood, who has been kidnapping innocent women and claims to have been using magic on them. On the day of his execution Blackwood states that his death was only the beginning, he is hanged and Dr Watson checks that he is deceased. When the body is buried, reports come to Holmes about Blackwood walking out of the graveyard, Sherlock and Dr Watson are sent to find out how this is possible. The special effects are good but it isn't used that much in it, Sherlock fans probably would like this film but I can't say I'm a die hard fan of the Sherlock Holmes mysteries so I wouldn't really know if the film displays him as he is described in the books. Even if you don't know much about Holmes it is still a cool film to view. The eighth chapter of the War for Humankind is up in Warehouse 17.

Plot=9/10

Characters=8/10

Special effects=8/10

Overall=8/10

Quote of the day

Life. Don't talk to me about life.

Marvin

The Hitchhicker's guide to the galaxy

Written by Falcon, Thursday 09 September 2010

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Abduction

Greetings, I doubt anyone will no anything about this book or the author but I'll review it despite that. Abduction is written by Robin Cook, an ex-doctor who normally writes medical thrillers but has also wrote two Science fiction books one called Invasion which I loved and the book that is being reviewed now, Abduction. A new sea mountain has been recently discovered by a Company which drills for resources under the sea, at least I think that's why they are there, it has been a while since I read the book. The President of the Company, called the Benthic Marine becomes stressed when informed that with all the money he invested into finding the resources has ultimately failed when they learn the Sea Mount Olympus is hollow.

Eventually he is persuaded to relax by exploring the Mount in a sub as previous divers are stunned by the environment. He is accompanied by an oceanographer called Suzanne and an ex-naval commander Donald, while out exploring the Mount the sub is forced down inside it, severing their communications with the ship they were travelling in. After a period of time, two divers named Richard and Michael look for them but suffer the same consequences. The three in the Sub when the ship is no longer moving explore the cavern around them, Donald believe it is the base of Russians from the cold war and as a bright light shines through the darkness they go to meet their captors. I love this book and it is a real page turner, well worth a read. The writing is easy to follow and understand making it one of the best books I have ever read. The seventh chapter of the War for Humankind is up in the Warehouse.

Plot=9/10

Characters=10/10

Wording=10/10

Overall=9/10

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WALL-E

Wall-e

Written by Falcon, Sunday 29 August 2010

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Inception

Greetings, Inception has a unique storyline which can be hard to follow but it doesn't matter if you can't understand it, the action scenes make it worthwhile. Leonardo DiCaprio plays a character who I think has the name Cob, I'm not really sure if that's his name as I didn't really catch any of them apart from Arthur, his colleague or his ex-wife Moll. The main character works for an organization that uses their victim's dreams to get information or for the victim to take action. Cob and Arthur go inside a shared dream to complete their orders, if they die in the dream they can come back to reality. Cob is given a quest by a victim of the organization he works for to destroy an energy company that is close to having all the energy resources in the world. As the leader of the company is dying, his son is about to take over, this is when Cob has to set up a team to under take an implausible mission in order to see his children again. The special effects are brilliant and it is something to watch in the cinema, on a normal TV it wouldn't have the same effect. The actors make it believable and I think it is one of the best films of 2010 along with Toy Story 3. The sixth chapter of the War for Humankind is up in Warehouse 17.

Plot=10/10

Characters=8/10

Special effects=10/10

Overall=9/10

Quote of the day

If you can't do it with one bullet, don't do it at all.

Alan Quartermain

The league of extraordinary gentlemen

Written by Falcon, Sunday 22 August 2010

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Quantum of Solace the video game

Greetings, Quantum of Solace is the latest James Bond video game which covers the last two films. Casino Royale in my opinion was probably the worst 007 film ever made due to the lack of gadgets and confusing storyline, this game helped me to understand the plot a bit better, which actually does make sense when I had the time to think about it . Essentially the storyline is James Bond trying to find the killers of Vesper and taking out Dominic Greene with his plans of capturing water in order to throw over a government. 007 tries to help Camille take revenge on a General who killed her parents while trying to deal with his own problems.

Overall it is an okay game but quite short despite having the two films intertwined, unlike the earlier James Bond games you don't necessarily get to fight bosses and when you are given the opportunity they die easily. I found the game to be average, an alright game that was enjoyable enough. It did not have many negative points about it but there isn't a spectacular feature either. If the game was a couple of pounds I would encourage you to play it. The fifth chapter of the War for Humankind is up in the Warehouse.