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Far Cry 2

Wednesday, March 10th, 2010


Product Description

The long awaited sequel to the popular first-person shooter Far Cry. More than just a visual and technological achievement, Far Cry 2 immerses players in an entirely new kind of gaming experience, featuring a custom-made video game engine built from the ground up. Players will discover a true open world gameplay set in one of the most beautiful environments in the world, Africa, brought to life by high-definition next-gen technology.

  • Dunia Engine: The award winning Ubisoft Montreal dev team has tailor-made this new engine for Far Cry 2. It delivers the most realistic destructible environments, amazing special effects such as dynamic fire and storm effects, real-time day and night cycle, dynamic music system, non-scripted enemy A.I. and much more.
  • Destructible Environment: No more thinking about obstacles, everything is breakable and alterable, even in Multiplayer mode! The DUNIA engine’s RealTree technology also delivers the most realistic nature deterioration system ever.
  • Weapons Of Choice: Choose from a plethora of weapons to make your way to your primary target. Meet the fight head-on with your machine gun, go berserk with you machete or make stealth kill as a Sniper.
  • Open World: Experience real freedom while roaming in more than 50km2 without any loading. Never a game has given you so much liberty! Discover Africa as if you were there thanks to amazing artistic research supported by next-gen technology to make it come to life!
  • A Huge Adventure & Hours Of Side Quests: Discover war in its rawest form! Fight for two rival factions, choose your own path and make your way up to your primary target by any means necessary. Feel free to explore this gigantic world and play over 70 side quests to earn help, new weapons and vehicles!
  • Non-Scripted Artificial Intelligence: Next-gen technology brings a brand new experience to Far Cry 2. Be suAmazon.co.uk Review
    Exploring 20 square miles of African savannah and jungle is never an easy task. But when you’re up against an army of highly trained mercenaries, the danger becomes unimaginable. Welcome to the world of Far Cry 2.

    Far Cry 2 has some of the best explosions in the business
    Vehicles are great for cover as well as transport
    It’s best to keep some of the game’s factions on your side
    The environmental graphics are both stunning and highly varied

    It’s been over four years since the release of the first Far Cry, and Far Cry 2 has almost nothing in common with it beyond being a first-person shooter with excellent graphics and advanced artificial intelligence. It’s by a different developer, and you now play one of eight different mercenary characters out to catch an arms dealer nicknamed “The Jackal.”

    The sci-fi enemies have also been jettisoned in favour of a much more realistic game where survival skills are just as important as a good aim. The rules of engagement–either by stealth or all guns blazing–are entirely up to you.

    Key Features

    • Virtual safari: The game features 20 square miles of terrain for you to travel, filled with realistic fauna and flora and fully destructible trees and buildings.
    • Fiery realism: With an all-new graphics engine created just for the game, fire moves and propagates exactly as in real-life, with vegetation breaking and snapping realistically.
    • The coming storm: A dynamic weather system changes to reflect your mood, with the sky turning dark and stormy during bad times.
    • Jungle survival: Highly realistic weapons degrade with use, bullets need to be dug out of your body, and vehicles break down if pushed beyond their limits.
    • Buying friends: Meet and co-operate with fellow mercenaries as you pit different factions against one another in a war-torn African state.

    About the Developer: Ubisoft Montreal
    Ubisoft’s huge development studio in Canada has created many of the French publisher’s biggest hits, including the Splinter Cell,/i> series, the modern Prince of Persia games, Rainbow Six: Vegas, Assassin’s Creed, Naruto: Rise of a Ninja and the Far Cry sequels and spin-offs.

    Far Cry 2

The Very Best Of Joan Armatrading

Wednesday, March 10th, 2010


The Very Best Of Joan Armatrading

The Beatles – Yellow Submarine

Wednesday, March 10th, 2010


Amazon.co.uk Review
This restored, animated valentine to the Beatles offers viewers the rare chance to see a work that’s been substantially improved by its technical facelift, not just super-sized with extra footage. Recognising that its song-studded soundtrack alone makes Yellow Submarine a video annuity, United Artists has lavished a frame-by-frame refurbishment of the original feature, while replacing its original monaural audio tracks with a meticulously reconstructed stereo mix that actually refines legendary original album versions.

What emerges is a vivid time capsule of the late 1960s and a minor milestone in animation. The music represents the quartet’s zenith–Rubber Soul, Revolver and Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. The story line, cobbled together by producer Al Brodax and a committee of writers, is a broad, feather-light allegory set in idyllic Pepperland, where the gentle citizens are threatened by the nasty, music-hating Blue Meanies and their surreal arsenal of henchmen, with the Beatles enlisted to thwart the bad guys. Visually, designer Heinz Edelmann mixes the biomorphic squiggles, day-glo palette and Beardsley-esque portraits of Peter Max with rotoscoped still photographs and film; Edelmann’s animated collages also nod to Andy Warhol and Magritte in properly psychedelic fashion, which works wonderfully with such terrific songs.

High-orthodox Beatlemaniacs can still grouse that the animated Fab Four are (literally) flat archetypes, but that’s missing the sheer bloom of the music or the giddy, campy fun of the visuals. Making sense of the story is second to submerging blissfully in the sights and sounds of this video treat. –Sam Sutherland

The Beatles – Yellow Submarine

Gilmore Girls – Season 2

Wednesday, March 10th, 2010

Gilmore Girls – Season 2

Madcatz Rock Band Premium Microphone

Wednesday, March 10th, 2010

Product Description
The Officially Licensed M.I.C. – Microphone with Integrated Controller allows you to belt out the highs and croon the lows of your favorite tracks.

Madcatz Rock Band Premium Microphone

101 Power Ballads

Wednesday, March 10th, 2010

101 Power Ballads

The Browning Version

Wednesday, March 10th, 2010

The Browning Version

Dark Fall: Lost Souls

Wednesday, March 10th, 2010

Product Description

You have unfinished business with the dead. Return to the Train Station and Hotel at Dowerton for a second time; there is a new mystery to solve, and new horrors to face.

Dark Fall: Lost Souls

Not Fade Away: The Complete Studio Recordings And More

Wednesday, March 10th, 2010

Not Fade Away: The Complete Studio Recordings And More

Driving Aphrodite

Wednesday, March 10th, 2010

Amazon.co.uk Review
The combination of the appealing Nia Vardalos (My Big Fat Greek Wedding) and the breathtaking location shooting in Greece make Driving Aphrodite (My Life in Ruins) the perfect film escape. The film works as a feather-light romantic comedy, with Vardalos’s character, Georgia, facing burnout in her job with a cut-rate tour company in Greece. Georgia knows there’s magic in the Greek countryside and history, yet the grind of her job has drained her. Happily for Georgia, her latest group of semi-challenging tourists will help her shed some of her hard-built personal armor, guiding her to cut loose as the tour progresses (a journey mirrored in Vardalos’s hairstyle, which starts out prim, and ends up attractively tousled). The strong supporting cast includes Richard Dreyfus, seeming very comfortable playing an old coot, Rita Wilson, and the dreamy Greek actor Alexis Georgoulis, a bus driver with the soul of a poet. And possibly a secret crush on the oblivious Georgia. But the true star of the film is Greece itself, from the coastline to the mountains, from the Acropolis to the Parthenon. That so few American films are shot on location makes this summer treat even more appealing, as sweet as fresh baklava. –A.T. Hurley

Driving Aphrodite