Epinions Recent Reviews for Turin

WOH

Thu, 2 Mar 2006 16:36:05 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author Turin - I've finally had some free time lately, a break from my usual routine of work and school to the point of masochism. I've been trying to catch up on all the fun stuff I've missed out on. I haven't written a review in a while. Let it be enough that I'm...

I Had Forgotten How Fun Video Games Could Be

Mon, 19 Jan 2004 16:51:14 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author Turin - I have been playing video games for a long long time, and while I still play games these days, I hardly seem to enjoy them or really get into them like I used to. There are many games that I just stop playing half way through and so forth. There are...

Hand-Held Heaven

Sat, 17 May 2003 11:27:31 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author Turin - What can I say about the MX700? A few months ago, I would have said no mouse is worth $80. Do to an Advertising typo, I got a Logitech MX300 from Staples for $15. So I had forgone on this bizarre shaped alien looking device. Surely that can’t be...

Pretty, Easy to Play Space Adventure

Fri, 16 May 2003 14:52:21 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author Turin - I have been a space flight fan since I first played TIE FIGHTER many, many, many years ago. Freelancer reminds me more of the Wing Commander series, primarily the game Privateer. I would go so far as to say that it is directly related, but I...

Worth Making a Little Time For

Fri, 16 May 2003 13:33:06 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author Turin - It’s been a VERY long time since I’ve written a review. Between working full time, going to school on nights and weekends, teaching myself guitar, and spending time with the family and girlfriend, there hasn’t really been time...

Elder Scrolls 3: Morrowind For Windows: Anything in excess

Sun, 4 Aug 2002 11:37:56 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author Turin - I have a lot of mixed feelings about Morrowind. It never amazed me, captivated me, or ever really sucked me in. I am not sure if I had fun playing Morrowind. It did however, for a time consume large quantities of my life. If Morrowind...

Flesh-not-a-typo-Gordon Fun!

Sat, 8 Jun 2002 14:30:01 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author Turin - Background:

Every few weeks, my friends and I have gather for what I like to call Horrible Movie Night. On this night, we go and look for the most pain-inflicting movie’s we can find to watch. We then enjoy ourselves as we...

Return to Castle Wolfenstein: I Returned It, Not Worth It

Sun, 25 Nov 2001 14:17:03 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author Turin - After playing the MP Demo, I preordered RTCW from EBX. My friend who works there didn't know what was special about the Collectors Edition. He advised me to preorder that, and then trade it in if I didn't like it. Fortunately when the time came, they...

Finally A Product Worth Writing About

Sun, 25 Nov 2001 13:49:29 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author Turin - The original Wolfenstein 3d was one of my favorite games in the Doom era. I enjoyed the more realistic feel to the game than other fps, which focused more on fantasy and the occult. The AI was also impressive back then, as the German soldiers would...

Essential MP3 Tool

Wed, 15 Aug 2001 10:07:34 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author Turin - I have been using Musicmatch for several years now. While I still stick with Winamp for my default player, I use Musicmatch to rip all my cds. I have ripped all of my cds in fact, and they are all sorted on my computer in folders by Artist and sub...

Worth My Paycheck

Tue, 14 Aug 2001 20:24:04 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author Turin - I bought this unit for $600 at Circuit City and am exquisitely glad that I did. I also put down an extra $100 for a four year full warranty. If I don't like how it's working, they'll swap it out.

Audio Quality

I am...

The Greatest Athlete in the World Can't Win a Race with One Leg

Thu, 12 Jul 2001 16:56:11 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author Turin - I have for a long time been a big fan of multiplayer action/adventure games and RPG’s. When a game comes along with a combination of those attributes, I usually jump at the chance to play it. I spent $150 on Secret of Mana and a Multitap and Controller...

PC-cillin: Great Scanner, Poor Cleaner

Thu, 12 Jul 2001 16:24:51 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author Turin - With the internet continually growing, peer to peer client trading, and more and more people getting involved in computers every year; the importance of virus-scanning has achieved new bounds. It is almost essential that you have a virus scanner if you...

Serious Sam For Windows: I REALLY want to be Duke Nukem, but I suck!

Sun, 17 Jun 2001 20:52:13 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author Turin - Serious Sam is a return to the old shoot-anything-that-moves-and-when-it-hits-the-floor-shoot-it-again type of first person shooter. It's supposed to be non-stop action and excitement. It failed.

Graphics

One of the...

Multiplayer Mayhem

Mon, 4 Jun 2001 00:47:15 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author Turin - When my friends came home from college, we had a little multiplayer get together. One of the games that we played was Gigawing2. I have since been eagerly awaiting this item to be listed on Epinions so as to write on it.

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Swish: Flash for Dummies

Thu, 31 May 2001 19:47:50 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author Turin - If you have ever tried to work with Macromedia’s Flash, then you learn to appreciate some of the sites that you have seen on the Internet. Flash is basically software stop-motion-animation. And like real life stop motion animation, it takes a lot of...

Modern Day RC Pro-Am

Sat, 26 May 2001 16:32:36 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author Turin - I went to EBX looking for a quick fix. I was looking for a game that I didn’t really have to think or require a lot of time. I wan interested in some mindless entertainment, since I have been real busy these days. So I asked my friends who work there...

The Sky's Not Quite the Limit

Tue, 22 May 2001 19:25:10 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author Turin - I've been a big RPG fan ever since I played Dragon Warrior for the NES. Since then, I have played probably 50-100 RPG titles, some great, most ok, and some were really bad. One of the deciding factors why I bought my Dreamcast was the decent collection...

Super Tennis Wins 6 Games to 4

Mon, 21 May 2001 19:25:47 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author Turin - I haven't picked up a tennis game since I bought Super Tennis for the SNES. Super Tennis was a brilliant game for its time, a heck of a lot of fun with decent AI, and good game play. However, once you learn the AI's pattern (which wasn't overly...

Gnutella: Gnutella a la Bearshare

Sat, 12 May 2001 11:03:21 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author Turin - Bearshare is a Gnutella based application that connects to other Bearshare applications and other Gnutella based programs. It can be downloaded for free from Bearshare.com.

I have a lot of mixed feelings about Bearshare. I have been able to...

Dark Twisted Luscious Humor

Thu, 10 May 2001 18:05:34 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author Turin - "After a brief rest in the preservation fluid, which burns, they brought me back to introduce this book! YAY! *COUGH*"

Where to begin and where to end? There is nothing like Squee's Wonderful Big Giant Book of Unspeakable Horrors. Though...

Finally Time to Upgrade

Wed, 2 May 2001 18:38:29 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author Turin - A long time ago, I wrote an opinion on the Plextor 8x4x32. After years of faithful service, it is at last time for it to move on. I have recently found someone willing to buy it, sold it for $120 (high resell value shoes the quality of Plextor's...

More Amazing than Silence of the Lambs?

Sat, 28 Apr 2001 14:38:30 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author Turin - WOW; wow is the first thing that came into me head when the movie ended. Since i've picked up my metaphorical epinions pen again, there have been a whole bunch of stuff that I have been meaning to write about. Flash, Swish, Skies of Arcardia, NBA 2k1,...

We Set Up 1000 of These

Tue, 24 Apr 2001 20:16:08 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author Turin - Where I work, we spent all of last summer setting up and networking 1000 new acer 8400's and 500 new hp printers.

Specs:

-600mhz pIII

-128megs ram pc100

-10gig 7200 rpm seagate udma2 hd

-ati xpert (rage2 based chipset i...

PSO brings Diablo2 to the DC

Sun, 22 Apr 2001 20:09:35 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author Turin - I have to admit I wasn't overwhelmingly impressed with PSO. The while it was a good game, having played Diablo2 to death on the pc, I found the gameplay to be way too similar.

The Good:

The graphics are pretty sweet for a...