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This feed is subject to our terms of use: http://www.epinions.com/help/rss_terms http://www.epinions.com/user-captaind Recent reviews written by member captaind en-us 121 37 http://www.epinions.com/ http://img.epinions.com/images/epi_images/logos/epinions_121.gif http://www.epinions.com/content_475763150468?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author captaind - EA Active is the latest way to use your WII to get fit.  It has a different emphasis to WII Fit, which focuses a lot on balance, and offers you a variety of track, sports, and... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~475763150468 Tue, 30 Jun 2009 13:27:03 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_475763150468?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_475758431876?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author captaind - Muzzled! is the third episode in the Wallace & Gromit: Grand Adventures series by TellTale Games.   The games are 3D third-person adventure games featuring the famous claymation characters, with the player controlling either... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~475758431876 Tue, 30 Jun 2009 12:57:09 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_475758431876?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_475658030724?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author captaind - I'd been looking forward to seeing Coraline, though a bit miffed that we had to wait months for it to come to cinemas in the UK.  Still, arrive in Britain it did, and we duly went to see it.  We watched it in 3D because... well, because it was... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~475658030724 Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:22:20 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_475658030724?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_474859802244?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author captaind - Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen carries on where the first Michael Bay Transformers movie left off - Sam (Shia LaBeouf) is about to leave for college, leave his car that turns into a robot behind, and try to live a normal life.  His parents... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~474859802244 Mon, 22 Jun 2009 17:00:19 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_474859802244?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_474700418692?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author captaind - Worms: Space Oddity is a game that you'd really expect to port perfectly to the Nintendo WII.  In case you've been living on Mars for the last couple of decades, the Worms series of games is a turn-based strategy game where two or more teams... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~474700418692 Sun, 21 Jun 2009 08:55:47 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_474700418692?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_474597002884?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author captaind - The best-selling Playstation 1 game of all time with over ten million units sold, Gran Tourismo was a formidable and quite innovative game at the time.  I remember playing it on a friend's PS1 years ago and being quite amazed by its graphics and... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~474597002884 Sat, 20 Jun 2009 09:40:39 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_474597002884?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_474385321604?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author captaind - Historical fiction is a genre that I've only very briefly dabbled with in the past but I received several books in the famous "Avalon" series for review (though not through Epinions), and do you know what?  I'm glad I did (especially as I would... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~474385321604 Thu, 18 Jun 2009 13:18:05 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_474385321604?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_474137529988?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author captaind - Question: When is a bad movie not a bad movie?  Answer: When it's so bad, it's good!At least, that's why my sister loves the old Godzilla B movies, and it's the theory behind the making of The Skeleton of... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~474137529988 Tue, 16 Jun 2009 13:55:19 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_474137529988?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_473268457092?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author captaind - Full Throttle is one of the games that comes from what it commonly known as LucasArts' "golden age" of adventure gaming, and has a sizeable cult following - maybe not quite on the scale of Monkey Island's fan base, but still impressive.  For... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~473268457092 Mon, 8 Jun 2009 17:46:05 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_473268457092?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_472991829636?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author captaind - Nights: Journey of Dreams is a 3D platform game with the slight difference that you can fly as well.  After a cut scene that was actually very good graphically by WII standards, we're led into the tutorial of a very average-looking... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~472991829636 Sat, 6 Jun 2009 07:39:00 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_472991829636?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_472930094724?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author captaind - As my regular readers (yes, both of you) will know, I've become fascinated with independent movie-making recently.  A little while ago it was brought to my attention that there are sitcoms lurking around the net too, and the creators of Imaginary... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~472930094724 Fri, 5 Jun 2009 17:48:35 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_472930094724?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_472455220868?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author captaind - The Battle for Middle Earth is a real time strategy (RTS) game set in the fantasy world created by JRR Tolkien, and a pretty good one it is too.  You can take control of the forces of good or evil as you wage a campaign that will forever... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~472455220868 Mon, 1 Jun 2009 16:54:23 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_472455220868?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_471527427716?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author captaind - Star Wars: Revelations is a fan-made film (with the blessing of George Lucas apparently) that takes place between episodes II and IV (Revenge of the Sith / A New Hope).  Released in 2005 as an online / download only release, it's received... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~471527427716 Sun, 24 May 2009 16:32:13 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_471527427716?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_471412543108?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author captaind - If there's one film I hadn't been expecting a sequel to, it was Night at the Museum - somehow it felt like they'd done all that could be done with the idea.  However the decision-makers obviously thought otherwise and Ben Stiller is back in... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~471412543108 Sat, 23 May 2009 13:54:14 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_471412543108?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_470151696004?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author captaind - One of the joys / dangers (one can never tell which in advance) of being married to a South African is that occasionally I will be introduced to movies or music that would almost definitely have never entered my life otherwise.  One such movie is... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~470151696004 Tue, 12 May 2009 14:45:59 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_470151696004?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_470015708804?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author captaind - The second episode in TellTale Games' Wallace & Gromit: Grand Adventures, entitled "The Last Resort", brings to fruitition much of the potential shown, but not realised, by the first episode ("Fright of the Bumble Bees"). ... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~470015708804 Mon, 11 May 2009 12:34:28 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_470015708804?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_469732789892?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author captaind - One of the most hotly-awaited movie releases this decade, Star Trek takes on not one but two notoriously tricky challenges - making a prequel to a series fans know in obsessive depth, and introducing a time-travel element to the plot. ... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~469732789892 Fri, 8 May 2009 18:31:13 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_469732789892?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_469270498948?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author captaind - X-Men Origins: Wolverine had been keenly awaited but to be honest, after finding X-Men 3: The Last Stand completely fail to keep up the standards set by the first two X-Men films, I wasn't expecting too much of it.  As it was, I found the film... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~469270498948 Mon, 4 May 2009 16:19:24 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_469270498948?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_469156269700?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author captaind - The Hunt for Gollum is a 40-minute indie film produced by Independent Online Cinema, released worldwide on 3rd May 2009.  Based in Middle Earth shortly before the events of The Lord of the Rings, it centres on Gandalf and... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~469156269700 Sun, 3 May 2009 17:30:05 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_469156269700?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_469021986436?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author captaind - TellTale Games introduced the episodic adventure game idea to the world with the Sam & Max games, and is now using the same approach with the Wallace & Gromit: Grand Adventures series.  Considering the brilliant job they did with Sam... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~469021986436 Sat, 2 May 2009 13:38:16 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_469021986436?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_468901727876?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author captaind - Following on from the first Runaway game, Runaway 2: The Dream of the Turtle is another traditional point and click adventure game that follows the adventures of Brian Basco and Gina Timmins.  Well. That is to say Gina is in the game a tiny... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~468901727876 Fri, 1 May 2009 13:47:23 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_468901727876?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_468790709892?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author captaind -  Guinness World Records 2009: Gamer's Edition is a book that I knew I must have as soon as I saw it.  Covering not only modern gaming but everything back to the early origins of video gaming (well not literally everything, but it makes a good... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~468790709892 Thu, 30 Apr 2009 14:57:16 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_468790709892?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_468666650244?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author captaind - Penelope is a 1966 comedy that I'd never heard of and seems pretty obscure, but having watched it I can say with confidence that it's well worth the effort to find.  It stars Natalie Wood as Penelope Elcott, the young wife of a banker who's become... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~468666650244 Wed, 29 Apr 2009 12:43:53 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_468666650244?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_468474695300?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author captaind - The Karate Kid is a typically cheesy 80s movie but despite stereotyped characters and a rather predictable plot, it has enough going for it to be a very enjoyable movie.  It's a standard tale of the underdog coming good, with a karate twist of... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~468474695300 Mon, 27 Apr 2009 17:38:30 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_468474695300?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_467784601220?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author captaind - Football Management games have bee around for a long time, and every new batch of games seems to bring an increased level of depth and complexity.  This isn't always a particularly good thing in my opinion - when a game becomes so involved that it... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~467784601220 Tue, 21 Apr 2009 12:23:53 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_467784601220?linkin_id=8003929