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| Entertainment October 2003, Volume 7, No. 1 |
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By Judi P.
Are you bored of the same old music? Do you want someone new to listen to? Well, I was just very impressed with some new music by Canadian singer/songwriter, Fefe Dobson. Dobson's songs have a hard rock edge. She lists as her influences artists as different as Nirvana and Madonna. Her new single, "Take me away" is really quite good. I listened to the song over and over again, but I didn't get sick of it. Instead I started to sing along. It had a great beat and it's fast.
Dobson's full length debut album, Take Me Away, is due out in October.
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Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic
By Patrick G.
Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic is one of the best RPGS (role playing games) of the year. This game lets you pick which path you want to be on, the Light or Dark Side. It's a single player game and you can adjust the difficulty or challenge level.
In the beginning, you design your character, a girl or boy, by picking whichever face you like. Then you can give your character special traits, or just let the computer do it. Finally, you give your character a name.
As you play, the game tells you everything you need to know. It explains who you were and what your previous life was. A cool part of the game is picking which side you want to follow, the Light or the Dark.
To choose your side you have to pick the right things. For example, if you wanted to be on the Dark Side you would have to say bad things. You wouldn't care if you hurt someone.
There are a few secrets in the Knights of the Old Republic but I can't tell you all of them, it would ruin the game. I'll share one with you--Ballista, a person in your party or team, is turned to the Dark Side.
You don't get your light saber until the next planet, which takes a while to get to. You can build your own light saber and pick which colors you want, but the colors show what side you're on.
Blue shows you're a Jedi Guardian, the other two colors are yellow and green. Later you can pick up parts and colors for your light saber to change the color and strength of it.
You can have many combinations of light sabers: two single sabers, a single saber, a staff saber, or two short sabers.
The evil person or enemy in this game is Darth Malak. He's a tough player and someone to watch out for. There are eight levels for this game.
Its overall rating would be a 10 and the Graphics are a 9.
Its play control is a 7 because most of the controlling is difficult, you have to hit a lot of buttons to fight.
The game play is a 10.
Its fun factor is a 9, but if you hate Star Wars it not might be for you. It's priced at about $50.00.
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Now
When will they stop?
By Danielle J.
When will they stop making Now CDs? They keep making new ones with bad songs and they keep getting worse with each new release.
Most of the songs are old or not played on the radio and the ones that are have been over-played.
Everybody from Justin Timberlake to Coldplay are on Now 13. Jennifer Lopez "I'm Glad" Lisa Marie Presley "Lights Out" and Nas "I Can" are also on it.
I would rate Now 13 a 2 out of 5. They need new and better songs.
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Tony Hawk Underground (THUG)
By Evin S.
Tony Hawk's Pro Skater series have made awesome improvements on each past game. Most of the changes may not seem that major at first, but mastering and completing each game requires you to learn its new moves and combos to beat the game.
The makers at Neversoft have done a great job of changing things up without breaking anything that worked in the previous games, but this year the developer had its largest challenge ahead of it. This game is not out yet and I have not played it, but by watching video clips and reading professional reviews I can tell this game is going to be the best yet.
The story mode, which will have four different difficulty settings, is designed to challenge your game play and requires you to create your own skater using a beefed-up version of the create-a-skater mode that has been in the series of Tony Hawk games for years.
There is one mode that will allow you to use your own face textures in the game. This will allow you to create yourself. The option requires you to get your PlayStation 2 online, but you can't do it with your PS2 alone.
You'll need to e-mail a head shot to a special e-mail address. Once it has been processed, you'll be given a password. Entering the password that will let you download the picture that you sent in and bingo, your face right into the game as a virtual skater.
Have you ever wanted a tattoo or a piercing? Well, once you have your picture downloaded you can add that stuff wherever you want.
If you've ever played Tony Hawk you know that sometimes you just want to get off your board and walk around, well now you can. You can even grab on to ledges and shim across. (Please don't try to shim across electric wires in the real world!)
The story mode portion of THUG looks like it will be a pretty cool new take on the expanded career mode found in last year's Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 4.
Look for Tony Hawk's Underground to come to the PlayStation 2, Xbox, and GameCube during the last week of October, 2003.
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Soul Caliber II challenges
By John G.
Soul Caliber II is a fun and difficult game. It has many characters and tons of levels to unlock. It has an adventure mode, an arcade mode, and many others.
The adventure mode is cool and all but it is extremely difficult at the midway point and on. It is available for three systems (Playstation 2, Xbox, and Gamecube).
Each system has its own special character. Gamecube has links to another game, The Legend of Zelda.
Xbox has the character, Spawn, from the movie Spawn.
Finally, Playstation 2 has a character from the game Tekken.
The controls are easy for the most part except when doing complicated attacks.
The sound from certain characters can get annoying. Each character has its own ending movie, but it's not what you think, it's a slide show with writing underneath.
The arenas are very well detailed and are fun to play in. They all have certain traps and special features. One feature that is in all the maps is that you can push your opponent off the arena and win the match.
The story line is somewhat hard to understand.
All characters have a move called a soul charge, in which the character gets a power boost for ten seconds and his attacks pierce blocking.
There are many diverse weapons in the game (they're not all-just swords).
Overall I would buy this game.
Overall rating- 9
Graphics- 10
Sound- 7
Play control- 9
Fun factor- 10
S. R. P. - 50$
Number of players 1-2
The difficulty is adjustable from easy, medium, and hard
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Freaky Friday is lots of fun
By Jacqueline C.
In this Disney remake of the 1976 original, Jamie Lee Curtis plays Ellen, a widow about to be remarried, who argues constantly with her daughter, Annabel, who is played by Lindsey Lohan.
The two wish they could exchange bodies so that the other could see each other's point of view and then somehowÖit happens!
Complications arise as Ellen(as Annabel) worries about Annabel (as Ellen) getting too close to her future stepfather (played by Mark Harmon) while Annabel must fake doing her mom's job as a psychiatrist.
I highly recommend you seeing this movie if you like funny adventurous movies!
Genre: Teen Comedy
Rated: PG13
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