• 15Jun 09

  Sharpe Series

  Sharpe was British action\adventure\drama TV series starring Sean Bean as Bernard Cornwell's hero Richard Sharpe. It was first aired back in the 90s and is one of the greatest shows ever made.To this day nothing comes close to it on either side of the Atlantic. British actors are the best. The showwas about the adventures of a British soldier and his rise from to ranks to command the Chosen Men who a unit of marksmen during the Napoleonic Wars. It kicked off with Sharpe's Rifles and ended with Sharpe'sPeril which was aired in 2008.

  One of the more popular songs in the series was written by the Great John Tams who also starred in the series as one of the Chosen Men. Here's to Sharpe and his lads, I hope that they make a third person squad based shooter along the lines of Mass Effect about the series.

  OVER THE HILLS AND FAR AWAY

  By John Tams

  Here's forty shillings on the drum
  For those who'll volunteer to come
  To 'list and fight the foe today
  Over the Hills and Far Away

  CHORUS: O'er the Hills and o'er the main,
  Through Flanders, Portugal and Spain
  King George commands and we obey,
  Over the Hills and far Away

  When duty calls me, I must go,
  To stand and face another foe
  But part of me will always stray,
  Over the Hills and Far Away

  If I should fall to rise no more,
  As many comrades did before
  Then ask the fifes and drums to play,
  Over the hills and far away

  Then fall in lads behind the drum,
  With colours blazing like the sun
  Along the road to come what may,
  Over the hills and far away.

  • Posted Jun 15, 2009 4:27 am GMT
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• 29Apr 09

  Medal of Honor AIRBORNE

  What can I say about Medal of Honor (or Honour as we spell it) Airborne? The missions were fun to play and I liked the innovative method that developers used to give the player the feel of leveling up with each weapon in the game. This was a sort of in-game weapons training under combat conditions. I thought it was cute and a step in the right direction.

  However the game in general was too short. It was the shortestbuild of the entire series. I suppose that is keeping with market trends where game play is roughly 13 to 15 hours but, I still believe that for first person war based shooters nothing beats an average game play time of 30 hours just like the good old days.

  There has not been a medal of honor release in a while, I wonder if we have seen an end to the series. Has Call of Duty cornered the market? I think that it is time for Electronic Arts to give us Medal of Honor: Baghdad Liberation. There must be tons of stories that could be incorporated into the mix and it would be great to add a modern touch to the series.

  • Posted Apr 29, 2009 7:26 am GMT
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• 22Apr 09

  Sparrow of Fable 2

  Er...hello...my name is Sparrow, Some man in a big hat with a strange disturbing smile, wearing an expensive jacket told me that I should write this. He told me to say that it contained SPOILERS or something to spoil meat. I have been wearing the same clothes since I started adventuring a few hours ago. I like to kill things, but I am still a good person on the inside. I never steal things, since that is a bad thing to do. I want to be a hero. I think the best way to become a hero is to kill many things and collect the little pretty balls that they drop.

  When I do this I can use them to build myself up and become more dangerous to the bad things who get in my way. This way I can kill even more bad things and get even more pretty little balls. I have a steel one shot flintlock rifle which I use to kill things from a far distance and from up close, but mostly from a far distance. I have trained myself to target the bad things with a big red X so that I can kill them.

  I use my big steel broad sword to kill bad things up close and personal. I have trained myself to block, move very fast and hit very hard with my steel sword. I never stay in one place when I fight and move about very quickly hitting the bad things until they fall down and cannot get back up. It is at this time that they always give me the little balls that I spoke about.

  I am not as stuuppid as sum people may think just because I dance around for them trying to make them like me so that I can buy things at a discount. I no how to use magic. I use a shock spell to stun the bad things then I kill them with my sword or shoot them with my gun. I have used the little balls to upgrade my shock spell and now I can stun the bad things even longer and kill even more of them with my sword.

  I like women sometimes. I had to married one of them to get inside of a gate with a face where I got a free house that was very pretty and a big pretty hammer. I don't who what happened but, she killed herself after we got on the other side of the gate because she did not want me to waste time supporting her. She killed herself but taking the safety off my brain and then running into my new hammer. It was a very sad time for me. Not because she had killed herself by running into my hammer, but because a little floating bed thing came out of my head.

  I have worked as a blacksmith and they say that I am very good at it. I am so good that people say that I am nearly a master blacksmith. I also chop wood, but this is not as much fun as hitting hot metal with a hammer. I like to work. When I work I get money which I can use to buy things. I used some of the money that I have made working to buy my sword and gun that I use to kill the bad things to get the little balls that I use to upgrade my skills and abilities and stuff.

  I have also used the money that I got from working to invest in businesses and buy one cottage in a nice clean farming community. I have found that this is a good way to make little sums of money every few minutes.

  Well, that's all so far. I hope that the man with the crooked smile and the big hat is happy. I always seem to have to do whatever he wants me to do. It is like he is in total control of me and directs every aspect of my existence. At least I get to kill bad things, collect pretty balls, get more dangerous, get money, go adventuring, be loved, find pretty things and kill more bad things.

  Sparrow

  • Posted Apr 22, 2009 8:07 am GMT
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