A Symphony of Ultra Violent Shoot Outs!
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John Woo, my favorite director of all time,  has created what I thought would not happen. He created a film better then the classic action film "The Killer". With "Hard Boiled" JohnWoo stages some of  the best shoot out to ever grace the silver screen.  The story takes  place in Hong Kong with Chow Yun Fat playing an obsessed cop on the trail  of vicious gun runners. Yet the investigation proves to be more then he  thinks when he find that there is a under cop working with the gun runners.
The drama in this film is much more enjoyable than that of "The  Killer". Chow Yun Fat gives an exceptional preformance in this film. I  must also give credit to the people whom did the subtitling for it has been  some of the yet. Also look for the cameo John Woo has in this film as the  bar keeper This film like many of John Woo's films is not for the faint of  heart. It contains scenes of incredibly strong graphic violence and strong  language. Recomended viewing age is 17 and up.
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Call of Duty 4 is probably the best modern FPS I have ever played. The campagin is a very detailed story that almost spells out the end of the world. You start out as "Soap", a British SAS soldier. Your first mission is to storm a cargoship by the cover of dark during a strong storm. Your team repels down from a helicoptor and storms the command deck. You kill all enemies and go down a flight of stairs and onto the main deck. You then advance into the cargo hold of the ship, take out more terrorists, and find the "package". You don't get to secure the package however, because the enemy sends 2 Migs to sink the ship. The ship is hit and you have to run off of it and jump onto the helicoptor.
  The campagin progresses as you covering a Russian assualt on Russian rebels using a sniper rifle. You then break into a house and use night-vision to rescue a spy that was arrested. After that mission you switch to an American marine in Iraq. You go on several missions from storming buildings in search of a terrorist named Al Assad, to defending a broken down tank, to having a massive urban shootout. Your final mission in Iraq is helping a pinned down squad in the center of Al Assad's capital city. As you, your squad, and the soldiers you rescued are airlifted out of the area, a large nuclear device explodes. That is the end of your days as a marine.
  The campagin heats up as you go fifteen years into the past as a British sniper to snipe a nuclear weapons dealer. You shoot him, and then try to carry your wounded partner out of a deserted Ukraine town. This part of the game is very hard.
  After you go back to present day, you go on a mission to arrest the weapons dealer's son. You get him to surrender, but he pulls out a handgun and kills himself.
  The weapon's dealer, who somehow survived the sniper shot, tells the SAS and USMC (who are working together in a top secret mission.)that they need to leave Russia, or he will launch nuclear warheads at the US. US and SAS forces move in to take out the Russian launch site where the missiles will be launced from, but they don't get there in time. Two warheads launch and start heading towards the US. You then have to break into a nuclear bunker. This is a very hard mission, because the enemy is usually only a few feet from you, and grenades are flying everywhere.
  After you disarm the missiles, your team tries to escape by driving out of the area. As you cross a bridge, a helicopter blows up the bridge. You are wounded, and you see the Russian arms dealer come onto the remains of the bridge and start shooting your teammates. Your team leader throws you a pistol. You use the pistol to take out the arms dealer.
  If you watch all of the credits, you get to unlock a bonus mission. The bonus mission is very fun and intense. You have to storm AIR FORCE ONE and free the President from Russian terrorists who are seeking revenge.
  Call of Duty 4 also has incredible graphics. The explosions and backgrounds look really cool. The audio is very impressive as well.
  WARNING! Call of Duty 4 does deserve it's M rating. I don't know why it has strong language written on the box, because the worst word in the game is "oh s***!" The game does have some blood in it when you shoot enemies, but there is no gore in the game. The game does have some extreme violence in it. Almost every second of the game you are killing terrorsits. The action never stops. During the sniping misson and the silo mission, the terrorists send war dogs after you. It is very hard to see you shoot the dogs and watch them die. If the dogs jump on you, you have to strangle them to death.
  All in all, Call of Duty 4 is a great game. Other then the violence and blood, it is a very good FPS.

Graphics  A++
Sound  A
Gameplay  A+
Intensity- High
Violence-  extreme
language-  mild
blood-  moderate
Rating-  Appropriate
Recomendation- Only buy if you are a die hard FPS fan and can take hardcore action and some killing of animals.
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<b>THIS GAME ROCKS!</b>
So far for the PS2 I have played 2 1st person shooters, time splitters and unreal tournament.  UT is so much better!  I liked TS because it had good graphics, lots of weapons and decent controls.  Unreal has all those things and SO much more!
Unreal Tournament has lots of weapons, you don't get to pick wich ones are avalible in each deathmatch like you can in time splitters, but there is a big variety.
The best part of this game is the A.I., I have never seen it so good!  The bots don't just come at you relentlessly, they accually HUNT you.  I fired at a bot, and he fired back, so i ducked down a corridor, to wait for him to come after me, so i could gun him down, but instead of him just comming after me, he snuck up behind me and blew my head off!
I have never seen a game with this level of A.I..  The bots want to live, if you are killing them, they run away, and get a medkit, then come back for revenge.
the controls in this game are good, it takes a few mins to learn them, but after 5 mins of gameplay, you are a master.
I rented this game last night, and I just bought it online, this game rocks.
<b>Highly recommended to get the PS2 8MB memory card, you will need it to fully play this game</b>
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Why give this game a one star?? Sure there was a few bumps on the road but hey for me it was a, none stop gun pumpin shoot'em up doge them bullets all out type a game!!! You get so addicted to this game once you lock and load it's game on. The graphics are excellent stuning views if wanted to take a break from gun pumpin action...excellent DTS surrond sound. The story was great I mean come on does the story have to be bang on the money, I did not buy this game for a bed time story I wanted a shoot'em up action adventure thats exactly what I got and EVEN MORE, There were a few surprises along the way ;>) here's a sneak review

1: Nate goes to look for Sir Frances Drakes Remains but finds this book instead which leads a trail to El Darado.

2: Nate and Elena where quickly scooped up be Sulli after begin pounce on by the bad guys and flown back to port.

3: Sulli & Nate leaves Elena behind fearin her trust.

4: Nate & Sulli heads to Islands to find this lost city of the Spanish

5: Once finding there way in they stumble on a few things including a German U-boat?? yes a German U-boat stuck in the middle of a river....hmmmm in which lies the map & brearings to the treasure.

6: There again the bad guys hot on the trail decides to shoot Nates buddy Sulli after he had surrended the map.

7: The fun begins....should i tell you anymore naa!!!

I know I will get carried away and I want you guys to be the jugde, let's face PS3 haven't got a lot of games out there, so why save your money!!! it's worth every cent. I debated on buyin this, I'm sorry I ever debut you Naughty Dog :>). Must Advise on the violence there is a lot of it Not suitable for the very young, but if you can tell the difference from reality and video game then you would do just fine. Be the judge for yourself. (HDTV720P)
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While I have only played the demo (put out by PC Gamer in the Dec 03 Edition) of this game I can already say that this game is by far the most intense and visually stunning FPS on the market.  The fact that you can only carry a limited amount of weapons adds ever so much to the realism of the game and that's not even including the visual effects and invigorating sound that is packaged with the game.
The graphics, while hardware intensive, will literally draw the player in and recreate a World War II battle with textured walls, lifelike enemies (and allies), and an extreme attention to detail that's hard to find even in todays games.  The sound is also jaw-dropping if you have the hardware to handle it.  My 5.1 Surround Sound system had a field day with the veritable cornocopia of sounds that were meant to help recreate one of man's most epic struggles.
The only downside is that the game is very hardware intensive and even managed to freeze my system when I set it to the maximum possible specs and my machine is no meagre plaything.  I'm packing an ATI Radeon 9800 Pro (128 MB DDR), Athlon XP 2800+, 512MB DDR RAM, and a Seagate 120 SATA HDD.  All I had to do was drop the setting of one category to "High" instead of "extreme" and it worked beautifully so I don't consider that a problem large enough to warrant a 4 star instead of 5 star rating.
If you want a gritty, realistic, and visually gripping FPS then I highly recommend buying this game when it is released (Nov 4, 2003).  One of the few games I'll spend a full $49.99 on without 2nd guessing myself.
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This book was FANTASTIC! The tactical and survival information was spot on, and the action kept me on the edge of my seat. The book covers the reality of violence and defending your self and your family, as well as natural human reactions to such things. I think it could have done without the cursing, but I can live with it. Outstanding job.
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Of all the shooters I've played, this one is the most realistic and fast paced I've ever seen.  If real war is anything like this, it truely is Hell!  Now, you too can know the frustration of running in a heroic attempt where your actions could mean the lives of many...and catch a *ping* in the bucket and go "lights out" amounting to nothing but a heap of meat on the dirt.

It's truely hilarious how hard this game will kill you repeatedly.  It's not so bad on regular, but in the higher diffeculties you really gotta bring an A-game, because you don't get any time to realize your mistakes, you're dead.  Forget to check a corner, forget to take decent cover or get too bold  -DEAD!!!

In all fairness, this game is excellent, the controls, the grapics, the sound, everything is perfect and truly a masterpeice of gaming.  The lower difficulties are forgiving too, it's not always so hard, but the higher difficulties is where the fun is IMO.  It's challenging, it's frantic as all Hell, it's almost unnerving if you have it piped through a stereo and you're gonna get popped, alot.  It's okay though, it hurles you right back into the action almost right away so you can get perforated or blown up again.  The funny thing is, you don't really mind, it's all a part of an amazing experience and you feel like a real stud when you do it right and kill some terrorists.  The game is non-stop shooting and they give you a ton of weapons to find and use.

Nothing like plugging a guy with an RPG through your EOTech  sights, spreading a cluster of hunkered-down enemies with your M203 granade launcher, drilling some poor SOB in a building with an MP5 or shotgun, or sniping a guy in the face while he's running for cover and watching is limp corpse tea-kettle and fall in a heap.

When you're smooth you're a machine, when your head gets too big, well this game makes sure to humble you right down.  Bravado just fills a bag here.  I suggest anyone get this game and give her a jaunt on normal, then jack the difficulty up and marvel at the realistic and frantic action.

I should mention there's an actual plot here too.  They've done a very decent job at giving you a sense of purpose and consequence in the outcome of your team's trials.  It takes place in Russia and the Middle East where a fictitous group of terrorists are trying acquire nuclear materials and overthrow leaderships etc.  It all feels like our current events and does an amazing job of convincing you of it all as you're either a Marine or member of the SAS, both of which bring it to the bad guys as the story progresses, switching back and forth to mix it up as you go along.  All the while, you are a part of a team, and feel like a valuable cog in the machine as your squad descends on the bad guys.

The developers threw in a really fun segment where you are in a C-130 raining Hell itself on the enemy while giving a team of soldiers on the ground some much needed cover.  You can use huge cannons to destroy clusters of the enemy and watch their bodies flip all over, use smaller cannons to carpet specific areas and even zoom in with a 20mm gatling gun and light em' up even more, it's truly amazing.

Get this game, seriously, it can be hard, but if you pay attention you'll find it's a very balanced game with an experience the likes of which you'd be hard pressed to get again.  It's one of the best looking games I've ever seen and on the 360 version the load times are really short for what the levels look like, and this game rocks you through about 10-15 quality hours of gameplay.  There's definitely incentive to play through a few times too, on harder settings and such.  A must have, best thing since the Orange Box.
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I have just completed this book, my heart is pounding, my palms are clammy, and I am so addicted I need another fix.

This book is one adrenaline punch after another. It's absolutely brilliant. Wow, you really can get adrenaline in a book. I'm so tense my stomach is trying to cravat my throat.

In short, if you love action packed killers for hire, with betrayal, backstabbing, and being hunted, this is a book that will grip your eyeballs wide open and torture you with exquisite nine-mil's, shotguns, assumed identities and taking out bad guys over morning breakfast with your steak knife.

It outstrips any action book I've ever read (and that includes Ian Flemming and master Bagley)

The fact that the ladies are bad-ass, and the men are ruthless and gorgeous just adds to the appeal of this thrill ride.

It's immediate, you are living each scene with the main character Candy, and when it's over, all you want as a reader is for her to train the cross-hairs on Sam, and then go home and screw Lucas into the next century.

Five out of five stars! brilliant action packed punched at full throttle brilliant read!

I could not put this book down and damn well hope there'll be a sequel!
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WOW - I've never seen such a HUGE game.  This thing goes on and on.  The maps are large and action is free-flowing.  You can roam around to your heart's desire.
Each 'area' / level is different to the next.  You could be in a desert for one mission and in the Arctic for the next.  And each level itself is huge in terms of the physical map area as well as the missions that can be completed in each.  You may finish a level and then come back to the same level later to do a side/optional mission.
There are hundreds of different guns, grenades, power-ups, shields, etc with different stats for each level.  I've been battling for over 200 hours and the game is still not complete!!!
Bad guys take many forms from robots, to wild animals, to Zombies, to regular soldiers.  So cool!
The only thing I don't like is if you die whilst battling a boss (and the boss is almost dead), when you re-spawn, you have to start all over again with the boss (whose life is back up to full again).  But that's part of the fun I suppose.

For the price - this is a definite 5 star / thumps up.
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I finally got another 5.1 surround sound presentation. I was amazed at all the action and violence. The story was interesting. The pursuit scenes were exciting. There was quite an abundance of shooting, punching, kicking and cutting. I will use this movie as a search criteria for the next movie.
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REALLY COOL GAME!! The funnest game I've in a long time.  The part is when you find some strong guns and destroy everyone!
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Phenomenal book! Thrilling action sequences with a great cast of characters make this a blast to read.
Exotic locations, hot cars, beautiful people and nonstop action-this book could easily become an amazing film.
Don't wait! Get your hands on this book, you will be blown away by this great story.
2211332
Gangsters, drug dealers, gun play and knifings, Wow. Sounds like Law and Order.
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I've been playing this franchise since the original Arma: Armed Assault came out. And this by far has been the best out of BIS, performance/game play wise.  An almost unlimited amount of user-made mods available from a host of truly dedicated fan sites..really makes this game shine.

As with most reviews you come across of any game in the Arma series, this is not your typical "run-n-gun" COD type FPS game. This is a Military Simulation game. Those new to the Arma series, will be frustrated with the controls, gameplay style e.t.c., like I was years ago in the beginning.  Give it a little time, and some patience, and you'll find yourself not being able to stop playing this, as I have!

This my 1st time using the Digital Download service here on Amazon, and it was a great experience, at an unbeatable price!
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This is some next level Top Gun sh*t.  Buy it now!
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I have read some violent books in my time, but this one takes the cake, so to speak. However, I found it very entertaining (as I enjoy violent books and movies). One of my favorite movies is "Saving Private Ryan." I have been looking for a book that matches the thrill and realism of this movie for years and had so far been unsuccessuful until I came across Grandfather's Tale. My expectations were exceeded. There are some of the nastiest, nitty-gritty firefights in this book I have ever read.

An example of one of these fights is a battle which takes place just outside of Moscow during the winter of 1941. The Germans pulled back a few miles to a small city and set up a defensive position using mines, sandbags, damaged buildings and whatever else they could manage just as the Soviet Army arives to crush them. During the two day battle which ensued, Georg (the main character) kills about 50 enemy soldiers with his rifle and helps fight off a horrific night attack where hundreds of Russians attempted to storm the building he was guarding. Using heavy machinegun and rifle fire, they managed to beat back the attack and hold on.

Even though they were our enemies during the war, it is still fascinating to see things from their point of view. They honestly thought what they were doing was right, which I suppose is what every soldier thinks when he goes to war to serve his country.
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Drug dealers are using force to put themselves up against the US authorities in a brilliant yarn often similar to Tom Clancy's CLEAR AND PRESENT DANGER and Stephen Coonts's UNDER SIEGE. It's up to Rear Admiral Ian Hardcastle, who sets up the Border Security Force, armed with an assortment of high-tech weaponry, to stop them. The drug barons' arms suply provides a good degree of competition too! Mercenary fighter pilots, anti-ship missles, man-portable missile launchers all bought from Argentina after the Falklands War and ex-Cuban MiGs! The pace is like any othe Dale Brown book - fast, furious and relentless, the action never stops and everything technical is well explained. Another winner!