Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning PS3 Review

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Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning, an RPG from developers 38 Studios, and Big Huge Games is one of those games that was so well hyped by the commercialized game “review” sites and TV reviewers that expectations for it were cranked up way too high. Once I started playing it, I went online to read other reviewers impressions and wondered if they were playing the same game, or actually playing through it at all. With Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning set to compete with intense games like Skyrim or Fallout 3, you would think that you would be getting a game with as much depth and attention to detail as those classics for the same money.

Don’t be fooled. It may take independent game journalists longer to review the titles, because we are actually playing the game. Independents like this site, Geek Woman Speaks, have no monetary incentive to give a crappy game a good review, and you will get an honest evaluation before you blow your sixty bucks.

If there was an award for ‘most glitter in a video game’ then they would have that aspect cornered. But as with most gimmicks, they are there to cover up for problems with the game itself. It is a very pretty looking game. You can create a female playable avatar, so it deserved a review. Read more »

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Hoover® TwinTank™ Steam Mop Gadget Review

Recently I was given a great gift that I recommend to my readers as a Mother’s Day item. It’s the Hoover® TwinTank™ Steam Mop. No they didn’t give me one. It was bought by a real person. But damn, the thing is great! The steam mop gives an even looking smooth clean floor. Even on really old linoleum. It improved the look of the old floors, by getting all the grime out of tiny grooves. It is

20120511-104717.jpg so easy to use which was my main interest. With four animals running around and the mess I make while cooking, I hoped for something that would be convenient enough to use frequently. It has two small tanks on kit that are very simple to fill up. One for water and one for the cleaning solution. Which is expensive, but worth it. I thought that the tanks would make it heavy, but it isn’t much different in weight from a stick vac.

You need to wear shoes while using it, because of the steam heat. You can easily burn your feet with it. I know many people mop in their socks or with bare feet to avoid the foot prints, but you are going to need to work with something substantial on your feet. The floor does get warm, so I recommend sending your dogs to their room while you are using the steam mop.

It makes quick heated steam that they say kills 99% of bacteria and germs. It was such a pleasant and rewarding feeling going over spots that had ground in dirt, and even rust. It took up things that were stuck to the floor as well. What a terrific little bot.

They claim that the Hoover® SteamPlus™ Cleaning is 100% biodegradable and non-toxic, so it’s safe to use to kill germs and bacteria while still insuring a non-toxic environment for your children and pets.

The mop seems like a steam iron and a vac hooked up. Ok Hoover, when do I get my cleaning robot that will vacuum the rugs, and steam the floors all by itself?

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The Sims Free Play “Toddler Time” Update – Tedious

The Sims FreePlay seemed more progressive than it turned out to be in the first few levels. The characters were able to Date or become Partners, and Ask to Move In as Actions in the game without much hassle. It seemed that it did not matter what genders the characters were.

Until a bit later in the game when the Goal became inflexibly a marriage and nuclear family. In order to complete goals between levels twenty and twenty four, you have to proceed with at least one couple fulfilling a Judeo – Christian based ideal. The couple must Date and become Engaged prior to moving in together. In that order, otherwise the game will become stuck, on the “Have Two Engaged Sims Move In Together”, Goal. Then they need to Propose Marriage, with a large diamond ring, using Life Style Points or LP given by the game at that moment. Don’t use those points on anything else or it will again become stuck.

There are many issues and glitches with the marriage and child parts of the game which have gamers up in arms all over the message boards. The update that arrived on May 10 is called, (face-palm) Toddler Time, and it has done nothing to alleviate these issues. There are several ways to dead end in the game. All of them occur when a player deviates from the strictly defined Goals of the Sims invisible dictatorship. Read more »

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The Sims Freeplay Game App iPad Review

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I never played any of the Sims games. You wouldn’t expect that I’d have missed the whole franchise, one of the most popular ever. I avoided it purposely. With the intention of finding better games, and being too cheap to invest in it. But now it is free. The Sims Freeplay has infested my iPads.

It has many emotional and rational social puzzles to it. It was one thing in Skyrim, which is a fantasy universe, to marry the woman of my choice. But in the Sims it felt quite different, and more realistic somehow. Is this my own alternate life? Do I create my partner, and remain monogamous in the alternate world? I feel guilty about flirting with my Sim  creations of legendary beauties, Lindsey Bleuth from Arrested Development, and Playboy Playmate of the year Sara Jean Underwood. Does my Sim stay home watching movies and cuddling with my partner per usual, or does she stray? And would she give my Sim partner free reign to do the same?

In a perfect world I would be a paid theoretical physicist, and work as a scientist in the game along with Sheldon Cooper, Leonard Hoffstader. Howard Wolowitz is my younger brother, and Amy, Raj and Bernadette all work at the centrally located science building with us too. Lunch hours would be epic.

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Fairway Solitaire HD iPad Game App Review

I never expected to play a solitaire game. But one finally got me. I don’t know if it was the gophers? I usually stay well away from cartoonish looking characters such as the famously out of temper birds. So when I came across this latest offering from Big Fish on the App Store, I don’t know what possessed me to download it. Maybe it was that weird mercury retrograde Masters tournament I watched a couple of weeks ago. It is a solitaire-like game. The numeric sequence of the playing cards can be placed either up or down. The cards themselves are not remarkable. They just look like regular boring playing cards. There aren’t any gophers or golf clubs on the cards. But when you play them it makes the sound of a golf ball being driven. There are narrators who make mundane and repetitive golf jokes or comment about how long it is taking you to make a move.

There are numerous “courses” which are varied layouts of the cards. Each one is referred to a a hole, and your solitaire moves are shots. A golf bag provided will hold utility “clubs” which are spare cards that you can employ when there is nothing on the table that you can match your drawn cards with. When you clear the board of all cards your score may be an Eagle or a double eagle, or a perfect. If one or more cards are left behind then you may get a birdie or just make par. If not there are bogeys.

Then the gophers show up. They laugh at your bad moves, as does the sound effects of a disappointed crowd… The gophers also attempt to distract you when concentrating. You can whack them, and obtain some points as revenge though.

The game is simple, and unique. In that goofy way that only golf can be. It’s addictive, and infuriating. It redoes an old standard, and somehow managed to snare me in. One night until 2:30 am. Or it could have been the iced tea. Either way, you can place a good deal of it for free, and if you get caught up in it, the full version is inexpensive.

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