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 Dick in a Box SNL Saturday Night Live $12.90 From the infamous Saturday Night Live sketch, we bring to you your very own Dick in a Box. We supply the box, you supply the rest. Complete with a red bow, the box attaches to your belt! Perforated to "select your own size".  Fight Night: Round 4 $39.99 Man, if you knew how much I was anticipating the release of this game... For months, I read every piece of info realeased on this game and talked about it so much because of that the developers said would be in the game... I was really happy when I first played it, but it's majorly lacking in other areas. Head to head with a real person is what makes this game so fun. Fights actually go to a decision unlike FNR3. The fights are often nailbiting slugfests that have great, I said GREAT back and forth action. So it's great to play online unless you play some guy that fights cheap of course, and it's fun against friends. This unfortunately is where the fun ends for the most part. Like another guy brought up, the reaction times are a little too slow at times. The in/out fighting is really flawed and unrealistic. You can't effectively outbox a guy like you should be able to, or like they advertised you'd be able to and the "in" fighting is awkward with guys making awkward movement or awkward punching. Punchers like Kelly Pavlik are brutal from the outside, but completely useless on the inside which isn't all true for their style. Sure he's better from the outside with fighters at the end of his reach, but he's not completely useless when someone is close. That's how the game has made him. You can apply this to about half of the roster too unfortunately. Body punching is next to useless on this game. It takes away stamina, but that's about it. The only knockouts from the body is if the guy can't possibly take another jab without going down and you happen to hit him to the body, he'll go down. That is not at all realistic. In real boxing, I would almost contend that most knockouts come from body shots. From amateurs on up, most dudes HATE getting hit to the body and it slows them WAY down taking punches to the body, not the case in this game. The career mode is a total joke. Half of the good guys in your division or the real fighters on the roster retire by the time you get to fight them unless you previously rank them at like 38-28. Who wants to fight the best guys at the beginning of your career? Wouldn't you rather beat Mosley, JC Chavez then Pacquiao to unify the Welterweight crown? Not gonna happen, most of them retire before you get to that point no matter what. Even if you're in line for a title shot after 15 fights with hardly any training, which also leads you way over matched because you didn't train as much as you should've anyways. So you're left to fight fictional guys. Keep in mind, even if you win the title with less than 20 fights, you'll be defending it against the same 6 guys for the rest of your career pretty much. Another thing is, the fighters have ridiculous, unrealistic records. You'll be fighting someone that is like 26-19-0 with 1 kayo that's the champ. That might be realistic in MMA, but not boxing. You'd sooner be fighting a guy that has 5 losses or less, and that would be if the guy fought nearly 50 times and he'd sure as heck have more than 1 kayo. What's the fun in that? You're beating a guy for a title that has 19 losses already? Not to mention you're probably going to fight him at least 4 more times over your career. Gameplay: Counterpunching reigns supreme. I used to box, and yes, counterpunching is really effective if you do it correctly. But to barely miss a guy and still have your shoulders squared up to the guy after missing, hands in position ready to block but can't just because they programmed it that way and you get damn near knocked out by a counter JAB is completely stupid and ridiculous. I could see you getting knocked down and even out if it was a counter hook/uppercut/straight right etc... but from a jab, as often as it happens is plain stupid. There's a million more flaws with this game too, but I figured this was enough to get the points across. This game had all the potential in the world with a few minor tweaks. It's a damn shame that the guys at EA didn't consult with REAL boxers other than to match their styles. If they did, those boxers don't know anything about actual fighting because it's not realistic. It's possible to have a realistic boxing game that is as much fun as an arcade game. I hope next time they don't miss that mark  Sting: A Winter's Night...Live from Durham Cathedral $14.99 Sting couldn't have chosen a more beautiful place to film this gorgeous concert. Durham Cathedral almost eclipses the music and the man himself. The venue adds an intangible quality to the performance that would be lost at any other location. The musicians are extraordinary and Sting's voice is in top shape. The lighting is impeccable. I had my doubts about this DVD, but the stunning quality won me over. I much prefer El Stingo when he dons his rock hat, but Sting has always had the ability to defy conventional limitations in regards to what a "rock musician" is capable of accomplishing. The songs are a mixture of English folk songs, lullabys and a few of Sting's compositions. The documentary DVD was an even bigger bonus. The film takes us through the gathering of the musicians to record the album, rehearsals for the concert, and a delightful tour of Newcastle and visits with old friends. The documentary did an excellent of job of showing Sting as a man, not an international rock star. As he says in the film, "I have no mystery here. There's no myth." Sting completists will no doubt want this DVD, but I would also recommend it to even a casual fan. |
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