Frankly, I thought that Little Foot would be too exhausted from the walk / jog yesterday. Weirdly though, he was still bug me to bring him for a walk today. Therefore, I decided to once again torture him by making him jog / walk the park.
I brought him to the park around 6:30 pm and the entire walk took around 45 minutes yet again.
Here are the stats of the said walk:
Sunday, 29/08/2010, heavy cardio session
45 mins walking and jogging with Little Foot around the park for 9 times
* Resulted in 350 calories burned and about 6km walked and jogged(estimated)
Also, I have recently completed Starcraft 2: Wings of Liberty, which I purchased recently from a Lowyat net forumer. Here is a short review of the game. The game length was quite decent for a real time strategy ("RTS") game as I have spent about 20 hours playing thru entire game (singleplayer portion).
Here are some screenshots of the game:
1. Start menu loading screen
2. Sample loading screen
3. Mission briefing screen, supposed to save some colonies
4. Playing the entire campaign thru as Jim Raynor
5. The campaign starts in a bar / pub
6. Always meet familiar people in the bar /pub. In this case, your old friend, Tygus.
7. Jim Raynor's badge in the bar / pub
8. A top down shooter in Starcraft 2, nice touch
9. Inside an armory with a dwarf, wait.....Little people
10. Viking, there are still Goliath though
11. Jukebox in a bar and on Jim Raynor's battleship
12. Protoss's final showdown in the prophecy
13. Building terran base to engage the enemy later
14. Getting ready to assault a factory
15. Hiring mercenaries in game, can be quite powerful in game
16. Mission successful screen
17. Watching TV in the bar
18. Jim Raynor's old friend, Zeratul
19. Getting ready to assault planet Char, Zerg's stronghold
20. Ground assault on Char with Tygus manning the dual gatling guns
21. The powerful weapon to use against Kerrigan
22. Who is he gonna shoot?
23. Queen of blades to be human again?
24. The ending for Wings of Liberty, Jim Raynor carrying Kerrigan while walking towards the sun set
25. My favourite in game parody, iPistol
*I played this game using a keyboard and mouse combo as intended for Real Time Strategy ("RTS") games.
I completed all three campaigns within 20 hours of heavy gaming session. After many years of waiting for this, I would say that this is a decent game though to some extent dated in terms of interface and the graphics. The gameplay and in game movies exceeds my expectations while the story was mediocre, more like a B-grade movie. From my point of view, this game is should be played by people who enjoyed Starcraft 1 and to those who enjoys a fast paced RTS.
Pros:
1. Easy to use interface, more or less a classic interface
2. Good graphics, great sound effects and excellent voice over.
3. The game length decent for RTS around 20 hours
4. The Battlenet experience was so much better compared to Beta
5. Superb multiplayer option (unfortunately, I don't have the time nor patience for this)
6. Not taxing to my PC at all. Unless I switch 8xAA on.
Cons:
1. Mediocre story compared to its predecessors
2. Quite blocky without AA on
3. Need to click everything to find out or watch certain in-game movies
4. Unhelpful tech support during Beta
My verdict for this game is 9.0 out of 10. I definitely would recommend anybody who is a fan of the RTS who yearns for a classic RTS. This is definitely an entertaining game to play. However, the price of the game was quite steep when it was released, ie. RM248 which is much more expensive than most games I have bought thus far (be it retail or Steam or Impulse). Furthermore, the Collector's edition was going for RM500 to RM800 depending on region. I am quite glad I didn't go with the collector's edition as I would be able to spend the underlying savings on other things / stuff that I am interested in.
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