Music : The Script 'The Script'

Album Info :

Artist: The Script
Album: The Script
Release: 2008
Bitrate/Quality: 238 kbps (VBR)
Genre: Rock » Pop/Dance
Length: 41 min 38 sec
Released in Ireland on August 8, 2008, in United Kingdom on August 11, 2008
Number of Discs: 1
Label: RCA
ASIN: B001CI41X6

Description

Debut album from young Dublin indie pop act inspired by soul, classic singer-songwriters and American radio rock. Theirsoulful, emotional songwriting recalls the lyrical storytelling of Irish greats such as Christy Moore and U2, but with a strictly ultramodern aesthetic that coats the songs in glittering production values. Includes the singles 'We Cry' and'The Man Who Can't Be Moved'.

Album Review :

by Lauren Murphy

If ex-boyband members are a sticking point for you, you may as well stop reading now. If, however, you're open to the possibility that folk change, develop their abilities and mature as people and songwriters over the course of a decade, you may well be interested in The Script.

It's true that two of the three Dubliners kick-started their career in late '90s boyband MyTown, but Mark Sheehan and Danny O'Donoghue subsequently put the memory of their pop flop behind them, moved to Los Angeles and both gained studio experience in production, writing and session work, working with the likes of BLACKstreet's Teddy Riley and Pharrell Williams.

It's no surprise, then, that The Script sound nothing like the tinny, tacky, embarrassing pop acts that Ireland is notorious for churning out; theirs is a robust, glossy, super-Americanised soun, steeped in experience and an awareness of what appeals to the masses.

And masses of sales are an inevitability for this album: the initial singles, We Cry and The Man Who Can't Be Moved are ultra-radio-friendly, slick and undeniably catchy numbers, as is the piano-infused, Dublin-referencing Before the Worst and the bouncy, uptempo, street-flavoured Rusty Halo.

True, the lyrics are occasionally mawkish (see The Man Who Can't Be Moved's awful line "There are no holes in his shoes / But a big hole in his world"), the tone a bit too sentimental at times, and if you're not a fan of Maroon 5 and their ilk, you'll dismiss this album immediately. Yet even the most stubborn of music snobs can't deny that this is world-beating pop music - a world which The Script are surely on their way to conquering.

Taken From : http://entertainment.ie

Track Listing

1. “We Cry”
2. “Before The Worst”
3. “Talk You Down”
4. “The Man Who Can’t Be Moved”
5. “Break Even”
6. “Rusty Halo”
7. “The End Where I Begin”
8. “Fall For Anything”
9. “If You See Kay”
10. “I’m Yours”
11. BONUS TRACK- “Anybody There”

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The Script - We Cry lyrics

Together we cry...
Together we cry…

Jenny was poor girl living in a rich world
Named her baby hope when he was just fourteen
She was hoping for a better world for this little girl
But the apple doesn’t fall too far from the tree
Well she gets that call hope’s too far gone
Her baby’s on the way but nothing left inside
Together we cry!

What about the junk head could have gone the whole way
Lighting up the stage trying to get a deal
Now he’s lighting up the wrong way
“something for the pain!”
Man you wanna see this kid he was so fuckin’ unreal
When he gets that call he’s too far gone
To get it together to sing one song hey won’t hear tonight
The words of a lullaby

Together we cry…
Yeah, yeah, yeah
Together we cry…
Whoah oh whoah oh whoah
Together we cry…
Oh we cry we cry we cry
Together we cry.
Oh oh…

Oh…Mary’s ambitious she wanna to be a politician
She been dreaming about it since she was a girl
She thought that she’d be the one to change the world
Always trying to pave the way for a woman in a… man’s world
Life happened, house, kids, 2 cars, husband hits tha jar,
Cheques that don’t go very far now
Now she in it can’t change it, she keeps her mind on her wages
The only rattling cages!

Ohhh…
Together we cry
Together we cry

There’s so much sad wanna flood the ocean
Were all in tears from the world exploding
Together we cry.
Oh we cry
Oh we cry…

There comes a time when every bird has to fly
At some point every rose has to die
It’s hard to let your children go home
Where they go?
Who knows!
Getting drunk
Getting stoned
All alone
Teach a man to fish
You’ll feed him never lie
You show your kids the truth hope they never lie
Instead of reading in a letter that they’ve gone to something better
“Bet your sorry now! I won’t be coming home tonight”
I’m sick of looking for those heroes in the sky
To teach us how to fly
Together we cry

Together we cry…
Together we cry…
Waoooo
Yeahh…
So much sad wanna flood the ocean
Were all in tears from the world exploding
Together we cry…
Oh…
Yeah…

Together we cry, cry…
Together we cry



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Music : T.I. 'Whatever You Like'

Single Info :

Artist: TI
Title: Whatever You Like
Genres: Rap & Hip-Hop/General
Original Release Date: August 19, 2008
Record Label: Grand Hustle/Atlantic
Product ID#: 1216857758
Media Type: mp3
Copyright: 2008 Atlantic Recording Corp. for the United States and WEA International Inc. for the world outside of the United States
Song Length: 4:11 minutes
ASIN: B001EBRJF8



Single Review :

By Amaranth "music fan" (Northern California)

TI's "Whatever you like" is a ringtone-happy rap song. It's not meant for deep thought,but it fails in the guilty pleasure department (Flo Rida's "Low" succeeds) It's got the simple chorus "If you give me your body/you won't need nobody",and TI promising riches. He wants nothing more to sleep with the woman so he can shower her with his wealth. It's not much of a love song, it's more about materialism and sex (not that there's anything wrong with the latter) It's sexual without being sensual.

As TI serves house arrest, his "Whatever you like" is enjoying unexpected success. It's got a good beat. Other than that, it doesn't offer much.

Taken From : http://www.amazon.com



T.I - Whatever You Like Video



T.I - Whatever You Like Lyrics :

Hey Jim
You know the old suga daddy
They be tripin when they tell them girls
I said you could have whatever you like (you like)
I said you could have whatever you like (you like)
Yeah

[Chorus:]
Stacks on deck
Patrone on ice
And we can pop bottles all night
Baby you can have whatever you like (you like)
I said you can have whatever you like (you like)
Yeah
Late night sex, so wet and so tight
I'll gas up the jet for you tonight
Baby you can go where ever you like (you like)
I said you can go where ever you like (you like)
Yeah

[Verse 1:]
Anytime you want to pick up the telephone
You know it ain't nothin to drop a couple stacks on you
Wanted you could get it my dear
Five million dollar home, drop Bentley's I swear
Yeah I want'cho body, I need yo body
Long as you got me you won't need nobody
You want it I got it, go get it I buy it
Tellem other broke niggas be quiet

[Chorus:]
Stacks on deck
Patrone on ice
And we can pop bottles all night
Baby you can have whatever you like (you like)
I said you can have whatever you like (you like)
Yeah
Late night sex, so wet and so tight
I'll gas up the jet for you tonight
Baby you can go where ever you like (you like)
I said you can go where ever you like (you like)
Yeah

[Verse 2:]
Shawty you da hottest, love the way you drop it
Brain so good (good) coulda swore you went to college
Hundred K deposits, vacations hit the tropics
Cause errbody know it ain't trickin if ya got it
Ya need to never ever gotta go to yo wallet
Long as I got rubberband banks in my pocket
Five six, rides with rims and a body kit
Ya ain't gotta downgrade you can get what I get
My chick can have what she want
And go in every store for any bag she want
And know she ain't never had a man like that
To buy ya anything your heart desire like that
Yeah I want'cho body, I need yo body
Long as you got me you won't need nobody
You want it I got it, go get it I buy it
Tellem other broke niggas be quiet

[Chorus:]
Stacks on deck
Patrone on ice
And we can pop bottles all night
Baby you can have whatever you like (you like)
I said you can have whatever you like (you like)
Yeah
late night sex so wet and so tight
I'll gas up the jet for you tonight
Baby you can go where ever you like (you like)
I said you can go where ever you like (you like)
Yeah

[Verse 3:]
I'm talkin' big boy rides
and big boy ice
Let me put this big boy in yo life
Thang get so wet, ya hit so right
Let me put this big boy in yo life
That's right
Yeah I want'cho body, I need yo body
Long as you got me you won't need nobody
You want it I got it, go get it I buy it
Tellem other broke niggas be quiet

[Chorus:]
Stacks on deck
Patrone on ice
And we can pop bottles all night
Baby you can have whatever you like (you like)
I said you can have whatever you like (you like)
Yeah
late night sex so wet and so tight
I'll gas up the jet for u tonight
Baby you can go where ever u like (you like)
I said you can go where ever u like (you like)
Yeah

Hey Jim (Hey Jim)


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Movie : Burn After Reading

Movie Info :
Title : Burn After Reading
Directed by Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
Produced by Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
Written by Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
Starring : John Malkovich, George Clooney, Frances McDormand, Brad Pitt, Tilda, Swinton, Richard Jenkins, David Rasche[citation needed]
Music by Carter Burwell
Distributed by Focus Features
Release date(s) United States: September 12, 2008, United Kingdom: October 17, 2008
Running time 96 minutes
Budget $20 million
MPAA Rating: R for pervasive language, some sexual content and violence.

Synopsis :

In the Coen brothers' latest, a dimwit (Brad Pitt) finds a disc containing CIA secrets and attempts to blackmail the agent (John Malkovich) it belongs to. George Clooney, Frances McDormand and Tilda Swinton get caught up in the ensuing mayhem.



Movie Review :
Kirk Honeycutt, Reuters

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - In "Burn After Reading," the Coen brothers have taken some of cinema's highest-profile and most expensive actors and chucked them into looney-tunes roles in a thriller set in and about Washington.

It takes awhile to adjust to the rhythms and subversive humor of "Burn" because this is really an anti-spy thriller in which nothing is at stake, no one acts with intelligence and everything ends badly.

In their follow-up to last year's multiple-Oscar winner "No Country for Old Men," Joel and Ethan Coen clearly are in a prankish mood, knocking out a minor piece of silliness with all the trappings of an A-list studio movie. Those who relish this movie might treat it as the second coming of "The Big Lebowski"; those who don't might wonder at a story in which no character has a level head. Signs look good, though, for a solid North American opening September 12 via Focus Features after the film's debut as the opening-night screening of the Venice Film Festival.

The linchpin to the shenanigans arrives in a particularly funny scene in which a CIA analyst, played by a caustic John Malkovich, is summarily fired. He retreats to write a tell-all memoir amid bouts of heavy drinking. Under the circumstances, his wife -- an anal-retentive Tilda Swinton -- schemes to divorce him in favor of her married lover, a federal marshal (George Clooney), under the false assumption that he will leave his author-wife (Elizabeth Marvel).

Meanwhile, seemingly in another universe, a sports gym employee (Frances McDormand) with a forlorn love life obsesses over expensive plastic surgeries, oblivious to the fact that her boss, a moon-eyed Richard Jenkins, is obsessed with her. When a computer disc containing the cashiered CIA analyst's first draft falls into her hands, she and her pickle-brained colleague (Brad Pitt) scheme to blackmail the author.

Everyone here is suffering from a full-blown midlife crisis. All operate in a morality-free zone. The conviction that the grass is greener anywhere but here is rampant. Curiously, everyone looks over his shoulder, certain that he's being followed. This is the one and only time the characters are right about something.

The Coens, assuming triple roles of writers, directors and producers, give each person a special eccentricity. Pitt moves his body as if in a marathon aerobics session. Clooney never walks into a new lover's abode without commenting on the flooring. Jenkins is a push-me-pull-you doll, fatally lured by McDormand's charms but repelled by her online dating and involvement in blackmail. Malkovich's character has a lifetime's supply of cynicism while Swinton's fails to "read" anyone.

The key thing is that every actor is riffing on his or her screen persona. The guys who pulled off all those casino heists, the stars of many Sundance films -- yep, they're all idiots.

Reuters/Hollywood Reporter
© Reuters 2008





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Movie : Bangkok Dangerous (2008)

Movie Info :

Title : Bangkok Dangerous
Genres: Action/Adventure, Thriller and Remake
Running Time: 1 hr. 40 min.
Release Date: September 5th, 2008
Distributors: Columbia TriStar Motion Picture Group, Lionsgate
Starring: Nicolas Cage, Shaun Delaney, Steve Baldocchi, Chris Heebink, James Wearing Smith, Shahkrit Yamnarm, Charlie Young, Panward Hemmanee, Nirattisai Kaljaruek
Directed by: Oxide Pang, Danny Pang
Produced by: Denis O'Sullivan, Andrew Pfeffer, William Sherak, Jason Shuman, Nicolas Cage and Norm Golightly
Official Website : www.bangkokdangerousmovie.net

Synopsis :

The life of an anonymous assassin takes an unexpected turn when he travels to Thailand to complete a series of contract killings. Joe (Nicolas Cage), a remorseless hitman, is in Bangkok to execute four enemies of a ruthless crime boss named Surat. He hires Kong (Shahkrit Yamnarm), a street punk and pickpocket, to run errands for him with the intention of covering his tracks by killing him at the end of the assignment. Strangely, Joe, the ultimate lone wolf, instead finds himself mentoring the young man while simultaneously being drawn into a tentative romance with a local shop girl. As he falls further under the sway of Bangkok’s intoxicating beauty, Joe begins to question his isolated existence and let down his guard …just as Surat decides it’s time to clean house.




Directors Oxide Pang and Danny Pang (The Eye) paint an explosive picture of the Bangkok underworld, illuminated with neon and saturated in violence. Based on the Pang Brothers’ wildly popular Hong Kong action film of the same name BANGKOK DANGEROUS is written by Jason Richman. The adrenaline-powered thriller stars Nicolas Cage (Leaving Las Vegas, National Treasure), Charlie Young (Seven Swords), Shahkrit Yamnarm (Belly of the Beast) and Dom Hetrakul (Sniper 3). The film is produced by Jason Shuman, William Sherak, Nicolas Cage and Norm Golightly. Andrew Pfeffer, Derek Dauchy, Denis O’Sullivan and Ben Waisbren serve as the executive producers.

Movie Review :

by William Goss

"One night in Bangkok and the tough guys tumble..."
-Murray Head

Don't ask me what happened to the real Nicolas Cage, because I don't know where he is.

I don't know what happened to the man who left Las Vegas, or the man who made Donald Kaufman into such an endearing figment of imagination, or the man who stole diapers as he stole hearts. All I've seen of late is a face, a name, a profile, a character, the artist formerly known as Nic Cage, an entity on auto-pilot and damn near self-parody that knows what he looks like and sounds like and makes do with that alone.

In Bangkok Dangerous, a remake by the Pang Brothers of their own 1999 thriller, Cage-Or-Something-Like-Him plays an assassin, perhaps the most laconic one this side of Forest Whitaker in '99's Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai, and he is so reliably aloof throughout, so divorced from the proceedings that it almost becomes its own form of entertainment... which is certainly helpful once genuine entertainment refuses to show up to any other degree.

His Joe is a globe-trotting ghost, taking out targets in a punctual and precise fashion before making off with the money. He has rules (for now) and no conscience (again, for now), and when he sees an opportunity out in Bangkok -- four jobs, then it's home free for a man without one to call his own -- he instead opts to meet cute with a deaf-mute pharmacist (Charlie Yeung) and make nice with his disposable local sidekick (Shahkrit Yamnarm). As it just so happens, growing a heart three sizes bigger isn't the best advised course of action for a hitman, and loyalties and lives end up at odds as a result.

In the original thriller, the protagonist was the deaf-mute, not his girlfriend, but seeing as we're talking about Nicolas effin' Cage here, the man's gotta have his lines, not to mention his gadgets and a clumsy stab or two at comic relief (Thai food = spicy = hilarity, I suppose). Between all the dates and dinners, Bangkok almost ends up being as much a thriller as it is a travelogue; by the hour mark, there are literally more gulps than gunshots, a matter only temporarily remedied by an assassination attempt in and around a floating market. Then again, when the action gets wordless towards the end, it comes significantly closer to being breathless, but before then is every indication that Cage 2.0 enjoyed his paid vacation to Thailand. Sit in your house and stare pensively, Mr. Cage. Walk through this market and scope out the area, Mr. Cage. Flip down this mirrored visor on your motorcycle helmet so we can then bring in the stunt driver, Mr. Cage.

And that's just it: Famous or not, Mr. Cage is the one face that stands out in a crowd when he's supposed to do the opposite. He's a man whose face fails to strike fear once lit up by muzzle flashes in the night. He may be steely and stealthy, but at the end of the day, this is not an assassin of the shadows; it's Nic effin' Cage, man, going through the paces with a 'do that's slicker than the action, though the Pang Brothers do match him every step of the way in terms of his transparent character arc. Yes, our anti-hero will snap out of it and go after the real Bad Guys, and why? Because it just wouldn't be the same if a hitman took out his employers and then left town, or even did something that we haven't seen in a dozen other, better movies; after all, that's what friends are for, and that's why he has to make some. It's fairly identical to the Pangs' original screenplay, but this version has still been punched up by the States' own Jason Richman to ensure that no cliché went unturned in the translation.

Come to think of it, Bangkok Dangerous is -- if anything -- American safe. Bikes? Check. Boats? Check. Babes? Check. Bullets? Check. Bombs? Check. Morality, genuine emotional investment, or surprises? Please. (Doves? John Woo has those all but trademarked, buddy. Might we still interest you in some slo-mo gunfights?) All it takes is one big, fat, familiar face to stick on that poster, and voila. This isn't a curious tragedy or a compelling thriller; no, it's just movie star Nic Cage in Shootin' Stuff, bound to come and go in a haze of delivery pizza and half-hearted pay-per-view. Like Joe, Cage gets paid for his hits, and like Joe, the quality of said hits is beginning to waver.

Taken From : http://www.cinematical.com




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Movie : 20th Century Boys - 20世紀少年 [2008]

Movie Info :

Release Date :30 August 2008
Origin : Japan
Genre: Fantasy,Drama
Director : Yukihiko Tsutsumi
Starring:Toshiaki Karasawa ,Etsushi Toyokawa, Takako Tokiwa ,Hitomi Kuroki,Teruyuki Kagawa,Hiroyuki Miyasako,
Katsuhisa Namase,Fumiyo Kohinata,Kuranosuke Sasaki,
Takashi Ukaji,Hanako Yamada,Nana Katase,Chizuru Ikewaki

Synopsis :



It revolves around a group of friends in four different time periods, starting in the late 60s and ending in the late 2010s. In 1969 a group of friends led by Kenji build a little hideout in an empty field to play and share their stolen nudie mags. With their imaginations running wild they create “The Book of Prophecy” in which they write about a science fiction-inspired future where the world is attacked by giant robots that only they can stand up to. One day another boy named Fukubei, who’s rich but very lonely, follows them to the hideout and secretly reads their book. Fascinated, he starts his own version of the book with the help of fellow class misfits Sadakiyo and Yamane. A few years pass and Fukubei keeps trying to pull pranks and stunts to be noticed, but never seems to get any credit or attention for his actions. Meanwhile a bowling alley is built over the old hideout so Kenji organizes a small ceremony in which all the boys, including Fukubei, place their cherished boyhood items in a box under a tree.

In the 70s and 80s the boys move on with their lives and experience various trials and tribulations. Always seeking more attention and influence, Fukubei decides to start his own cult—granting himself the new larger-than-life persona of “Friend”. He also uses the childhood secret base’s symbol for his cult and begins gathering easily-duped followers with the help of a few parlor tricks like spoon-bending and levitation. By the 90s the cult has gained substantial political influence and eventually recruits the daughter of professor Shikishima, a foremost expert on robotics. Meanwhile Fukubei has married Kenji’s older sister Kiriko, who has no clue what he’s been up to in his secret double life. The two of them have a daughter named Kanna, but when Kiriko finds out the truth she runs back to her family and entrusts Kenji with looking after her daughter.



When a member of the original group of friends, Donkey, commits suicide under mysterious circumstances and news of the “Friend” cult seems to be mirroring “The Book of Prophecies” Kenji decides to gather up the remaining members of the group and find the original copy of the book which includes made-up scenarios in which they repel the robot attack and save the world. But Friend is already on to Kenji’s plan, and is determined to put a stop to it. Kenji is labeled a terrorist but finds a safe haven in an abandoned subway station along with his friends and supporters. While planning their defense of the world the destruction of the National Diet Building signifies another prophecy brought to reality by Friend. The next is a giant robot which attacks Tokyo while spreading a strange plague. Kenji and his friends have no idea how they can possibly put a stop to something so destructive and powerful, but since they’re the heroes in the Book of Prophecy, they know they have to try.


Movie Review :

Press conference held in Louvre Museum in front of Mona Lisa painting

Not-So-Daily Link of the Day: Paris hosted the world premiere of the first live-action film for Naoki Urasawa's 20th Century Boys manga on Tuesday evening, and the two main movie castmembers held a press conference — not only at the city's famous Louvre Museum, but right in front of Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa painting. 400 people watched the sold-out screening in the Publicis Champs-Elysées theater on the l'Avenue des Champs-Élysées throughway. 200 people reportedly stood in the standby-ticket line, including one male student who waited seven hours.

The Louvre Museum was shut down on the same day as the screening to hold the press conference with Toshiaki Karasawa (Casshern's Brayking Boss) and Takako Tokiwa (Brave Story's Cutts) in front of the Mona Lisa. The two castmembers play the protagonist Kenji and his childhood friend Yukiji, respectively. Over 80 members of the French press attended the first interview ever held at the site. While discussing the film, Tokiwa said that director Yukihiko Tsutsumi (Trick, Ikebukuro West Gate Park) asked her to assume the exact same poses that her character had in the manga version.

The movie is the first in a 6-billion-yen (US$55-million) trilogy adaptation of Urasawa's suspense manga. In the story, Karasawa's character Kenji learns that mysterious deaths and calamities around the world are connected to idle plans he and his childhood friends made decades ago. Over 20 million copies of the manga's 22 volumes have been published in 12 countries. Viz Media announced at Comic-Con International this month that it will release the original manga in North America starting next February. The first film will open in Japan on August 30 and then travel overseas to 20 regions in Asia and Europe. The Mona Lisa is arguably Louvre's most well-known piece, and it has the highest inflation-adjusted, appraised price of any painting in the world.
Source: Yomiuri Shimbun, Sankei Sports, Asahi Shimbun
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Music : Kidz Bop Kids 'Kidz Bop 14'

Album Info :

Released: July, 29, 2008
Record Label: Razor & Tie
Peak Position: The Billboard 200 #8 on August 16, 2008
Category: Music Children's ,General/Children's
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
UPC: 793018918121
WAPI (Tower ID): 112191874

Album Review :

Sneak Peek: Rock Your Kids with KIDZ BOP 14
By Sarah Lowery

Summer is in full swing--and that means it's time for a new CD from KIDZ BOP!

Not familiar with KIDZ BOP? The phenomenally popular CD series for kids aged 4-11 features kid-safe renditions of today's most popular songs, sung by kids for kids. In the past six years, KIDZ BOP has sold over 10 million CDs and earned nine Gold®-certified albums since their debut in 2001. (Full disclosure: We're big fans of KIDZ BOP here at Yahoo! Kids and enjoy our partnership with them.)

"KIDZ BOP 14" releases July 29 and features hits from artists such as Rihanna ("Don't Stop The Music"), Sara Bareilles ("Love Song") and Leona Lewis ("Bleeding Love") sung by the KIDZ BOP Kids. Reggae-pop superstar Sean Kingston also performs on the CD, marking the first time that an established artist has appeared in a KIDZ BOP release.

We're thrilled to premiere the first video from "KIDZ BOP 14", featuring Sean Kingston and the KIDZ BOP Kids performing Kingston's smash hit, "Take You There." This fun, beach-themed video directed by Andrew Bennet (Nickelback, The Jonas Brothers) is sure to get your kids rocking.
Taken From : http://kids.yahoo.com

Track listing

1. "Don't Stop the Music" (Rihanna)
2. "Love Song" (Sara Bareilles)
3. "Feels Like Tonight" (Daughtry)
4. "See You Again" (Miley Cyrus)
5. "Clumsy" (Fergie)
6. "Stop and Stare" (OneRepublic)
7. "Bleeding Love" (Leona Lewis)
8. "4 Minutes" (Madonna)
9. "When You Look Me in the Eyes" (Jonas Brothers)
10. "Pocketful of Sunshine" (Natasha Bedingfield)
11. "No Air" (Jordin Sparks) & (Chris Brown)
12. "Teardrops on My Guitar" (Taylor Swift)
13. "Damaged" (Danity Kane)
14. "Sorry" (Buckcherry)
15. "Superstar" (Lupe Fiasco) & (Matthew Santos)
16. "It's Not My Time" (3 Doors Down)
17. "With You" (Chris Brown)
18. "Take You There" (Sean Kingston)

Kidz Bop Kids Bleeding Love lyrics

Closed off from love
Didn't need the pain
Once or twice was enough
And it was all in vain
Time starts pass
Before you know it your frozen

But something happen
For the very first time with you
My heart melts into the ground
Found something true
And everyone looking 'round
Thinking I'm going crazy

But I don't care what they say
I'm in love with you
You try to pull me away
But they don't know the truth
My hearts crippled by the vainthat I keep on closing

You cut me open and I
Keep bleeding, keep keep beeding love
I keep bleeding, I keep keep bleeding love
Keep bleeding, keep keep bleeding love
You cut me open

Trying hard not to hear
But they talk so loud
Piercing sounds fill my ears try to fill with doubt
Yet I know that the goal is to keep me from falling

But nothing's greater
Then the love that comes with your embrace
And in this world of loneliness I see your face
Yet everyone around me thinks that I'm going crazy
Mabye, mabye

But I don't care what they say
I'm in love with you
You try to pull me away
But they don't know the truth
My hearts crippled by the vain
That I keep on closing

You cut me open and I
Keep bleeding, keep keep beeding love
I keep bleeding, I keep keep bleeding love
Keep bleeding, keep keep bleeding love
You cut me open

And it's draining all of me
Oh, they find it hard to believe
I'll be wearing these scars
For everyone to see

But I don't care what they say
I'm in love with you
You try to pull me away
But they don't know the truth
My hearts crippled by the vain
That I keep on closing

You cut me open and I
Keep bleeding, keep keep beeding love
I keep bleeding, I keep keep bleeding love
Keep bleeding, keep keep bleeding love

You cut me open and I
Keep bleeding, keep keep beeding love
I keep bleeding, I keep keep bleeding love
Keep bleeding, keep keep bleeding love

You cut me open and I
Keep bleeding, keep keep bleeding love.


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Music : Scouting For Girls 'Scouting For Girls'

Album Info :

Album: Scouting For Girls
Artist(Band): Scouting For Girls
Released: 17 October 2007

Album Review :

by Gemma Padley

If there is a band or artist for every occasion, Scouting for Girls (SFG) are the saccharine-fuelled teeny-bopper’s choice. Formed in 2005, the guitarless London trio make sun-kissed Sunday afternoon strolling music. While not exactly groundbreaking, their self-titled debut album tumbles and skips along happily enough; inoffensive, if not exactly life-affirming.

For happy-go-lucky couples it’s the perfect ‘relationship’ soundtrack; there are plenty of tracks here that would make ideal ‘our song’ choices. Take ‘The Airplane Song’; with its oh-so philosophical leanings and references to the airport – that eternal symbol of loss, love and patched-up break ups – it’s a definite ‘here’s a compilation I made to celebrate our love’ song.

There’s a lot here too for emotionally-fraught teenage girls. On "It’s Not About You" frontman Roy Stride sings: ‘Sometimes it’s good, sometimes it’s bad’ as he weighs up the deeper things in life with all the conviction of a wet tea towel. Beach Boys pastiche vocals creep in as heartbeat-skipping power chords loop round and round. It’s cringe-worthy to all but lovers of the most sugary pop.

SFG steer clear of any real heartbreak; references to anything remotely resembling pain are coated with bright pick-yourself-up melodies and upbeat riffs. "I’m Not Over You" is a classic example; the lines ‘She said it was over...I’m not over you and I know that I never will’ cue a bouncy piano-laden chorus to make it all better.

For the under-tens, "She’s So Lovely" has a nice, sweet melody and not a hint of anything lyrically controversial, perfect at a kids’ birthday parties where jumping up and down constitutes dancing.

This is music for an all-inclusive club. It’s no coincidence the band’s fanclub is called The Wolfclub (members are known as ‘wolfcubs’ and there’s even a secret code). Stride’s vocal is a combination of Joel Pott from Athlete and, as has been noted several times, Eels frontman Mr E (who, it must be said, did the whole emotional thing rather more convincingly.

But perhaps a little slack needs to be cut. While SFG’s life musings are not the stuff of music epics, their pop market appeal should not be so hastily dismissed; "Elvis Isn’t Dead", for one is a damn fine pop song. The album is not aimed at music connoisseurs but lovelorn adolescents. As far as shimmery, gleaming up-tempo ballads go, Scouting for Girls have the upper hand.

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Taken From : http://www.bbc.co.uk



Track Listing

1. Keep On Walking
2. She's So Lovely
3. It's Not About You
4. The Airplane Song
5. Heartbeat
6. Elvis Ain't Dead
7. I'm Not Over You
8. I Need A Holiday
9. The Mountains Of Navaho
10. James Bond

Scouting For Girls - Heartbeat (Making Of Video)




Scouting For Girls 'Heartbeat' lyrics

Am I alone in your heart?
Have I hope with your heart?
She’s such a teaser, she’s such a star.
Give me a reason or gimme a chance.
Am I alone in your heart, or am I alone…?
It tears me apart.
Am I alone?
Doing all I can do, just to be close to you.
Every time that we meet, I skip a heartbeat.
Always up for a laugh, she’s a pain in the arse.
Every time that we meet, I skip a heartbeat.
Give me an evening, or give me a night.
I’ll show you the time, of your life.
I’ll walk you home safe, from the dark.
I’ll give you my jacket, I’ll give you my heart.
But she won’t come dancing tonight, She’s having the time of her life.
Am I alone?
Doing all I can do, just to be close to you.
Every time that we meet, I skip a heartbeat.
Always up for a laugh, she’s a pain in the arse.
Every time that we meet, I skip a heartbeat.
I do love, she does heartbreak.
I did love, till she broke my heart.
I do love, she does heartbreak.
I did love, till she broke my heart.
I do love, she does heartbreak.
I did love, till she broke my heart.
I do love, she does heartbreak.
I did love, till she broke my heart.
Doing all I can do, just to be close to you.
Every time that we meet, I skip a heartbeat.
Always up for a laugh, she’s a pain in the arse.
Every time that we meet, I skip a heartbeat.
I skip a heartbeat for you.
Doing all I can do, just to be close to you.
Every time that we meet, I skip a heartbeat.
Always up for a laugh, she’s a pain in the arse.
Every time that we meet, I skip a heartbeat.
I skip a heartbeat for you


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Music : Scooter ' Jumping All Over The World '

Album Info :
Artist : Scooter
Album : Jumping All Over The World
Category: Rock/Pop, Dance, Greatest Hits Collections
Release Date May 05, 2008
Audio CD (5 May 2008)
Number of Discs: 2
Format: Box set
Label: Universal
ASIN: B0017L036C
Other Editions: Audio CD

Album Review :
by. The Curmudgeon "www.thecurmudgeon.proboards88.com"

Hey guys, 1997 called; they want their suck back., July 3, 2008
Awww, remember boybands? Remember the time when there seemed to be a new bunch of lip-syncing idiots on MTV every week, with bright clothes and brighter teeth, clenching their fists and opening their shirts in the rain? Remember how they used to clog up the charts with their soul-less, moribund pap? Dark days, my friends. And yet, and yet.. part of me misses it.

Hear me out. You see, back in ye olden days of the 90s you could still, if you closed your eyes really tight and wished upon a star, believed that the music these drones were singing actually reflected how they felt. Y'know, like they actually sat down and wrote the damn things. Nowadays, with every other reality show ripping the guts from the pop music business (the music channels themselves are particularly guilty of this) and showing how exploitive and cynical it all really is - that innocent magic is long, long gone. And so these 4 new chancers are a real blast from the past.

They're a NEW pop act that weren't brought together through a reality show. Like their manager suddenly thought; "hey, you know what stupid girls would like again? An honest to goodness, old fashioned boyband. With dance moves and non-threatening looks and everything. It'll be great and it'll make a fortune. And then we can party like its 199..7."

And hey, believe it or not, part of The Curmudgeon would be all for it, if they had the personality and, more importantly, the songs, that the band they supported recently (Girls Aloud) have. But hoo boy, they really, REALLY don't.

In the 1990s there were a glut of boybands thrown at the chart, a sort of "throw enough crud at the walls and see what sticks" kind of approach. Some did, but some slid right down into the bowels of Hell (also known as "Celebrity Big Brother"). And Billiam have that same stench of EPIC FAIL written all over them.

They've got two singles released so far (my guesses will be three and out), and it was a tough choice picking which particular disasterpiece to induct here. But this song, "Beautiful Ones" (NOT a Prince cover, thank God, or I would actually have hired a hit-man to gun them all down) is another "hey.. fat, spotty girl with the tombstone teeth - you're beautiful INSIDE and that's what counts" sanctimonious, condescending lump of drivel that is as insincere as it sounds. Especially when a line like "fame isn't holy" comes from such obvious desperate, fame-hungry wannabe's. And why is it always the really good looking people that tell you looks aren't important? First Christina, now these goofs. Oh, and then they add that "we deserve a lot more than Angelina Jolie." I would be quite happy with Angelina Jolie, thank you very much. But you, me and everyone in the world certainly deserves more than Billiam.

It's a dated act and a dated sound that has no place in 2001, never mind 2008. I imagine the record manager thought the world was ready for a traditional boyband again. Maybe it is - but it sure ain't this one.

Track Listings :

Disc: 1
1. The Definition
2. Jumping All Over The World
3. The Question Is What Is The Question?
4. Enola Gay
5. Neverending Story
6. And No Matches
7. Cambodia
8. I'm Lonely
9. Whistling Dave
10. Marian (Version)
11. Lighten Up The Sky
12. The Hardcore Massive
13. Jump That Rock!
14. The Greatest Difficulty

Disc: 2
1. Apache Rocks The Bottom!
2. One (Always Hardcore)
3. Shake That
4. Jigga Jigga!
5. Maria (I Like It Loud)
6. The Night
7. Weekend!
8. Nessaja
9. The Logical Song
10. Posse (I Need You On The Floor)
11. Faster Harder Scooter
12. How Much Is The Fish?
13. Fire
14. I'm Raving
15. Rebel Yell
16. Back In The U.K.
17. Endless Summer
18. Friends
19. Move Your Ass
20. Hyper Hyper

Scooter - Jumping All Over The World



Scooter - Jumping All Over The World lyrics

Encore, Hardcore, rock you down to the floor
Posse's boy on the border, I'm the jumper, I'm the hardest
Encore, Hardcore, rock you down to the floor
Posse's boy on the border, I'm the jumper, I'm the hardest
Every minute, every hour
Get the power, take the shower
Let's start, Screaming Lord
We're gonna jump!!

Right now, say you'll have mercy!

I've got the money, I've got the place
You've got the figure, you've got the bass
Let's get together, we're jumping all over all over the world

Sing it!
Jumping all over the world

I've got the music, I've got the lights
You've got the figure, fool of your light
Let's get together, we're jumping all over all over the world

Jumping all over the world

I've got percussion, I've got the main
You've got the power, to drive me insane
Let's get together, we're jumping all over all over the world

Jumping all over the world

I've got the money, I've got the place
You've got the figure, you've got the bass
Let's get together, we're jumping all over all over the world

All together now!

Yeah!

Encore, Hardcore, rock you down to the floor
Posse's boy on the border, I'm the jumper, I'm the hardest
Encore, Hardcore, rock you down to the floor
Posse's boy on the border, I'm the jumper, I'm the hardest
Every minute, every hour
Get the power, take the shower
Let's start, Screaming Lord
We're gonna jump!



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Music : Connie Talbot 'Over The Rainbow'

Album Info :

Artist: Connie Talbot
Title: Over The Rainbow
Format: CD ALBUM
Release : 26 Nov 2007
Label: Pinnacle
Language: Regardless of country of origin all tracks are sung in English, unless otherwise stated in our description.
Genres: Female Solo, POP, TV Fame Shows
ASIN: B000XFRJMO



Album Review :

by Sharon Mawer @ allmusic.com
Having been released from her contract at Sony/BMG, a feat that she shared with many much older and more established stars, Connie Talbot signed to Rainbow Records, a division of the record label Rhythm Riders set up specifically to handle her and any future child acts, and released the debut album inevitably titled Over the Rainbow. She had sung the title track three times on national prime-time TV on the talent show Britain's Got Talent in the summer of 2007, where she got her big break.

Managed by John Arnison, who had previously handled Gabrielle and Billy Ocean, and Marc Marot (formally the head of Island Records), the album was produced and engineered by Simon Hill and Rob May, but the real star is little Connie herself. One is rather obliged to speak of her in such terms, for however good or bad the album is, whether she's actually in tune or not, and whether the choice of songs is right for her young voice is irrelevant. All that matters is that she was then a seven-year-old (six at the time of Britain's Got Talent) cute kid, with a gap where the front teeth should be and angelic good looks. OK. She can sing, for a seven year old, and most of the notes (if not all of them) are in the right order and sung to the right pitch; the timing is fine too, but if this is what music is all about, it would never have taken off. There's no feeling, no emotion, no realization of what each song is about; they're just pretty little songs, even "Imagine," "I Will Always Love You," and "Wonderful World," but what could you expect from a child this age? Isn't is enough that she looks cute and sings in tune? As for the choice of songs, it's pretty much what can be expected. The album opens with "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" and, like Little Cosette from Les Miserables who got to sing the simplest of songs ("Castle on a Cloud") among many complex others that the adults sung in the show, Connie Talbot goes through a repertoire of the easiest songs to sing ever written: "I Believe," "Smile," "Walking in the Air," "Ben" -- just read through the track listing. Talbot's potential album buyers won't expect, or want, anything else.



Track List

01. Somewhere over the rainbow
02. I believe
03. White Christmas
04. Smile
05. Imagine
06. Walking in the air
07. Favourite things
08. Wonderful world
09. Ben
10. I will always love you
11. Silent night
12. I have a dream



BGT FINAL - Connie Talbot high quality video/sound



Connie Talbot 'Somewhere over the rainbow' Lyrics

Somewhere, over the rainbow, way up high.
There's a land that i heard of
Once in a lullaby.
Somewhere, over the rainbow, skies are blue.
And the dreams that you dare to dream
Really do come true.

Someday i'll wish upon a star and
Wake up where the clouds are far
Behind me.
Where troubles melt like lemon drops,
Away above the chimney tops.
That's where you'll find me.

Somewhere, over the rainbow, bluebirds fly.
Birds fly over the rainbow,
Why then - oh, why can't i?
Why then - oh, why can't i?
If happy little bluebirds fly beyond the rainbow,
Why, oh, why can't i?


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Music : David Archuleta 'Crush'

Single Info :

Artist : David Archuleta
Single : Crush
Original Release Date: August 12, 2008
Label: 19 Recordings
Copyright: (P) 2008 19 Entertainment, LLC
Genres: Pop/General
ASIN: B001DU4PG6

David Archuleta Crush Single Review :

By James W. Coates,

David Cook may have whisked the American Idol crown away from hopeful David Archuleta, but that hasn't stopped this young pop prince from fading away. Months before Cook releases his debut album, Archuleta has unleashed his first single "Crush" upon the listening public, to the thrill of his many adoring fans.

The track, an up-tempo pop ditty of limited depth, marks a departure of sorts for Archuleta who braced television screens in millions of American homes this winter with an onslaught of emotional ballads that pigeonholed the budding star.

Breaking out from that genre allows Archuleta to conquer new territory - the danceable pop song - a feat he attempted in the latter stages of the contest with his lukewarm rendition of Chris Brown's "With You".

In a similar style to fellow American Idol finalist and 2007's winner, Jordan Sparks on her first single proper, "Tattoo", "Crush" sees Archuleta getting a grip on his age and maturity level.

Instead of singing big time ballads that proved too much for his tender age of 17 on American Idol, "Crush", brings the lyrical level down to a more manageable approach, dealing with a key subject for his peer group - precisely, is this girl into me or are we just friends? "Has it ever crossed your mind / when we're hanging, spending time, girl / we're just friends girl / is there more, is there more," Archuleta sings convincingly, if not a little star-crossed.

Hearing Archuleta create a pop song of his own is a blessing in disguise. "Crush" may not win any Grammy's or secure his place in the rock and roll hall of fame, but for a fun, if not disposable late summer pop ditty, it should dominate the airwaves for a few weeks until heavy hitters such as Pink and Cook release their anticipated new albums.

Taken From : http://www.associatedcontent.com



David Archuleta - Crush



David Archuleta Crush Lyrics



[Verse 1]
I hung up the phone tonight
Something happened for the first time
Deep inside..
It was a rush, what a rush
Cause the possibility that you would ever feel the same way about me
It's just too much, just too much

Why do I keep running from the truth
All I ever think about is you
You got me hypnotized, so mesmerized
And I just got to know..

[Chorus]
Do you ever think when your all alone
All that we can be, where this thing can go
Am I crazy or falling in love
Is it real or just another crush
Do you catch a breath when I look at you
Are you holding back, like the way I do
Cuz I try and try to walk away,
But I know this crush ain't goin away, goin away

Has it ever cross your mind
When we're hangin spending time girl
Are we just friends
Is there more, is there more
See it's a chance we've gotta take
Cause I believe that we can make this into something that will last,
Last forever, forever

[Chorus]

Why do I keep running from the truth
All I ever think about is you
You got me hypnotized, so mesmerized
And I just got to know..

Do you ever think when your all alone
All that we can be, where this thing can go
Am I crazy or falling in love
Is it real or just another crush
Do you catch a breath when I look at you
Are you holding back, like the way I do
Cuz I try and try to walk away,
But I know this crush ain't goin away x5


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Game : Star Wars: The Force Unleashed

Game Info :
Release Date: 9/16/2008
Publisher: LucasArts
Developer: LucasArts
Gamesite: Click here
Genres: Action
ESRB: RP
Also Available On: Xbox 360, Wii, Nintendo DS, PlayStation Portable, PlayStation 2, iPod, iPhone

The first next-gen Star Wars game explores chapters between the movies, utilizing advanced technology to bring the Star Wars universe to life like never before.

This entry in the Star Wars saga casts players as Darth Vader's "Secret Apprentice", unveiling new revelations about the Star Wars galaxy. The expansive story, created under direction from George Lucas, is set during the largely unexplored era between Star Wars: Episode III Revenge of the Sith and Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope. In it, players will assist the iconic villain in his quest to rid the universe of Jedi - and face decisions that could change the course of their destiny. As its name implies, The Force Unleashed completely re-imagines the scope and scale of the Force by taking full advantage of newly developed technologies only possible on next-gen consoles that will be seen and experienced for the first time anywhere in videogaming.

Game Preview :

E3 2008: Star Wars: Force Unleashed Hands-On
By Andrew Park, GameSpot

We leap through environments and tear them up with the Force in this upcoming action game at E3 2008.

The E3 2008 event is still going strong, and we're still on hand, bringing you coverage of exciting new games like Star Wars: Force Unleashed. Development on this impressive action game is practically complete (it ships in September), and it looks and plays extremely smoothly. The level we got our mitts on was a TIE fighter factory guarded by Imperial soldiers and Stormtroopers in the PlayStation 3 version of the game, though the game should be very similar across most console platforms, with the exception of the Wii, which will actually let you use the motion-sensing Wii Remote controller to swing your lightsaber manually. We're told this was the second level, so at this point, we had only a few of the game's different Force powers. In the game, you play as the secret Jedi apprentice to the mighty Darth Vader between the events of Episode III and Episode IV (better known in theaters as Star Wars), but because your mission is to seek out and destroy any possible threats to the Empire, your journey will pit you against both the Rebel Alliance and Imperial troopers (who have been branded as Vader traitors), as well as other Jedi who have gone into hiding.

In the TIE fighter factory, we fought our way through various rooms and connected corridors toward our objective, which had something to do with...TIE fighters. Honestly, we forget. We were too busy utilizing our "Force Grip" power (the right trigger button) to lift up screaming enemy soldiers and fling them through the air. You can use this power simply by turning to face the object (explosive barrel, enemy soldier, or whatever else isn't nailed down), which brings up a small translucent cursor over the item to target it; if the cursor is red, you won't be able to lift it because it's too heavy or bolted down, but if the cursor is blue, it's yours for the telekinetic taking.

Being bad has never felt so good.

The controls seem very straightforward--the left analog stick moves your character and the right stick controls the camera, which is what you'd expect from a conventional third-person action game. The square button is used to execute melee attacks with your lightsaber, a very effective weapon with a standard three-hit combination attack if you hammer the button repeatedly, but not nearly as fun as pressing the circle button to use the Force push ability, which emits a translucent wave of blue energy and forcefully pushes any enemies or items in your path away from you very quickly indeed. The Force grip ability is activated with the right shoulder button, and after you've picked up something (or someone), you'll keep hold of him/her/it as long as you keep the right trigger pressed (though your character can't move while lifting something), and when you let go of the item, you'll automatically Force push it away. Force powers deplete your blue Force meter, which appears at the top left of the screen just under your green health meter. The Force meter seems to replenish at a good, brisk pace, and your health seems to do so as well, though you can also gain health from fallen enemies (who leave behind glowing green orbs that restore a small amount of your health). Fortunately, with your amazing Jedi powers, it's easy to avoid most damage from regular grunt soldiers anyway because you'll automatically deflect incoming blaster fire from the front with your lightsaber, though getting shot in the back or whacked with a melee weapon will still hurt.

In the narrow corridors of the factory, we had plenty of opportunities to play Stormtrooper bowling by levitating and then hurling crates at rows of enemies, knocking them off their feet (and in the case of corridors near deep pits, off the edge). The X button lets your character jump--your standard jump is already very high, and you can double-jump with another button press, as well as use the left trigger to dash forward while airborne. This less-than-exciting sounding ability actually gives you excellent mobility and lets you close the distance with faraway enemies very quickly.

The Force Unleashed looks incredibly polished.

We continued to fight through the factory until we hit a trapped area, which was bare of any objects we could throw. Soldiers came pouring out into the room, which was promptly walled off with impenetrable laser shields. Fearing we might have to actually stop throwing stuff around for a second and actually fight like a Jedi, we pulled out our lightsaber and hacked a few foes to death until we realized that any enemies who touched the laser walls would be vaporized. This is about the time we remembered our Force push ability and went on a shoving spree, sending soldier after soldier to meet a disintegrated end.

The Force Unleashed looked like a very impressive technology demo when we first saw the game at E3 two years ago--it has now clearly matured into a polished and great-looking game with some very fun game mechanics. And the game apparently only gets better in this regard because you'll eventually learn a total of eight different Force powers and 20 different lightsaber combination attacks. You'll also be able to pull off spectacular killing moves, such as one we watched against a giant rancor beast, which involved a God of War-style button-matching minigame that let us leap on top of the creature and plunge our lightsaber through its skull a few times before blasting it with lightning bolts, then using the Force push power to smash the ground beneath the beast, sending it plunging to the cavern below. The Force Unleashed looks like it will offer lots of varied action while making you feel like you have godlike power. The game is scheduled to ship in the US on September 16, in Asia on September 17, and in Europe on September 19.

Taken From : http://www.gamespot.com

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Game : Resistance 2

Game Info :
Format PlayStation 3
Developer Insomniac Games
Publisher Sony
Genre First Person Shooter
Release Date: November 04, 2008

Game Preview :

Resistance had its fair share of critics. Consider the following statement: "Few knew who this Sergeant Nathan Hale was, why the American soldier with an impossibly generic face had muscled into Britain's fight for survival against the Chimeran menace. Or why it was thought a workable idea for him to be described in the third-person throughout a first-person game."

No, that's not a quote from Captain Rachel Parker, the distancing voice of exposition from Resistance: Fall of Man. It's just our way to point out how lame her inclusion was and why, in Resistance 2, her absence is just one of many brilliant changes that are set to make the sequel stand head and shoulders above the original.

It's going to be bigger to the point of qualifying as 'vast', deeper than a French poet drunk on laudanum and more social than an STD. And at last, the cookie-cutter hero, the infected American soldier Hale, will finally get to defend his own country after being overpaid, over-sexed (well, probed by aliens) and over here. Go on. Bugger off.

All guns blazing
Fall of Man was a PS3 launch title and with that came some benefits, namely if you were one of the first people to buy the new console, then you had bugger all choice of what to get with it should you have hankered for something to kill.

The decision was easy. While the online multiplayer modes offered ace 40-player action, the single-player campaign was mired by poorly realised restart points and a sucky health system that managed to combine the most infuriating elements of recharging health bars and collectible medical packs yet devised.

The Chimeran, as bog-standard mutant alien bad dudes, contrasted their sharp detail and design with settings that, although they were set in Fifties UK, might as well (aside from famous landmarks) have come from a PS2 Medal of Honor title set in Normandy.

It's still a decent shooter in many areas, but when viewed through the prism of more recent fare like Call of Duty 4 and even Blacksite: Area 51's depiction of aliens rampaging through urban dereliction, it's obviously not the game to continue to define the console. It's already looking to be greying at the temples and unable to keep up with the pace set by more modern titles, less than a year since its original release.

The next chapter
Resistance 2 starts just after the original ended. Nathan Hale, a man seemingly named by machines designed to grind out action movie hero monikers, had fought through the Chimerian invasion of Britain.

He'd rescued Parker, been abducted, tested on and had escaped from an alien processing facility as well as being tainted with an alien infection that enabled him to recharge his health and ended the single-player campaign surrounded by sinister masked agents who abducted him by helicopter and flew him to a secret base in Iceland.

While there's nothing wrong with Bjork's barren homeland, it doesn't really lend itself to a first-person shooter set on earth during the Fifties. You may as well set the game on the moon.

Thankfully a plot device has been used in which Hale's chopper is shot down, enabling him to make his way back to the United States where he joins up with the American resistance and settles into a special unit of hard nuts known as The Sentinels.

The game is set in a past where World War II never happened, since mankind had been too busy dealing with aliens to beat on each other. Without Hitler's rise to power there was no Union-free country for an America ravaged by the great depression to invest in either. Consequently, the Fifties' USA that Hale returns to isn't the opulent, future-looking postcard from history you'd expect, but rather one that has never recovered from financial ruin.

Two years after Britain falls, it's invaded from the East and West coasts by massive alien airships packed with unworldly firepower and a seemingly incessant horde of Chimera. Middle America is going to get a taste.

America's geography offers some notable differences to Britain's. It features expansive areas of woodland, mountain ranges and deserts as well as gargantuan cities - and Resistance 2 sees Hale battling through a gamut of them with his first bout of homeland action taking place in San Francisco.

Size matters
The most obvious difference is scale. America is massive and consequently so are the battlefields found here. The invasion is of an unprecedented scale and you, as Hale, will always be battling against seemingly insurmountable odds including Chimeran bosses that can stand 150 feet tall as they smash their way through urban decay and across sprawling planes.

The Sentinels have developed immunity to the alien virus, but they've still got a fight on their hands on a scale that the PS3 has never seen. There are more enemies on screen, a greater variety of enemies and even boss fights to break up the run-and-gun gameplay. It's going to be fantastic.

Resistance 2's single-player campaign follows directly on from the original game's narrative, but a parallel story can also be played with either two-players on the same screen or with eight online in co-operative combat.

This doesn't mean you'll have to meet the same seven other players online to continue the game after a session. The online co-op game will log your position and, more importantly, your skill level as defined by your previous performance.

You can log on and play with matched-up strangers who have fought to the same point as you and groups comprised of players who share your ability with the DualShock. You won't be forced to make sure the same crack troop of soldiers meet up, again and again, until the campaign's conclusion. Co-op mode will provide the same, if not more, play time than the main game.

You'll also get to fight online using your own customised combatant that's based on one of the three unit class templates. The heaviest unit comes armed with a chaingun that can rip its way through enemies at a ferocious rate, while each kill charges up a deployable shield that can be set up in front of you and more importantly, your team.

The special-ops soldier is a dab hand with a modified version of the original game's Bullseye rifle that now comes equipped with extra zoom modes making for even more accuracy backed by more power, but it's the medic that offers the most interesting inclusion.

Usually in class-based online shooters, the player who chooses to perform medical duties spends most of their game time being shouted at by other players who bitch and bawl that medics aren't there immediately on-site to patch up their wounds. Resistance 2's medics aren't to be stuck wiping the bloody brows of reckless gamers, but instead can take a more pro-active role thanks to the Medicator gun.

This weapon can fire deadly red shots at enemies with each kill charging up a meter. Aim the same weapon at a friendly unit and when you pull the trigger, you'll automatically shoot a healing balm of blue energy at them and so be able to fix their broken bodies without having to be danger.

Delivering the goods
Best of all, medics have a real excuse to get into combat since if they haven't killed they can't offer medical aid. What gives co-op, and Resistance 2 its unending replayability is the new graphics system used to draw the game. Level designers are skilled artisans, no doubt, and totally necessary to the requirements of a first-person shooter - without them there would be bullet-bound bedlam.

Resistance 2's levels will feature set geography, like the placements of buildings and topological detail, but will also include a randomising element that means that each time you play through, you'll find new areas of cover and therefore new strategies that need to be developed to garner success. You won't be able to read a 'go here and shoot him' walkthrough for the game because it just wouldn't work.

Insomniac Games have a history of delivering what they promise - and Fall of Man arrived, as expected, with only minor alterations to its original specifications. Resistance 2 will feature 60-player online battles. When fighting with so many other players, you'll need to take into account the effect of headset chatter.

You'd need a player to act as a switchboard for starters. This isn't a problem that Insomniac hasn't made moves to counter - and while online games will feature sixty players they will be corralled into smaller, more workable squads.

You'll log into a lobby system and build up your team of between four to eight comrades-in-arms, prep yourselves for battle by agreeing on roles and then get launched into a full-scale war. Each squad is given objectives to achieve beyond the simple annihilation of the enemy and so the chaos of conflict is formalised into a workable arena. Good job, since these battlefield are sprawling worlds that will encompass everything from tight inner-city fighting to massive open-ground slogs.

By using dedicated servers rather than peer-to-peer networking, Insomniac hope to build a greater sense of an online PS3 community than ever. Profile pages will continually update on www.myresistance.com and thanks to a totally open party and clan system, there will be no need to send out invites.

Dedicated servers not only make 60-player fluidly feasible, they'll also enable cleaner voice-chat - invaluable in a game where tactical player talk is vital if you don't all want to get slaughtered in a haze of ill communication.

Fight the power
Fall of Man was developed before the PlayStation 3 was released and therefore before developers, including Insomniac, had the time to build-up the expertise needed to get the most from the world's most powerful console. The levels in Resistance will not only be larger, but will offer more structural variety as well as featuring more vibrant digital light.

Texture detail is up, as are the numbers of polys and on-screen baddies. It's to be truly next-gen - and not feel, like the original often did, like a PS2 game running on an over-clocked machine. Enemies will display new behaviour patterns that alter depending on how near they are to the player. At range, they won't jostle about randomly but will dive for cover. When they get in close, this AI will shift to close-range mode, enabling them to work on you with new tricks that are dependant on how much they view you as a threat.

This is where the console war could turn. Resistance should amaze everyone who sees it in action.



Taken From : http://www.computerandvideogames.com

E3 2008: Resistance 2 Trailer (PS3)





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