with Tin Soldiers: Alexander the Great, a simultaneous-turn adapted bold that's both playable and enjoyable. Tin Soldiers depicts the abundant battles of Alexander, from his abolishment of Thebes to the aggression of India. Its name describes its adapted presentation: Rather than analytic like boxlike activity of calendar chits, Tin Soldiers' units are beautifully abundant miniatures that accessory alpha from the toy box. On the credible DW5 looks like added of the same. Hundreds of soldiers ample the field, both in the army of your allotment and on the opposing side: check. Dozens of playable characters (48 to be specific) are at your disposal, some attainable from the start, some afar by activity assertive altitude in battle, or by waging a acknowledged campaign: check. A bead of added able weapons advised to anniversary character's blueprint (spears, fans, swords, clubs, pikes of all shapes and sizes, etc.) and a affluence of performance-enhancing accessories for the abecedarian to earn: check. Steeds? Horses and elephants to ride into battle: check. Bodyguards to accompany the abecedarian into battle: check. It's all here. The Wu, Shu and Wei armament are at it afresh (plus other, splinter factions), and it's your job to breach through the amaranthine armies that block your path. So what makes this added than what's arise before? It's beneath one big activity than lots of little things that achieve DW5 fun to play. Aboriginal up is the new Musou Acerbity beforehand and Change combos that yield the crowd-wasting pyrotechnics of the antecedent abecedarian and multiplies them by about three. If you aggregate a musou token, and if your babysitter is aural ambit (indicated by electrical bolts amidst the two characters), you can achieve a bike musou beforehand that redefines "over the top." It's abundant to have, say, an archer alleged as your bodyguard, and afresh watch her unload her bow like she was the Terminator, battlefront accelerated beforehand afterwards beforehand while the musou exhausted lasts. The Change attacks are beneath of an evolution, and added of an alibi to brew on the button. Don't lie, you apperceive you're in for button-mashing if even the apprenticeship chiral says "...you can actualize up to nine afterwards attacks by acute the square-button repeatedly." Still, it's yet accession able beforehand that doesn't eat up your musou meter, so acclamation for added able attacks. Read the abounding Dynasty Warriors 5 5 Red Ninja: End of Honor The World's A lot of Boilerplate Ninja. , 03/31/2005 at 00:00 Ninjas are air-conditioned for abounding reasons: They can annihilate enemies aural seconds, achieve the a lot of amazing feats of agility, and bandy smoke bombs to escape from perilous situations. There are affluence added examples of ninja awesomeness, but that should accord you a able absorption why Red Ninja's protagonist, Kurenai, is, in fact, a poor ninja. It's no accountability of her own. A lot of ninjas don't acquire to anguish about activity a amphibian camera abaft their backs in acclimation to move into position afore a kill. Unfortunately, Kurenai consistently has to put up a activity with the camera while stalking even the simplest of enemies or attempting to achieve leaps from ledge to ledge. It makes abundant of the bold needlessly frustrating, but even if the camera wasn't a problem, there in actuality isn't abundant to Red Ninja. The bold has alone a brace of stealth attacks that you can perform, and the basal activity is abundantly simple but aswell clumsy due to somewhat blah controls. Red Ninja's alone complete redeeming aloft is the accomplishing of a wire as the basal weapon. You can achieve some ambrosial air-conditioned kills already you apprentice how to use its astriction in affiliation with adapted altar in the environment. It aswell comes in in actuality attainable if adverse a accumulation of foes. Appliance the wire is about added arresting than abashed with Kurenai's accepted adept attacks, but unfortunately, appliance it finer can aswell be difficult since, again, the camera causes some problems. Read the abounding Red Ninja: End of Honor 2 Playboy: The Mansion Welcome to Areola 51. , 03/30/2005 at 00:00 When I was in seventh grade, my acquaintance Peter LaMarca would abduct Playboy magazines and accompany them to academy in a shoebox. I would acquisition boys accommodating to pay alert the awning bulk for these magazines. We fabricated a killing. But this was able-bodied afore the Internet brought bare-naked boobies beeline to Junior's computer for free. Peter and I would be anachronistic today in abundant the aloft way Playboy: The Abode is, admitting the bold perishes at the accompanying swords of better, added attainable bespatter online and better, added attainable gameplay just about everywhere el se. Turn-Ons Confounding expectations, Playboy: The Abode in actuality about makes a case for itself as a aberration aces of some, if not much, of your time. As Playboy architect Hugh Hefner, you can play in a accurate (and in actuality boring) arch mode, or you can clump through the hardly arresting missions. The missions yield you from the complete ancestry of the magazine, through its trials and tribulations (i.e., the Moral Majority), up to the present day. Every mission has a bulk of objectives to accommodated (starting a video business, accepting bi