Lego Batman
The recent series of Lego video games have been my favourite games by far. First were the 2 Star Wars trilogies, 6 episodes each with 6 levels to play through. Then came Indiana Jones. 3 movies with 6 levels each to play through. Then, just last month - Lego Batman.
Oh yeah. In Lego Batman, you could play Hero or Villian levels. There were 3 stages in each, each with 5 levels, making 30 levels in total. Just like all the previous Lego video games, Batman was pure fun - lego characters, lego worlds, exploding lego blocks, hilarious cutscenes.
In the game, you get to play a huge variety of famous characters from the Batman tradition - Batman, Robin, Batgirl, Nightwing, Catwoman, the Joker, the Penguin, the Riddler, Dr.Freeze, Poison Ivy, Two-Face, Alfred, etc. And every one had a different ability or skill, which you needed to use to get through levels or find hidden goodies. On top of getting through all the levels (which was totally fun on its own) and playing out the story of the game, you could replay the levels in freeplay mode, which let you change characters during gameplay to unlock rooms or find hidden stuff. There were 10 minikits plus 1 red powerbrick in each level to locate. Each one unlocked an extra power, like "faster batarang" or "immune to freeze".
And within the Batman world, the creators of the game would put all sorts of silly things in that you can discover (usually in the places where the special stuff are hidden) like dance floors or bumpercar competitions. (There was even a bonus level where you played batman in a mario-esque environment.)
(As you might guess, Poison Ivy was my favourite character to play. It was basically because she 
Batman and Robin themselves had special suits which they could change (if suit swapping facilities were available). Different suits granted different abilities, such as being able to glide, having a sonic gun that breaks glass, being able to swim underwater, having magnetic shoes to walk up metal walls, etc.
And after many days of hard work :p, I'm proud to say that I reached 100% completion! Woohoo!
A happy moment it was, although sad at the same time cos it means my Batman gaming days are over :p I'll probably "rediscover" the game in a few years. If I'm not too caught up in the future Lego games, that is ;)
Oh, and for the record, I played all these games on my PC, which was a brilliant "console" for these games. I don't own a playstation or xbox or wii, and function perfectly fine! Just thought I'd make a little stand for my fellow console-less people :p Controller wise, the computer keyboard is not bad, but I personally use a wireless controller that I found at Harvey Norman Indooroopilly for A$25 (normally $60!) - the Logitech Rumblepad.
There she is. A beauty. With full vibration and a crazy battery life. I used 2AA batteries to complete the entire Batman game. Who needs a $600 console when you already have a computer? $25, and my computer becomes a console.And that's that. I'll end with a family picture.
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But surely that isn't the case! Surely science is robust enough to withstand creationism, that half-baked pseudo-science, with hardly a fight? Why all this, if I may, extravagant effort in trying to debunk creationism and keep it far away from our classrooms? Why work so hard at ostracising any scientist with even the tiniest bent on creationism? Surely, untouched, creationism will die its slow and certain death.
The way scientists are acting, it almost makes you think that they've underestimated the strength of creationism. But surely not...