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Not much. Staff was nice, but no extra towels, blankets, what you see is what you get.
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the staff was pretty good they made sure u complimentary breakfast with freash made coffee...to me they were nice
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We liked that the wifi was working and that there were bars on the window in the bathroom. I liked that they had Tom's toothpaste in the bathroom.
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Just a few minutes away from downtown Long Beach and Queen Mary, Aqua-Venture offers an affordable home away from home. Features include complimentary Continental Breakfast on weekends and free HBO. Iron and ironing board available.
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found several live roaches in our bed, towels were dirty, place was not clean. the manager moved us to another room with a smaller bed that was dirty with black mold growing in the bathroom. It's located in a seedy neighborhood and looked like a drug and prostitution motel. If it wasn't for the booze, there's no way we would have stayed the night there. stay away!
They didn't offer any shampoo or conditioner and I'm 90% sure there was a baby cockroach in the bathroom.
Not much. Staff was nice, but no extra towels, blankets, what you see is what you get.
There was a boarded up window, a while list of things that needed fixed, repaired. Room was hot, turned the air on and went to dinner. Someone turned it off because when we got back to the room, it was off and room was hot again. We were only there one might and barely in out room, but didn't sleep much and then whole up to a cockroach on the wall and 2 in the bathroom also, that was it. Packed our stuff and left.
the staff was pretty good they made sure u complimentary breakfast with freash made coffee...to me they were nice
i didnt like the fact i couldntblook at my room before i paid..bt when i did go to my room an somethig was wrog thwy worked with me to insure i had my problem solved...they ppl dnt sleep omg u either heard ppl out side or walkin in an out of their hotel...the area i wished was in a better area the neighborhood was dirty bt at least they had the college down the road n it got cleaner i suppose...
i liked the free wi-fi , maids did their job very well. Staff was very friendly. I would stay there again.
a few bugs here and there, not too bad.. an exterminator would be nice. The area is pretty ghetto but in the morning/afternoon is pretty chill. In the night is a bit scary in the area, just make sure to be accompanied by someone and you'll be fine.
The air conditioning was sweet
Carpet was really wet and slippery. Didn't enjoy being barefoot.
Clean with a comfortable bed. Breakfast available, good coffee
Not very friendly people at the desk.
The TV was good the air conditioner worked well.
The bed was old, mattress was like a hammock. Bathroom was okay. Fridge was fine, but when I tried to warm up some pizza in the microwave, little beetle like bugs were in and all over the microwave. The carpet was dark so who knows how many others were around. Neighborhood was scary too.
The room was covered with bugs and smelled terrible. I would not recommend this hotel to anyone.
The 1st night: we didn't sleep the bed was full of bedbugs.. So we told the manager, and he said he would switch us rooms and discount half the rate., so we said OK' we took another room, and the next day the kids woke up with rashes of the bedbug bites.,.. So we took video of the bugs on the beds.. Because the manager did not believe us. And after all that we got no discount or even an apology.. They were rude., and didn't even care..
We got what we paid for but the location was scary. We listened to sirens all night long.
Coffee in the morning. Friendly staff.
Sketchy neighborhood.
We liked that the wifi was working and that there were bars on the window in the bathroom. I liked that they had Tom's toothpaste in the bathroom.
The bulbs were not working in two of the lamps. The mirrors where old and worn. The carpets did not match the bedspreads. We could not get the television to work properly, the buttons on the telephone were broken and missing, AND we could hear the people above us - bed was squeaking :/
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where do I start? Needed a room because our company party was in Long Beach. Many hotels were, "No Vacancy" * Called to confirm - they could not understand me. I could not understand them. Accent really strong. *Room smelled like smoke. *The room just stunk. It was so bad, I gagged and wanted to vomit! *On Pacific Coast Highway - VERY NOISY *Drug addicts that were in front of hotel room - talking to them selves, making noise. *Three in morning, heard a drug deal going down outside our room *Seems like people live in rooms. Apartments *Slept above the office. Heard all the commotion, talking, TV loud from office, they were banging on walls (who knows why!) *Restrooms looked like they were falling apart. So gross, I did not even take a shower. Waited to get home! *Rugs look so disgusting, I did not even want to be barefoot. *Husband and I slept on top of my own blanket we brought. *Seemed we were at a MOTEL. WE WILL NEVER GO TO THIS HOTEL AGAIN! SHOULD HAVE JUST DROVE HOME. *Will yelp about bad experience. *YOU GET WHAT YOU PAY FOR? still paid 67 dollars! should have went somewhere else and got better room!!!


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Racing an RZ350.....Nice. Got any pics?? No I was on the bike lol! That bike handled the worst. It was a friends that had about all the mods you could do to the suspension, but still it sucked. He would ask me how the hell I could ride that so fast. I told him, with that one you gotta just let the bike do it's thing and hold on for dear life. I did get a second place trophy with it at Heartland Park Topeka Raceway. Could of had my first, first, but someone showed up with one of those dam 250GP's lol! It's the red one. I guess you can say I have two AMA's
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Meg McKettrick longs for a baby—husband optional. Perfect father material is gorgeous Brad O'Ballivan, old flame and new owner of his family's ranch in Stone Creek. But Meg—as strong, proud and stubborn as her ancestors on Indian Rock's Triple M ranch—wants to do things her way the McKettrick way. And Brad feels just as strongly about the O'Ballivan way
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Meg McKettrick longs for a baby—husband optional. Perfect father material is gorgeous Brad O'Ballivan, old flame and new owner of his family's ranch in Stone Creek. But Meg—as strong, proud and stubborn as her ancestors on Indian Rock's Triple M ranch—wants to do things her way the McKettrick way. And Brad feels just as strongly about the O'Ballivan way
Love, marriage, babies and a lifetime to share—that's what Brad wants. Not a single night of pasion, an unexpected pregnancy and a woman who won't budge. For a rugged rodeo cowboy who never gives up, it's a battle of wills he intends to win and nothing matters more than claiming Meg's wild McKettrick heart.
Brad O'Ballivan opened the driver's-side door of the waiting pickup truck, tossed his guitar case inside and turned to wave a farewell to the pilot and crew of the private jet he hoped never to ride in again.
A chilly fall wind slashed across the broad, lonesome clearing, rippling the fading grass, and he raised the collar of his denim jacket against it. Pulled his hat down a little lower over his eyes.
He was home.
Something inside him resonated to the Arizona high country, and more particularly to Stone Creek Ranch, like one prong of a perfectly balanced tuning fork. The sensation was peculiar to the place—he'd never felt it in his sprawling lakeside mansion outside Nashville, on the periphery of a town called Hendersonville, or at the villa in Mexico, or any of the other fancy digs where he'd hung his hat over the years since he'd turned his back on the spread—and so much more—to sing for his supper.
His grin was slightly ironic as he stood by the truck and watched the jet soar back into the sky. His retirement from the country music scene, at the age of thirty-five and the height of his success, had caused quite a media stir. He'd sold the jet and the big houses and most of what was in them, and given away the rest, except for the guitar and the clothes he was wearing. And he knew he'd never regret it.
He was through with that life. And once an O'Ballivan was through with something, that was the end of it.
The jet left a trail across the sky, faded to a silver spark, and disappeared.
Brad was about to climb into the truck and head for the ranch house, start coming to terms with things there, when he spotted a familiar battered gray Suburban jostling and gear-grinding its way over the rough road that had never really evolved beyond its beginnings as an old-time cattle trail.
He took off his hat, even though the wind nipped at the edges of his ears, and waited, partly eager, partly resigned.
The old Chevy came to a chortling stop a few inches from the toes of his boots, throwing up a cloud of red-brown dust, and his sister Olivia shut the big engine down and jumped out to round the hood and stride right up to him.
"You're back," Olivia said, sounding nonplussed. The eldest of Brad's three younger sisters, at twenty-nine, she'd never quite forgiven him for leaving home—much less getting famous. Practical to the bone, she was small, with short, glossy dark hair and eyes the color of a brand-new pair of jeans, and just as starchy. Olivia was low-woman-on-the-totem-pole at a thriving veterinary practice in the nearby town of Stone Creek, specializing in large animals, and Brad knew she spent most of her workdays in a barn someplace, or out on the range, with one arm shoved up where the sun didn't shine, turning a crossways calf or colt.
"I'm delighted to see you, too, Doc," Brad answered dryly. With an exasperated little cry, Olivia sprang off the soles of her worn-out boots to throw her arms around his neck, knocking his hat clear off his head in the process. She hugged him tight, and when she drew back, there were tears on her dirt-smudged cheeks, and she sniffled self-consciously.
"If this is some kind of publicity stunt," Livie said, once she'd rallied a little, "I'm never going to forgive you." She bent to retrieve his hat, handed it over.
God, she was proud. She'd let him pay for her education, but returned every other check he or his accountant sent with the words NO THANKS scrawled across the front in thick black capitals.
Brad chuckled, threw the hat into the pickup, to rest on top of the guitar case. "It's no stunt," he replied. "I'm back for good. Ready to 'take hold and count for something,' as Big John used to say."
The mention of their late grandfather caused a poignant and not entirely comfortable silence to fall between them. Brad had been on a concert tour when the old man died of a massive coronary six months before, and he'd barely made it back to Stone Creek in time for the funeral. Worse, he'd had to leave again right after the services, in order to make a sold-out show in Chicago. The large infusions of cash he'd pumped into the home place over the years did little to assuage his guilt.
How much money is enough? How famous do you have to be? Big John had asked, in his kindly but irascible way, not once but a hundred times. Come home, damn it. I need you. Your little sisters need you. And God knows, Stone Creek Ranch needs you.
Shoving a hand through his light brown hair, in need of trimming as always, Brad thrust out a sigh and scanned the surrounding countryside. "That old stallion still running loose out here, or did the wolves and the barbed wire finally get him?" he asked, raw where the memories of his grandfather chafed against his mind, and in sore need of a distraction.
Livie probably wasn't fooled by the dodge, but she was gracious enough to grant Brad a little space to recover in, and he appreciated that. "We get a glimpse of Ransom every once in a while," she replied, and a little pucker of worry formed between her eyebrows. "Always off on the horizon somewhere, keeping his distance."
Brad laid a hand on his sister's shoulder. She'd been fascinated with the legendary wild stallion since she was little. First sighted in the late nineteenth century and called King's Ransom because that was what he was probably worth, the animal was black and shiny as wet ink, and so elusive that some people maintained he wasn't flesh and blood at all, but spirit, a myth believed for so long that thought itself had made him real. The less fanciful maintained that Ransom was one in a long succession of stallions, all descended from that first mysterious sire. Brad stood squarely in this camp, as Big John had, but he wasn't so sure Livie took the same rational view.
"They're trying to trap him," she said now, tears glistening in her eyes. "They want to pen him up. Get samples of his DNA. Turn him out to stud, so they can sell his babies."
"Who's trying to trap him, Liv?" Brad asked gently. It was cold, he was hungry, and setting foot in the old ranch house, without Big John there to greet him, was a thing to get past.
"Never mind," Livie said, bucking up a little. Setting her jaw. "You wouldn't be interested."
There was no point in arguing with Olivia O'Ballivan, DVM, when she got that look on her face. "Thanks for bringing my truck out here," Brad said. "And for coming to meet me."
"I didn't bring the truck," Livie replied. Some people would have taken the credit, but Liv was half again too stubborn to admit to a kindness she hadn't committed, let alone one she considered unwarranted. "Ashley and Melissa did that. They're probably at the ranch house right now, hanging streamers or putting up a Welcome Home, Brad banner or something. And I only came out here because I saw that jet and figured it was some damn movie star, buzzing the deer."
Brad had one leg inside the truck, ready to hoist himself into the driver's seat. "That's a problem around here?" he asked, with a wry half grin. "Movie stars buzzing deer in Lear jets?"
"It happens in Montana all the time," Livie insisted, plainly incensed. She felt just as strongly about snowmobiles and other off-road vehicles.
Brad reached down, touched the tip of her nose with one index finger. "This isn't Montana, shortstop," he pointed out. "See you at home?"
"Another time," Livie said, not giving an inch. "After all the hoopla dies down."
Inwardly, Brad groaned. He wasn't up for hoopla, or any kind of celebrationAshley and Melissa, their twin sisters, might have cooked up in honor of his return. Classic between-a-rock-and-a-hard-place stuff—he couldn't hurt their feelings, either.
"Tell me they're not planning a party," he pleaded.
Livie relented, but only slightly. One side of her mouth quirked up in a smile. "You're in luck, Mr. Multiple Grammy Winner. There's a McKettrick baby shower going on over in Indian Rock as we speak, and practically the whole county's there."
The name McKettrick unsettled Brad even more than the prospect of going home to banners, streamers and a collection of grinning neighbors, friends and sisters. "Not Meg," he muttered, and then blushed, since he hadn't intended to say the words out loud.
Livie's smile intensified, the way it did when she had a solid hand at gin rummy and was fixing to go out and stick him with a lot of aces and face cards. She shook her head. "Meg's back in Indian Rock for good, rumor has it, and she's still single," she assured him. "Her sister Sierra's the one having a baby."
In a belated and obviously fruitless attempt to hide his relief at this news, Brad shut the truck door between himself and Livie and, since the keys were waiting in the ignition, started up the rig.
Looking smug, Livie waved cheerily, climbed back into the Suburban and drove off, literally in a cloud of dust.
Brad sat waiting for it to settle.
The feelings took a little longer.
"Go haunt somebody else!" Meg McKettrick whispered to the ghost cowboy riding languidly in the passenger seat of her Blazer, as she drove past Sierra's new house, on the outskirts of Indian Rock, for at least the third time. Both sides of the road were jammed with cars, and if she didn't find a parking place soon, she'd be late for the baby shower. If not the actual baby.
"Pick on Keegan—or Jesse—or Rance—anybody but me!"
"They don't need haunting," he said mildly. He looked nothing like the august, craggy-faced, white-haired figure in his portraits, grudgingly posed for late in his long and vigorous life. No, Angus McKettrick had come back in his prime, square-jaw handsome, broad shouldered, his hair thick and golden brown, his eyes intensely blue, at ease in the charm he'd passed down to generations of male descendents.
Still flustered, Meg found a gap between a Lexus and a minivan, wedged the Blazer into it, and turned off the ignition with a twist of one wrist. Tight-tipped, she jumped out of the rig, jerked open the back door, and reached for the festively wrapped package on the seat. "I've got news for you," she sputtered. "I don't need haunting, either!"
Angus, who looked to Meg as substantial and "real" as anybody she'd ever encountered, got out and stood on his side of the Blazer, stretching. "So you say," he answered, in a lazy drawl. "All of them are married, starting families of their own. Carrying on the McKettrick name."
"Thanks for the reminder," Meg bit out, in the terse under-tone she reserved for arguments with her great-great-however-many-greats grandfather. Clutching the gift she'd bought for Travis and Sierra's baby, she shouldered both the back and driver's doors shut.
"In my day," Angus said easily, "you'd have been an old maid."
"Hello?" Meg replied, without moving her mouth. Over her long association with Angus McKettrick—which went back to her earliest childhood memories—she'd developed her own brand of ventriloquism, so other people, who couldn't see him, wouldn't think she was talking to herself.
"This isn't 'your day.' It's mine. Twenty-first century, all the way. Women don't define themselves by whether they're married or not." She paused, sucked in a calming breath. "Here's an idea—why don't you wait in the car? Or, better yet, go ride some happy trail."
Angus kept pace with her as she crossed the road, clomping along in his perpetually muddy boots. As always, he wore a long, cape-shouldered canvas coat over a rough-spun shirt of butternut cotton and denim trousers that weren't quite jeans. The handle of his ever-present pistol, a long-barreled Colt .45, made a bulge behind his right coat pocket. He wore a hat only when there was a threat of rain, and since the early-October weather was mild, he was bare-headed that evening.
"It might be your testy nature that's the problem," Angus ruminated. "You're downright pricklish, that's what you are. A woman ought to have a little sass to her, to spice things up a mite. You've got more than your share, though, and it ain't becoming."
Meg ignored him, and the bad grammar he always affected when he wanted to impart folksy wisdom, as she tromped up the front steps, shuffling the bulky package in her arms to jab at the doorbell. Here comes your nineteenth noncommittal yellow layette, she thought, wishing she'd opted for the sterling baby rattles instead. If Sierra and Travis knew the sex of their unborn child, they weren't telling, which made shopping even more of a pain than normal.
The door swung open and Eve, Meg and Sierra's mother, stood frowning in the chasm. "It's about time you got here," she said, pulling Meg inside. Then, in a whisper, "Is he with you?"
"Of course he is," Meg answered, as her mother peered past her shoulder, searching in vain for Angus. "He never misses a family gathering."
Eve sniffed, straightened her elegant shoulders. "You're late," she said. "Sierra will be here any minute!"
"It's not as if she's going to be surprised, Mom," Meg said, setting the present atop a mountain of others of a suspiciously similar size and shape. "There must be a hundred cars parked out there."
Eve shut the door smartly and then, before Meg could shrug out of her navy blue peacoat, gripped her firmly by the shoulders. "You've lost weight," she accused. "And there are dark circles under your eyes. Aren't you sleeping well?"
"I'm fine," Meg insisted.And she was fine—for an old maid. Angus, never one to be daunted by a little thing like a closed door, materialized just behind Eve, looked around at his assembled brood with pleased amazement. The place was jammed with McKettrick cousins, their wives and husbands, their growing families.
Something tightened in the pit of Meg's stomach.
"Nonsense," Eve said. "If you could have gotten away with it, you would have stayed home today, wandering around that old house in your pajamas, with no makeup on and your hair sticking out in every direction."
It was true, but beside the point. With Eve McKettrick for a mother, Meg couldn't get away with much of anything. "I'm here," she said. "Give me a break, will you?"
She pulled off her coat, handed it to Eve, and sidled into the nearest group, a small band of women. Meg, who had spent all her childhood summers in Indian Rock, didn't recognize any of them.
"It's all over the tabloids," remarked a tall, thin woman wearing a lot of jewelry. "Brad O'Ballivan is in rehab again."
Meg caught her breath at the name, and nearly dropped the cup of punch someone shoved into her hands.
"Nonsense," a second woman replied. "Last week those rags were reporting that he'd been abducted by aliens."
"He's handsome enough to have fans on other planets," observed a third, sighing wistfully.
Meg tried to ease out of the circle, but it had closed around her. She felt dizzy.
"My cousin Evelyn works at the post office over in Stone Creek," said yet another woman, with authority. "According to her, Brad's fan mail is being forwarded to the family ranch, just outside of town. He's not in rehab, and he's not on another planet. He's home. Evelyn says they'll have to build a second barn just to hold all those letters."
Meg smiled rigidly, but on the inside, she was scrambling for balance.
Suddenly, woman #1 focused on her. "You used to date Brad O'Ballivan, didn't you, Meg?"
"That—that was a long time ago," Meg said as graciously as she could, given that she was right in the middle of a panic attack. "We were just kids, and it was a summer thing—" Frantically, she calculated the distance between Indian Rock and Stone Creek—a mere forty miles. Not nearly far enough.
"I'm sure Meg has dated a lot of famous people," one of the other women said. "Working for McKettrickCo the way she did, flying all over the place in the company jet—"
"Brad wasn't famous when I knew him," Meg said lamely.
"You must miss your old life," someone else commented. While it was true that Meg was having some trouble shifting from full throttle to a comparative standstill, since the family conglomerate had gone public a few months before, and her job as an executive vice president had gone with it, she didn't miss the meetings and the sixty-hour workweeks all that much. Money certainly wasn't a problem; she had a trust fund, as well as a personal investment portfolio thicker than the Los Angeles phone book.
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This was my first McKettrick book and I was not disappointed as I go on to read the rest of the series. Token sensuality, deep thoughts, good meaning...action-packed. There are many directions she could have taken this book and extended the story with more detailed storylines...but I really enjoyed the one she chose. Excellent book.
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Loved this book in the continuing McKettrick Series
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I enjoy Ms. Miller's writing. You really feel the emotions and struggles of the characters.
I was hoping to read more about the history of the McKettricks, with a little more background included. Because old Angus himself appears, I would imagine we would learn more about past family experiences rather than an occasional reference. For that reason, I don't know if this story would be as strong for a reader with no frame of reference.
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Not one i ccouldnt put down.. a tad slow...not enough excitment.
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Romantic tensions threaten to boil over as the Kyoto honeymoon adventure continues! First, Kai is unrelenting in his quest to get some "alone time" with Masa, but the burly bodyguard spurns Kai's advances for reasons unknown. Meanwhile, the newlyweds Ranmaru and Kei take every opportunity to consummate their love during the holiday retreat, and the sights and sounds of their coupling only serve to drive Kai deeper into despair. Will a frustrated Kai be able to make his wish come true?
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Higher ambulance fees may be the latest way to recover costs and minimize Elgin's projected budget deficit, which could be as high as $13 million next year.
City council members will consider a revised fee schedule Wednesday. The fees have not been adjusted since 2001, prompting officials to increase charges to better match costs.
"It has been identified that we are grossly undercharging for our services, especially to nonresidents and those who submit to their insurance company for payment," Fire Chief John Fahy wrote in an Oct. 4 memo to City Manager Sean Stegall.
Ambulance fees differ by treatment from basic life support to two levels of advanced
life support. The resident fees would increase by about 25 percent, and the nonresident fees would increase by 50 to 70 percent.
If approved, the city also will begin charging a fee of $10 per mile from the call address to the hospital. According to an ambulance user fee survey of 138 Chicago area emergency medical service providers, most departments already charge for mileage.
Fahy said Medicare and Medicaid recipients would not be affected by the higher fees, but people with group health insurance plans who pay 20 percent of the total bill would see an increase of about $20.
"It would be a minimal impact on the residents who use our service," Fahy said.
People without insurance still would be responsible for the entire bill.
A new charge for refusing advanced life support upon the arrival of emergency responders also is proposed. For nonresidents, the charge would be $400 each time. For residents, the charge would be $300 after the third occurrence in a 12-month period.
The increases would bring the fire department closer to covering vehicle costs from ambulance calls, but Fahy said that is a small portion of the total expense of running the department.
If council members approve the proposed changes Wednesday, an official vote will take place at the following council meeting with implementation toward the end of the year.
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Luckily, the core gameplay stirs up all the right memories and tosses in enough spice into the mix to keep you interested. Fly your fighter, check the radar, use machine guns against the enemy fighters, bombs against the heavy craft, and homing missiles against annoyances who refuse to stay in your crosshairs; the game handles the basics well. The 2 wrinkles added are hacking and sliding.
Hacking lets you kill capital ships with memory skills: you get close enough to the ship, tap a vulnerable commlink, memorize a letter sequence while dodging incoming fire, and choose the right sequence from 5 choices. Make the right choice and you could shut off the ship's engines, turn its missiles against its allies, or reveal the weak points you need to annihilate it. It would be a boring hacking minigame if you weren't trying to shoot down missiles while doing it. As is, it adds another level of franticness to the fighting and makes taking down a capital ship feel different from taking out fighters & bombers.
Sliding is Sol's compromise between aerial dogfighting and realistic space movement: hold down the Right Mouse Button and you can turn around & shoot without changing the direction you're moving in. Let go and your thrusters kick in again; combine that with a boost and you can make some extremely sharp corners. Do it right and you can shoot down a fighter (or homing missile) on your tail while outrunning it. I wanted to use it more, but the radar made that difficult.
The radar has a rough job: it's your only way of locating all those enemies out of sight and keeping tabs on the larger battle. Not only that, but it has to convey a 3D sphere of info as a 2D projection. Sol's radar is fine in moderate battles, but when the fight's swarming with bombers and capital ships and missiles, its generic blips don't cut it. It's difficult to tell bombers and their fighter escorts apart, or whether the incoming missile is to your side or right behind you. Fine-tuning this radar would really raise the game a notch or two.
Luckily, you don't have to worry about colliding with other ships. While capital ships can ram each other, your fighter just skids across other ships without taking damage. This makes the game quite easy in some chapters (especially the last one), but it feels like a necessary trade-off for how close you need to get to some ships to damage/protect them. I suspect they would've kept collision damage if they figured out a good way to warn you when you're too close to a ship.
That's the core gameplay, and it holds up surprisingly well after the first few missions. No two chapters feel like alike, and my initial lukewarm reaction turned to actual enthusiasm by Chapter 5...
And then I reached Chapter 7.
Chapter 7 is the final battle. It is the longest battle. It is also the most frustrating, First, the framerate takes a nosedive for the entire battle: I had to drop my settings by 2 notches just to play it. Second, it's the longest battle, clocking in at 30 minutes without a checkpoint. Third, it asks you to target specific parts of a capital ship, twice, without any highlighting or downloading blueprints beforehand. This normally wouldn't be confusing, except for the rest of the game you always had to download a capital ship's blueprints & shoot the glowing sections to do any damage to it. I lost 20 minutes of progress on my first attempt from that.
"Alright, I need to destroy its engines before it gets within range of my carrier. If I hack it enough, I'll get the blueprints for the engines & then go to town on it."
*hack-hack-hack-hack* *boom-dead*
"What?! The plans never came up! I hacked it 5 times! What do they expect me to do, damage the engines before downloading the blueprints?!" (Yes.)
Even the boss of the final mission is a letdown after all the buildup, since the lack of collision damage makes weaving through its innards to shoot the core much less "suicidal". I would've preferred it if the game ended on the penultimate mission instead.
Still, this is a solid, albeit short, game in a neglected genre, and Seamless Entertainment has a good base to build their next space combat game on, if this one sells well enough. If you're not a fan of that genre, you won't miss anything by skipping out on this. If you want another Wing Commander or TIE Fighter in the future, though, give this game a shot.


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Designed for the 2013 Furniture Exhibition, Architect Ferruccio Laviani designed this cabinet that has been CNC-cut to appear as a 3D object dragged through a photocopier or run through a VHS camcorder.
I would love to have a small chest-of-drawers like this, all squiggly and such, I just wouldn't put my knickers in there for fear they'd come out all mangled and creased like that...ain't nothing worse than a POKEY PAIR OF PANTIES [#_white_girl_problems]!
Here's what the designer said about his chopped-n-screwed extravaganza eleganza:
"Good Vibrations...blends the harmony and magniloquence of the classical with the charm and allure of the contemporary [Ferruccio Laviani] questions the traditional tenets of design and furniture."
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