Sunday, October 28, 2007

Latest Spicy Phones!!!

Apple I phone( At & T)

This is the star of the field, despite a number of shortcomings. Remarkably, Apple's very first phone succeeds at combining a phone with an iPod and a great Web browser. Its large, crisp screen, touch-screen user interface and multimedia abilities are unmatched. But good luck using it with any headphones but the ones that come with (unless you shell out more for an adapter), or getting work e-mail. The on-screen keyboard takes getting used to. The AT & T Inc. data network it uses is slow, and there's no real third-party software available yet. All the same, a fantastic phone. ($399)


Palm Centro (Sprint)

The Centro does everything Palm's larger, more expensive Treo does, but in a cuter package. It has a small but sharp touch screen and a teeny hardware alphabetic keyboard. You need fingernails to type on it. It's not great as a music or video player, but it's good for e-mail, contacts and calendar management. Palm's software is the closest thing to the iPhone's in terms of ease of use and versatility, and there are tons of third-party applications. Comes with a neat Sudoku game. ($99.99)


Motorola Moto Q Music 9m (Verizon)

This update to the Q has a good, wide keyboard but no touch screen. It runs Windows Mobile 6 and uses a fast data network, which helps if you want to get work e-mail. But the overall experience is slow and clunky. The music-oriented interface that's been grafted on Windows is as cheerful and useful as a party hat on a bank clerk. The lack of a touch screen limits usefulness of Web browser. At & T has a similar model without the music interface. ($199.99)


Nokia N 95 (unlocked, works with GSM carriers like AT&T and T-Mobile)

This European luxury phone has a big 2.8-inch screen, a nice 5-megapixel camera, a real GPS receiver and a large number of buttons, yet lacks both a full keyboard and a touch screen. The latest model works on AT&T's fast data network. Best for photo buffs and possibly hikers — doesn't excel at e-mail or multimedia. (About $550 in stores, no contract)


Touch by HTC (Sprint)

Like the iPhone, this is a touch-screen phone, with no hardware keypad or keyboard. Unlike the iPhone, the Touch is a hassle to use. It runs Windows Mobile software designed for use with a stylus, and the features that have been bolted on in an attempt to make it useable without a stylus are a disaster. Thankfully, it does include a stylus, so it's not a complete waste, but this is still a phone to avoid. ($249.99)

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T-Mobile Shadow

The big screen slides away to reveal a 20-key keyboard, with most letters sharing a key with another. Relatively friendly interface, but sometimes sluggish performance from Windows Mobile software. It does an OK job of e-mail, personal information management, but the lack of a touch screen limits the usefulness of the Web browser. Using the limited keyboard can be a chore. The software guesses what you're trying to type, which works for common words but is no help for Web or e-mail addresses. No headphone jack — the included headphones use the charger port. ($149.99)

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LG Voyager (Verizon)

The layout of the icons on the touch screen makes this look like a chubbier copy of the iPhone, but — lo and behold! — the phone folds apart to reveal a full keyboard and a second screen. Just the thing for those who can't imagine typing on the iPhone's touch screen? Not quite. It's good for text messaging, but the e-mail application is weak and hidden in the menus. And having one really good screen that does everything, as on the iPhone, is better than two smaller screens that don't. The flip-open design and extendable antenna make the Voyager a great way to watch Verizon's Mobile TV. Available Nov. 21. ($299.99)

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BlackBerry Pearl (Verizon, Sprint, At & T, T-Mobile)

BlackBerry e-mail pagers used to be very businesslike affairs. The slim Pearl aims for the consumer, with a built-in camera and media player. Remarkably for such a small phone, it has a full-size headphone jack. The interface is still heavily e-mail-oriented, and like any BlackBerry, comes into its own if your company uses a BlackBerry server. As with the Shadow, typing e-mail and Web addresses on 20 keys can be frustrating. ($149.99-$199.99)

Wednesday, October 24, 2007

100 Words for you!!

Hey guyz these r the 100 important gre questions expected for this month..
plz read this thoroughly to score well.. If there s any other help that you think i could do.. plz do leave your comments here so that i can help you

1. Invigorate - To impart vigor, strength, or vitality to; animate; stimulate; heighten or intensify; give life or energy to; make lively; impart vigor, strength, or vitality to

2. Assiduous - Constant in application or attention; diligent; unceasing; persistent; hard-working 3. Penchant - A definite liking; a strong inclination; fondness; strong liking for or bias in favor of something

4. Eulogy - A laudatory speech or written tribute, especially one praising someone who has died; high praise or commendation; expression of warm approval; acclamation

5. Disavow - To disclaim knowledge of, responsibility for, or association with; refuse to recognize or acknowledge; reject

6. Incompetent - Not qualified in legal terms; inadequate for or unsuited to a particular purpose or application; devoid of those qualities requisite for effective conduct or action; unskillful, unable; lacking the qualities, as efficiency or skill, required to produce desired results

7. Resilient - Marked by the ability to recover readily, as from misfortune; capable of returning to an original shape or position, as after having been compressed; bouncy, flexible; having the quality of springing back to a former position. Also: Able to recover quickly from sickness or difficulty; sturdy

8. Arid - Lacking moisture, especially having insufficient rainfall to support trees or woody plants; lacking interest or feeling; lifeless and dull; uninterested, spiritless; having little or no liquid or moisture; extremely dry

9. Bedlam - A place or situation of noisy uproar and confusion; chaotic situation; a state of extreme confusion and disorder; scene of great uproar and confusion

10. Frenetic - Wildly excited or active; frantic; frenzied; marked by extreme excitement, confusion, or agitation; maniacal

11. Erratic - Having no fixed or regular course; wandering; lacking consistency, regularity, or uniformity; unpredictable; wandering

12. Penitent - Feeling or expressing remorse for one's misdeeds or sins; person performing penance under the direction of a confessor; shamed, sorrowful; undergoing or awaiting punishment

13. Elation - High spirits; extreme happiness; lifting up by success; exaltation; inriation with pride of prosperity

14. Probity - Complete and confirmed integrity; uprightness; quality or state of being morally sound; fairness, honesty; virtue or integrity tested and confirmed

15. Indefeasible - That cannot be annulled or made void

16. Dawdler - One who wastes time in trifling employments; an idler; a trifler; someone who takes more time than necessary; someone who lags behind17. Bogus - Counterfeit or fake; not genuine; fraudulently or deceptively imitative

18. Abstruse - Difficult to understand; recondite; difficult to understand

19. Resplendent - Splendid or dazzling in appearance; brilliant; bright, radiant; bright and colorful, almost glowing; marked by extraordinary elegance, beauty, and splendor

20. Metaphorical - Figure of speech in which a word or phrase that ordinarily designates one thing is used to designate another, thus making an implicit comparison; one thing conceived as representing another; a symbol; expressing one thing in terms normally denoting another

21. Literal - Employing the very same words as another; exact, real; being in accordance with, conforming to, or upholding the exact or primary meaning of a word or words; avoiding exaggeration, metaphor, or embellishment; factual; prosaic

22. Hapless - Luckless; unfortunate; involving or undergoing chance misfortune

23. Intransigent - Refusing to moderate a position, especially an extreme position; uncompromising; firmly, often unreasonably immovable in purpose or will; not capable of being swayed or diverted from a course; unsusceptible to persuasion

24. Predicament - A situation, especially an unpleasant, troublesome, or trying one, from which extrication is difficult; a difficult, often embarrassing situation or condition; the wage of consistency

25. Tactual - Of, relating to, or arising from the sense of touch; producing a sensation of touch; tactile

26. Opulent - Possessing or exhibiting great wealth; affluent; characterized by rich abundance; luxuriant; rich and superior in quality

27. Floppy - Tending to flop; loose and flexible; lacking in stiffness or firmness; limp

28. Willowy - Slender and graceful; planted with or abounding in willows

29. Potentiate - To enhance or increase the effect of (a drug); promote or strengthen (a biochemical or physiological action or effect); make potent or powerful

30. Frugality - Careful use of material resources; prudence in avoiding waste

31. Insolent - Presumptuous and insulting in manner or speech; arrogant; audaciously rude or disrespectful; impertinent; bold, disrespectful; rude and insulting

32. Mushroom - Any of various fleshy fungi of the class Basidiomycota, characteristically having an umbrella-shaped cap borne on a stalk, especially any of the edible kinds; to increase or expand suddenly, rapidly, or without control; sprout

33. Fungus - A plant that has no leaves, flowers, or green color

34. Satirize - A literary work in which human vice or folly is attacked through irony, derision, or wit

35. Lampoon - A written attack ridiculing a person, group, or institution; light, good-humored satire; a work, as a novel or play, that exposes folly by the use of humor or irony; ridicule, make fun of

36. Toil - To labor continuously; exhausting labor or effort; something that binds, snares, or entangles one; an entrapment; hard work; walk heavily, slowly, and with difficulty; to exert one's mental or physical powers, usually under difficulty and to the point of exhaustion

37. Motley - Having elements of great variety or incongruity; heterogeneous; mixed, varied; having many colors; variegated; parti-colored

38. Assuage - To make less severe or more bearable; soothe, relieve; reduce fear, excitement, pain, or disease

39. Immaculate - Impeccably clean; spotless; free from fault or error; innocent, uncorrupted; very clean

40. Dicey - Involving or fraught with danger or risk; risky;of uncertain outcome; especially fraught with risk

41. Feisty - Touchy; quarrelsome; full of spirit or pluck; frisky or spunky; showing courage; irritable and looking for trouble

42. Apocryphal - Of questionable authorship or authenticity; erroneous; fictitious; questionable; fake; of questionable authenticity

43. Mire - A usually low-lying area of soft waterlogged ground and standing water; viscous, usually offensively dirty substance; soil with mud; marsh or bog

44. Palpitate - To move with a slight tremulous motion; tremble, shake, or quiver; beat with excessive rapidity; throb; make rhythmic contractions, sounds, or movements; beat at a rapid pace, like heart; tremble; beat rapidly and irregularly

45. Redoubtable - Arousing fear or awe; formidable; worthy of respect or honor; formidable; causing fear

46. Amalgamate - To put together into one mass so that the constituent parts are more or less homogeneous; blend

47. Rebut - To refute, especially by offering opposing evidence or arguments, as in a legal case; to repel; present opposing evidence or arguments; argue against; prove wrong

48. Censor - To examine (material) and remove parts considered harmful or improper for publication or transmission; ban; forbid; person authorized to examine books, films, or other material and to remove or suppress what is considered morally, politically, or otherwise objectionable

49. Torpor - A state of mental or physical inactivity or insensibility; apathy; dormant, inactive state of a hibernating or estivating animal; deficiency in mental and physical alertness and activity; lethargy; dullness

50. Sangfroid - A stable, calm state of the emotions

51. Diatribe - A long, violent, or blustering speech, usually of censure or denunciation; harangue, criticism; bitter or angry attack in speech or writing

52. Complaisance - The inclination to comply willingly with the wishes of others; amiability; agreeableness; disposition or tendency to yield to the will of others

53. Perturbable - Liable to be perturbed or agitated; liable to be disturbed or disquieted

54. Amenable - Willing to carry out the wishes of others; able to be judged; responsible; willing, cooperative; willing to change or submit

55. Aberration - A departing from what is prescribed; condition of being abnormal; serious mental illness or disorder impairing a person's capacity to function normally and safely; state of abnormality; deviation from the normal or usual; straying away from what is normal; defect of focus, such as blurring in an image

56. Digression - The act of digressing; deviation; straying

57. Phlegmatic - Without emotion or interest; having or suggesting a calm, sluggish temperament; unemotional

58. Concord - Harmonious mutual understanding; formal, usually written settlement between nations; pleasing agreement, as of musical sounds; agreement, treaty; unity, harmony

59. Modicum - A small, moderate, or token amount

60. Fathom - A unit of length equal to 6 feet (1.83 meters), used principally in the measurement and specification of marine depths; to perceive and recognize the meaning of; discern, understand

61. Incomprehensible - Difficult or impossible to understand or comprehend; unintelligible; impossible to know or fathom; not understandable

62. Tardy - Occurring, arriving, acting, or done after the scheduled, expected, or usual time; late; moving slowly; sluggish

63. Hapless - Luckless; unfortunate; involving or undergoing chance misfortune

64. Metaphysical - Having no body, form, or substance; of, coming from, or relating to forces or beings that exist outside the natural world; not physical; without physical presence; ideal

65. Deferential - Marked by or exhibiting deference; marked by courteous submission or respect; respectful, considerate

66. Palliated - To relieve the symptoms of a disease or disorder; to make less severe or intense; mitigate; to make (an offense or crime) seem less serious; extenuate

67. Fawn - To seek favor or attention by flattery and obsequious behavior; to support slavishly every opinion or suggestion of a superior; a young deer, less than one year old; a grayish yellow-brown to moderate reddish brown

68. Avaricious - Immoderately desirous of wealth or gain; greedy

69. Covet - To feel blameworthy desire for (that which is another's); wish for longingly; feel immoderate desire for that which is another's; desire strongly; feel envy towards or for; Wish, long, or crave for (something, especially the property of another person)

70. Byline - A line at the head of a newspaper or magazine article carrying the writer's name; a line giving the name of the writer of a story or article; an auxiliary activity

71. Indigenous - native

72. Tincture - An alcoholic, hydroalcoholic, or ethereal solution of a drug; something that imparts color; coloring or dyeing substance; a pigment; quality that colors, pervades, or distinguishes; to stain or tint with a color; to infuse, as with a quality; impregnate

73. Askew - To one side; awry; crooked(ly); crooked; out of alignment

74. Puckish - Mischievous; impish; naughtily or annoyingly playful

75. Abscond - To leave quickly and secretly and hide oneself, often to avoid arrest or prosecution; leave confinement or threat, run away

76. Alcove - A recess or partly enclosed extension connected to or forming part of a room; secluded structure, such as a bower, in a garden; small recessed space, opening directly into a larger room

77. Recess - A pause or interval, as from work or duty; interrupt regular activity for a short period; stop action; break, interval in action; any shallow depression in a surface

78. Furtive - Characterized by stealth; surreptitious; expressive of hidden motives or purposes; shifty; slow, deliberate, and secret as to escape observation; trickily secret; sneaky, secretive; done on the sly or in a sneaky way

79. Untenable - Incapable of being defended or justified

80. Amalgamate - To combine into a unified or integrated whole; unite; mix or alloy (a metal) with mercury; unite or blend with another metal

81. Choir - An organized company of singers, especially one performing church music or singing in a church

82. Ephemeral - lasting for a markedly brief time

83. Enduring - Lasting; continuing; durable; long-suffering; patient; existing or remaining in the same state for an indefinitely long time

84. Splint - A rigid device used to prevent motion of a joint or of the ends of a fractured bone; thin, flexible wooden strip, such as one used in the making of baskets or chair bottoms; plate or strip of metal; bony enlargement of the cannon bone or splint bone of a horse; hin piece split off from a larger piece; a splinter; a rigid appliance for the fixation of displaced or movable parts; a support or brace used to fasten or confine; metal, acrylic resin, or modeling compound fashioned to retain in position teeth that may have been replanted or have fractured roots

85. Choreography - The art of creating and arranging dances or ballets; art of designing dances

86. Plot - A secret plan to achieve an evil or illegal end; series of events and relationships forming the basis of a composition; piece of land; show graphically the direction or location of, as by using coordinates; plan, scheme

87. Laconic - Using or marked by the use of few words; terse or concise; short, to the point

88. Sobriquet - An affectionate or humorous nickname; an assumed name; a familiar name (often a shortened version of a person's given name)89. Audacious - daring ;bold

90. Lassitude - lack of energy

91. Rile - To stir to anger; to stir up (liquid); roil; to trouble the nerves or peace of mind of, especially by repeated vexations; anger, upset; cause annoyance in; disturb, esp. by minor irritations; make turbid by stirring up the sediments of

92. Debilitated - Showing impairment of energy or strength; enfeebled; lacking strength or vigor

93. Impel - To urge to action through moral pressure; drive; to drive forward; propel; prompt, incite

94. Flashy - Cheap and showy; gaudy; Giving a momentary or superficial impression of brilliance; flamboyant, in poor taste

95. Esoteric - Beyond the understanding of an average mind; mysterious, obscure; not publicly disclosed; confidential; confined to a small group; intended for or understood by only a particular group; of or relating to that which is known by a restricted number of people

96.Topography - Concerned with topography; the character, natural features, and configuration of land; surface features of a place or region

97. Measureless - Too great to be measured; immeasurable; having no ends or limits; boundless

98. Connotation - Something, such as a feeling, thought, or idea, associated in one's mind or imagination with a specific person or thing; that which is signified by a word or expression; implication

99. Rue - European strong-scented perennial herb with gray-green bitter-tasting leaves; leaves sometimes used for flavoring fruit or claret cup but should be used with great caution; feel remorse for; feel sorry for; be contrite about

100. Exhortation - A speech or discourse that encourages, incites, or earnestly advises; urging; a communication intended to urge or persuade the recipients to take some action

101. Canonize - To declare (a deceased person) to be a saint and entitled to be fully honored as such; to treat as sacred; glorify; approve as being within canon law

All the best for your success in gre...

Saturday, October 20, 2007

An Amsterdam resident has put for sale on eBay a chestnut that he says came from the tree that Anne Frank gazed upon while hiding from the Nazis, as activists fight to save the diseased tree from being felled.

"I had this idea for a few years, then I saw that the tree was in the news and I decided to put the chestnut up for auction," said 34-year-old Charles Kuijpers, who lives next door to the garden where the tree stands.

City officials recently decided that the 27-tonne tree was so diseased that the risk that the trunk could break was too great, and said that it would be removed on Wednesday.

Bids for the chestnut have reached $700 in the auction, which is titled "Grow your own Anne Frank tree with a chestnut."

The Jewish teenager described gazing longingly at the tree in the diary she kept during her two years in hiding. Anne and her family hid until they were betrayed and arrested in August 1944. The towering horse chestnut was one of the few examples of nature and normal life she could see.

Wednesday, October 17, 2007

I want to play against Sania-Sachin

Well Sachin has achieved a lot in his illustrious career. He has touched the peaks that no one else have dared to dream but still it seems there are some un fulfilled wishes for the master batsman. Sachin the little master expresses his desire to play against the hot and happening tennis start in India Sania Mirza in this video. Check it out to more of the incident. It is really cool

Saturday, October 13, 2007

Anne Frank tree Chestnut for sale on eBay


An Amsterdam resident has put for sale on eBay a chestnut that he says came from the tree that Anne Frank gazed upon while hiding from the Nazis, as activists fight to save the diseased tree from being felled.

"I had this idea for a few years, then I saw that the tree was in the news and I decided to put the chestnut up for auction," said 34-year-old Charles Kuijpers, who lives next door to the garden where the tree stands.

City officials recently decided that the 27-tonne tree was so diseased that the risk that the trunk could break was too great, and said that it would be removed on Wednesday.

Bids for the chestnut have reached $700 in the auction, which is titled "Grow your own Anne Frank tree with a chestnut."

The Jewish teenager described gazing longingly at the tree in the diary she kept during her two years in hiding. Anne and her family hid until they were betrayed and arrested in August 1944. The towering horse chestnut was one of the few examples of nature and normal life she could see.

Monday, October 8, 2007

Off-duty Wis. deputy sheriff kills 6

The residents of a remote northern Wisconsin community struggled to understand Monday how a sheriff's deputy who killed six young people and critically wounded another could have become a law enforcement officer.

Tyler Peterson, 20, was shot to death after opening fire early Sunday on a group of students and recent graduates who had gathered for pizza and movies during their high school's homecoming weekend. Peterson was off-duty from his full-time job as a Forest County deputy sheriff; he also was a part-time Crandon police officer.

David Franz, 36, who lives with his wife two houses from the duplex where the shooting occurred, said it was hard to accept that someone in law enforcement was the gunman.

"The first statement we said to each other was, 'How did he get through the system?'" Franz said. "How do they know somebody's background, especially that young? It is disturbing, to say the least."

Sheriff Keith Van Cleve said he would meet with state Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen on Monday morning to discuss the case.

Crandon Police Chief John Dennee said the investigation would be handled by the state Department of Criminal Investigation because the suspect was a deputy and officer.

Peterson was killed Sunday afternoon, eight miles north of Crandon in the rural town of Argonne, Dennee said.

Crandon Mayor Gary Bradley said Sunday that a sniper killed the suspect, but Van Cleve would not confirm that officers shot him.

The gunman's motive was unclear, but the mother of a 14-year-old victim said the suspect may have been a jealous boyfriend.

"I'm waiting for somebody to wake me up right now. This is a bad, bad dream," said Jenny Stahl, whose daughter, Lindsey Stahl, was the youngest victim. "All I heard it was a jealous boyfriend and he went berserk. He took them all out."

Dennee declined comment on whether Peterson had a romantic relationship with any of the victims.

The lone survivor of the shooting, a male, remained in critical condition Monday at St. Joseph's Hospital, according to nursing supervisor Penny Funk.

The white, two-story duplex where the shooting occurred was about a block from downtown Crandon, a small town located 225 miles north of Milwaukee in an area known for logging and outdoor activities. The victims had gathered for what Dennee described as "a pizza and movie party."

David Franz's wife, Marci, said she was awakened by the gunshots.

"I heard probably five or six shots, a short pause and then five or six more," she said. "I wasn't sure if it was gunfire initially. I thought some kids were messing around and hitting a nearby metal building."

Then she heard eight louder shots and tires squealing, she said.

"I was just about to get up and call it in, and I heard sirens," she said. "There's never been a tragedy like this here. There's been individual incidents, but nothing of this magnitude."

Three of the victims were Crandon High School students, said school Superintendent Richard Peters, and the other three had graduated within the past three years.

"There is probably nobody in Crandon who is not affected by this," Peters said, adding that students "are going to wake up in shock and disbelief and a lot of pain."

Peters did not know whether Peterson had graduated from the 300-student school. But Crandon resident Karly Johnson, 16, said that she knew the gunman and that he had helped her in a tech education class.

"He graduated with my brother," she said. "He was nice. He was an average guy. Normal. You wouldn't think he could do that."

The Crandon School District called off classes Monday.

One victim, 20-year-old Bradley Schultz, was a third-year student at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee who was home to visit his friends, said his aunt, Sharon Pisarek.

"We still don't have many details, but from what they've told us, there was a girl next to him and he was covering her, protecting her," she said, sobbing. "He was loved by everybody. He was everybody's son. Senseless."

Another aunt, Rose Gerow, said Schultz was majoring in criminal justice and wanted to be a homicide detective.

"This is senseless because they were friends," Gerow said. "These guys weren't after his girlfriend, they were just getting together."

The town of about 2,000 people last made headlines in August, when community groups and a soldier helped bring an Iraqi girl to the United States for a cornea transplant. The mayor pleaded Monday for support to help the town begin to heal.

"This is something we have to put back together," he said.

Sunday, October 7, 2007

Microsoft will replace ur scratched Halo3 Disc for free!!


If you're one of those unlucky gamers stuck with a Limited Edition of Halo 3 containing scratched discs, you're now officially lucky, as Microsoft has immediately responded to the issue, promising to replace every scratched or damaged Halo 3 disc (for whatever reason) for free, by December 31, 2007. After that, they'll begin charging $20 for any disc replacement, the same as before. What's cool about Microsoft's new program is that if let's say you did get your Limited Edition copy of Halo 3, popped the case open, found two clean, untouched discs but then damaged them through the course of some idiotic actions, you still benefit from this offer. Or at least, so we're left to understand.

Xbox.com holds this Disc Replacement Program as well as the Disc Replacement Form. To save you the loading time for the page just yet, here's what the program looks like: As stated above... "If, for any reason, you have a damaged Microsoft Xbox 360 disc and like to replace it, please review the information below" which you will, since you know this could be your last chance to replace the Halo 3 game disc you accidentally slid on for three meters across your tiles floor while chasing the dog:

Tuesday, October 2, 2007

Iron Man First Look

Marvel fans have enjoyed an embarrassment of riches in mainstream entertainment recently, with the biggest stars in the Marvel universe enjoying their moment on the silver screen and in a plethora of video games. The next Marvel icon set for the big-time treatment is the illustrious Iron Man, who's set to be the centerpiece of an action blockbuster in spring 2008 and a video game from Sega at around the same time. Though it's still very early in development, we got a chance to get a quick peek at the game to see where it's heading.

If you're not familiar with Iron Man lore, here's the quick primer: billionaire industrialist (and debonair playboy) Tony Stark spends his millions on a suit of armor that essentially turns him into a human tank--only this tank can fly, blast repulsor rays, and toss around ICBM missiles like they were twigs in his backyard. In the game, you'll play as Iron Man, battling a host of enemies in a game whose story borrows both from the upcoming Iron Man movie (starring actors Robert Downey Jr., Terrence Howard, Gwyneth Paltrow, and Jeff Bridges), and more than 40 years of Marvel history.

The E3 demo of the game showed off Iron Man flying through a snowy mountain range while he battled enemy forces holed up in military encampments throughout the level. The different kinds of weapons Iron Man faced were of a fairly generic sort--standard tanks, SAMs (surface-to-air missiles), and anti-air guns, but they gave a good indication of the different kinds of abilities Iron Man will have in the game. His main weapons will be repulsor rays, shot either from his palms or from a node on his chest, as well as missiles that weren't shown in the demo. Repulsor rays shot from his chest are more powerful than those from his hands, but will drain more of Iron Man's energy (indicated by a vertical meter on the left-hand side of the screen).

Though the control scheme hasn't been finalized yet, the development team currently has Iron Man's "hover" and "fly" abilities separated on the controller. When hovering, Iron Man will be able to drift from side to side, and it will make it easier to fire his repulsor rays at objects. When flying, you'll be able to fly at normal speed and super-speed, the latter of which will presumably offer you less maneuverability as you streak through the sky. One of the interesting restrictions on the current level was that if Iron Man flew too high into the air, he would be blasted by missiles from enemy MiG jets flying overhead. They weren't enough to bring him down completely; instead, they just kept him close enough to the ground to be in enemy weapon range.

One of the coolest moves we saw in the game was Iron Man grabbing ahold of incoming missiles and redirecting them back at the launcher that shot them. It's indicative of the kind of power Iron Man will have on hand. The mountainous landscape seemed to indicate a fairly open approach to gameplay, though as developers pointed out, the battlefield will be constantly evolving with new challenges for Iron Man to face as he explores the levels.

Though Sega was non-committal on which Marvel villains or heroes would appear in the game, we did see some familiar names in the game, including Tony Stark's best friend Jim Rhodes, and Avengers butler Jarvis, both of whom will provide audio tips and inform Stark of new mission objectives as you go. Stark's sassy secretary Pepper Potts will also reportedly be a part of the video game as well. And while we're hoping for plenty of cameo appearances from Marvel luminaries, we're also hoping we get to see plenty of different armor configurations for Iron Man. Sega was tight-lipped on that as well, though it did note that Tony would be able to upgrade his armor as he goes. We're personally keeping our fingers crossed for the red-and-silver getup from Shellhead's West Coast Avengers days.

For Iron Man fans, the wait for the game (and the movie) seems interminably long, as both are scheduled for a spring 2008 release on a multitude of platforms. We'll be keeping our eyes on this game's progress over the coming months and bringing you all the latest information.

Regards

Darky

10 leaders in one picture


Hey guyz n gals this pic contains pictures of 10 leaders in one jst find who t s n leave ur comments here..