I have an absolute weakness for physics games, and while Civiballs isn't the strongest physics-based game, what it lacks in the physics department it makes up for a few times over in style and fun.
In Civiballs, you are presented with a few colored balls, and your goal is to get those balls into the same-colored urn on the level. The "civi" part of Civiballs is that there are 3 sets of levels to play, each representing a different civilization. While the civilization doesn't affect gameplay, the artwork for each level is beautifully themed to it's appropriate era.
To play the game, you are given only one tool - a sword with which to cut the chains that are holding the balls. The puzzle part of the game is in figuring out what order, and with what timing to cut each chain. Do it right, and all the right balls end up in the right urns, with no stray balls entering an urn (a no-no). Do it wrong, and you get to start over again.
Civiballs is not terribly deep on gameplay; the entire game can be completed in about 15 minutes. But if you enjoy this type of game, it will be a very enjoyable 15 minutes.
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by Jordan Running May 30th 2006
Interested in getting that "Ultimate" version of Windows Vista? Be prepared to pay a bit for it. iTWire is reporting that Windows Vista Ultimate will come with a price tag around $450. As Ryan over at Engadget points out, that's about as much as a budget Dell system will cost you. Ultimate combines the features of Vista Business and Vista Home. For comparison purposes, Windows XP Professional currently goes for $300 at retail.
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Diddle said 1:23PM on 5-30-2006
I mentionned it over there - it's too damned expensive. If MS wants everyone using its OS, they need to drop the price. If they were to charge $50 apiece, EVERYONE would use a LEGAL copy (well, not everyone, but you get the point). Software shouldn't cost that much when it's a standard - Acrobat, Photoshop, Office... they should all cost under $100!
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Peter said 2:33PM on 5-30-2006
That is a lot of money, but almost no one gets their OS at retail. Virtually everyone gets it bundled and I would suspect even more people that usual will with Vista due to the hardware requirements. If you have to get new hardware anyway, there is no cheaper way to get the OS than with the hardware.
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DG10050 said 5:21PM on 5-30-2006
To #2
I build all of my computers. Therefore, I always get my OS at retail. Although, I try to get it OEM from somewhere like Newegg if I can, since it's much cheaper. I've always been happy that I could build a pretty sweet PC for about $600-$700. Now I'm going to have to add $450 to that to upgrade to Vista. Hopefully they'll have some sort of special upgrade price like they usually do.
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Brett said 7:46PM on 5-30-2006
Wow... that's triple the cost of OSX.
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Mike said 10:19AM on 5-31-2006
That's correct, Brett -- and you get one-tenth the security and maybe half the ease of usability. Anybody who pays this -- please contact me, I have a slightly used Shittle I will part with for a mere $100,000.
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Myspace Layouts said 9:20PM on 5-31-2006
its probably that high to offset the costs of all the pirated ones
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