Razer Abyssus High Precision Optical Gaming Mouse Review

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(More customer reviews)This is a great mouse for RTS and overall a near perfect item.I rarely give 5 stars but this is an extremely high quality item.I gave it a 4/5 on comfort because I bought it to use fingertip grip which I don't think is a very comfortable way to use a mouse.However, this mouse makes fingertip grip more comfortable than on others I've tried.I've tried Logitech mx500, g500, LMO, salmosa mini and could not fingertip grip them at all comfortably while this mouse makes it pretty comfortable.The mouse has prediction / mouse smoothing / angle snapping whatever you call it turned off which is great.I have had no acceleration problems with it although I don't use the large mousepad palm style that I used to with FPS games so I probably wouldn't notice them if they were there.As for the complaints that it doesn't work with certain mousepads I think the incident rates of that are extremely low.I use a goliathus control and have had 0 problems.It's extremely lightweight, only beaten by a salmosa mini or a LMO with the weight removed.You can definitely claw grip this mouse or even palm it though your entire palm will likely not contact the mouse which may not be a bad thing.I often claw or palm it without realizing it during casual browsing so it is a comfortable way to hold the mouse.The mouse does not need any drivers which is great.Just flip it to 1,000hz and whatever DPI you want and you're good to go.I like the mouse wheel quite a bit.It is very firm and is lower on the mouse than normal.I feel a lot more comfortable using it as a mouse3 button than on any other mouse I've tried.The texture is very good.I was concerned it would be too slippery but I have not found my fingers sliding out of position during play and also it allows for a certain rotation of the fingers which is needed for fingertip grip as you pull the mouse towards and away from you.The sides of the mouse are shaped like this < > but not nearly that extreme of an angle obviously.This allows for a good grip on the lower half of the mouse so you don't have to squeeze it so hard to pull it up off the mousepad to reposition.The top angle gives you a good resting place for your ring finger.That is definitely the most important ergonomic aspect of the mouse for me. With all the other mice I've tried there is often no clear place to put your ring finger, especially with fingertip grip. The liftoff distance is a little bit high compared to my g500 but still lower than most other mice I've tried.The only other thing I can think of to improve on is the angle and height that the mouse cord comes out of the mouse.It is just like other mice but I think that the cord should come out at a bit of an up angle so it doesn't catch on the mousepad as easily, especially when using a mouse bungee.Other than that it is really a great mouse.This mouse is only very slightly behind my mx510 overall and by far the best for RTS games.

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The Razer Abyssus is created for gamers looking for quality, reliability and performance in a no-nonsense, straightforward gaming-grade mouse. Designed to focus on the fundamentals of competitive gaming, the Razer Abyssus is armed with ultra-responsive buttons tuned for maximum tactile feedback. With an uncompromising 3500dpi Razer Precision™ 3.5G infrared sensor at its core, take full control of your every aim with perfect tracking so you outgun your competition.

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StarCraft 64 Review

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(More customer reviews)I have Starcraft for the PC and the most outstanding thing is the nice, crisp graphics. But when I played it for the N64, the graphics were blurry. Because I recentle purchased an EXPANSION PAK, I compared it with andwithout it. The graphics were way better with it, and it also allowed a twoplayer mode, and BROOD WAR. So if you plan to buy it, just buy theEXPANSION PAK.

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Starcraft 64 N64 Game. In the distant future a small group of human exiles have been doomed to fight for survival on the edge of the galaxy.

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Better Chess Now! - Chess on DVD Review

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(More customer reviews)Very good product. It serves to learn chess either at a begginer or an advanced player. I am a begginer at chess, but a friend of mine who has been in the game for more than 20 years found the program excellent. It is also very useful to have a good time playing chess against the computer which has been the only way I have used it. I would rate it 5 stars.

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20/20 Calculation - It's a common problem. You plunge into a maze of variations, lose your way, see your time disappearing, then choose the first move that comes into your head - a recipe for disaster! There's got to be a better way - and Danny King is here to let you into the secrets of 20:20 calculation, helping you to cut through the fog and home in on what's crucial. Attack with Confidence - We all enjoy an attack against the enemy king. However, at this moment a dangerous feeling of invincibility creeps over us. Here, Danny King helps you to build up an attack from a sound basis and spotlight the vital weaknesses around your opponent's king.Positional Inspiration - Does you mind go foggy when there is no clear method of attack? Do your games too often consist of a beginning, a muddle and an end? Then this is the video for you. A better understanding of positional chess will immediately improve your game, and bring you greater creative satisfaction. Endings - The Essentials - If there is one phase of the game which separates the professional from the amateur, it is the endgame. For the vast majority of players going into an ending is just casino chess - now you can load the odds in your favor! These are the essential endings you will actually reach in your own games, where Danny King's tips will make all the difference

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StarCraft Expansion Pack: Brood War Review

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(More customer reviews)How often have you gotten an "expansion pack" only to be rewarded with lackluster efforts from a development team that has simply moved on from the title? Brood War delivers almost an entirely new game forless than the original cost.As expansion packs go, this one is about asclose to perfect as I've seen.
In addition to ~30 new missions (with eachof the three familiar races from StarCraft), you get more multiplayer mapsand new units to explore and enjoy (roughly 2 per race).In addition tonew units, many existing units have had their abilities enchanced orchanged.
Like StarCraft, you can jump into multiplayer on Battle.net andplay with up to 8 humans/players.You can only use Brood War against otherplayers who have Brood War (sorry! no mixing versions) -- so make sure yourfriends pick up a copy as well.
If you liked StarCraft, there's simply noexcuse not to own this.

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StarCraft: Brood War continues the award winning saga of galactic warfare as the Zerg, Protoss and Terrans struggle for their continued survival. With the shattered Zerg hive torn apart by fierce in-fighting, the Protoss seek to reunite with their Dark Templar brethren and begin the rebuilding of their homeworld, Aiur.The battle for galactic domination rages on with new units, new campaigns, and more explosive strategic combat.

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Starflight 2: Trade Routes of the Cloud Nebula Review

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(More customer reviews)I have never payed a game as fun as this one in my entire life. yes I know this game is like 14 years old. But I tell even with only the EGA graphics its still a blast.

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Best Seller Series: Starcraft Expansion Set -- Brood War Review

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(More customer reviews)I have been playing this game for 5 or 6 years. It is the best game period. It is somewhat difficult but not impossible to complete. Plenty of levels and missions. Good controls, great graphics for it's time and still stands up well to this day, great sound, good music, great storyline. There is a campaign editor, so after you have finished playing the regular game you can create your own game or play some of the custom games that are already provided. I keep waiting and hoping that Blizzard is going to do a quality sequel to this game and right now I am very disappointed that I have not heard anything to indicate that they are. One more thing, although system requirements does not state it, it will work on Windows XP, it has on mine anyway, without using the compatibility mode I might add. This is a great game do yourself a favor go out and buy it, now!

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StarCraft: Brood War continues the award-winning saga of galactic warfare as the Zerg, Protoss and Terrans struggle for their continued survival. With the shattered Zerg hive torn apart by fierce in-fighting, the Protoss seek to reunite with their Dark Templar brethren and begin the rebuilding of their homeworld, Aiur. Terran Emperor Mengsk I, having achieved his goal of total power over the human colonies, must now turn his attention to both the rising power of the woman he betrayed -- Kerrigan, the infamous Zerg Queen of Blades-- and a conspiracy deep within his own ranks.New characters

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Blitzkrieg Strategy Pack Review

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(More customer reviews)fun game, lots of action and great 3d animation. hours of fun and strategy. real world war 2 action.

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The Blitzkrieg 2 Strategy Pack takes everything gamers loved about the original game and kicks it up to a whole new level. Players take on the role of modeled after their real-world counterparts , while a powerful mission editor allows gamers to create custom missions and maps.

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StarCraft Review

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(More customer reviews)This game is awsome.It's an RTS (Real Time Strategy), meaning that you gather resources, build a base, and raise an ever more powerfull army to destroy your opponent.It's a fast-paced, action-filled, stategic and fun game.The premise is that a group of humans have been stranded in some far corner of the galaxy already inhabited by the mighty Protoss, with the Zerg, classic science fiction hive-bugs, about to attack both.The story is superb, told in three chronological chapters depicting the war from the view of each race.It's full of twists and turns, and the missions scale up in difficulty very nicely.
The best part about Starcraft are the three races.Blizzard has achieved a perfect balnce between them but managed to also keep them utterly different.The Terrans are humans, with tanks, heavy machine guns, nukes and lumbering battlecruisers.The Zerg are a rampaging scourge of giant insects who can be produced quikly and in vast numbers to overwhelm opponents.The Protoss (my personal favorites) are mysterious psychics who use ultra-high tecnology as well as their awsome psionic abilities.Every unit is unique with strengths and weaknesses.For instance, take the first soldier available for each race.The Terran Marine can attack from a distance and stronger than the Zerg's counterpart, the Zergling, but the Zergling is faster and can be produced much faster than the Marine.The Protoss' Zealot is strong, fast, and packs a massive melee punch, but costs twice as much as a Marine and four times that of a Zealot.Every unit has a role throghout the game.Marines constitute a large part of my forces in a game from start to finish.Each race requires individual stratagies that take years (if ever!) to master.This is what makes Starcraft such a tremendous game, and while it will outlast 99% of other games.
The sound is excellent, and the dialogue varies between intreging (sp) and hilarious.The graphics, when they first were released, were the best I had ever seen.I've played this game for yearm and only now are they starting to look outdated, but they're four years old.Besides, if you have time to look at an RTS' graphics, then you're not playing the game! They function and arn't a distraction, which is all that matters in a stratagy game, IMHO.
The coup de gras is the entire interface, which has been plolished to perfection.The curser looks like something space-age, and the moving portraits of units and wire-frame images displaying area damage and hitpoints are just flat-out cool. So is the options menu, with an animated space battle for the single player icon... To select a campaighn you click on a moving avatar of the species in question, which displayes vital statistics of that said species... Little things like this are awsome.I could go on forever.
Multiplayer rules, and has been going strong for years now with no sighns of stopping.Unfortunatly, most of the people are playing maps with limitless resourses and where single-unit attacks actually work, but that's not the game's fault.If you can find a game where people arn't doing either of these, it's a blast.The campaighn editor is also very good, once you learn to use the triggers, which can take time.The cinematics are superb, some seeming as if they belong in a movie like Aliens and not a computer game.If you buy Starcraft, get it's expansion set, Brood War, aswell.It adds alot.
This game's woth it's weight in gold-plated latinum.

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The ultimate collection of the best-selling strategy games.Enter the universe of Starcraft and experience the future of strategic combat. This exlusive set includes the full version of Blizzard's blockbuster hit StarCraft and the critically-acclaimed Starcraft Expansion Set: Brood War.

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Best Seller Series: Starcraft Review

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(More customer reviews)Starcraft is the ultimate real-time strategy game.In a world of games that lose their appeal within a year of release, Starcraft keeps bringing players back.Blizzard Entertainment is known for its excellent RTS-type games such as the Warcraft series, but the company's high water mark is Starcraft.The set-up is that a long lost space colony of humans finds itself in mortal conflict with two alien races, the Zerg (nasty reptiles) and Protoss (ancient psionic warriors).The game allows you to play all three races in turn, and revolves around the collection of resources to buy more units, buildings and technological improvements as you try to fulfill mission objectives.
As we've come to expect from Blizzard, the gameplay itself is superb - intuitive interface, interesting units that complement each other in interesting ways, and graphics that are adequate even if they are showing their age.In my opinion, the balance between the three races is as close to perfection of any game I've played.Each race is utterly distinct and requires completely different strategies to play, but none has an obvious advantage over the others.But where the game really goes over the top is in the storyline.Blizzard is NOT known for great plots.For example, the Warcraft III storyline has some unbelievable plot twists that have to be overlooked to keep playing.In contrast, Starcraft has an absorbing plotline that flows seamlessly throughout the single player campaign and actually made me gasp in astonishment a few times, which has never happened since in an RTS.
I assume that any fan of real-time strategy computer games already has this one.If you have any interest at all in RTS, get this game.If you passionately hate RTS, Starcraft is the best bet to change your mind.

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In the distant future a small group of human exiles have been doomed to fight for survival on the edge of the galaxy. Through military strength, espionage and deceit, a unified Terran government has maintained an uneasy peace. As resources run short, however, these Confederate nations find themselves looking towards the rich worlds of their alien neighbors, the enigmatic Protoss. To further complicate matters, it seems that a previously unknown and deadly species known only as the Zerg has entered Protoss space and is destroying everything in its path. The time for war has come... Rating -ESRB = T Teen

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StarCraft Battle Chest Review

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(More customer reviews)If, by chance, you're reading this and you've never played Starcraft before, just go ahead and skip reading this and buy it. You won't be disappointed.
If you're thinking about buying it for someone else, goahead and buy it: I've given three Battle Chests as gifts and it was a hitevery time for both kids and adults, even to those who hadn't played thiskind of game before.
The Battle Chest is definitely the way to go, asyou'll save money over buying it and Brood War separately and get the stratguides for free (and, to be honest, I don't think the guides are worthhaving unless you're completely clueless about how to beat the game, andthere is information in the strat guides that is blatantly wrong aswell).
I've been playing RTS games since 1997, and in my opinion, this isthe best one ever made. No one has made one that's as fun, has as grippinga storyline and artwork, or depth and replayability of gameplay. It's awork of genius. I've had it for two years and I still play it at least acouple of times a week. There's even one mission left that I haven'tmanaged to conquer without cheating, so the challenge is definitelythere.
What you have to understand about Starcraft is that it's not meantto be a cutting-edge feature-heavy supergame where you can customize thebehavior of your units and give them complex orders. It's meant to be moreof a strategy game like real-time chess, and in this it succeedsbrilliantly. It shares the quality of chess in that there are a limitednumber of units with straightforward abilities, but there are an infinitenumber of things and strategies that you can do with them. To this dayplayers are still inventing new strategies for these units and races.
Theartificial intelligence and pathfinding of the game is the best I've everseen. No RTS game has perfect AI or pathfinding (units getting lost ortangled up on each other or the terrain), but Starcraft's is by far betterthan any others out there. The computer will flatten you time and againunless you're playing competently.
Multiplayer is a complete blast, andmore options are offered than any other RTS game. You can play team gameswhere you and your allies are actually controlling the same units againstthe computer or others, in addition to a wide range of variations likeCapture the Flag, etc.
Blizzard's Battle.net service is free and at anytime of day there are literally thousands of people playing. Internet playis smooth. I've played friends both nationally and internationally with badconnections and low-end computers, and it runs solidly even with theadditional traffic of voice chat like Roger Wilco over 56k!
Blizzard'scontinuing support for the game is also excellent. They release a new mapfor the game every Friday like clockwork, so there are over a hundred new,well-designed maps available for download and replay.
In summary, just asolid, solid, completely fun game. You can't possibly go wrong by pickingup a copy.

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Real-time strategy goes to new levels as three intergalactic species fight for survival. Control the vagabond Terrans, enigmatic Protoss, or the bloodthirsty Zerg as they wage war on the edge of the galaxy. Includes support for Internet play over Battle.net, Blizzard's on-line gaming service.

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