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Authentic

Artist: Authentic

   Genre(s):
Other

Discography:

Patchwork Landscape

Year: 2004
Tracks: 14

'Sherlock Holmes: Nemesis' PC game a touch above 'elementary'

Gamers enter into a battle of wits between Sherlock Holmes - accompanied of course by assistant Dr. Watson - and notorious master thief Arsene Lupin, who is attempting a daring series of cheeky robberies in London, England.

It's up to you - in the role of Holmes and often Dr. Watson - in the PC adventure game "Sherlock Holmes: Nemesis" to unravel his plans.

Set in London during the summer of 1895, "Sherlock Holmes: Nemesis" (rated Everyone 10+) does a fine job surrounding you with various British landmarks including Buckingham Palace, the National Gallery and the British Museum.

"Sherlock Holmes: Nemesis," published by Toronto's The Adventure Company and developed by Frogwares studio, is a 3D-based point-and-click adventure game title inspired by the marvellous works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

Anyone who's read "The Hound of the Baskervilles" or short stories such as "The Adventure of the Dancing Men" will immediately recognize the insightful humour of Holmes and the forever helpful Watson. Both characters are recreated in the game with a fairly accurate flair.

The story itself is classic Sherlock Holmes - a daring thief has announced he'll steal five priceless objects and it's up to you to stop him. In gaming terms this means solving many puzzles and searching for clues through various London-themed scenarios.

The many minor and major puzzles you're faced with are presented in forms most adventure gamers are used to - using a magnifying glass to examine footprints, measuring those footprints with tape, calculating numbers used for combination locks, combining materials to unlock new areas.

Beyond some of the head-scratching puzzles, what makes "Sherlock Holmes: Nemesis" memorable is the smooth movement.

The interface is similar to a first-person shooter - you see the game world in 3D from the perspective of the character you're playing - sometimes Holmes, sometimes Watson. It makes running around the museums and London streets much easier than, say, having to always click where you want your character to move.

The game also features a map system that enables you move around quickly to various locations - at least it helps - but you still end up spending many hours wandering around scanning for clues.

Regular progression puzzles tend to be on the difficult side - even gamers used to a challenge will likely experience more than a few head-scratching moments.

Expect to get frequently stumped.

The beautiful violin and piano pieces create a pleasant mood, conducive to long riddle-solving sessions, and the detailed characters, beautiful galleries and cobblestoned streets are a notch above most adventure games. It all comes with a price of course - the required 128MB video card hardly taxes hardcore gaming systems but is higher than most games in the genre.

While not exactly elementary, "Sherlock Holmes: Nemesis" is tailor-made for hardcore PC adventure gamers and the legions of Sherlock Holmes fans.

News from �The Canadian Press, 2008

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U.K.

Artist: U.K.

   Genre(s):
Rock
   Other

Discography:

Night After Night

Year: 1979
Tracks: 9

United Kingdom

Year:
Tracks: 8

Danger Money

Year:
Tracks: 6

Styles P

Artist: Styles P

   Genre(s):
Rap: Hip-Hop

Discography:

The Ghost Sessions

Year: 2007
Tracks: 15

Super Gangster (Extraordinary Gentleman)

Year: 2007
Tracks: 19

Independence

Year: 2007
Tracks: 12

Time Is Money

Year: 2006
Tracks: 12

Strongly associated with his mathematical group, the LOX (aka D-Block), Styles managed a sporadic solo life history on the side. Born David Styles on November 28, 1974, in Queens and elevated in Yonkers, he united with childhood friends Jadakiss and Sheek to form the LOX in 1994. The terzetto went on to signaling with Puff Daddy's disk label, Bad Boy. The LOX guested on legion Bad Boy-affiliated songs and tied recorded an album of their possess, Money, Power & Respect (1998), which yielded a hit single of the same refer. The LOX left Bad Boy before long later to bring together the Ruff Ryder camp, where the trio's style of hardcore tap fit better alongside other rugged rappers such as DMX. Ruff Ryder released the second base LOX album, We Are the Streets (2000), followed by solo albums for each of the members. Styles' solo debut, A Gangster and a Gentleman (2002), was light-emitting diode by the Swizz Beatz-produced bump off single "Good Times." Four eld later, he returned under the charge Styles P as Ruff Ryders released his much-delayed sophomore album, Time Is Money (2006), in December. Almost exactly one year from that date, signed to Koch Records, the rapper issued his third studio full-length, Super Gangster (Extraordinary Gentleman) (2007).

Keith Emerson

Artist: Keith Emerson

   Genre(s):
Pop

Discography:

Christmas Album

Year: 2000
Tracks: 10

Throughout his calling with the Nice, Emerson, Lake & Palmer, and as a solo artist, Keith Emerson has proved himself mayhap the superlative, most technically complete keyboardist in sway history. For all his repute as an innovator and master of classically influenced rock, Emerson (born November 1, 1944, in the English township of Todmorden) began his life history playing R&B; the Nice got their first crowing break off patronage soul vocaliser P.P. Arnold in 1967. Independently of Arnold, the Nice carven out a niche in the entrant prog stone drive, with Emerson's classical flourishes and flamboyant showmanship (flinging knives at his keyboard, etc.) ahead the way. After the Nice's dissolution, Emerson fleshed out his musical ideas to their fullest with Emerson, Lake & Palmer, which debuted in 1970 and had a series of highly successful albums end-to-end the tenner. Emerson made his solo debut in 1976 with the single "Honkie Tonk Train Blues," which polish off the U.K. Top 30, only did non pursue a solo life history in businesslike until after ELP's 1980 dissolution. Emerson first scored the films The Inferno (1980) and Nighthawks (1981), only did non return until 1985, when he released Honkey. 1986 base Emerson active in a revamped ELP -- this meter with drummer Cozy Powell -- only still determination time to track record the solo LP Murderock. In 1987, Emerson released Harmageddon/China Free Fall, and the following year, he undertook a contrive with Carl Palmer and songwriter Robert Berry. Emerson, Lake & Palmer reunited in 1992 to criminal record unexampled material and tour, just when this venture proven less successful than hoped, Emerson announced his retirement from the music concern in 1994. That retirement was transient, though, as Emerson went on to release the occasional accumulation of new material or appear onstage. He tied reunited with Nice bandmates Brian Davison and Lee Jackson for a show in Glasgow, Scotland, in 2002 (Vivacitas). He penned an autobiography, Pictures of an Exhibitionist, in 2004 and received the compiling treatment from Castle Records in 2005 with the two-disc Hammer It Out: The Anthology.

Kosmonova

Artist: Kosmonova

   Genre(s):
Dance
   Trance

Discography:

Raumpatrouille (US001) Retail Vinyl 2004

Year: 2004
Tracks: 3

My Boy Lollipop - Ocean

Year: 2004
Tracks: 2

Supernova

Year: 1998
Tracks: 15

Ayla

Year: 1997
Tracks: 4

DJ/remixer/producer Michael Nehrig (born in 1970), better known as Kosmonova, emerged in 1996 as part of the development of the German techno and hard-core scene of the early '90s with an acrid house/techno-inflected single called Raumpatrouille (Space Patrol). A class after, Olaf Dieckmann co-produced his moment stumble highborn Have Me Away, followed by Ayla and Fiocco's Celebrate. In 1998, Kosmonova recorded "Singin' in My Mind," along with ex-Culture Beat Tania Evans, delivery off his debut record album called Supernova. DJ Mike Brings joined him to grow Acidulent Folk 2000.

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