Robert Beardwell's Geek Page!

Today half terms starts :D, a whole week off were i think i will do no work, sit around play games and post on this site. Its great o have some time off after all the photography, physics and maths work i have been doing over the last 5-6 weeks. College can be a hard work sometimes. Well five days of relaxation i will enjoy i hope other people are getting their days off as well :D, Enjoy because i certainly will.

Star Trek legacy is a strategy game which involves you taking command of a fleet on star trek battleships in a real time battle against other enemy ships on big detailed maps. Before it was released, people were excited and just couldn't wait for it. But when it came out and people bought it, they seemed to be disappointed because of the hard controls and short campaign mode, but I say why? Personally I think this game brilliant and I just don't see why people hate it. I am a hardcore Star trek… Continue

Following the blog yesterday about Chris Sawyers Locomotion (PC) i felt i needed to write a review to let people know about the game, its a pretty old (well not really) now, made in 2004. It still has a large group of fans creating mods and extras for it so i wouldn't say dead. The game is a tycoon like strategy game were you have to build a transport company connecting many towns and industries on a giant map. The game uses the same technology as Roller Coaster Tycoon which was a big seller in… Continue

Do The Locomotion, as i like to say, Chris Sawyer one of the greatest computer games designers pull one out of the hat for this, Locomotion could not be better in my mind.

For me it all started about 7 years ago, in PC World when i first came across the ancestor of tycoons to come, Transport Tycoon a game that had never been seen before, which grahpics which may look a 90s today (hence not brilliant). But that game was the start of what was to come. Even though it didn't have the rights to actu… Continue

Just before Christmas i spent many a hour looking through all the different digital SLR cameras, to see which one would suit me the best. I was looking at the bottom end of the range around the £300 mark, the two main makes i was looking at was of course Canon And Nikon. This include the Cannon EOS 400D and the Nikon D40 each camera with equal pros and cons that would make a decision hard. In My family we have always been Nikon people, having owned Nikon Coolpix camera a D50 and F55, so as you w… Continue