Sentences with phrase «american wasteland»

To Bloom who wrote «American Wasteland: How America Throws Away Half of Its Food,» that statistic is oddly «empowering because, as we've seen with recycling, when people wrap their mind around a simple environmental behavior change, that change can make an impact.»

The gritty story focuses on a man named Joel and a young girl named Ellie as the two fight to survive in the American wasteland following a devastating pandemic that has wiped out much of the population.

Garbologist Willian Rathje found that families waste 30 to 60 percent of specialty breads — like buns, biscuits, and bagels — In American Wasteland, Jonathan Bloom reports that «bread and baked goods are by far the most commonly wasted foods at supermarkets,» with fully 9 % going from shelf to garbage can without even stopping in a consumer's kitchen.

Tony Hawk's American Wasteland which takes place during the early 1980's will have you playing as a Midwestern kid who after being fed up with the police, his father and his unfaithful girlfriend decides to go to Los Angeles where he hopes to become a famous skater.

Like previous games American Wasteland will feature a huge licensed soundtrack, which is yet to be announced.

A nice touch in Classic mode is having exactly the same control and moves over your character as you do in the American Wasteland portion of the game.

Tony Hawk's American Wasteland also known as T.H.U.G 3 and Tony Hawk Pro Skater 7 will be the next chapter in the long running and no doubt the most popular extreme sport series ever.

In essence Tony Hawk's American Wasteland (THAW) is really Tony Hawk 7, but Neversoft made the decision a few years ago to evolve the franchise and make it fresh, exciting and new.

Similar to GTA: San Andreas American Wasteland will also have various shops around the city.

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Tony Hawk's American Wasteland is the last true, pure Tony Hawk game as far as we're concerned.

Overall Tony Hawk: American Wasteland is a solid skating / biking experience that I enjoyed, and fans of the Tony Hawk series will continue to enjoy as well.

A story - based, meta - content - laden Underground or American Wasteland this is not.

American Wasteland ends up being yet another sequel that feels more like an expansion pack, but when the levels are this big and well designed, that's not such a bad thing.

Even though I like American Wasteland's country - boy - in - the - city story line much better than last year's World Destruction Tour's, the annual sequels will drive this franchise into the ground if publisher Activision doesn't take a break, and soon.

Tony Hawk: American Wasteland for the Xbox 360 is one of the few launch titles that actually seems to play identical to what we saw on the current generation of consoles.

So what is American Wasteland is a question that I am sure is on many of your minds right now.

So now Neversoft decided to go a different route with their acclaimed series, to the streets of LA in American Wasteland.

Visually Tony Hawk: American Wasteland looks almost identical to what we saw on the Xbox and Playstation 2, even on an HD TV set.

Tony Hawk: American Wasteland for the Xbox 360 unfortunately doesn't take the series to the next generation of Tony Hawk games.

Tony Hawk, since its debut in 1999, has always been a fun game, as even upto American Wasteland I have not found a game that I have not enjoyed.

What Neversoft did try to provide in American Wasteland was the ability to ride the bike, which is a neat idea.

In the end however, if you are a fan of Tony Hawk, you will still finds things to enjoy in American Wasteland.

Overall the whole idea of American Wasteland's story line is not all that new but is still fun none the less.

There is nothing overly unexpected to find in American Wasteland but you will have to complete the same sort of tasks that we all have been accustomed to completing.

The game itself is a combination of gameplay mechanics from the first two games, moving away from the gameplay changes that followed in the wake of Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3, Underground and American Wasteland which is where the franchise began to veer off into oblivion.

The Unreal Engine 4 technology is new, and it looks nice, but the opening record scratch, halftone patterns, and bad alternative rock recall something I'd have bought on Xbox 360 for five bucks because the store didn't have any copies of Tony Hawk's American Wasteland.

If you really want to experience the true greatness that is Tony Hawk's American Wasteland then you'll need to play it on another system.

American Wasteland creates a near - perfect balance that all free roaming games strive to achieve.

As for now we have Tony Hawk American Wasteland... THUG 3 with flair.

American Wasteland takes the Tony Hawk series and goes two steps forwards and one back.

While the gameplay in Tony Hawk's American Wasteland is still sharp, and the game still looks and sounds just fine, this seventh installment just seems to lack that special spark that made the series so much fun in the first place.

Grabs and jumps were mapped to the same button, but they made it work; even the bert slide from American Wasteland returned with a more practical use.

After 2005's American Wasteland, the series underwent some changes, when they decided to drop the stupid and go back to the skating.

If you loved «Breaking Bad,» as I did, you'll find a similar dark eye on the American wasteland in this gorgeous novel.

The topic couldn't be timelier: As more people are going hungry while simultaneously more people are morbidly obese, American Wasteland sheds light on the history, culture, and mindset of waste while exploring the parallel eco-friendly and sustainable - food movements.

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Chased from London's CCTV - bristling streets to the Home Counties, they are finally brought to ground by an acquaintance's betrayal and dragged off to an army base in a high - sierra American wasteland.

It has detective vision, radio towers, skill trees, masked load screens (Tony Hawk's American Wasteland gets no credit for popularizing this in 2005, by the way), and a world map littered with billions of points of interest — all stuff you've seen before.

Hiddleston plays Adam, an underground indie musician who lives in the forgotten American wasteland of Detroit, swimming in vinyl records, antiquated electronics, and vintage guitars dropped off at his grungy house by his innocent «zombie» (human) stoner buddy named Ian (a perfectly casted Anton Yelchin).

Tony Hawk: American Wasteland for the Xbox 360 is one of the few launch titles that actually seems to play identical to what we saw on the current generation of consoles.

He was a cast off in a violet - tinged American wasteland, searching for a new sense of purpose.

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His article «Riddles in the Sand,» in Discover, was named best magazine article in 1998 by the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and his Newsweek article «The Wasteland,» on Russia's plan to accept the world's nuclear waste, was honored by the Overseas Press Club for environmental writing.

Many Americans imagine the border as a dry, punishing wasteland — if they think of it at all.

Straight Outta Compton Film Review by Kam Williams Gritty Raptrospective Chronicles Rise and Demise of Legendary Gangsta» Group Back in the Eighties, the CIA began orchestrating the introduction of crack - cocaine to African - American communities all across America, starting with the South Central L.A.. By the middle of the decade, the epidemic had turned Compton into a godforsaken wasteland rife with drug addiction and crime.

Dead Man (1995) With «Dead Man,» his first period piece, Jim Jarmusch imagined the 19th - century American West as an existential wasteland, delivering a surreal reckoning with the ravages of industrialization, the country's legacy of violence and prejudice, and the natural cycle of life and death.

It's that slipperiness of creation and that psychosis that finds us repeating ourselves by repeating images of ourselves (Multiplicity is a trickier flick than given credit for) which informs a trio of new science - fiction films reaching North American movie screens simultaneously (though only one is American in origin)-- we are the world's new cultural / emotional wasteland and the films of our new millennium reflect that status.

A lovely coming - of - age story, executed in the wasteland of the American dream.

Interrogated and shipped to a composite stalag somewhere in the middle of a frozen wasteland (the film was shot at Milovice in the Czech Republic), Hart encounters stern authoritarian Colonel McNamara (Willis) leading the American POWs and stern authoritarian Obesrt Visser (Marcel Iures) running the camp.

With Dead Man, his first period piece, Jim Jarmusch imagined the nineteenth - century American West as an existential wasteland, delivering a surreal reckoning with the ravages of industrialization, the country's legacy of violence and prejudice, and the natural cycle of life and death.