Sentences with phrase «wasteland known»

The film stars Aleksandr Kaidanovsky as the Stalker, a guide who takes a writer and a scientist through a wasteland known as the Zone.

After a fictional second explosion at Chernobyl, the land surrounding the nuclear plant has become a wasteland known as the Zone, where mutant creatures and humans roam and the laws of nature no longer apply.

The expansion is set in the icy wasteland known as «The Cut», where the bravest hunters of the Banuk tribe test themselves against the elements and the machines, but only few live to tell the tale.

SMT: Digital Devil Saga explores the wasteland known only as The Junkyard, where tribes are locked into constant battles with each other.

Here we would see some of the early characters — Dux (the duck), Selma (human), and Bormin (the boar)-- head out and attack a small compound out in the wasteland known as The Zone.

However all of this comes with a price as the new fuel begins to wreak havoc with the Earth's weather systems, irrecoverably changing much of the Earth's surface into a death - ridden wasteland known as «The Dust.»

This vista is all the more impressive in that one views it down a stark wasteland known as Hurricane Alley, which makes up the first 100 meters or so of the Olympic downhill.

Not exact matches

No matter where you go on the Internet, it's a barren wasteland of any Gosling - related material.

Knowing our limitations, the deceit of superficiality, the terrors of fatigue, we can yet help nurture liberated zones in a cultural wasteland — places where students and faculty can come together and face the encompassing dark as faithful and empowered persons.

(3) this team is rotting from the inside out and it's going to take some unprecedented moves on the part of this board and the fans to facilitate the necessary changes... this club must rid itself of it's absentee billionaire landlord before we become just another sporting wasteland in this man's collection of flailing clubs... when this is done it will expose just what exactly has been going on behind the scenes and I'm afraid of what will be uncovered because if Wenger's business model is as antiquated as his football philosophy it could look an awful lot like and old Monty Python sketch in the backroom... we need to replace the owner with someone who actually cares about this club and isn't afraid to wear their emotions on his or her sleeves or spend their own money to achieve greatness... this new owner needs to find someone who represents the same sort of cutting edge that Wenger represented in his early years then pair that individual with someone who knows how to conduct transfers in the modern era... then and only then will we find a way to escape the malaise that has permeated our once storied club for way too many years

Because of what they have found, scholars can no longer regard ancient Central Asia as a wasteland notable primarily as the origin of nomads like Genghis Khan.

This became clearer as I progressed deeper into this strange, alien world, where I would face creatures that succumbed to the great poison known as Phazon in inhospitable environments like the fiery depths of Magmoor Caverns and the icy wastelands of Phendrana Drifts.

Leaving the only home you've ever known, you emerge from the Vault into the harsh Wasteland sun to search for your father, and the truth.

No, sitting through the likes of Prisoners of the Lost Universe and Warriors of the Wasteland is unforgivable.

An asteroid has crashed into the Earth, and the world we once knew has turned into a wasteland of perpetual winter.

Pretty - boy wizard Howl (voiced by Christian Bale, who is not, as it happens, known for his vocal expressiveness) lives in the film's titular ball — itself perched atop four chicken legs like a mechanized extrapolation of the Russian Baba Yaga myth (married to Harlan Ellison's «Shoppe Keeper» short story), eternally wandering a mist - shrouded wasteland as silly townsfolk speculate that he's out to eat the hearts of pretty women.

Yeah no, no one has time to get nasty in this zombie wasteland.

As he wanders the wasteland, he meets and befriends Kyle Reese (Anton Yelchin), the man fans know will someday become Connor's father.

After losing an arm and a leg to a ravenous cannibal, Arlen kills her captor and escapes, navigating her way across a Texas wasteland occupied by the muscular Miami Man (Jason Momoa), a mysterious hermit (Jim Carrey) and a revered figure known as «The Dream» (Keanu Reeves).

The log line for her follow - up, The Bad Batch is pretty much all you need to know: «A dystopian love story in a Texas wasteland set in a community of cannibals.»

is pretty much all you need to know: «A dystopian love story in a Texas wasteland set in a community of cannibals.»

While providing you the comfort of knowing you'll never get stuck in the middle of this type of barren wasteland, these tires are notably loud and provide little in the way of traction when cornering or given a heavy dose of throttle.

Life is unsustainable on this barren wasteland — unless you're talking about life as it is known to the speed - freak nation.

The wasteland world is known as «Psyren», and people «chosen» by the entity known as Nemesis Q are transported to Psyren to play a «game».

In case you missed the movie, here's all you need to know to read Judge Dredd: The title character is a law enforcer (police, judge, and executioner all in one) in a massive, post-apocalyptic future city, Mega-City One, which is surrounded by a vast radioactive wasteland, the Cursed Earth.

In one of the first 21st century Russian novels to probe the legacy of the Soviet prison camp system, a young man travels to the vast wastelands of the Far North to uncover the truth about a shadowy neighbor who saved his life, and whom he knows only as Grandfather II.

Contemporary novels can often skip this unless the setting is unusual, but any speculative genre [5] will need to give some basics so we know if we're in a medieval fantasy village, a post-apocalyptic wasteland, or a radioactive cupcake factory.

Civilization as we know it ended more than fifteen years ago, leaving as it's legacy barren wastelands called the Deadland and a new -LSB-...]

While most authors I know think of slush as something to be avoided at all costs — a nightmarish wasteland policed by twenty - year - old interns — it's also where some of today's most interesting and successful writers got their start.

They claim that Turkey ahs a massive stray dog problem to con gullible buyers who know nothing about the middle east and believe it to be a massive wasteland of illiterate people.

Food and travel writer Brad Johnson joins us to talk about the unknown foodie hot spots in the Newport community, and Island Hotel Executive Chef Marc Johnson elaborates on some unexpected and surprising ways that his food represents Orange County, which is no longer a gastronomic wasteland.

Sure, you can replay the campaign but the fun is taken out of it when you already know what's coming, and without some sort of skirmish mode, challenge mode or anything there just isn't much of a reason to come back to the icy wasteland of Frostpunk.

Despite its dreary setting, there's plenty of color to be found in the wasteland if you know where to look.

After the commercial failure of a great many games released in the late Nineties, it was no longer profitable to merely indulge storytelling and the genre went through a decade long wasteland with only a few good titles to tide over the fans.

Dite, this hellish environment, is a desert wasteland occupied by crystal - headed zombies known as Wanderers.

The unanimously - detested non-standard arenas that are Starbase ARC and Wasteland have had an overhaul like Neo Tokyo not so long ago, and now feature a rectangular shape without walls that curve like Satan's cheekbones (you know what I mean).

Creatures When dropping Toki in a nest, birds now have a «cooldown», so they won't instantly pick you up again when walking out of the nest Birds don't stop anymore when they sense vibration, making them less annoying when accidentically stomping near them No more random sorting of creatures: they all appear on their assigned depth value, preventing smaller creatures from sometimes getting lost behind bigger creatures Fixed the «spawning multiple camera birds» bug Slug corpses can't kill anymore, so no more accidentally walking into them and dying Bugs When stomped, berrybugs and copybugs now always hop the same distance (3 tiles), making their behavior more predictible Berrybugs now briefly stop if they detect an edge above their heads while walking on the floor, making it easier to stomp them onto a wall Copybugs and berrybugs get stunned when they're in the trajectory of a to be spawned bubble, so they can't hop / roll away before bubble is spawned Glowy berrybugs now use the same turn animation as normal berrybugs, so no more faster glow bugs Frogs and bubbles Bubbles now prioritize Toki Tori over other entities, so no more accidental berrybug ballooning Added a small delay before catching an entity in a bubble to allow for catching Toki Tori, even if he's a little further away than an entity Added possibility to queue a «turn by whistle» while the frog is running towards a berrybug, so you don't have to wait before being able to let the frog face the desired direction Fixed a problem where a fat frog won't belch anymore Achievements In - menu achievements system, including progress achievements Added a number of new achievements Tokidex completion is now a progress achievement (you can see how far along you are) Fixed the Fried Chicken achievement, so it's less hard to get All electrocuted entities now count for the X-Ray Enthusiast achievement Menu Completely new, streamlined and fast to access menu system Ability to set language from menu New font Graphics Improved presentation of telepathic Ancient Frog messages, fixed a problem where sometimes they'd spawn multiple times Fixed black flickering when buttonbashing during fades and level transitions Screenfades are now 100 % black Added button prompts to the first time you need to use whistle and stomp Areas and puzzles Added l - ife area for Ife < 3 Added an extra landing stone in the wasteland area Added more snow globes: — RRB - Water mountain approach: berrybug in the «pro» puzzle can no longer be lost Water mountain top: frog for Ancient Frog puzzle now starts bloated, added light to make «pro» puzzle easier to execute Shaft top: Small tweak to make sure berrybug isn't killed by the slugs midway through the level Water cave: made the light shaft where you need to whistle the hermit crab a bit wider, created hole for frogs at end of level to prevent them from falling down, made some «pro» puzzles a bit more forgiving Dark forest: lowered warp when entering dark area, so it's easier to travel up with a bubble Lava cave: improved bat puzzle Meadow: made some pro puzzles less difficult Hideout: removed alternative solution for Ancient Frog puzzle Descent: made it easier to pick up fat frog at beginning

An asteroid has crashed into the Earth, and the world we once knew has turned into a wasteland of perpetual winter.

We haven't had a community manager in a while and I know that some members of our community have gone feral or started barbaric clans to rule the wastelands of our forums.

Magic Carpet Dungeon Keeper Dune (Westwood RTS + others) Command and Conquer (Red Alert, Generals, 3, 4 already done) Wing Commander Bioforge Cybermage Bad Blood Wasteland Strike Commander Shadowcaster Lands of Lore No One Lives Forever Descent Doom Heretic / Hexen Marathon Unreal Duke Nukem 3D (or Duke Nukem in general) Shadow Warrior Any pre-Half Life FPS (particularly weird IBM PC stuff) Strife X-Com (and X-Com type games) Jagged Alliance Corridor 7 Star Wars Dark Forces Thief Startopia Mechwarrior

With vehicular combat, car customisation, RPG upgrades, and hand - to - hand scraps in the wasteland, it will will no doubt keep you busy for a while.

After the fourth installment (Fallout New Vegas) in the longstanding franchise in 2010, players around the globe will no doubt be ready for more vault dwelling and wasteland roaming action when the fifth installment in the beloved series hits store shelves this November.

If only I knew how wrong I was because surviving out in the wasteland is excruciatingly difficult especially on harder difficulty settings.

Set in a post-apocalyptic future, the world is a wasteland after an asteroid crashed into the planet and devastated the Earth as we know it.

To help shape and direct the existing narrative of System Shock, we've enlisted the help of Chris Avellone, who is best known for his work on a number of role - playing games, including; Fallout: New Vegas, Wasteland 2, Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II, Planescape: Torment, and Fallout 2.

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.

Driven to the brink of extinction in ice - covered wastelands, humankind fights to survive, from the deadly elements to the hostile alien creatures known as the Akrid.

Over Memorial Day weekend, a select few eschewed beaches and mountains traversing through a barren wasteland to a Mecca in West Texas known as Ballroom Marfa.

I'll accept that land - use forcings are harder to get, especially since around that time it is believed the Native Indians in the North American central plateau were burning vast stretches of forested plains (which are wastelands today as a result), which must have had some sort of climate consequences, and who knows for sure what was going on in the far east, Oceana, Africa, South America and Australia?

I know when you looked out at the hundreds of miles of wasteland that is the tar sands development you knew it was wrong.