Word: basic
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...While the graphics are vastly improved over the previous Tekkens, given that the gameplay remains basically the same, I can't see much advantage over owning a previous version. They all offer near infinite replayability. And frankly, Tekken 2 had a much better practice area - a key element to mastering the game. Tekken Tag's practice has eliminated some basic help, such as displaying the key combinations you are pushing and assigning musical notes to the keys...
...aware that a basic PS2 does not come with any game or even a memory card or a second controller (both of which retail for $35; games are around $50). All these will be necessary for the simplest kind of fun. A memory card is the most important item, since even basic system configuration information is stored on it. They could at least have had one storage chip in the machine, rather than forcing...
...begin with, are then hobbled with more patients than they can accommodate in already-slim time slots. "You have maybe 10 to 15 minutes per student, and it's very frustrating," says Nancy Schulte, a social worker at Virginia's George Mason University. "You barely have time to ask basic questions." Many students are referred off campus for treatment, and the college's counselors may lack the time--or the right--to check on them...
...reading a scary story to a three-year-old. ("G'day, and welcome to the Dah-h-hk Continent!") His antics give kids--an A.P. target audience--an educational alternative to Dragon Ball Z, and he offers a conservationist message. But his show's lessons are pretty basic--essentially, "Animals can kill you"--interspersed with such arcana as the fact that chameleons change their color. (They're chameleon-like...
...therapies are emerging from two extraordinary decades of intense basic research, a fantastic voyage that scientists have taken into the heart of the cancer cell. "The life and death of cells is being worked out, and the dozens and dozens of molecules in the body that participate in those pathways are now becoming targets for therapy," says Alan Houghton, a medical oncologist and immunologist at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City...