Home Improvement Tool and Toy Reviews

The Air Hogs Havoc Heli Laser Battle Set has now officially been released. You can purchase them directly from Amazon by clicking the link to the right.

What the laser battle set is are 2 of the Air Hogs Havoc Heli’s with infared lasers attached to the front that you can dog fight with. When one Havoc Heli shoots and “hits” the one the engine cuts and the heli spins out of control.

These babies are really fun. How do I know? I have a set! I just got them today and they are really fun. They fly as well if not better then the original Havoc Heli from Air Hogs but have a slightly different body.

Here are some pictures of the heli’s:

Here is the packaging the that Laser Tag Set comes in:

This Laser Tag set from Air Hogs are going to be all the rage this Christmas so you should get yours while they are still in stock.

You can buy them from Amazon.com and ships FREE with Super Saver Shipping.

Get your Air Hogs Havoc Heli Laser Battle set today!

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I have not ranted a while about EA Games so they are overdue.

The reason for my rant? A patch for Battlefield 2 no doubt.

This time the rant involves having to download a 500+mb patch to go from version 1.4 to 1.41. The caption of the patch is “updates any version to 1.41″.

Gee thanks EA for again making things 10 times more difficult then it needs to be.

I swear EA Games must be owned by Microsoft.

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It had been 3 months since I had played Battlefield 2 when I found myself wandering into a local LAN games spot.

I sat down skeptical that it was going to be the old Battlefield 2 that I knew that was fun and non-buggy. My skepticism was melted away as I spent the next hour blowing away people in helicopters and tanks.

So I caved.

I went this past weekend and bought the game for myself (I had been using my brother-in-laws copy previously). I know, 2142 is coming out within the next month but I am not interested at this point. From the people I have talked to it is not that great. Besides I just found out about the POE mod for it and am now playing that. It should keep my occupied for the next 6 months or so.

Does anyone even play 1942 anymore?

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Well I am almost a month late on this but it seams that EA has released a beta version of their 1.4 Patch.

Unfortunately I think that this is too little to late. From the post of the forum that I saw there are only a few servers that actually have the new 1.4 patch some most people cannot even get on.

I wouldn’t know though. It has been 2+ months since I’ve played and to be honest - I do not miss it.

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This is so sweet.

It is a Flash game that is multiple player. Great time waster.

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I really am not waiting for the fix for the 1.3 so I can play, I am waiting to see how long EA Games is going to drag out fixing people’s games so that I can thrash on them along the way.

EA Games finally came out with a Community Update that semi addressed the issues that people are having -

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Over the weekend I checked back to see if EA games had posted a fix for the 1.3 patch that they released lately (See my post - EA Games and the Infamous 1.3 Update). Yet after 2 weeks still nothing from EA Games.

As a recap, the 1.3 update rendered the majority of paying customers in capable of playing Battlefield 2 online. The reason was terrible server performance resulting in a lot of lag. Because of the inability to play online I decided to explorer the single player portion of the game.

I had found a cool web site that several single player maps to download and install to make single player play bearable.

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I came across this over on Google video and had to share.

Note - the voices can be a little annoying but it is still funny.

Battlefield 2 - The Pwned Life

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I sat done to play Battlefield 2 this past weekend and noticed that their were not that may servers available to connect to. That could only mean one thing - EA released an update.

NP I saw as I go to the EA web site and download the incremental patch. I few minutes later I am installed and booting into the game.

The first thing I notice is that it is taking a long time for the server list to update. Then, one it is done my pings for every server are high - way high, about 2-3 times higher then usual.

Not thinking that this is such a big deal I choose a server and the map begins to load. After I spawn I immediately notice the intense lag - lag that is so bad the game is not playable. I check another server or 2 and the same thing.

I then startup a single player game and it crashes to the desktop within 5 minutes. Lovely.

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