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    <created-at type="datetime">2009-08-26T22:03:25Z</created-at>
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    <text>All time favorite, along with Half-Life, Fallout and a few others.</text>
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      <name>S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl</name>
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        <name>GSC Game World</name>
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        <description></description>
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        <name>Action</name>
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      <description>S.T.A.L.K.E.R. (Scavengers, Trespassers, Adventurers, Loners, Killers, Explorers, and Robbers) is a non-linear, sandbox-style game. Players can explore the game world, or complete various assignments given by certain NPCs. Players take the role of &quot;The Marked One&quot;, a Stalker with amnesia who is attempting to regain his memories. The Zone presents various dangers.

Gameplay is an RPG/FPS hybrid, though the player does not gain increased powers as in a standard computer RPG. Character advancement is achieved through acquiring and strategically using new equipment and artifacts, rather than enhancing attributes and skills. The role-playing part focuses more on traditional RPG elements, such as storyline and character interaction. However, the game does not allow for extensive variety in regards to conversations. Unlike RPGs such as Fallout, conversation branches are extremely limited and do not significantly influence the course of an event, save accepting or declining a mission.</description>
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  <review>
    <created-at type="datetime">2009-04-20T07:42:44Z</created-at>
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    <rating type="integer">0</rating>
    <text>+ easily extensible
+ very customizable
+ gpl / free
- windows only
- options dialogues (not the main app) gets cluttered when installing lots of plugins. It's no biggie, as others have said: Tedious to customize at first, but when that's done it's ALL good!

My IM should be a real good IRC client, with possibilities of using MSN as well. Miranda gives me this without having to sacrifice a lot of the custom functions for either protocol. In addition I get an app that's easy to customize both in features and looks - lovely!
Here is how mine looks: http://www.bildedump.no/pics/b0afdb09368a472c5c812714d09f6579.png</text>
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      <last-active-at type="datetime">2017-09-05T00:00:55Z</last-active-at>
      <name>Miranda IM</name>
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      <updated-at type="datetime">2009-11-27T21:57:15Z</updated-at>
      <url>http://www.miranda-im.org</url>
      <complete-url>http://wakoopa.com/software/miranda-im</complete-url>
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      <developer>
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        <name>Miranda-IM Team</name>
        <complete-url>http://wakoopa.com/developers/mirandaim-team</complete-url>
      </developer>
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        <description>Communicate with others via chat or instant messengers</description>
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        <name>Messengers &amp; Chat</name>
        <complete-url>http://wakoopa.com/categories/internet/messengers-chat</complete-url>
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      <description>Miranda IM is a multi-protocol instant messenger client for Windows. Miranda IM uses very little memory and is extremely fast. It requires no installation and can be fitted on a single floppy disc. It's powerful plug-in system makes Miranda IM very flexible. Only the most basic features are built in, but there are currently more than 350 free plug-ins available for download that allows users to extend the functionality of Miranda IM.  </description>
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  <review>
    <created-at type="datetime">2008-09-24T17:19:43Z</created-at>
    <id type="integer">13806</id>
    <rating type="integer">0</rating>
    <text>In general I would say most people who bought this game before patch 1.5.0.4 was released will be pissed off about the immense amount of bugs. I had major problems with 1.5.0.3 but have only experienced a couple of bugs and crashes with 1.5.0.4, now it runs pretty nice.

Personally though, I had high expectations for this as I loved the first game in the series. Sadly this is a prequel which plays out on the same maps/levels, so nothing new there - what has changed since the previous game is a) new DX 10 features which are stunning, on DX 9 there are also some enhanced graphics/physics, but this comes at an expense: b) Clear Sky has been seriously bugged, lots and lots of issues which makes the game freeze or completely crash. Not especially fun.

The atmosphere is the same as in the previous game, and if you liked that, you will most likely enjoy this as well - though it really feels a lot less secluded. Where in Shadow of Chernobyl you would trek along for hours alone, fight alone against mutants and factions, you will now work for and possibly join lots of factions etc.

Conclusion:
Buy it if you liked Stalker: SoC, Crysis, Far Cry, or similar games, but make sure to update to newest patch to avoid bugs. The feeling of being alone is less present in this game, but still has some creepy moments and mystique about it.</text>
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      <created-at type="datetime">2008-08-22T13:11:15Z</created-at>
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      <name>S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky</name>
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      <updated-at type="datetime">2009-10-08T12:52:11Z</updated-at>
      <url>http://cs.stalker-game.com/en/</url>
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        <name>GSC Game World</name>
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      <category>
        <description></description>
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        <name>Adventure &amp; RPG</name>
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      <description>A first-person shooter computer game, where the action takes place one year prior to the events of S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl.
Stalker: Clear Sky has its good points and bad points. One the one hand its a much more polished game. The A.I. Is insanely better at tactical combat, especially when it comes to flushing you out of cover with grenades... The UI is much more streamlined. Graphics are improved and the overall game play is much more realistic. On the other hand, the story is very linear and the game, after the latest patch 1.5.07 still suffers from some serious bugs. It doesn't make it unplayable, but almost. and finally the liner game play and some of the story decisions don't play out very well and you feel as though they didn't spend enough time fleshing it out. The end is a disaster as it can be difficult to complete.</description>
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    <created-at type="datetime">2008-09-17T12:54:46Z</created-at>
    <id type="integer">13392</id>
    <rating type="integer">5</rating>
    <text>Superb free app. Love its looks, how simple it is to tag and rate files, and how you can choose to save all info including cover images etc in the id3-tag. The &quot;auto-tag from web&quot; is super nice, and also the many different filters like &quot;last 50 played&quot;, &quot;top rated&quot; etc etc.</text>
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      <name>MediaMonkey</name>
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      <updated-at type="datetime">2009-11-17T20:30:24Z</updated-at>
      <url>http://www.mediamonkey.com</url>
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        <name>Ventis Media Inc.</name>
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      <category>
        <description>Manage your audio and video</description>
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        <name>Management</name>
        <complete-url>http://wakoopa.com/categories/audio-video/management</complete-url>
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      <description>With Mediamonkey you can organize music and edit tags in your audio library. This powerful, intuitive tool can also search online for tags, album art and other metadata and easily save these in the files. MediaMonkey can play MP3s and other audio formats, record CDs into OGG, MP3, FLAC and WMA files, convert MP3s, OGG, FLAC and WMA files into other formats, create playlists and music mixes, synchronize with iPods/MP3 players (converting tracks on-the-fly), etc. etc.
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    <created-at type="datetime">2008-07-01T05:55:33Z</created-at>
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    <rating type="integer">5</rating>
    <text>such an awesome game, can't wait for clear sky!</text>
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      <updated-at type="datetime">2009-11-18T15:48:10Z</updated-at>
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        <name>GSC Game World</name>
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        <description></description>
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        <name>Action</name>
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      <description>S.T.A.L.K.E.R. (Scavengers, Trespassers, Adventurers, Loners, Killers, Explorers, and Robbers) is a non-linear, sandbox-style game. Players can explore the game world, or complete various assignments given by certain NPCs. Players take the role of &quot;The Marked One&quot;, a Stalker with amnesia who is attempting to regain his memories. The Zone presents various dangers.

Gameplay is an RPG/FPS hybrid, though the player does not gain increased powers as in a standard computer RPG. Character advancement is achieved through acquiring and strategically using new equipment and artifacts, rather than enhancing attributes and skills. The role-playing part focuses more on traditional RPG elements, such as storyline and character interaction. However, the game does not allow for extensive variety in regards to conversations. Unlike RPGs such as Fallout, conversation branches are extremely limited and do not significantly influence the course of an event, save accepting or declining a mission.</description>
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