Giants: Citizen Kabuto is a third-person shooter video game with real-time strategy elements for Microsoft Windows. It was the first project for Planet Moon Studios comprising former Shiny Entertainment employees who had worked on the game MDK. The game went through four years of development before Interplay Entertainment published it on December 6, 2000, and followed up with a PlayStation 2 port in 2001. MacPlay published the Mac OS X port earlier in the same year. The subtitle "Citizen Kabuto" refers to the thundering behemoth who is one of the playable characters in the game. Players can also take on the roles of jet pack-equipped and heavily armed Meccaryns, and amphibious spellcasting Sea Reapers; and challenge each other in multiplayer games. The single-player mode is framed as a sequential story, and puts the player through missions, several of which test the player's reflexes in action game-like puzzles, to teach the abilities of each playable race. Game critics praised the game for its state of the art graphics, humorous story, and success in blending in one genre with another. Criticisms of the game centered on crippling software bugs and lack of an in-game save feature. The critics also rated its console version as technically inferior to its PC versions. The game sold poorly for both Windows and PlayStation 2, although it enjoyed a successful launch for its small Mac OS X market.
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1770:
The pelting of British soldiers with snowballs soon escalated into a riot in Boston, Massachusetts, leaving at least five civilians dead. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Massacre
1824:
Britain officially declared war on Burma, beginning the First Anglo–Burmese War. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Anglo%E2%80%93Burmese_War
1850:
The Britannia Bridge (pictured), a tubular bridge of wrought iron rectangular box-section spans crossing the Menai Strait between the island of Anglesey and the mainland of Wales, opened. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Britannia_Bridge
1872:
American entrepreneur and engineer George Westinghouse patented the air brake for trains to stop more reliably. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/air_brake_%28rail%29
1946:
The term "Iron Curtain", describing the symbolic, ideological, and physical boundary dividing Europe into two separate areas during the Cold War, was popularized by former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill during a speech at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri, USA. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Curtain
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mosey (v): 1. (mainly US, dialectal) To amble; to walk or proceed in a leisurely manner.
2. (mainly US, dialectal) To set off, get going; to start a journey http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/mosey
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