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Based on the 1983 movie of the same title, Scarface promises to be unlike anything you’ve seen on a single player action/adventure game before. It creates a little twist to the ending of the movie, and then moves on from there. After being held captive by Sosa’s men, Tony vows to take his revenge and won’t stop at nothing until he gets it. Aside from revenge, he also wish to reclaim his position as Miami’s ultimate drug dealer.

All throughout the game, Tony will have to gain turfs and purchase fronts for his drug trades. In the process, he must be able to maintain his empire and make more money out of selling drugs. To make this possible, Tony would have to bring down his enemies and increase his reputation level. As rival gangs will try to dominate the city under your control, you have to make sure to protect them and continue buying businesses to front your drug deals. It works in a chain of some sorts as the more money you got, you increase your power, and an increase in power will also boost your reputation level.

From the start, you will only have limited options. As your reputation is key to rebuilding your empire, you have to complete missions, buy fronts and exotic items to slowly build your reputation. But you will need money to be able to buy things, and you can get them by selling cocaine. Eventually, when your reputation level has increased tremendously, you can have an almost unlimited access to any sort of weapon or vehicle that you need.

You’d start off by selling drugs to street dealers, then move up to large suppliers where you can earn bigger money. Once you have also purchased fronts where you can distribute your drugs, money will just come to you. This will displease your rival gangs, leading them to plot on bringing down your front businesses. You might need the help of a henchman and employ surveillance to help protect your investments.

There will be four turfs in the city of Miami and in each turf, you would have to obtain different fronts. However, some of these fronts are already controlled by certain gangs. You will have to eliminate your rival gangs so you can explore the rest of the city and find new turfs to explore. Just talk your way through the managers so you will gain their trust and you can eventually do business with them. In a separate islands is where cocaines are produced and where you will be making deals with certain large suppliers. As soon as you have secured your fronts and a warehouse, you can smuggle your supply of cocaine from the island to there.

As we have mentioned a while ago about the need to protect your fronts, you will need quite a lot of guns for that. At the start, you’ll have access to only a limited number of guns in your arsenal but you’ll soon increase your options as you also increase your reputation. With higher reputation, you’d have a wide array and good selection of guns like hand guns, automatic rifles, shotguns and rocket launchers. And as if that wasn’t great enough, you can also adjust its accuracy, silencing mechanics, and some other options to make your attack deadlier.

When you are a drug lord fighting off rival gangs, and engaging in fierce gunfire, you are sure to attract police on your way. When you have committed certain unlawful acts, you need to reduce the cops’ heat on you by paying them off. But you have to make sure that you keep the heat of the police in check, or it will cost you quite a lot of money.

And when it comes down to the worst, you will be forced to outrun the police and you got to have a set of wheels to make sure you keep them at bay. You would not ruffle feather with the police some more by stealing a car, so you should get a phone call and have a driver bring in your own car to help you get out of trouble. Only when you have gained enough reputation will you be able to buy and handle extremely fast cars. And from a wide selection of potential cars to use, each have their own traits that sets them apart from the others. For example, you have a speedy car that does not offer much protection or a well-protected car that can be a real drag.

When it comes to battling your enemies, do not fret when you feel like the gang seems just too many to handle. Tony is equipped with a rage meter that builds up with every act you perform using the “balls”. This balls can be earned through skillful driving, pedestrian conversations, and taunting your victims. If the meter is filled up, Tony becomes extremely powerful and he can attack multiple enemies at once, as well as acquire the health of every enemy he has killed. The effects of the rage meter lasts for quite a short span of time, but it can be enough to let you out of a really bad situation.

When you have significantly increased your ball levels, femme fatales will appear on your map. If you try to meet them convince them to stay at your mansion, they will help upgrade your health, rage meter, and stamina. This is of course aside from the fact that these femme fatales would be a nice addition to Tony’s growing collection of exotic items. With every purchase of these exotic items, you will also be able to increase your reputation depending of course on the price and rarity of the item bought.

One great weapon that Tony has in his arsenal is his intimidation meter. Oftentimes, it will work to his advantage by acquiring some great rates in the bank, settle a lucrative drug deal, and squeeze his way out of a potential bust by the cops. All you need to do is be able to time your press and release of the button as soon as the meter fills up. Just make sure you don’t press the button too short or too long, for you might end up with an extremely bad drug deal or lose your money to the cops.

Moving over to the technical aspects of the game, as much as the gameplay is as close to the movie as it can get, so are the overall look of the game. When dealing with drugs and all that underground businesses, you need to be able to create a mood for that through the environment. And what better place to set that than in Miami? The game was able to recreate Miami into the world of Scarface game.

Being a major part of the game, sounds can either make or break it for the game. For Scarface, the voice acting is simply astounding. There just seems to be a great connection between the voice acting and the actual events on the game. Hats off to those actors who lend their voices in this game. And also, not failing to mention that this game is also geared with some of the best bands and artists out there. The game uses the official soundtrack of the movie, and hence it can be quite a similar experience altogether-you know, playing the game and watching the movie-the only difference being in the game, you have control over Tony.

If you haven’t got enough of the movie, this might be a great way to fill in on more of the action/adventure feel that Scarface has delivered. Sosa’s betrayal does not bring you down, and although your empire has been snatched away from you, you are determined more than ever to rebuild it and gain power of it. If there is anything that could take you right into the world of drug lords and see how it works, you have come to the right place. Join Tony’s adventures as he proves he deserves to be on the top.

In Bioshock Infinite, Handyman plays an integral part as a bouncer that his main job is to protect Columbia from any attack and threat of other people outside the city. In this game, Handyman is also one of many villains that will hold back Booker from entering to the city of Columbia. Talking about his strength, Handyman is a really tough villain that can cause such great damages to Booker and even punch him to death.

However, even though this big fat enemy possesses such a great power in his 2 giant hands, in Bioshock Infinite, Handyman proved can be defeated if you can combine all of Booker’s strengths, from his big guns and telekinesis powers, and then optimize the use of Skyline to avoid Handyman whenever he starts attacking you back.

In this article, there are some facts about Handyman that you probably should know about. And if you happen to have some sort of problems when facing him in this game, here you’ll find out about how to defeat Handyman and what is the best way to fight him in this game.

Who is Handyman and What is His Role in Columbia?

First of all, you need to know about who Handyman really is. In this latest installment of Bioshock Infinite, Handyman is narrated as a really big guy that all over his body is made from steel. So from his overall appearance, we can see how Handyman looks like a giant robot. However, even though most of his body is made from metal, there are 2 parts in his body that still humanize him, his head and his heart.

As a matter of fact, these 2 parts are the only genuine human parts that can be found in Handyman’s body. So despite his robot appearance, it’s good to know that he can still think as a human and has a feeling of a normal human. But then again, despite these 2 human parts that still make him a normal person, Handyman is still a dangerous villain that has been programmed by Comstock to stop and kill Booker every time they meet each other in the battle.

Handyman Appearance in Bioshock Infinite

Handyman has 2 really giant hands. These 2 doll alike hands are capable to create such great damages to your health bar every time his jab lands in Booker’s face. That’s not so surprising given that Handyman has a really huge body, plus he is made from steel. So no wonder if he possesses such a great power in his hands.

As shown in this latest Bioshock game, Handyman appears for the very first time when Booker enters the floating city of Columbia. In that part of the game, we can see how Handyman is being “showcased” in front of the people in Columbia on the stage, similar like a “Freak Show” stage where weird people are gathered around in one place to show off their weirdness to people.

The good thing is, in that moment, Booker, who hasn’t been recognized as “the False Sheppard” by the public of Columbia, doesn’t need to face Handyman yet in the direct battle. However, the bad news comes around when Booker finally has to meet Handyman face-to-face in the real battle after people of Columbia find out about the initial of “AD” or Anna Dewitt on Booker’s hand.

What is Handyman’s job in Columbia?

In Bioshock Infinite, Handyman is given a job by Comstock to protect Columbia along with the people from the attacks and threats of Vox Populi, some group of people that are against “The Founders”, the group from Columbia government led by Comstock, and want to change Columbia as a new better place where all people, including black and Irish people, can be treated equally without any discrimination of race, tribe, or anything.

Besides protecting Columbia from Vox Populi’s attacks, Handyman also becomes one of Booker’s enemies, big bosses to be exact. Handyman is also tasked by Comstock to keep Booker away from Columbia and most importantly, from Elizabeth.

What is Handyman’s Main Strength?

The biggest strength possessed by Handyman in this game is the power to knock enemies down with his 2 giant hands. This is the reason why you as Booker has to stay in far distance whenever you fight against Handyman in the battle because if he manages to land his jab in Booker’s face, then most of the time, his giant hands can cause such great damages to your health bar.

The other strength of Handyman is his ability to hack the Skyline and stream an electric shock to this track. Well, the Skyline is the roller coaster track that is spreading out across the sky of Columbia. This skyline is mostly used to transport cargoes, while people with grappling hook, including Booker, can also use the Skyline to travel quickly from one place to other place without walking.

However, when facing this big villain, you must be really careful when jumping to the skyline because Handyman is capable to shock you to death when he turns the skyline into the electrocuted track.

How to Defeat Handyman?

There are many ways to defeat Handyman. The most obvious way is definitely by using your big guns like shotgun or other powerful weapons at your disposal. However, using only big guns to fight Handyman will not be effective because Handyman is really strong and he can quickly bounce back to attack Booker with his big fat hands. Therefore, before facing Handyman in person, you must firstly master the controls of Booker and knows how to use all of Booker’s weapons, including his telekinesis powers.

Using the Skyline

Besides depending your life to your weapons and telekinesis powers, the Skyline can also be really helpful to avoid any attack from Handyman. But you must always be well aware whenever Handyman uses his electric power to hack the Skyline. This will turn the Skyline into such a big danger to you as this electrocuted track will suck most of your health bar to death. So every time you see any electric spark on the Skyline, the best thing to do is to jump away from the skyline and make a fast landing to the ground or any platform around you.

Using the Guns and Telekinesis Powers

And as I mentioned earlier, one of the best guns to kill Handyman is shotgun. If you happen to own this weapon at your disposal, then you better use it when facing Handyman. Aim your target to his heart as this is the most fragile element in his body. Not to mention, even though the damages created by telekinesis powers are not that huge to Handyman, this magic power can still be useful to attack Handyman every time you have a chance to use it.

Elizabeth’s Help Always Comes in Handy

Not only that, besides using guns, telekinesis powers and the Skyline, you can also depend on Elizabeth’s help to open the tears in order to bring some goodies from other different realities to Booker’s reality, such as: medics, bullets, armors, walls to defend and even decoys to distract Handyman from attacking you.

Well, if you can combine all of those Booker’s strengths and know when to jump to the skyline to avoid Handyman’s attacks, plus with the help from Elizabeth, then you have a huge chance to defeat Handyman in any direct battle with him.

What about you? Do you have any other trick that you usually use to fight Handyman in Bioshock Infinite? If you do, then feel free to share your town trick on the comment section below.

Have you ever been faced with a situation when your target ran away while you were preparing your shot? If so, you will have wondered if there is any way to resolve this issue. Consider that you need to allow a period of time in which to determine the distance to the target if it’s far away, and that then you need to find an appropriate point for holdover or to adjust the elevation knob. After all, you need to find the most comfortable position from which to make a precise shot. You can consider yourself lucky if the game stays in the same position while all this preparation is taking place. But what if it doesn’t? The timing in such a situation is quite critical.

Redfield has solved this problem. The Revenge hunting scopes series features the unique Accu-Ranger reticle. With this reticle you can quickly determine the distance to the target and make your shot without any delay, whilst keeping your eyes on the target at all times. It may sound like some expensive rifle scope with laser rangefinder − but, in fact, it’s not. The range estimation performs by virtue of the scope’s optics and mechanics, and that is what makes this scope affordable. Let’s see how the Accu-Ranger reticle works.

The upper vertical post has hash marks called brackets. Each of these brackets refers to a specific animal. All you need to do is to turn the magnification ring until an animal’s body appears between the bracket and center of the reticle. There is another horizontal line that moves along the upper vertical post while you are changing the magnification. The vertical post has numbers from two to six, which refer to 200, 300, 400, 500 and 600 yards. When you have got your game between the brackets, look at the upper horizontal line. If it has stopped at number four, it means that your game is 400 yards away. Now just use an appropriate aiming point for hold over and make your shot.

As you can see, the system is very simple: bracket the animal and make a shot. The price is really affordable for a scope with range estimation ability and a ballistic reticle.

To ensure that the Accu-Ranger reticle meets the requirements of every hunter, Redfield has designed four different types: Crossbow, Hunter, Sabot ML and Varmint.

All these reticles come with brackets for 16″ and 25″ targets, while the Varmint reticle features an 8″ bracket. The 8″ bracket can be used for prairie dogs or other similar-sized varmints. The 16″ bracket will be correct for a deer, while the 25″ bracket is designed for elks and coyotes.

The Accu-Ranger Crossbow is a unique reticle in this series and was designed especially for crossbow hunters. This reticle estimates the distance up to 60 yards and has holdover points for the same yardage.

The Accu-Ranger Crossbow reticle is designed to be used with different velocities. At higher magnification, this reticle works well with arrows or bolts that have 425 fps velocities, whilst at lower magnification, this reticle is good for use with 250 fps cartridges.

This reticle comes with the Redfield Revenge 2-7x34mm.

The Accu-Ranger Hunter reticle is designed to be used with elks, deer, coyotes or other animals of similar size. This reticle allows you to estimate the distance up to 600 yards, and has holdover points for the same yardage.

The center of the Accu-Ranger Hunter reticle is calibrated for a distance of 200 yards. This reticle is great for velocities of 2900 – 3800 fps, and works with the following cartridges: .338 RUM, .338 Win Mag, .300 WSM, .300 Win Mag, .30-06 Springfield, 7mm Rem Mag, .280 Rem, .270 Win, .270 WSM, .25-06 Rem, .243 Win, .22-250 Rem, and .223 Rem.

The Hunter reticle is the most popular in the Accu-Ranger series and comes with the following scopes:

• Revenge 3-9×42
• Revenge 3-9×52
• Revenge 4-12×42

The Accu-Ranger Sabot ML reticle has the same estimation range as the Hunter reticle (200-600 yards) and is designed for muzzleloaders and shotguns. However, its aiming points for bullet drop compensation are calibrated at distances of 150, 200, 250 and 300. Center crosshair is zeroed at 100 yards.

The Sabot ML reticle can be used with cartridges of most velocities. At high magnification settings this reticle works fine with 45 caliber plastic tipped bullets (250 grain, 2200 fps).

The Accu-Ranger Sabot ML reticle is available in the Redfield Revenge 3-9×42.

The Accu-Ranger Varmint reticle has an 8″ bracket for prairie dogs as well as 16″ and 25″ brackets. This reticle works well with the most flat shooting cartridges with velocities of 3100-4000 fps. The Varmint reticle is universal. You can use it either for varmint or big game hunting.

The Accu-Ranger Varmint reticle allows you to estimate the distance and hold over for the bullet drop at a distance of up to 600 yards. This reticle is designed to be used with the following cartridges: .300 Win Mag., 7mm Rem Mag, .270 Weatherby, .270 WSM, .270 Win, .25-06 Rem, .243 Win, .223 WSSM, .223 Swift, .220 Swift, .22-250 Rem, .222 Rem, .223 Rem, and .17 Rem.

The Varmint reticle comes with the Redfield Revenge 4-12×42 and the Revenge 6-18×40.

The only drawback with the Accu-Ranger reticles is that they are designed to work for particular animals. However, they can also be used for similar-sized objects. If you are hunting prairie dogs, deer, elk or coyotes, you will usually find that Redfield Revenge scopes are just right for you. At a price range of $139.99 – $249.99, these scopes that have range estimation ability and bullet drop compensating reticles are a very good deal indeed.

As a criminal lawyer in Fort Lauderdale, I periodically have clients arrested for driving while under the influence or possession of drugs ask me, “Can the police testify in Court as to the results of a radar gun to show the speed of my vehicle or rely upon a caller ID display to prove that I made a phone call?… Shouldn’t this evidence be considered inadmissible hearsay?” According to Bowe v. State, 785 So.2d 531 (Fla. 4th D.C.A., 2001), radar gun readouts and caller ID displays are not considered inadmissible hearsay and the police can (and routinely) introduce this type of evidence in Court.

The Florida Evidence Code (90.801(1)(c)) defines hearsay as an out-of-court statement of a “declarant” offered to prove the truth of the matter asserted. A declarant is a “person” who makes a statement. Therefore, only statements made by persons fall within the definition of hearsay. This distinction is crucial when determining what testimony is considered inadmissible hearsay.

Radar gun readouts are often relied upon by police officers to prove an individual’s speed of travel in Courtroom proceedings for driving while under the influence. Surprisingly, radar guns do not generate paper printouts for police officers to introduce into evidence. Instead, police officers testify in Court as to what the radar gun registered to prove an individual’s speed.

Similarly, caller ID displays are occasionally relied upon by police officers to prove an individual’s knowledge or involvement in a crime. For example, a police officer may testify in Court that a caller ID readout of an individual’s assigned telephone number on an undercover police officer’s cell phone corroborates that the individual was conspiring with the undercover police officer to sell or purchase drugs. Caller ID displays are also relied upon by police officers in domestic violence, stalking, and assault cases.

In both instances, Courts have held that neither the radar gun readouts nor the caller ID displays are considered hearsay because of their designation as machines, and not “persons”, capable of being a declarant within the definition of hearsay. Importantly, these statements (i.e. actual radar readings) are not generated by persons. Conversely, out of court statements generated by persons (i.e. email strings) offered to prove the truth of the matter asserted are considered hearsay. For example, a witness testifying to statements he/she read from an email would be considered hearsay as the email was generated by a person, not a machine.

The main justification for the hearsay rule is to provide a defendant the opportunity to cross-examine a decalrant who made an out of court statement offered to prove the truth of the matter asserted. Remembering that one does not cross examine a machine; one cross-examines the person who operated or maintained the machine. In cases involving a radar gun readout or caller ID display, the information introduced is limited to numbers generated by machines, not persons. Additionally, this information cannot be influenced or manipulated by other individuals. As a result, the proper remedy to challenge the evidence is by either: attacking the reliability of the declarant’s statements (i.e. a declarant may have a reason to lie to bolster his case or justify an arrest); highlighting that the declarant could have misread or improperly transcribed the numbers; attacking the reliability of the machine, if applicable; attacking the declarant’s ability to read/understand the machine’s results (i.e. complicated program to interpret retina scans); or by challenging the relevancy of the evidence.

As nothing can be more damning evidence at trial then a radar gun readout or caller ID display, it is important to immediately contact an experienced criminal defense attorney to review such evidence and attack its admissibility or weight at trial.

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