Resident Evil 5 - Respawn Trailer

One of my favorite gamecube and ps2 games of all time will always be Capcom's Resident Evil 4. A game that took the old formula of shooting up zombies and finding out the secrets of the infamous Umbrella corporation and completely revolutionized it. No more tank style camera and movement, and instead we get a perfect third person view and laser sight for aiming. Mix that with great action sequences and horrifying bosses made this game an unbelievable experience. Hopefully RE5 keeps this formula going, and from the trailer it looks like it will. :D Enjoy.

Crowns of Desire - Sidd's PT Machinima

Crowns of Desire, a Priston Tale Machinima, created by Sidd
and his clan members of Devotion. Originally, this film was
called Beyond the Gates of Bless Castle: Episode 1. The original
film was a complete success and an Episode 2 was in production.
However, on March 25, 2008, the hard drive containing all the
contents of Episode 2 had completely erased along with everything
else that was valuable in the hard drive. Through a very tough
time, and minor depression, the urge to completing the story came
back to Sidd, and thus he has recreated BTGO-BC Episode 1 to a
full 35 minute film. Will there be a sequel to Crowns of Desire?
Maybe, but it most likely won’t happen for a very long time.

The film has a production history of 15 months of work, a total
of ‘1.1 terabytes’ of FRAPS footage, a mass amount of voice actors,
and finally ideas developed through conversations on ventrilo. The
story behind it all is based on Sidd’s classic fan fiction nobody
read called Priestess Pride.
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Here is the outside interview near a Taco Bell:

Reporter: What is your view on your latest work?

Sidd: Well, I wouldn’t consider it my work; it’s more of a group
effort. And it’s pretty much an offensive film aimed to every
single PT player, so I really hope it turns out well with hate
mail and death threats all over my inbox.

Reporter: Why do you want to be hated so badly?

Sidd: I’m XxEmoKidxX, number 1 no lifer in all of PT. I want to
be known to be a biggest no lifer then anybody that plays this
crappy piece shit online children’s video game.

Reporter: So what are your comments on a sequel to your latest film?

Sidd: Meh, I’ll think about it over some tea and burritos for a
sequel, was hoping to end it here, let’s just hope I don’t get
banned for angering the community for my jokes, *lmao*, my aim is
to make it offensive and funny, if no one is offended, then I’m
seriously not doing a good job, if they are, then my goals in life
are complete. Oh ah, if anybody sees Syndicate, tell him I love him
for helping me out to recreate this crappy straight to youtube film!!!
Not in a…gay way…just…you know what I mean >_>. Oh and ahh, if anybody
knows how I can reach Lily, aka ShutUpNSwallow, it be a big help,
I miss her. Iight, later homies, I’m gonna get me some...

SJ: 14 layer?

Sidd: What the hell are you doing here?

SJ: Motha Fuka, who you think drove you here!?

Reporter: Last question before you shove or choke on cancer,
how do you rate this film from 1 to 5?

Sidd: How the hell are you gonna ask the artist the rating,
of course I’m going to say its 5 stars, I’m the f***ing creator,
got to wait for the fans to downvote my crappy youtube videos man.

Reporter: One last question, promise, how does it feel to
completely have a big conversation to yourself in this blog and
most of the film?

Sidd: >_> ……..lonely :\.........................
*plays Simple Plan music*
***how can this happen to me, I made my mistakes…***

JB: Both of you, End your life now!

SJ: Indeed.
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Final Fantasy Crisis Core - Quick Review

First Impression:

After years of complaints from passionate fans, Square Enix has finally released another adventure in the world of Final Fantasy 7. Rather then continuing the story with Cloud, you play his prequel clone Zack. Now I never really liked any of the Final Fantasy games but I did play through FF7 and of course you'll get your character building drama in this title, with the add on of lovely Advent Children CG cut scenes. Now on to the important part -- Gameplay. This prequel ditched the old turn based fighting (which I actually enjoyed) for a more fast paced action RPG style and it works just perfectly for the psp's game on the go style. Leveling up and Limit breaks occur through an odd slot machine randomness that usually leaves me confused on what I just gained from it but most of the time you get what's needed at the moment (like a level up that only occurs when you get 777.) Besides that every mission seems to involve the same idea of go here, beat up these guys, mission accomplished, which makes the game a bit tedious at times but it's a Final Fantasy..so you knew that already. =D

Update Review:

So after actually finishing the main story I was given a drama filled ending that eventually leads to the start of Final Fantasy 7 -- and you get the idea. After a while the slot machine gameplay becomes more natural and the story unfolds like any other role playing game with that little mix of nostalgia from the sequel's story. My only problem involved the actual difficulty of the game. I often found myself fearing normal enemies then the great bosses like Sephiroth or Genisis. Instant death is a pain in the ass when it comes out of nowhere. =/ Also, if you end up doing most or even half of the side missions, you'll level up far enough to do 9999 damage with most basic attacks; leaving most of the boss battles as a few minute ordeals in between the cutscenes. Those beautiful, beautiful cutscenes...

Rating: 4.5/5
Reason: Must own psp game. =D
Pros: Quick battles, Unique specials, Fantastic cut scenes, Great Story.
Cons: Missions feel a bit tedious at times, lack of secondary characters made me lonely. :/

Speed Racer - Movie Review

Speed Racer, an old 60’s anime cartoon is reborn in a Live Action film. If you’re an old fan of the anime series, love cars, or just want to see a kickass movie, then I recommend you to get your ass out of your chair and go watch it now! You will, without a doubt, have a great time whether it’s with your kids, friends, a loved one, or your mom. Yes, I recommend bringing your mom and dad because they probably have seen Speed Racer when they were five years old. It’s the cartoon they grew up on for crying out loud!

The main character is named Speed Racer, a young man with a passion to go behind the wheel and drive like a real race car driver. His influence of driving is his old brother Rex Racer, a very popular racer who set the world record. Ever since Speed was a young child his mind was set on race car driving. He wanted to be just like his older brother, but never intended to become the best.

The story is about Speed’s adventure to get revenge on the notorious Royalton. Speed was given an offer to race for Royalton Industries in the upcoming races. However, Speed declined the offer and Royalton got angry at the fact he wasn’t going to race under his name and threatened him about what will happen to his family as well as his racing career. In order to save himself and his family, he needs to take down Royalton Industries and the only way to do so is by automobile racing. The winner determines everything. However, not only his family is in danger, the entire aspect of racing is in jeopardy. Racing has become a game for the rich to rig and abuse for their own greed. Speed Racer has many challenges and obstacles to go through in order to stop Royalton and his company.

The visualization is very different from any other movie I have ever seen. From face monologue transitions to very high dynamic colors and finally to a kickass car races with tons of surprises and action (as well as a lot of explosions), it was very interesting to see a movie’s appearance such as this one. Brings out a whole new category of how to show a movie as well as broaden the ideas of other film makers.

Overall, I loved seeing this movie very much, I really enjoyed it, and I may even buy the DVD when it comes out. Five out of five stars. Excellent job, you made this $100,000,000 budget film a success. (Yes they spent $100 million.)

Dark Sector - Game Review

First Impression:

Right off the bat, I get this feeling that the developers (Digital Extremes) have no confidence in their own creation. What was actually suppose to be the first "next generation" title for our current generation rigs ended up with constant delays, which I account for as the developers sitting down with a few other good titles (Resident Evil 4, Gears of War, Generic good shooter) and ripping out the key points of these titles and at the same time completely fucking them up. Like Resident Evil 4, the game's camera follows the protagonist from over the shoulder. BUT..unlike Resident Evil 4, it doesn't feel as smooth and often times forces you to twirl randomly as you try to get a feel for your surroundings (because you never know when an enemy will just suddenly appear on you ._. ). But unlike Resident Evil 4, this game decided to use a stupid circle crosshair that gives you no real accuracy (not that the main protagonist could aim in the first place..) and like Gears of War you can cling to the surrounding walls, but again, they flawed it. While, yes you are being covered, you can still be shot at quite easily and their is no blind fire so you'll often have to peek out just to take those few inaccurate shots with your pistol (when you become infected..every other gun becomes worthless -_- ) and with your new trusty weapon the Glaive (More on that later. ) Besides that this game just feels like one of the those third person crap games you would expect on the old generation systems..just with new shiny graphics.

But we'll see if my attitude changes as I continue through the game.

Yeah...After just a little more I have to say..I can't stand this game. I doubt I could add anymore to how I described it..

Sure it's bloody and sure it has a little bit of style, but otherwise this game is just completely passable. It's really sad since it was suppose to be one of the first great, good looking, next generation games. Too bad it only accomplished looking good.

Grand Theft Auto IV - Game Review

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Damn fanboys!

Yahtzee and his video reviews over at the escapistmagazine.com have become a great hit since his days on youtube, but it seems that "Zero Punctuation!" has hit a nerve with some Nintendo fanboys. He gives his opinion on a few e-mails from his loyal fans and gives a great view on the current generation of consoles. Even thought we all know the PC is the greatest gaming console. :D

Enjoy the video and have a few laughs.
www.escapistmagizine.com

Iron Man (2008) - Movie Review

This movie is a must see. Of course every comic book reader will say that, they already know and familiarized the story and its heroes. This movie is something different however. If you’re looking for entertainment and a catchy story along with a lot of action and nice acting, you may want to consider this movie for the night. I recommend bringing all your friends.

The story starts out with a trip to the Middle East where Tony Stark displayed his newly designed weapon called the Jericho. However he was captured by a terrorist group and was forced to create the Jericho for them. The terrorist group supplied him with everything he needed, however to Tony’s surprise; all the supplies and materials were from his own company.

In utter confusion and a lot of questions to be left unanswered until further into the movie, Tony uses the materials given to him to create a suit of armor to fight the terrorists and fights his way out. He returns home safe and sound to eat a cheeseburger and to investigate how the terrorist got a hold of his weapons as well as to create a suit of armor, just like he did in the cave, and to upgrade it from the original model he made in the cave to which we know as, Iron Man.

Well, there was no doubt, I was going to like the film and enjoy it, and hell yes I did enjoy it. However, I have constantly bitched about the fact that they modernized the movie from its original comic book story from the Vietnam War to our little so called war against terrorist groups in the burning sands of our enemies in the Middle East. Now normally people will be saying our enemies are the Iraqi’s or another named country, but no people, we are only fighting the Extremist rulers who basically treat civilians like crap, dictator rulers. We aren’t fighting a country. =O

When I first saw the trailer of the movie, I was pissed at the fact they modernized the story a bit. I won’t lie, I constantly bitched about this to my friends that they are making this film to dominate a message. “America owns you!” Well, I was completely DEAD wrong, that wasn’t why they modernized it. It was simply because it’s in our time and it’s reasonable. I personally believed they were going to make the people, who live in the Middle East, look like savage animals that are bent on destroying the world, but no, they included a legitimate scene showing how life was in the Middle East, the suffrage of innocent people and what they have to go through for many years in dictator rules of Extremists, terrorist groups, and other forceful parties.

This movie may not seem a lot, yes another Marvel creation from comics to film, but I would recommend everybody to see this. The story is great, the action is filling, concept makes sense, the acting is original and clever, finally Tony Stark is a bad ass douche bag and everybody loves him and after you watch this movie, you are going to wish you were him.

The movie’s overall rating according to Sidd, 5 out of 5 stars! Great Job!

Cloverfield Movie - Movie Review

Ok I know I may be late to the party when it comes to this movie, but sooner or later it will be releasing on dvd and blu-ray discs for the home. SOOO...I thought I'd give a review from the bootlegged verision I watched.

What is Cloverfield? Cloverfield is a monster movie that doesn't give a f$%# about the actual monster and instead focuses on a small group of friends who happened to get caught in the middle or the beast's pms rampage. (PMS?..How do you know it's a chick monster? Well as soon as you meet the said Godzilla reject it sh%ts out little bug creatures that look oddly like the antlions from Half Life 2.)

While enjoying a drama filled going away party for their friend Rob Hawkins (Who ironically enough was heading off to Japan..har har.), the group you follow throughout the movie become aware of an odd sudden earthquake and what seems like total anarchy on the news. Thus begins the adventure of running away from the revealed creature and the eventual escape.

Now what seemed to be the main problem for most movie goers with this movie was the point of view of the camera throughout. Rather than have the cameras go the linear route of having panned shots throughout, the director decided to have one main camera (it was some sony hd model) tthat made the movie seem like one big youtube esque clip. The camera man (known as Hud...har har again.), gives you his first person view from the party on until his eventual death (yay spoiler). Now you may say, "Wow..that's actually a pretty cool idea." Just as I said. But you see the p#ssies who go to see this movie seemed to have very sensative vision and weak stomachs that they couldn't bear to see a little shaking in the video or quick movement that made this movie what it is today. I give a big F U to these f$ggots. I watched this entire movie and not once did I get this "motion sickness" everyone seems to bitch about.

Do you like horror-ish movies? Do you like the idea of gigantic monsters tearing up cities? Do you like tragic love stories? Do you love to see movies that are actually original and do something a bit different while at the same time being something watchable? Than why the F#CK haven't you seen this movie already? GO..NAO!..Your face is disgusting!

Rating: 4/5
Reason: I wanted more monster action. Yes..MOAR!
Pros: Monster movie.
Cons: P#ssy reviewers with delicate stomachs.