Rachel Getting Married Review
Some will be drawn to the angst and closeted guilt of Anne Hathaway’s character Kym, a portrayal with layers that announces new talent in the starlet. Others will be delighted and taken by Bill Irwin’s equal doses of authenticity and questionable mugging.
Fallout 3 Review: A Worse Fate
Fallout 3 is sadly disappointing. While it is a stand-up game with a lot of great and amazing aspects, there are many problems wrong with it: some obvious and some not so obvious. It’s an open world role playing game that offers an experience unlike anything else available on the market. The game is great but it does have key flaws in the way it currently is designed. Also previous Fallout players since Interplay days will ask themselves if this is a great game in general within the Fallout series? Not every time. The game is very rarely related to Fallout other than pure coincidence of wasteland, the name, and our lovely helper Pipboy with our perks. While the game defines a justifiable defense by a new well respected developer, it is just sadly at a loss of serious identity in terms of being a series and moreover a good game in its own respect.
Prince of Persia Review: Welcome Back, Our Prince.
The Prince has returned in Prince of Persia, ready to take anything with a vengeance and stop all things evil, or something purely bent on destroying anything in it is path. Prince of Persia is the fourth iteration that is bent on redefining the platform genre in this new middle-eastern adventure of sending dark trees and all things evil back from which they came. With a beautiful art direction, a blithe level of humor, and furthermore gameplay, the prince shows us all that time and change itself is a great and brilliant thing. The storybook version was so missed for such a long time for me personally, that at this point I am content with kissing Ubisoft’s ring for making this decision to dig to the inveterate classics. While the gameplay challenges the platform genre, it loses some notability in the easy and sometimes repetitive tasks that the player must perform. Despite this, Prince of Persia manages to pull players in a newly redefined world that is both convivial and surprises the inveterate need to change the past.
Eternal Sonata Review: Enter The Dream World
Famous 19th-century pianist Frédéric Chopin, hit with tuberculosis and on his deathbed at the age of 39, is transported to a dream world in which the sick have healing powers and everyone and everything has to do with music. Eternal Sonata centers itself around a world where there is a strong conflict between Forte and Baroque, two major political organizations in Chopin’s dream world. But who is Chopin really? This is where Eternal Sonata comes in.
Left 4 Dead Review: The Unrealized Realized
Ideas are unrealized for spans of time, leaving some people in desolation and utter bewilderment of the unfounded realms of something so beautiful and unique. Zombie films have been around forever, along with the concept of horror and the concept of survival in video games that have long seen their effects through various games. Some worthy of recognition, others ill-founded and sadly not of the same caliber. Left 4 Dead is finally that game that dares to realize the unfound potential of an idea. While the idea has been in movies for so long, the premise of Left 4 Dead is something truly unique and extraordinary. Michael Booth had gained influence from the best horror films to come out fairly recently: 28 Days Later, Dawn of the Dead, etc. —and this very influence created an insuperable definition of something new for the words “horror” and “survival” together. Finally, these two words become realized as one entity in the harmonious and blood splattering realms of Left 4 Dead and will never be forgotten again.
Quantum of Solace Review: Not The Next Bond
GoldenEye 007 was essentially the only game to be considered worthy of mention from the dozens of releases that we have all seen as time passes. The only real problem has to do with timing. GoldenEye 007 came up on Nintendo 64, and was heralded as the best and initial first person shooter game in a long time. Who doesn’t remember gathering around their friends house for a game online? Halo eventually came to perfect it on the next-generation Xbox console, but GoldenEye laid initially marked a stepping stone for 3D shooters. In Quantum of Solace, Treyarch manages to get the sense of GoldenEye in spirit and add other touches, but essentially they fall short to a level. Time has passed, and apparently it’s reflected across some gameplay essentials and factors that take away from staples of other series genre.
Left 4 Dead Launches – Midnight Madness
According to Steam stats, more than 400,000 people are already getting their zombification in gear with the launch of Left 4 Dead on 9:20 PM Pacific / 12:20 AM EST.
Come back for our review (from all the editors no less) on this exciting thriller.
Australia Review: Kangaroo’s Are Better Than This
There are few directorial talents with the energetic potential Baz Luhrmann brings to his projects. Danny Boyle comes to mind. On good days, Fernando Meirelles does too. But one thing each of these filmmakers capitalizes on through their complicated sense of visual storytelling is the power of intimacy in the scripts they set out to film.
Fallout 3 Review Update
As we have already stated, we are hard at work to get a thorough review with more than 35+ hrs clocked for this. The review is coming, stop e-mailing us!
Mirror’s Edge Review: Just Jump Off The Building Already
Mirror’s Edge presents a world where everything is different. Most games usually do, and only a few capture the reality of the worlds which they cover. For Mirror’s Edge, this just is not the case. As great as the innovation presented itself to many people, the main flaw comes from transforming a first person focus into something that gets slightly repetitive in the realms of a 3D first person horribly portrayed Mario that jumps across rooftops to rooftops instead of block of land floating in the air. While the game challenges outright convention to do something not completely realized, it sadly does not give the vision that it was ever meant to be.
Rock Band 2 Review: Feel The Music
Rock Band 2 is the latest game to emerge from Harmonix Studios from the previous rhythm game that was the first of its kind to provide party knockers and rollers guitar, bass, and vocal instruments all in a sexy blue box. Rock Band 2 still sticks to the roots of the first games, providing the same instruments but Harmonix definitely made an effort to refine and perfect features that were introduced in the original game and make everything more lively. Some new modes have strummed out, and the development team has completely streamlined the interface, making it better to navigate and go into a game than flip through confusing menus and over practical layouts. Rock Band 2 is definitely thee version of the Rock Band series that anyone wants to play. With a new interface, new band smashing modes, and dozens of new songs and downloadable content to enrich the experience, Rock Band 2 definitely has immense potential for the holiday season and for WhatIfGaming’s Game of the Year 2008- Best Music Game.
