I loved the first Mass Effect despite hating certain design decisions: driving the floaty Mako to collect rocks that had insignificant money and xp values; playing Simon Says for rocks and lockers; unlimited ammo; the utter lack of variety in non-storytime quests, and the overabundance of items and navigation of items. With the exception [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘Reviews’
December 29, 2009
The Attraction of Avatar Part II: The Moments
Let me first get my complaints out of the way because there are so few. THIS POST IS ALL SPOILERS:
-The hammerhead creature: when Jake encounters this rhino, there is an angled profile shot of it stomping and growling. It looks out of place because it looks like something you’d see in a museum-produced [...]
December 27, 2009
The Attraction of Avatar Part I: The Director and Technology
Twelve years I’ve been waiting for the next James Cameron movie. Two years I’ve been waiting for his vision of a scifi epic adventure in a time where, hell, I can’t name you the a recent example of its kind. Did Avatar live up to the hype? Is the technology behind the [...]
November 15, 2009
My Time With: Borderlands
I’ve always wanted to play a Diablo-type game set in a gunpowder world.
The story of Borderlands – does it really matter? I’m sure the quest descriptions are fine, but that’s not engaging me; I see it simply as information, unimportant since it’s not the facts that take me to the objective. If this [...]
May 25, 2009
Terminator Salvation Review or: Why T2 is the Greatest Movie Ever
Terminator Salvation is 2 hours of post-apocalyptic human versus Machine warfare, and yet the size and scope never achieves what James Cameron did in that two minute and thirty-four second Judgment Day battle scene before the title sequence.
Spoilers ahead…
May 10, 2009
Star Trek Movie Review
The Star Trek reboot opened on Friday. Did I like it? Do you care?
Spoilers ahead…
