inFamous Vs. Prototype

Alright, so we beat prototype and it kicked ass. The story was good, the game play was great but the city does feel a bit stale. A lot of the buildings look the same and the map could have been put together better. They say its New York city but it just does not feel like it. But I did like watching it change with the infection and seeing everything go to hell was pretty funny. The best part about this game was the game play. Being able to shape shift by consuming people was really fun but the best part was using the claws to rip everyone apart. The story was pretty good but a bit hard to follow at times because everything seems to happen so fast sometimes you just don't know what the hell you are doing. But over all its good. I like the web of Intrigue but I think it's a bit odd that they just have these people just walking around you don't even need to play the story to find out what happened you can just wait for them to turn up as you're murdering people. One thing I hated is how everyone on the streets looks the same so you can really only turn into like 10 people.

All in all i think i would give this game an 8 out of 10. I really wanted it to be better but the city kind of bugs me. It just does not look that good and everything looks the same, even the people. The story is good, but hard to follow at times like I said, so much is going on that you forget whats happening but all in all it is a really good game.




Ok, so I beat InFamous a few weeks ago and was really shocked. I knew it would be good but I did not think it would kick as much ass as it did. The story was great. It blew me away. I never saw it coming. The game play was pretty cool. You have alot of electricity based powers that are alot of fun to play with. Some of them are a bit hard to use if you want to play as a good guy because they will murder everyone around you. But it's still pretty cool. The city looks really nice but it's not that big and most of the buildings are pretty small, but that's not really a bad thing. If they were huge they would be too big for you to scale, so it's nice and it looks great. The player movement looks a bit weird to me. I mean, if you walk you look like some gay dude or something. And when you try and turn you have to hold your arms all weird like a gay dude or something. So I did not like that so much. It takes away the feeling of being a bad ass. Another thing is just about every bad guy you face in the game (apart from leaders) are the same in every gang. The smaller ones have guns, then you have a few with some super powers. They all act the same but it's still fun to murder them.


I think I'm going to have to give InFamous a 9 out of 10. It just feels like it was put together better than Prototype. But I did like the gameplay in Prototype better than InFamous just feels like they took more time to work out their shit. The city looks better and feels more real and the story is better.


But murdering people is funnier in Prototype.

Anyways so I guess InFamous wins but feel free to give your point of view.


-L

Shutter Island

Here ya go, ya fuckin' cawk suckas. Seriously. Leonardo DiCaprio is so weird. Sometimes he's incredible (The Departed, What's Eating Gilbert Grape?) sometimes sort of terrible (Gangs of New York, Titanic, Celebrity) then he does stuff like The Aviator, where he would be good, if, you know... he seemed anything at all like Howard Hughes. Why is Scorsese sticking with this dude? Seriously, no one except for Nic Cage does worse accents than DiCaprio. Still, this movie looks... interesting. Scorsese does Hitchcock? And Jakie Earl Haley looks fucking awesome (for the two seconds he appears on screen). So. Looking forward to it, sort of.

-M

For No Reason

I've been meaning to write a couple of blogs lately. First I was gonna review Wilco's new album, Wilco {The Album}, but the thing was so boring and uninspired that, well, I've forgotten everything about it. I can remember bits and pieces of the songs, but everything else is a blank. I sort of have a rule about writing reviews for albums until I've heard it at least twice, so I guess it'll have to wait. But I really don't feel like giving it a second chance. The things I do for you people...

Also, me and Lando are gonna do something about video games. InFamous vs. Prototype. Which is the Game of the Summer? Dunno yet. We still have to beat Prototype. Until then, enjoy this random bullshit picture we found. Full of Win, say I.

-M

Futurama Returns

26 new episode to air in 2010. Thank God. With The Simpsons being what it is, Family Guy sucking like hell ever since season 2 or 3 basically, South Park still being a shell of it's former self and King of the Hill being canceled, we need great animated series like Futurama. Can't wait to see what they come up with.

-M

Charlie Returning To Lost?

The new ABC promo:



Personally i think he is going to be joining another ABC show. Make up your own mind.

-Bada.

I Love Black People

Howdy kittens. Maynard here, to update you on some goings ons.

I figured I'd tell you a little about work. Or rather, this incredibly weird dude at work. I won't use his real name because he's black and if he finds out he might shoot me. I don't know. We'll call him Black Tony.

Black Tony is about 50 years old, 300 lbs and a former drug dealer who spent 8 years in prison. For dealing drugs, you see. Anywho, so this dude is weird. Really weird. He always has these insane fucking stories that he tells us out of nowhere. We were in the break room awhile back, watching CNN talk about a plane crash I think, so he tells us a story about how about 10 years ago he was living in these apartments. He lived upstairs and below him lived two homosexuals. One day Black Tony heard a commotion downstairs. He left his apartment and saw the two homosexuals stabbing each other with kitchen knives. He sat and watched them try to kill each other for a few minutes. Then they tried to fight their way upstairs. So Black Tony grabbed a bar from the railing on the stairs, pull it clean off the railing with his bare hands and said, "You best stay the fuck down there, man!" Then some old lady came out of her apartment to see what was going on. Black Tony said "Ma'am, you best just go back on inside." Of course, because she was old, she just sat there watching the fight (even though Black Tony himself was doing the exact same thing.)

Next thing Black Tony knows, the two homosexuals had taken their fight outside and had managed to smash into his car, ruining his driver side door.

Then he was telling us how he was living in these apartments one time and he smelled smoke. He looked all over his place, but nothing was on fire. He follows the smell of the smoke out into the hallway. The entire hallway was covered in smoke. He noticed the smoke was coming out of another apartment. He broke into the place and saw that the fire had started because some drunk or drugged out dude had been trying to cook smoked sausages and for some reason had set his frying pan on his mattress. We all assumed Black Tony was the one who sold him the crack, but whatever, Funny story.

Black Tony is also quite learned when it comes to world events. For instance, he knows people all over the world (especially Africa) are starving. Black Tony has a solution. And I quote- "I always be watching them nature shows on t.v., and they always show them antelope running around. Well- shoot em'. Solve world hunger right there."

Perhaps my favorite Black Tony moment came the other day during lunch break. He was telling me how his bosses are racist against him and blame him for everything. He then told me, "It's just like Lando. Lando comes in here everyday and they tell him to do this or to clean that, but at the end of the day, Lando is still Lando. And they don't like that."

You know for a fact that if Lando is someone's beacon of hope then that person has serious problems. Drug related problems. I want to make a show out of this guys life. Seriously.

See you next time, young'ins.

-M