• 23Dec 09

  Christmas Wishes, Something, Something, Something Darkside & Black.

  Merry Christmas Eve, or if you are reading this a day late, Merry Christmas! Hope you all have a wonderful holiday and don't get too greedy...

  Well I will have an after Christmas blog to relay the events of one of my favourite holidays, I just thought I would sneak in a couple of reviews before the holiday.

  

  Family Guy's latest parody of the ledgendary trilogy is out just in time for Christmas, and may I just say, it is alittle disapointing. This time it is a parody of 'The Empire Strikes Back'. Maybe its that I'm getting older, but Family Guy's constant barrage of obscure references and sometimes cringeable potty humor just doesn't seem to do it for me anymore. I did not laugn once during the entire whole Yoda sequence (not even the Rocky training sequence did it for me). Its a fun watch for fans of either franchise, but atleast Blue Harvest (Family Guy's parody of 'A New Hope') was fresh.

  In a sentence; It has moments of genius, laugh out loud moments, while the rest is.... groan.

  In other news, i recently picked up BLACK for the PS2 for $25 with some of my Birthday money I had recieved. Thanks to everyone who wished my a happy birthday

  

  Its a really fun game which is also difficult, looks great, and has pretty explosions - everything I look for in a game. Unfortunately it lacks multiplayer of any sort but I can forgive it for that.

  Just to add my two cents:

  Avatar: 7.5/10

  Where the Wild Things Are: 6/10

  Zombieland: 9/10

  Have a safe holiday

  Urworstnhtmare

  • Posted Dec 23, 2009 8:37 pm PT
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• 30Nov 09

  29/11/09 - Better Late Than Never 2

  Well it was my birthday on the 29th. I didn't post here because I was so busy but never mind.

  

  Well I got this from one of my uncles. Its a good collection of their songs, but I guess I was alittle disappointed not to be getting the Them Crooked Vultures album, but I will get that later. Them Crooked Vultures is Dave Grohl on Drums (Nirvana, and the lead of Foo Faighters), Josh Homme on guitar and lead (lead of Queens of the Stone Age) and John Paul Jonnes on Bass (Led Zeppelin). They also making their way to my city, so I really want to see them live. I will keep you posted on that one.

  

  Star Wars Battlefront for my Mac is a game I have been wanting for a while, and was pleasantly suprised to find this from my Aunty in England. They don't sell this game in NZ anymore... Its good, but I don't think my old Mac's intergrated graphics really have enough 'omph' so I have to set all the setting to low to make it really smooth... Unfortunatly this game was designed for the old Macs, which used PowerPC processors. My Mac has an Intel processor, and thus the processor has to emulate a different processor.... Groan. Atleast its playable, and I should be getting a new Mac soon, which will have a MUCH better graphics chip. Fingers crossed. Again I will keep you guys posted.

  

  I haven't seen many zombie films, I guess they just never really apealled to me, but ever since I have been playing Left for Dead a bit at my friends house, I guess it peaked my interest. Athlough Zack Snyder's take on the George A Romeo original is a bit predictable, its still a fun watch.

  

  ALSO: Why is the central zombies belly a pretty normal colour when the other infected have bellies matching their face... I guess its just a makeup blunder... But never mind.

  I also managed to get some money to help pay off my projector (technically I own it now ), some beans, to fill up my bean bags (they were getting a bit too squishy...) chocolates (of course) and plenty of gift vouches.

  Hope everyone is well, and looking forward to Christmas

  • Posted Nov 30, 2009 2:39 pm PT
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• 2Nov 09

  Better late than never... and I almost had a man moment:

  Wow. Its November. For me that means end of year exams and for everyone else the raipidly approaching Christmas! 2009 has past in a blur...

  Know I know its a bit late, but because Tekken 6 recently came out, I decided to have a crack at reviewing its predesseor: Tekken 5 (link below or in picture)

  

  http://www.gamespot.com/ps2/action/tekken5/player_review.html?id=689928&tag=player-reviews;continue;1

  I awarded Tekken 5 9 out of 10, noting its mountains of content, ease of use, and replayability.

  In other news I just recently took a look at some GT5 screenies, and almost had a man moment. Im sure some have already seen them, but if you haven't, here are some I picked out

  

  

  

  Talk about stunning!

  Hope everyone has been keeping well.

  Urworstnhtmare

  • Posted Nov 2, 2009 12:09 am PT
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