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• 13Jul 09

  Westerns

  About a month ago i was on the off-topic forums reading over a topic about some guy who wanted a bunch of movie suggestions. One bloke, i forget who, had posted a rather comprehensive list of movies, many of which i had seen and loved. The #1 movie on this list was called Unforgiven, I looked it up on IMDB, and discovered it was a Clint Eastwood film, in fact it was considered to be his best. I had never seen a 'real' western at this point (the closest thing being 3:10 to Yuma), so i didn't really know what to excpect, but decided to give the movie a watch anyways. I really liked the movie, it had some interesting elements to it, and the gravity put on killing was a refreshing change from the mindless slaughter that can so often be found in action movies these days.

  I enjoyed the movie so much that the next day I went out and rented The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, which is widley toted to be one of the greatest films of all time. I was shocked at how much I enjoyed the movie, even though it was made in 1966 the special effects were great, the acting fansastic (didn't know Clint acted in this one), the cinematography spectacular, but what really sealed the deal was the music. I've heard the theme music so many times, and now i know where it comes from. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly is going to enter my top 10 for sure.

  I also bought Call of Juares: Bound in Blood when it came out, i never played the first one, but BiB looked promising. At first I didn't really liked it, I played through half of the first mission, left the game for three days, played up to half way through the second mission, and left the game for a week. Finally today I started getting into the game, and am now really enjoying it. I'm already planning on playing it twice, once as Thomas, and once as McKaw (i'm not sure if thats spelled correctly). I'll probably get the first Call of Juarez game as well, i'm sure its dirt cheap by now.

  I'm now on the lookout for more good westerns to watch, the director of The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly has some others that look interesting, namely Once upon a Time in the West. If any of you know of any good westerns, i'd appreciate some reccomendations.

  • Posted Jul 13, 2009 11:11 pm PT
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• 9Jul 09

  Dawn of War II Reviewed

  I'm not to fond of this review, i was tired when i wrote it. Great game though, my favorite online game of 09' so far

  ok, google chrome is being an ass, and not letting me copy the link to the review, so you'll have to to it the old fasioned way. click on profile home, scroll down to the bottom, and click on the review. sorry for the inconvinience.

  • Posted Jul 9, 2009 1:13 pm PT
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• 23Jun 09

  America's Army 3 - Buggy, Glitchy... and Incredibly Fun

  I decided to ignore the sleugh of warnings about the messy release of the latest edition of the United States Armies most creative recuitment tool, America's Army 3, and give it a download. I mean, after all, it is free. The difficulties began when I had trouble making an account. Fifth try is the charm it seeems, and I am in! Now, to get past all this training and delve into the sweet online play that the AA series is known for. Before I even load up the first training mission, I quit the game and force Anti Alaising through Nhancer, to get rid of those ugly jaggies. It seems to have worked, so I start up the first training level. Its an obstacle course, i manage to get through it, but am surprised that there is no HUD and no instructions on which key to press to perform various actions.

  Next up is the shooting range mission, which is surprisingly difficult. I manage to Qualify, barely, on my thrid try. Then, disaster strikes. I'm sent back to the main menu, and all my training progress is deleted. Balls. Discouredged, I quit the game and go back to my old friend Dawn of War II (which i will be reviewing soon). Later on, i try the training again, and manage to get past the first two training missions, this time the first training saves, but not the second. Oh well, at least i'm making progress. The next time i play I manage to get through the shooting range and advanced weapons training in one fell swoop, although my heavy machine gun dissapears at one point, but, they both save.

  But after this is my greatest challenge yet. Medical training, where i have to pay attention. I go through the practice Prodecures, but keep getting stuck at one that I cant seem to finish. I try a few times, and eventually give up and go for help on the forums. Its the Anti Alaising, it removes the HUD! I guess i'll have to live with the jaggies. I manage to get through medical training after a few tries, and the advanced course on my second try. It all saves, i'm happy.

  Now its time to jump online for the meat of the game; the fun part. Instantly after joining a server i am sent back to the main menu. Same story for a few others, then success! i'm in. Dear god, the lag is horrendous. I glitch about for about 30 seconds then get shot up. For those of you that don't know, the gameplay is about the same as counter strike, where if you die, you have to wait for the round to finish. Discouredged, i quit. I try again later, and this server is much better, but 3 rounds in, when i'm finaly getting the hand of things, my gun dissapears. Great. Next round, i take cover behind a hay bale only to find i cant move, shoot, or turn in any direction. I manage to kill myself with a grenade. So far, things arent looking very good (and my blog is looking longer than i anticipated).

  The next day, i give the game a try, and have an absolute blast. Three hours of uninterupted play, and i'm getting really good. My team is very good, several of us have mics, and were are coordinating attacks and winning rounds. The healing mechanic is excellent, i never though the medical training would actually come in handy, but it really does. My best moment comes on the pipeline map, where i hang back a bit from my team, go to the right of an enemy building and see a door open and gun come out, he's camping, i throw a grenade in and get a kill. I join my squad in the basement of the main building, and hear gunfire up ahead. I find most of my squad dead or wounded, I heal and revive those I can and manage to pop an enemy in the skull as he tryies to limp away. My squad goes of to the left, while me and another guy go to the right, we know of a secret way to get to the objective. We climb up a ladder into the rafters of the building, sneak along, i look down and see an enemy hucking grenades at my squadmates who are still in the basement. I taake him down, and keep moving, drop down from the rafters right above the objecive, and no one is there. I secure it, and we win the match. Damn that was fun.

  So if you have a PC, and are looking for a glitchy but really excellent online shooter, check out America's Army 3.

  • Posted Jun 23, 2009 11:27 am PT
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