by Kashif Ali
I was thinking to myself, wouldn’t it just be the shit if I wrote this review as a tribute to Memento (all rise) and had all you oxygen wasters going ape shit trying to figure out what the hell I was going on about. But then I thought some more and it just didn’t seem that funny anymore. Wouldn’t want G cursing the day he asked me to come on board.
So, in the interest of being civil and as normal as strait jacket typing and padlocked thinking will allow, I will get into the bizzareness of reviewing the first season of RvB, in sequential order of course. I might meander and say things I’m not supposed to but that’s just the Pentothal talking. Honest. Click here to continue reading ‘Red vs. Blue - The Blood Gulch Chronicles - Season 1′
by Kuriakose Saju
July 18, 2008, was a landmark day for me. After close to seven months of keeping a close watch on YouTube for new trailers and reading up on message boards on the most obscure fan sites for any information on the latest cinematic outing of Gotham’s caped crusader, The Dark Knight finally hit theatres.
Honestly, mate, seven months of waiting and you’d think, “This is never going to be as good as you would want it to be.” Boy, was I wrong? The Dark Knight blew my mind! You watch Heath Ledger as the Joker in this three hour long adventure and you would totally understand why he decided to go the way he did.So, after this ultra-dark Batman installment, I was totally shocked by the irony of a new videogame on the masked marauder that would come out in September. Why is it ironic, you ask? Isn’t it normal for Hollywood franchises to follow up their movies with video game adaptations. Yeah, it is. But not when the fabled Batman, who strikes terror into the heart of all criminals in Gotham, is constructed in Lego bricks!!! Click here to continue reading ‘The Brick Knight, anyone?’
by gSathe
Beware! Here there be spoilers!
It’s finally, painfully, over. I’ve played all the Metal Gear Solid games to some degree or the other, though I hadn’t played the original Metal Gear games. But I never managed to sit through any one of them completely.
I like sneaking games, and one of my favourite games to date is Thief: Deadly Shadows. But I never quite got the thing about the Metal Gear games, this ephemeral, ineffable truth which makes them the cultish experience that they obviously are to so many people.
I played most of the first game, and a little of the second, though unlike many, Raiden was not the reason I couldn’t see it through.
It was, I suppose, the endless rambling which reduced the game to… well… more an event than a game. That killed it for me. Click here to continue reading ‘MGS4: Guns of the Patriots Review - So long Snake!’
by gSathe
It’s been a long week for me now, exactly seven days since I got my hands on GTA IV. It’s been a very violent week, filled with strange characters and shocking events. Well. Okay. Just strange characters - if you’ve seen enough movies then the events aren’t really all that shocking. And while Niko might be the most real character I’ve ever seen in a movie, he’s only marginally more believable than Vin Diesel.
GTA is of course, old news by now. So I won’t tell you you go buy it. Or to go buy it for one particular platform either. You had better know by now that you have to own this game, and there’s enough batshit flying around on both sides to make it an impossible decision.
Personally, I got hold of a copy for the PS3 first and then later for the 360, and as a result played the whole game on the PS3. I did play a little of the 360 version as well, and while I prefer it (achievements, better controller, no install time) it’s really more of a personal choice than anything else. Whichever system you like more, just get a copy of this game. Click here to continue reading ‘One last look at GTA IV’
by gSathe
Chains of Olympus takes us into badass hero Kratos’ past, and for the most part provides a satisfyingly gory experience, with a story which, while it lacks the length and depth of the games on the PSPs bigger siblings, is still pretty entertaining. When you consider that the action is taking place on a portable, it’s pretty mind blowing.
But even keeping this in mind, it doesn’t quite live up to the other God of War games. Click here to continue reading ‘Chains of Olympus: Not quite GoW’
