Norwich has Elephants
Part of the “Go Elephants!” thing currently going on. I don’t really understand why it’s going on, but anyway.
I’ve changed things round a bit
After almost two years with the previous theme, I thought it was time for a bit of a change. Is this better? Worse?
Fillum review: WarGames (1983)
OMG! Matthew Broderick looks about 7 years old! The plot: boy “accidently” kicks off World War 3 by hacking into a military defence computer, thinking it’s part of a video game company, and playing “Global Thermonuclear War”. He’s arrested, escapes, finds a guy who was legally dead (who wrote the “games” on the computer), and obviously, saves the day. I don’t even know where to begin with regards to the nonsensical way computers are portrayed. But then, every film involving …
Halo (Xbox)
Sigh. If “The Silent Cartographer” is supposed to be a highlight of the game, then it really does need putting down. It was awful. More corridors that look the same. Areas of the map too dark to see in (and no, the flashlight doesn’t really help). Wave after wave after wave of the same baddies again and again and again. Tedious! I thought things might have improved when I got to the next bit (which starts with more identical rooms …
Geometry Wars Evolved 2 (360)
So, Something Witty thought he could claw back some of his rankings, did he? Of the six modes, he’d overtaken me on 3 by the time I got to play this morning. Naturally, I slew his so called “high scores” easily. And then distanced myself from him even further on those he failed to beat me on. After that, to rub salt into his wounds, I spent a merry hour mopping up some of the achievements he hasn’t got. I …
Geometry Wars Evolved 2 (360)
I predicted on Usenet that GWE2 was likely to only be half the game Geometry Wars: Galaxies on the Wii was. And, having bought it, I was pretty much right. But that doesn’t mean it’s bad. Not in the slightest – it’s still amazing. It only had 6 “levels” (or rather, modes of play), but they’re more varied in rules than those in Galaxies. This evening’s play was supposed to be a quick go to see how it plays. An …
Super Smash Bros Brawl (Wii)
Oh yes, I played it. For a while. I can’t get used to the remote-and-nunchuk controls (they don’t feel right, and C to jump is all sorts of wrong) so I might have to try another method. The Sub-space Emissary single player mode is fun though. However, there’s a big huge giant problem: I can’t save my game. I have no space left on my Wii. I’ve deleted everything I don’t want, copied everything I do want but don’t need …
SyncMate v1.3 fixes v1.2’s problems
Remember a while back when I posted about how v1.2 of SyncMate was horribly broken? And how I had to revert back to v1.1 while they sorted out the issues with the driver on my Vario II? Well, good news everyone! I thought I’d give the relatively recently released v1.3 a punt. And guess what? It works! Not only that, but they’ve added a few useful new features. For a start, you can now sync your bookmarks with Firefox instead …
Halo (Xbox)
And so it gets worse. The same corridors over and over and over and over again on the alien space ship. The way you go through essentially the same hanger 5 times. The fact everything is too dark to see. The annoying little baddies that sound like Ewoks. The way I had to complete almost the entire chapter with just one block of health. That chapter really was horrible. But then it was onto The Silent Cartographer. I recall from …
Halo (Xbox)
I’ve played it before. And didn’t like it. And I tried again on the PC. And didn’t like it. I’ve always found it dull, dark, slow and boring. So, having bought it at a car boot sale yesterday for the princely sum of £1.50, I thought I’d play it again. Not least because I got the sequel at the same time (for the same price), and I have a mostly unplayed Halo 3 for the 360 sat on a shelf. …
Ticket to Ride (360)
Three games on this this evening, and I won all three. Managed to gain the achievement for getting over 150 points in a single game, too.
Fillum review: Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (2004)
Visually, this has to be the cleverest, most well done art style I’ve seen in ages. Somehow, it welds live action with steampunk comic-book, adding some 1940s war film overtones, and film noir lighting. Pretty much the entire film was recorded on a blue-screen, yet everything seems real enough – albeit almost sepia-toned in places (and where appropriate). The plot follows Joe (“Sky Captain” himself) and Polly, a reporter and love interest/rival for Joe, as they investigate the giant robots …
Fillum review: Big Trouble in Little China (1986)
Kurt Russell is an awkwardly almost-funny trucker who somehow ends up part of a fight against supernatural Chinese supermen and a very old, almost dead, guy who wants to regain his youth by marrying and then sacrificing a girl with green eyes. The plot has huge holes. Some of it doesn’t even make sense. Lo Pan (the evil old bloke) reminds me of Davros. The acting is rubbish, several of the characters are completely superfluous, the Chinese girl (with green …
Fillum review: The Princess Bride (1987)
I have a few films to get through, so nothing in depth on these, sorry! The Princess Bride is a film of the same genre, as well as style and era, as such things as Willow, The Neverending Story and Time Bandits. Basic plot: man and woman fall in love, man goes off to find his fortune, doesn’t return, girl is taken as bride for local prince, gang kidnaps girl, girl rescued by mysterious stranger, blah blah. The plot doesn’t …