The new Star Wars: The Force Unleashed novel topped The New York Times bestsellers list this past weekend under the “hardcover fiction” category. While I certainly want to check out the book myself, I’m willing to wait to play the video game first. I certainly want to be surprised with the story and have been avoiding any spoilers, including books.
Microsoft’s latest cryptic hardware teaser animation is just a black background, a date, new logo and has the words “Say Goodbye to Laser” in white. What does this mean? We do know that Microsoft has an event scheduled for September 9th in Seattle to unveil their new product line. Some people are guessing that it’s a new mouse, which is a good guess, but it could very easily be something even more impressive. When I first saw the ad, I wondered if it had something to do with digital downloads. I guess we’ll find out soon enough…
I’ve seen some great Zelda pieces over the years, and this has to be up there with the best. ‘Ocarina of Time’ was perhaps the best of all Zelda games and the Sheik had a little something to do with that. The character is as mysterious now as he was back then. ”The Sheik” by First4Figures is currently selling for $99.90 on Play-Asia and will probably not remain on the site for too long. Click on the image below or this link to find out more…
I’ve finally had the time to run through the Star Wars: The Force Unleashed demo on Xbox LIVE a few times. The demo starts you out with “the apprentice” having a conversation with his master, Darth Vader. This really sets the tone for the demo and hopefully we’ll see many conversations like this in the full game.
You start the level oboard a giant ship and your goal is to kill everyone and everything. Before you go on your rampage, it’s a lot of fun to start picking up random containers and throw them wherever you please with your powers. The demo also starts you off with numerous force abilities including dash, defend, the saber attack, high jump, Force Lightning, Force Push and Force Grip. While nearly all work flawlessly with the simple control scheme, I wasn’t too thrilled with the defending ability. While standing still, it’s easy to defend against blaster attacks, but it’s a little tricky to defend yourself while moving. Other than that, movement is fairly fluid and feels right. Flinging objects at your whim is probably the #1 aspect of the demo. It’s definitely a fun feeling to fling a canister at a moving Tie-Fighter to take it out of the sky.
“New Model. Original Parts.”
And you thought only games got remade. The above trailer should let you know that not only is the movie industry out of ideas, but it has taken yet another page out of gaming’s marketing plan.
”Fast and Furious” looks to give the original movie’s cast something to do after being out of (profitable) work for some time now.
The trailer is entertaining, though, and it makes us mildly interesting in the “film,” out next summer.
Via IGN
Chad Lakkis of Ripten recently posted information on the Joker’s fatality move in the new Mortal Kombat vs. DC game. Lakkis mentions the creativity of the fatality, but I’m not all that impressed with what I saw. I loved Mortal Kombat back in the day, but really need to see something mind blowing if they want to suck me back into the franchise. So far, things just seem average. I will say that the fatality is creative yet predictable but better than what I expected. I’m sure some people will complain about someone getting shot in the face in a “T” rated game, but it wasn’t that shocking to me.
Via Ripten
I’ve been waiting patiently for Inglorious Bastards to hit films, but knew nothing about Sukiyaki Western Django until I stumbled across the IGN trailer on ‘get the big picture‘. Next Friday, this film will appear in only one theater in the United States. For whatever reason, a Japanese film about rival gangs in the 1100s seems like something very interesting to me. Quentin Tarantino is a wonderful director and producer, but his acting skills are limited. Let’s hope his character “Jesus” is limited in the film. After watching the trailer, I see that this film has some real potential.
This hasn’t been the most exciting week in video game news, but there’s always something worth checking out. If you want to send us an article link in the future, feel free to send it to tips@kezins.com. We read articles from hundreds and hundreds of game blogs each week, but we’ll always miss something. It’s not possible to catch every story out there. If you have a site you’d like us to check out, feel free to contact us. Here’s our picks for the top news in video games for the weekend:
I never thought I’d see the day where I thought a multi-platform game was better on the Wii than the Xbox 360 or Sony PS3, but that day has come. Although the game has a different title and has different features, I feel like it’s still something I needed to compare to the 360/PS3 version. I recently reviewed Madden NFL 09 for the Xbox 360 and felt it wasn’t the great game everyone was giving it credit for. My primary issues with the game was lag, the game freezing, game glitches and numerous problems with the AI.
The average score from 1Up editors and users for Madden NFL 09 is a shocking A+. Even G4’s X-Play gave it a perfect review score. The only negative aspects mentioned by X-Play was “minor glitches” and “minor online lag”. I’m not sure if the word minor is right, but I’ll cover that later. After reading dozens of reviews from around the net, I realized that the people giving the scores were probably not looking at the game in depth. Perhaps they were caught up with the “20th anniversary” hype or something. I’m just not sure how anyone could consider this to be a perfect or even close to perfect title.
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