Mortal Kombat short not a game?

June 9th, 2010 | by Warren
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It seems it is a push to remake the original 95 movie.  Jeri Ryan played Sonya Blade in the piece and has been twittering about it:

  1. …(cont.) to push them to make it. But you guys are resourceful…! ;-) about 5 hours ago via web
  2. More MK FAQs: I did it as a favor to a friend. No idea yet what WB’s reaction to it was. And I’m not sure how you can contact WB…about 5 hours ago via web
  3. It’s not a game trailer. Actually was made for the director to sell WB on his vision for a reimagined MK film.about 5 hours ago via web
  4. Okay, so… Mortal Kombat.about 5 hours ago via web

You can find her twitter account by clicking here.

I could go for a kick butt reboot of the movie, that is for sure. I liked what I saw below.  To give a bit of contrast, Here is a clip from the original Mortal Kombat movie:

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Five Day Play: Two Worlds Epic Edition – Day 2

June 8th, 2010 | by Warren
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With the launch of the new site, I am introducing our new column: Five Day Play. I am going to take one game and play it for five days in a row, discussing it every day I as I go through it. The games won’t necessarily be the most popular, but games that have flown in under the radar for one reason or another. Or they will be games that have gained a bit of notoriety for an entirely different reason…

DAY 2

The voices are starting to get on my nerves.

I had to turn the volume down. After talking to many people around town the bad voice acting has went from funny to irritating. I can see people laughing at this, seeing the humor in it…but today I don’t. I just want them to stop speaking.

I’ve died twice. It seems everything from wolves to Groms (Orclike creatures?) find me very easy to kill. It doesn’t matter since my character seems to not know how to wield a sword right… It could be me, I just need to learn how to play the game.

I pause a moment and look at the graphics. They seem a trifle crude; as if the people making it could only remember games like Quake II or Unreal tournament. Games that came out in the late 90′s. Although I do like the use of more realistic clothing for a medieval setting, The characters seem blocky and ill fitting. If I can have fun in the game, that will not bother me at all.

The game wasn’t running very smooth, so I have to adjust some settings. I wonder at this: My computer isn’t new, but it isn’t old. It should be able to handle this game just fine. However I know there are some programs running in the background, so it may not be the game.

There we go, I die again. I have to figure out how to survive if I want to ressonably enjoy this game. I have a helmet and a shield on and I can shoot fire out of my hand. I haven’t even tried doing any quests yet, I just have been trying to figure out how to survive. I think there could be a decently enjoyable action RPG underneath this game.

Maybe.

I’m at about an hour and a half of play time. I wonder how far I will get before getting to frustrated to want to continue.

I just killed two wolves! Maybe I can get far in this game… Going further I come across a pack of four wolves (though they kind of look like pigs from the front.) I die again, but I also finally noticed that I have a quick slot for health and mana potions. Maybe I should try using those next time.

The quest I’m trying to reach is the one the man in black told me to do. I think. The map shows quest locations but I can’t find this one… Opening up my inventory I find some wolf hearts and new equipment. I had scavenged off the dead wolves, but nothing popped up to tell me what I received. I guess I know now.

Getting almost to my destination I am set upon by more wolves. They kill me. I resurrect then try again. I die once more. So I decide to visit a building near the resurrection shrine. It seems some of the house of skeldon want me to help them fight groms… I say yes and then try to get to my original destination one more time.

I die yet again. Saving the game, I decide to wait and continue until tomorrow.

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Deadliest Warrior

June 8th, 2010 | by Warren
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Spike TV. The overblown hyperbole ladened “men’s” channel. Half the programs are so soaked in Executive decided testosterone that it is often hard to watch. Yet there are a few programs that draw me to the channel, like a bee to honey.

One of them is Deadliest Warrior. The idea behind the show is that it pits two opposite soldiers (or groups of soldiers) against each other. They pair up Knights versus Pirates, William Wallace versus Shaka Zulu, and other pairings.

The show is divided in to two teams who discuss and test the respective weapons for their warrior. At the end of the show all the information is inputed in to a simulation program. After that the results are shown on screen through a filmed reenactment.

I love the reenactment. The way many of them are staged should be seen by many Hollywood battle choreographers. (For one there is no “Shake-y cam.” I hate that….

Here is the last part from the Jesse James gang versus Al Capone’s gang episode:

If you like that, the whole first season can be watched online by clicking here. They also have it out on DVD.

Though I don’t agree with all the results, the show is a hoot to watch. It really gets to the core of that “This is a man’s show” mentality. Spike also has an aftermath web series where the people involved come back and discuss the show, using viewer questions as the foundation. Very cool. I’d love to work on this show.

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Mortal Kombat – The Reality show?

June 8th, 2010 | by Warren
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Well maybe not.  However this video has been hitting the net in all kinds of ways today.  It is pretty cool.  I would dig a realistic (well kind of realistic) game or a new movie/series based on this clip.

Watch and enjoy.

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Five Day Play: Two Worlds Epic Edition – Day 1

June 7th, 2010 | by Warren
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With the launch of the new site, I am introducing our new column: Five Day Play.  I am going to take one game and play it for five days in a row, discussing it every day I as I go through it.  The games won’t necessarily be the most popular, but games that have flown in under the radar for one reason or another. Or they will be games that have gained a bit of notoriety for an entirely different reason…

The game I will start with has been reviled as one of the worst games ever. You can type the name in a google search box and find a long list of insults, bad reviews, and jokes. On on the aggregate websites  Metacritic and Game rankings,this bundle of joy holds at a steady score in the midsixties. It is not a game many people even care to play.

The game, of course, is Two Worlds.

So I asked myself: is this game as bad as it’s reputation would suggest? I played a little of both the PC and Xbox 360 versions and didn’t think it was that disappointing. Yet I never really explored the meat of the game, mainly staying around the beginning. I don’t think I’ve spent more then an hour playing Two Worlds and feel like I don’t really have enough information to make a valid opinion. So here we go with five days of Two Worlds.

Day 1:

Using the Steam client from Valve, I downloaded Two Worlds: Epic Edition. I don’t know what has changed from the regular edition, but I do know that this version magically appeared on my game list. (I bought the original Two Worlds last year for five or ten dollars.) I don’t want to go in to the game without knowing so I decided to look up the differences. I found my answer on Answers.com (how appropriate!):

The Epic Edition also includes t ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

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