gamingeek said:

gamingeek said:

Oh the Conduit review. Eh, not totally unexpected but I was hoping it would get some 8.5s at least. If its the best shooter as the mag says, it should be better than World at War which means it should be scoring higher. 

Score : 8.0

Summary :

- Great adventure, but doesn't measure up to "big guns" of the genre.
- Predictable story.
- Unimpressive AI.
- Little innovation aside from the controls...
-...yet their quality, which owes a lot to their customizability, mostly overshadow these issues.
- Locales look great for the most part though the level of details can be inconsistent.
- Finely tuned level design based more around covering yourself and surviving than "run 'n gun".
- Lack of destructible environments is a disappointment.
- Great, satisfying to use weapons selection.
- ASE is cool, but under-utilized.
- Impressively smooth online experience.
- Cliffhanger ending hinting at a sequel

- Closing comment :
"Would The Conduit make as big an impact on a competing console ? Probably not. But it's a worthwhile endeavour nonetheless, especially if you're willing to go online. Hopefully, the game enjoys enough success to see that sequel green-lit. Now that the groundwork is in place, I'd love to see if High Voltage can take the next step and forge something truly special. In the meantime, they can at least lay claim to the best pure first-person shooter on Wii."

-stormbringer gaf summary

EDIT:

I found the full review scan, will put in thread. 

 Not exactly the highest praise.

Punk Rebel Ecks said:

 I've played pretty much every Metroid games but the II: Return of Samus and Zero Mission.

 Finally, someone worth talking to

So no one has anything to say about the Kojima game? Lords of Shadow? Looks castlevania like in imagery. 

They are remaking V?

Ewwwwwwwwwwww

http://twitchfilm.net/site/view/v-upfront-trailer/

http://twitchfilm.net/site/view/solomon-kane-review#extended

Life’s a bitch when your soul is owed to the devil.  It’s even more of a bitch when you’re not even the guy who sold it off.  But such is the sad state of affairs for Solomon Kane, the one-time bloodthirsty, amoral, treasure hunting sea captain prone to gunning down his own men for disobedience while spouting off inspirational lines about how he’s the only devil his men have to fear when they quake in fright at the evil forces he keeps sending them against in the quest for more riches. But Solomon’s a reformed man now, a man who has taken up residence in a monastery and pledged himself to a peaceful life in a desperate bid to atone for his past wrongs in the hope that God will take mercy upon him and restore his soul.  It’s a plan that may even have worked if not for the evil sorcerer ravaging the land, a potent force that only goes to prove that sometimes the forces of good need to have a little blood lust if they are to prevail.  They need to be a little vicious.  They need Solomon to pick up his sword.

Yes, boys and girls, Solomon Kane is the creation of Robert E Howard, best known as the creator of Conan The Barbarian.  Yes, Kane is the subject of a new screen adventure helmed by Michael Bassett.  And, yes, 80’s style sword and sorcery adventure is back in a big way with Bassett’s thoroughly entertaining screen adaptation. 

James Purefoy stars as the title character, a man as prone to violence and evil as any who may walk the earth when we first meet him.  Kane has no fear, no morals.  There is only the lust for wealth and power and there is no length that Kane will not go to achieve what he wants.  He lives in fear of no man and no creature and continues living because he has the physical skills to overcome any sort of creature that he has ever encountered until the fateful day that he encounter’s one of Satan’s own Reapers and learns that somehow, somewhere, Solomon Kane’s soul has been sold and that the time has now come for the Devil to collect.  He barely escapes but is there really any point?  How long can you hide from the Devil himself?  A monastery provides sanctuary for a time but when a horde of magically enhanced thugs and killers begins swarming the land under the control of a hulking, masked warrior under the control of a foul sorcerer Kane is forced back out into the world by the monastery’s abbot in the hopes that Kane may seek redemption not in hiding himself away but in protecting the weak and powerless.

Loaded with swordplay, evil creatures and adventure, all of it anchored by the classic antiheroic Kane himself, Solomon Kane is a throwback to the pulpy fantasy adventure genre that creator Robert E Howard once ruled.  It is the sort of film that Van Helsing should have been only bigger, bloodier and burlier.  James Purefoy has long been touted as the next big leading man and his natural charisma shines through int he title role, while supporting players such as Jason Flemyng, Max Von Sydow and Pete Postlethwaite provide solid work in support.  The effects are solid, the action plentiful, and while the swordplay has obviously been planned with a PG-13 audience in mind it pushes as hard against that limit as it can with more than one limb severed and head removed.  

Despite a loyal fan following, sword and sorcery fantasy has always been a difficult genre to pull off convincingly and, as such, has largely been neglected in recent years.  But with Kane we get a different sort of sword and sorcery hero, one dropped into the puritan era rather than the middle ages, and that simple change breathes new life into a tired beast.  Though not a perfect film by any stretch - some of the fighting is shot too close and edited too fast while a couple of the digital effects land only just on the acceptable side of the spectrum - but it is a hugely entertaining one, one loaded with rich characters and strong players and stacks of quality set pieces.  I can only hope that the producers of the soon-to-be-revived Conan franchise are paying attention to this one because Solomon Kane is one excellent primer on how to tackle Howard and make him work for today’s audiences.  No theatrical release has been announced yet but seek it out when the time comes.  This is a good one.

gamingeek said:

travo said:

gamingeek said:

They are remaking V?

Ewwwwwwwwwwww

http://twitchfilm.net/site/view/v-upfront-trailer/

Yeah, Elizabeth Mitchell from LOST is in it.   Nothing can touch the original miniseries.   "Mousy, mousy, you're hiding from me. "

If it's not set in the 80s it's not V.

And where is the Beastmaster when you need him?

That guy was cool.  And Jane was sexay as hell, alien or not.

gamingeek said:

Was that the blonde one who stripped?

No the leader of the aliens, I think.  The dark haired one.