That's a wrap for the holidays, gamers. We've got about a month to prepare for the big one. You-Know-Who is coming to town, so you better watch out. It seems that a lot of the good titles were pushed back from the holiday season, but that's ok. There will still be plenty to get our hands on, not to mention the games we already have, Mass Effect, Uncharted: Drakes Fortune, Crysis, Assassin's Creed, that one mario game, and a few others. It's been an amazing year for us gamers, and we're finally taking the ship into descent.
Tomorrow I may have a juicy blog for you all, if everything goes well...
Showing posts with label assassins creed. Show all posts
Showing posts with label assassins creed. Show all posts
Sunday, November 25, 2007
The Good and Bad
As promised, Assassin's Creed and No Country For Old Men.
One Good, One Bad. Let's start with the bad.
In no way does the following contradict my previous review.
Assassin's Creed was a great game up until the end. Instead of taking the fun aspects of the game, the stealthy killing mixed with rooftop jumping, and ramping it up to match a climax, it instead matches it with dull fights with hordes of enemies. When you think you're finished, you're not. They probably wrapped the ending together for sake of time. It also leaves out key details in the ending to leave an opening for a sequel, and by key details I mean all details. It's a real cliffhanger. Serious disappointment. I knew from the grapevine it was coming, so I've just been telling myself to go ahead and beat the game and get it over with.
Aside from the ending it's a great game.
The Good.
Most movies are fairy tales. They play with our emotions and get us riled up in some way or another, but they always hand us our hearts still beating at the end of the movie. No Country For Old Men (NCFOM) is not one of these movies. It's gritty, it's real, and it'll break your heart if you can't face the truth. It's a no holds barred movie, reflective of the real world. Albeit, psycho killers with air pressure guns aren't all that common in the real world.
What's gonna get people is the ending. They're gonna be taken by suprise, and they might be a little disappointed at first. But if you look at the tone of the entire movie you'll see the ending could really be no other way. It sticks to it's path through and through.
All in all, don't expect to leave NCFOM with a warm feeling from a fairy tale, but expect to leave pleased and thinking to yourself, "That wasn't a movie, that was real."
One Good, One Bad. Let's start with the bad.
In no way does the following contradict my previous review.
Assassin's Creed was a great game up until the end. Instead of taking the fun aspects of the game, the stealthy killing mixed with rooftop jumping, and ramping it up to match a climax, it instead matches it with dull fights with hordes of enemies. When you think you're finished, you're not. They probably wrapped the ending together for sake of time. It also leaves out key details in the ending to leave an opening for a sequel, and by key details I mean all details. It's a real cliffhanger. Serious disappointment. I knew from the grapevine it was coming, so I've just been telling myself to go ahead and beat the game and get it over with.
Aside from the ending it's a great game.
The Good.
Most movies are fairy tales. They play with our emotions and get us riled up in some way or another, but they always hand us our hearts still beating at the end of the movie. No Country For Old Men (NCFOM) is not one of these movies. It's gritty, it's real, and it'll break your heart if you can't face the truth. It's a no holds barred movie, reflective of the real world. Albeit, psycho killers with air pressure guns aren't all that common in the real world.
What's gonna get people is the ending. They're gonna be taken by suprise, and they might be a little disappointed at first. But if you look at the tone of the entire movie you'll see the ending could really be no other way. It sticks to it's path through and through.
All in all, don't expect to leave NCFOM with a warm feeling from a fairy tale, but expect to leave pleased and thinking to yourself, "That wasn't a movie, that was real."
Saturday, November 24, 2007
Gameplan
Tonight there are two things to accomplish: beat Assassin's Creed (no, I really haven't beaten it yet), and watch No Country For Old Men. I won't say much on AC due to obvious spoilers, but I will come home with my opinion of NCFOM, and let me tell you, after reading the first couple pages for the book, I'm sure it's gonna be one heck of a story. The guy with the air pressure weapon just looks like a psycho!
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