Never Not A Nerd

Bad Company 2 is the latest game from DICE/EA that takes part in EA’s struggle to take back dominance in what they believe to be rightfully theirs, the first-person shooter genre. When the last time they feel like they had said dominance I am not sure.

You play as Preston Marlowe, a member of a four-man military squad known as B-Company. It’s where they put the misfits, and apparently their branch of the military only has four misfits.  After the first game ending with your squad getting away with some trucks full of gold you’re all back for another adventure. I don’t think they mention why exactly you’re back shooting people.

Is this game what EA has been looking for to take the FPS throne from Modern Warfare 2?

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A few years ago when the next generation consoles were first being announced, Quanitc Dream released a technical demo of their new game called Heavy Rain. The demo showed a startlingly life-like woman on the screen delivering an intense monologue about the loss of her son and how she desperately wants revenge. After the video of the demo went live on the internet, Playstation fans had a new weapon in their arsenal against other systems. Years later and  Heavy Rain has finally been released on the Playstation 3. Does the game reignite that flame that coursed throughout the industry or does it arrive all wet? Read the rest of this entry »

Bioshock 2 is a game that really shouldn’t have a sequel. The way I remember the ending of the first game, because I harvested a couple of the little sisters, was that everyone in Rapture (including the splicers) got out and ran rampant on the world.  But, now suddenly everyone is back.

The developers promised the story would make sense even for the people that played the first game. They also promised it’d be more challenging than the first, with less of an abundance of vita-chambers (where you re-spawn when you die).  Did they deliver?

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I don’t know what to say, really.  Kick-Ass was released in hardcover last week and I’m just not sure.  The concept of the story is a simple one, and it’s one we’ve seen many times before: why don’t people in real life try to be superheroes?  Well, it’s because they’d be killed rather quickly, that’s why.  Fortunately, that’s something Millar opts not to ignore in his story.  But still, the main problem I seem to have with this story is that there’s no one actually likable throughout (with the exception of Kick-Ass’ father, and that’s only because he’s barely in it).  Therefore, let’s take a look at the Yays and Nays of the story before the movie is released.

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Archer is a fairly new FX show that airs at 10 PM Thursday nights on FX. It stars H. Jon Benjamin as Sterling Archer, a mostly idiotic spy working for an agency staffed by imbeciles and run by his mother. He’s usually an asshole to everyone he meets, which at first makes you not like his character, until a few episodes in you realize sometimes he just doesn’t know better, while other times if he doesn’t act that way nothing will get done. He also seems to really like hookers.

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This is almost at the point where you can say ” This late, what is his deal?”. But, I figure as long as it’s before the Academy Awards it’s still OK to post year-end lists for the previous year. Plus, after Taylor Swift won the Grammy for Album of the Year I knew I needed to write something.

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Army of Two: The 40th Day is the second and latest game in EA’s series.  It focuses on two mercenaries, Tyson Rios and Elliot Salem.  In this game they get a simple job to plant a few beacons on a building in Shanghai . Once the job is done some bombs within the city go off and all hell breaks lose.

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New Zealand company Weta Ltd. semi-recently released two weapon replicas from Neill Blomkamp’s Oscar-nominated film District 9. The two weapons are the Arc Generator and the Gas Projector. I don’t really remember the Gas Projector too well from the film, but I’m pretty sure the Arc Generator is the one that just made people into ‘human sauce’. Kind of like Dr. Manhattan did in Watchmen. The Gas Projector is the above picture, the Arc Generator is below the cut.

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Sweet nectar of the gods… Mo-Larr, Eternian Dentist, has his own action figure coming up with the new line of He-Man toys, according to the recent Toy Fair 2010.  He comes with all his dentistry tools, and has that brilliant smile all dentists should have.  Mo-Larr first appeared in a Robot Chicken sketch, and from there he seemed to have just become popular enough to get his own action figure included in the new lineup.  Wow.

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The Saboteur is an open-world game in which you play as Sean Devlin, an Irishman tasked with clearing France of the Nazi occupation one sniper tower and AA gun at a time. It was the last game Pandemic Studios, the studio behind Star Wars: Battlefront and Mercenaries, will have ever developed. I’m sure Pandemic planned for it to be their swan song, but unfortunately for their ‘legacy’ I cannot agree.

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