Reviews
Game Review: The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings – Enhanced Edition
The monster slayer speaks to the soldier with quiet confidence. He signals with his fingers, his yellow eyes shine, and the soldier reveals his secrets without the slayer ever needing to unsheathe his sword. The witcher is gifted for his patience, and now, Xbox 360 owners are similarly rewarded: one of 2011′s finest adventures has come to Microsoft’s console, and it was well worth the wait.
Game Review: The Walking Dead: Episode 1 – A New Day
In the zombie apocalypse, we’ll all be human resource managers. We’ll need to make harsh critiques on the value of one human against another in a post-apocalyptic scenario. At least, that’s what the first episode of Telltale’s The Walking Dead adaptation has taught me.
Movie Review: Think Like a Man (2012)
Think Like a Man isn’t as grueling as most ensemble comedies about the battle between the sexes — it’s no He’s Just Not That Into You, in other words — and it’s good-natured, occasionally even funny, in the way it reduces men and women into simple stereotypes.
Movie Review: The Lucky Ones
Adapted from a novel by Nicholas Sparks, this soft-core romance touches on the Iraq war, but any topical relevance is incidental to the formulaic torrid love affair. A U.S. marine on his third tour of duty (Zac Efron) is drawn to a photo of a young honey (Taylor Schilling) and barely escapes being killed by a land mine.
Detention (2012) Review
Review by Hit Fix I wanted to get the quote exactly right, so I went back tonight to look up my review of the 2004 film “Torque.” I never reviewed the movie when it came out, probably because it stunned me silent. But at the end of the year, it topped my list of the
Anomaly: Warzone Earth Review
For the most part, Anomaly Warzone Earth is identical to the PC version we reviewed last year (it’s also available for Macs). In a nutshell, you control a Commander who can use abilities to drop support auras (repair, decoy, smoke, bomb), and buy units to form a squad which you then carefully guide on a manually created path through a map dotted with towers.
Xenoblade Chronicles Game Review (Wii)
The subject of much joy and anguish over both sides of the Atlantic, Xenoblade Chronicles is, without a doubt, a game that every Wii owner should be able to play. Set against a beautiful backdrop of nearly overwhelming proportions, it tells a thoughtful and cleverly executed story of resistance and rebellion, and possesses one of the most refreshing battle systems available on the console.
American Reunion Movie Review
After some strained “Remember the time . . .” callbacks to 13-year-old gags, American Reunion gets comfortable and funny, as Hurwitz and Schlossberg hit familiar marks from unexpected angles, while the ensemble interplay is “routine” in the best sense of the word.
Total War: Shogun 2 – Fall of The Samurai Review
In the mid-19th Century, when the American Admiral Perry appeared with his black warships and forced Japan to re-open its trading ports to Western powers, Japan was still essentially a medieval society: closed off from the outside world, with a feudal government, an economy based primarily on subsistence rice farming, and warfare still conducted with swords and bows.
Titanic (in 3D) Review | OAS Score – 8.5/10
This “Titanic” arrives at its destination. A spectacular demonstration of what modern technology can contribute to dramatic storytelling, James Cameron’s romantic epic, which represents the biggest roll of the dice in film history, will send viewers in search of synonyms for the title to describe the film’s size and scope.
Ridge Racer Unbounded Game Review | OAS Score – 9/10
Namco Bandai’s decision to entrust the license of its chic arcade title Ridge Racer to FlatOut creator Bugbear showed remarkable confidence. Turns out it bet on the right studio.
Wrath of The Titans Movie Review | OAS Score – 5.6/10
“Clash of the Titans” was a mess, full of creaky 3D and plotting howlers, but it exhibited a certain charming kid-in-the-sandbox spirit, mixing and matching mythologies at will. Two years later, the franchise has matured ever so slightly with “Wrath of the Titans,”
Armored Core V Review | OAS Score: 7.6/10
It’s been a long, long time since we’ve seen a great mech game. Chromehounds was almost six years ago; MechWarrior was even further back. Armored Core, meanwhile, is a series that hasn’t been at peak fitness for over a decade.
Mirror Mirror Movie Review | OAS Score 9.1/10
As could be expected, “Mirror, Mirror,” Tarsem Singh’s version of the beloved fable “Snow White,” is visually inventive, thematically flawed, dramatically uneven, and ultimately incongruent.
