This is a review of the XB360 version of the game.
Crystal Dynamics and Eidos did something that is nearly impossible for the fast-moving world of video games, where top-notch production and great story, gameplay, and innovation don’t secure success. That said, it’s harder to start a franchise and keep the quality up - which accounts for the declining quality of the Tomb Raider during the late 1990s/early 2000s. The “high low” of this decline produced Tomb Raider: Ange... Read Full Story
Artist: Broken Social Scene
Album: Broken Social Scene (2005)
Song: “Hotel”
Cool, laid back, vague. “Hotel” whispers to you from the dark in the beginning, building. It’s smoky and blurry, coming from between sleep and wake. When it focuses, like a sleepwalker coming to, it becomes clear that it’s all sex, whether or not that was the intent. The bass is a lure, a promise of what will happen if you follow. The vocals ask you gently to close your eyes wi... Read Full Story
It’s good to be in the groove of Christmas break, and I hope all of you out there who are on some sort of break are enjoying it as much or more than I am. I’m hoping I will be able to use what free time I have left to give some much needed attention to VDCC and Adamant’s Fire. In the few free moments I had in the last semester, I began contemplating the scope of VDCC very seriously. This contemplation fixated almost immediately on the two most underdeveloped categories of... Read Full Story
My third review is up at ObsessedwithFilm.com. Please give it a click, a read, and some suppport.
Twilight
Also, if you are here because you clicked on the trackback link at OWF, here’s my Twilight book review.
Happy Thanksgiving!
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Here is some reading material.
Chuck Klosterman reviews Chinese Democracy.
For more on my impressions of Chuck Klosterman and getting to meet him, as well as lamentations at the chance I let slip through my fingers, see my blog post at Adamant’s Fire.
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Note: This was a review for ObsessedwithFilms.com that was never published. If conditions change and ObsessedwithFilm posts this review, this post will become a link to the review rather than the review itself.
Scientists and doctors are constantly trying to predict the next plague-like epidemic. It will infect and spread quickly, be impossible to cure immediately, and will cause the utter ruin and decay of society. But what if the epidemic, the doom of civilization, takes away not our bodi... Read Full Story
I’m going to officially declare VDCC.net as inactive until October 18. All movie and video game reviews will resume then. If I have a moment to spare, I might jot something down, but I have a thesis to write by next Monday and the GRE on October 18. I’ll also pick up the TOP 30 Animated Films countdown.
Thanks for your patience.
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I’m sorry about missing two Top 30 updates in the last two weeks, but my keyboard on my laptop is broken (well, just the “H” key, but do you know how many of those you use in a sentence?), and my desktop is currently being built. I’m effectively without a computer besides the one at work, and my boss is very much anti- “personal computer time”. As soon as I have a way, I’m going to post both of the last two Top 30s, a new article, and a few reviews ... Read Full Story
This is a bit of a politically charged post that I had over at AdamantFire though I thought I would post over here as well, since it deals with The Dark Knight. This isn’t my usual course of action, but considering the subject matter and that it’s an in depth look at the movie and what it means, I thought I would post it here.
Before I get to the substance of my post, it’s worth mentioning that there are a lot of people out there who have had a shot at trying to discuss Ba... Read Full Story
