Updateathon: Resi 5, Dead Rising and Indy 5

I apologise to anyone who reads my blog, I have been extremely busy in the realms of REAL LIFE. I mean I do have a life outside the internet ya know?

Anyway lets cut the shit:

Indiana Jones 5:

Harrison ford recently talked about a 5th film of Indiana Jones. Ford had this to say "It's crazy but great. George is in think mode right now."

The key word is crazy here. George Lucas has gone mad, it seems that something has controlled his brain to make him make shitty versions of the classic adventure movies he used to make such as Star Ward and Indiana Jones. I'm not sure if it's his hair controlling him like some sort of alien brain slug or what but it must be stopped. I can imagine fans of the old Star Wars teaming up with fans of the old Indiana Jones tracking George down and George being held hostage by his own hair.

It may not surprise some of you (especially the Indy geeks) that there were 5 films planned to be filmed one after another, however George (before the hair took over) and Stephen decided to call it a day after the third; like ALL GOOD TRILOGIES!!!Ford: "George = Crazy"

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Dead Rising: Chop Till you Drop

So many of you have been waiting for my next glimpse of the 360 port of Dead Rising. Well nothing from my last complaint has really gone away. G4 recently had a hands on of Chop Till you Drop. According to them the 'hundreds of zombies' promised has so far not been delivered G4 counted a maximum of 15 zombies on screen at the same time.

Capcom have obviously sacrificed the amount of shops you can access, and G4 have pointed out that a smaller area makes you panic more. However I'm sorry, a large shopping mall with only 15 zombies on screen at a time is ridiculous. It's such a large area to maneuver around it just having a few inaccessible shops really doesn't make it more of a panic fest.

Apart from that nothing has really changed. The graphics look ever so slightly upgraded, but I'd expect more from what I've seen in RE4 on the cube or even on the Wii. The gore effects still look really bad, and the sound effects still don't chill me, take a look at the new trailer, I'm sure you notice music over nearly the whole thing just to hide away the shame.




Resident Evil 5

Well this is the big one. The game that everyone is sooooo excited about. Well I took a look at the new trailer and I can say is....

I'm impressed. Ok I'm not drawn completely in by the bait, but the story already seems to be far more fluid than RE4's. It's a shameless rip off of MGS4's style but I'm sure with an Resident Evil twist. The characters seem far more 3D (I can use puns if I want, I don't give a shit if you don't find it funny fuck you) than in say RE2, 3 Zero and 4 (sorry I loved the more adult themes in CV and the character and script in REmake), but power to them, yes it's going to be over the top, but I think in this one there is going to be a lot better writing, the new trailer just gives me a feeling that things are going to at least better than RE4, so there is something I can relax myself about. Ok It's still a game which looks like it's going to have scenes similar to RE4, which is just unforgivable, allot of the plot seem to lack any imagination, but it already seems that they have cut down the amount of confidence in the characters (aka Leon's monster quip).
It also introduces Wesker and it seems that he has found a new business partner creating bio weapons. It even shows what seems to be Spencer (the fellow from Umbrella Chronicles in the wheelchair). It also explains why Chris joined (or helped set up) BSAA, and it seems things like Degeneration and the events of Resident Evil 4 really pushed things: For example Chris mentions that terrorists got hold of Umbrella's weaponry over black markets and it seem that the incident at the airport (assumption here people) sparked off a new wave of bio terrorism, so BSAA was formed by Chris and a few others. He also has the balls to admit that these enemies are nothing but Ganado rip-offs as "reported in the Kennedy report." Which maybe gives me hope that they may really do a good job bridging all worlds together. So well done Capcom, just don't ruin it with your next trailer.

The graphics look AMAZING (for a 360 title) however I'm sure they could have really pushed it if it was a PS3 exclusive.

The voice acting looks less than impressive though for a next-gen game, first of all you have a bullshit stereotypical mad-scientist who has a voice in which I'd never though I'd say I prefer Alfred Ashford's voice. and Sheva sounds very British for an Africa woman (eve though she seems mixed race so maybe Sheva has a British parent, or maybe was born in Africa but raised in an all girls boarding school in Kent?!
The other factor is that there seems to be quite a bit of mouth flapping which just sucks monkey balls, I thought this was the next generation?! Patrick Stewart would be ashamed.

I did not see any of the new "Gears of War" controls as stated a while back, but fuck it I'll wait another day.

Altogether this trailer has changed my mind on the storyline, but it isn't 100%, I'm still extremely sceptical, and I suppose the next trailer might make me change my mind, however I must give it to Capcom; it is the very first Trailer of RE5 that has really got me interested, it is a shame that we did not see the new controls.

You can view the Trailer here http://www.gametrailers.com/player/41037.html