Nightmare On Elm Street Trailer

Well the trailer is out. Unfortunately we can tell right away that the audience for this film is myspace users, which worried me, instead of apple trailers, we get a debut on myspace. Then again they may have been the cheapest to post it on.

Anyway we start off with a middle aged man being chased by a bunch of angry parents, the man (Fred Kruger) claims he doesn't know what they are talking about. They burn down the boiler room he hides in, for some odd reason he is compelled to take of his jacket to reveal the green and red sweater. What I don't get is when you are getting burned to death you decide to take your sweater off? Maybe it was getting hot in there? Maybe he didn't want to live in the afterlife in the waiting room in Beetlejuice with that jacket on (lol I wouldn't be caught dead in that ged'it??!)

Anyway we get some looks at the dream sequences, some similar imagery and a look at Freddy at the end.

What I can say is that the director has got a very good choice of Directing style when it comes to an Elm Street film. The imagery has a very odd quality to it, and the sets no longer look out-dated, some shots were weird, like the shot of the glove in the bathtub was fucked up by not having it rise up between her legs. We all know that imagery is far scarier, then again they may have had to edit out her legs in post because the trailer can be accessed by anyone? Meh just nitpicking there I suppose, but I feel it's a valid nitpick.

The dream sequences look cool, and despite not having a creepy feel like in the original, they do feel a lot more at home than the shitty ones in Nightmare's 2 and above which the dreams sequences just got shittier and shittier. I must admit the shots are nice for a Horror film.

Jackie Earle Haley's performance as Freddy was amazing as predicted he's as good as Robert Englund, actually better if you count the poor performances of Nightmares 4, 5, 6, and 8.

BUT the make-up was disappointing. I'm all up for updating the image, making things more realistic as the attempts after Nightmare 2 made Freddy look like a guy just wearing a lot of make-up effects. However this film just makes freddy look like a burn victim you see every day, and it makes you feel sorry for him, and not scared of him. Freddy was supposed to be more of a guy who looked more like a Zombie with flesh falling off rather than someone who was a victim of a fire. It looks like he had at least a few days to recover in hospital before he died rather than having fresh pus filled burns with flesh peeling off his face. So I'm not really buying the new make-up. I'm really going to grit my teeth on that one, maybe It'll grow on me, but I doubt it.

Another annoying thing is that most of the cast seem annoying whiney stereotypes that you just want to see die so badly! I'm deffo giving it a chance, as I didn't think the trailer was too bad, hey anyone killing off a cast member of Twilight gets in my good books, no matter how bad the film!

A Nightmare on Elm Street in HD

Project Needlemouse

It looks like we are finally going to get a decent Sonic game, how long as it been? Around 13 years?

Project Needlemouse will provide gamers with an HD 2D platforming experience similar to that of Sonic The Hedgehog on the MegaDrive back in 1991. The last Sonic game truly in my eyes to be great is Sonic CD back in 1996.

Ok so here's the trailer:

Apparently it's a reboot f Sonic, and it is everything I've dreamed of!!

Silent Hill and Resident Evil go Head to head

Well apparently Resident Evil: the Darkside Chronicles and Silent Hill: Shattered memories are going Head to Head this Winter for being pre-Christmas presents. To be honest I am in no possession to buy either. I'm skint. However through the miracle of odd-jobs, I reckon I can get one and get the other for Christmas, although now I'm an Uncle, so the Kid's first Christmas prezzie "has" to be brought. Anyway if you are wondering which you should fork out for I'd have to be honest and that is BOTH, but I'm having to personally shell out for Silent Hill: Shattered Memories. This is why.

First of all, Silent Hill has always been the scarier franchise, despite me being a massive fan of Resident Evil, I just can't help taking my hat off to Konami giving us the scarier franchise: There is no way in hell that Resident Evil can take the crown from Silent Hill, even though Resident Evil came first and gave us Silent Hill. Silent hill just creeps you the fuck out.

The next thing is that despite having some amazing improvements to the previous installment Darkside Chronicles is again just another On-Rails shooter, and therefore any game that steps away from doing "just another shooter" is doing a good thing as far as when it comes to Wii games. Silent Hill: Shattered Memories is a 3rd Person um, Horror Game, yeah it isn't a shooter, which is another reason why this game brings something Unique to the Wii's console. Usually the Wiimote acts as a sword or a gun, or even a steering wheel. This time it does the simple motion as a flashlight and gives you the ability to turn left and right quickly. Removing combat ups the anxiety you will feel, because you know if you bump into anything unfriendly - you're fucked; you have nothing to help you apart from a few flares dotted around.

Another thing is the game reading your moves, giving each player semi-individual gaming experiences. I can't wait to play through the game as myself and see my flat-mate play through and see the differences and similarities toward our experience.

The only thing Darkside Chronicles holds is the fact that we are getting what is probably the closest thing we are going to get toward a Resident Evil 2 remake. Which is better than nothing.

I'll review both, but I think for £29.99 Silent Hill: Shattered Memories feels like a more worthwhile experience than any old Wii on rails shooter. In which House of the Dead: Overkill still stands out as the best damn Rail shooter the Wii has ever got. I'm seeing if Dead Space Extradition can add anything to the genre. Heck by now I'd be surprised if Darkside gives us anything but some new stories and a trip down memory lane for old ones.

The PS-Wii

Ok first of all I've been very busy lately, I will be posting up previews and reviews on a LOT of shit. But at the moment I'm brain storming for another script. So everything is up in the air at the moment.

Anyway...

Introducing the PS-Wii. In spring 2010 you can now play annoying motion sensitive games in FULL HD. Not only that but you can use the PS-Wii-mote's flashy lightbulb thingy for absolutely no purpose at all! Yes, and not only that but these games will work only exclusively with this, and all for a price of £49.99 + per game! The PS-Wii-mote will cost you an additional cost!

Yeah so you can guess that I'm skeptical about Sony's Wiimote. I'm not against anyone using motion sensitive equipment in their consoles. But Sony really have to think about this. First of all this just seems like a REALLY, REALLY cheap move. It looks almost exactly like the Wiimote EXCEPT from the ugly light bulb that sprouts out from the top, which changes colour indicating crap, but to be honest the Wiimote just works better, it looks better, and with the motion+ it works just the same.

There isn't anything extra that the Wii can provide, and do better.

Yes the Wii is made up of 90% absolute crap and there are very few games that truly shine, but having crappy Wii style games on a PS3 just doesn't feel right for the image of the console.

On the plus side it may mean that we get HD ports of classic Wii titles, but in a huge way I hope most Wii titles remain Wii titles. I'd hate for Shattered Memories to come onto PS3, as well as House of The Dead: Overkill. Although if the PS3-Wii-mote becomes successful I hope that sequels to Wii titles will come over to PS3, although as someone who believes that motion controls should be left to the Wii, I can't help but accept the inevitable.