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CFD!'s Scott Thompson takes a look at Sega and Rebellion's Aliens vs. Predator. Mixed feelings? Perhaps - but at least it's not the AvP movies!
"Aliens vs. Predator. If you are like me, then the utterance of these three words causes two very distinct emotional responses: joy and pain. On one hand, there are the excellent comics, books, and PC games which fused the two (mostly) unrelated franchises into a cohesive work. Then of course, you have the two AvP films, which opted to deftly remove the finer elements of both series in order to create generic action movies. When it comes to this AvP, there is certainly no fault placed on anyone exercising caution, wondering whether the game would fall in line with those before it or if it would take “liberties” (to put it kindly) with the franchise, as the films have."
Hit the link for the full review.
http://www.crushfragdestroy.com/2010/03/17/aliens-vs-predator-crush-frag-review/CFD!'s Scott Thompson takes a look at Sega and Rebellion's Aliens vs.... more
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This week’s not a big one for major releases and I think I have the reason why. It’s quite simple, actually. Aliens and Predators killed everything else off. How did that not occur to anyone else?
Oh sure, there are a few token releases besides Aliens vs. Predator coming out, Ace Attorney Investigations: Miles Edgeworth and the 360 version of Tropico 3 come to mind, but do they have chestbursting and spinal column-trophy-pulling-outery? Yeah, I didn’t think so either.
Regardless, you can pry that facehugger off your head and hit the jump for the full list.
http://www.crushfragdestroy.com/2010/02/17/new-releases-this-week-february-14th-2010/This week’s not a big one for major releases and I think I have the reason why.... more
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Recently I got a chance to check out some of the multiplayer in the upcoming Alien vs. Predator title during a community event held at Astro Studios in San Francisco. The game’s set to release on February 16th for the Xbox 360, PC and PS3 and was developed by Rebellion, the same company responsible for thee classics released in the 90s. The Alien universe, as well as Predator’s has a very hardcore fan base, something that I do not share the passion for. Even though I am not a diehard fan of either franchise, AVP’s multiplayer immediately sucked me in and I found myself actually enjoying something that had AVP in the title.Recently I got a chance to check out some of the multiplayer in the upcoming Alien vs.... more
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In this Great Geek Debate, let’s look at the two men who are arguably the biggest icons in geek entertainment today: Joss Whedon and J.J. Abrams.
Joss Whedon broke into the collective geek consciousness with the 1992 movie Buffy the Vampire Slayer, a fun but uneven take on the vampire movie genre. His screenplay for Alien: Resurrection going largely (and deservedly) overlooked, he truly gained his iconic geek status when the Buffy TV series (which only really related to the movie in that both were about girls named Buffy fighting vampires) hit its stride with its second season. If any doubts remained about his ability to captivate geeks, he removed them when Firefly hit the TV screen in 2002.
There’s no way to know what would have happened if Fox hadn’t unforgivably mishandled Firefly, moving it around from timeslot to timeslot and thus guaranteeing it would never garner decent ratings, then unceremoniously canceling it entirely. Maybe the series would have gone downhill; maybe we would talk about how the first season was an aberration. But the fact is that by canceling it Fox ensured Firefly’s place in geek canon, so much so that its place on the pedestal enabled Whedon to convince Universal Pictures to make and release the movie Serenity two years after the last episode aired on TV.
J.J. Abrams got his start in Hollywood writing such films as Regarding Henry, which is possibly the only film ever to imply that the best thing to do with arrogant, self-centered lawyers is to shoot them in the head. Probably the first time geeks really noticed him was when he co-wrote the 1998 movie Armageddon, which definitely didn’t earn him many points. Then he created the TV series Alias in 2001 (Felicity wasn’t especially geeky), and we started to realize he had some genuine talent.
Then came Lost, which was so brilliant no viewer could legitimately claim to understand it. Whatever your opinion of it, you have to admit that Lost was a watershed moment in TV: probably the first show with such a long overall story arc that each episode didn’t have to be understandable on its own. Then came Mission: Impossible III, which Abrams took over after the original director bailed, and which, while not necessarily good, was nonetheless better than it had any real right to be.
So that’s the past of both men, and so we come to the more recent years. Whedon hasn’t done much recently, unless you count creating a musical web-based miniseries so brilliant they had to create a new Emmy category so it could win one (and which also, not incidentally, won a Hugo Award). And then of course there’s Dollhouse, which while uneven is still one of the few decent science fiction shows on TV, and has had some real flashes of brilliance.
Abrams has been a little busy these past few years. He created the TV show Fringe, which seems to be of the love-it-or-hate-it variety, but certainly qualifies as geeky either way. And then of course there’s a little movie you may have heard about. Yes, a lot of hardcore Star Trek fans are deeply unhappy with the liberties he took in reinventing their precious universe, but I for one am very pleased with it. I didn’t love everything about the movie — its story was wildly implausible and it had several huge plot holes — but as a nearly-lifelong Trekkie I’m absolutely thrilled to see the franchise reinvigorated.
So how to compare the two? I like a lot of both of their works. I think if I look at the collective geek consciousness (assuming such a thing really exists), I have to give the nod to Joss Whedon. Seriously, if he had done nothing other than Firefly/Serenity and Dr. Horrible, I think he would still win. I mean, he gave the world Captain Tightpants and (arguably) the first genuinely wonderful geek musical!In this Great Geek Debate, let’s look at the two men who are arguably the... more
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SEGA and developer Rebellion have published a new trailer today for their upcoming sci-fi shooter Aliens vs. Predator showing off some of the Marine gameplay. Hunter, survivor, prey...which will you be?
Aliens vs. Predator will be released on the PC, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 sometime in early 2010.SEGA and developer Rebellion have published a new trailer today for their upcoming... more
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Nick Breckon of Shacknews gives some positive impressions of the next Aliens vs. Predator game headed for PC, Xbox 360, and PS3 in Q1 2010.
Also, he interviews project lead Tim Jones and producer Paul Mackman of Rebellion, the same developers that brought you the original 1999 Aliens vs. Predator PC game.Nick Breckon of Shacknews gives some positive impressions of the next Aliens vs.... more
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