SW:ROTS: The VideoGame

I also got a chance to play the videogame of ROTS this weekend at a freind's house. Heres a review:

Graphics
Utterly horrible. Really, it's pretty bad.

Controls
Nice, but tends to lead into button-mashing histaria.

Camera
No control. At all. And it sucks.

Gameplay
Would be awsome on a GMA or PSP, but on Xbox it just gets boring, fast. The movie clips are cool though, and it does feel like your in the movie. Plus, RPG-like leveling up makes the game a tad bit more deep. But it's still just knee level.

Multiplayer
It has a 2 Vs 2 Jedi dual that rocks...but again is plaged by the above (Controls, camera, etc). You can play as a lot of cool Jedi, like Old Obi-wan, Dooku, Vader and Grevious...but wheres Yoda and Palpy?

It also has a 2 player co-op that sucks. I personaly think they made it wayyy to hard even for two people...and the one person dies, game over rule still sucks.

Overall
This game is just not worth the $49.99. Maybe $19, but not full price. It may have been better before the movie was out, but now, just go see the movie. With pocorn, it'll probably cost the same, and be alot better.
About a 6/10

Madagascar Movie

I saw Madagascar this weekend, and I must say I was impressed. Sure, it still has to sink down to the "poo" joke level at times, but there are several parts of the movie that are much more sphisticated. It's no Pixar movie by any means...but it is in the same field as say Shrek. I really would recomend any parent to take any child to go see it....as it was deffinatly worth the 10 bucks in laughs. Not quite ROTS type...but still good.

In the field of ROTS, I'm planning to go see it for a third time this weekend, in digital. It's playing in Irvine, about 45 minutes fro m my house. I'll blog about how it looked. If anyone else has alreadly seen it, please e-mail me your thoughts.

This Blog's Almost a Year Old

Which reminds me...where are the applicants for the StarD Tourny? I really wanted it to take place for the 1 years benchmark...but so far NO ONE has e-mailed me ANYTHING. I've got some cool prizes lined up...and depending on how many people sign up the better they get. Right now I'm looking at either a PSP or an Xbox 360 for the winner. (Yes, you'll still have to wait till the November Launch date...I'm not that cool).

Email (Stardrummer@gmail.com) to sign up!

School is Almost Over!

I can't belive it's June alreadly. The year is only about 6 days from being over! Yeah! June 9 can't come fast enough.

Remember when I started blogging wayyyyyy back in August? My first couple posts were on the first week of school. Perhaps I should blog the last week in the same way. How's that for the closer.

After All This Time...NO, I'm Not Dead

OK, I'm officaly back. These last two weeks have been, frankly, pure hell in my life. So much to do, so little time.

But, anyway, now I'm back. And as long as my internet dosn't crap out on me again, I'll be here for a long, long time.

It's good to be back. Now, for a rapid amount of small posts... watch out! Take cover!

PS3 V. Xbox 360

The fight has started, and this time Xbox is the under-powered machine. It would be a rather interesting debate, except for these idots trying to change it via unfair means.

WTF is up with those stats MN put up over at his blog? I seriously question both sides data...and better yet, how does MS know Sony's data?

WTF is up with TeamXbox tryin to start something. First they try make waves with "Factor 5" going to PS3...a company you've probably never heard of unless you own a GameCube...beucase before they went over to the NGC because it is clearly the "better machine".

Then they post this PS5 crap.

Stop trying to make waves...let it be a fair fight, and let the better console regin. Just for the record, I predict the PS3 will. But I still LOVE Xbox.

Late Posts

My Internet broke down last week and I just got it fized today. Because I couldn't actully post them to the blog, I just wrote them down in Word first. They are actual...and the time is about the time I did write them...so, take a journey back in time, back to Wednesday and read on...

Reaction to ROTS

(Note: Contains Spoliers)

Best. Star Wars. Ever.

As you can guess, I loved ROTS. By far, it is the best SW movie ever. There was just so much action...every moment was good. Sure the acting sucks. Sure the lines are corny at best, sickening at worst, but man, the fight scenes are cool.

The Dooku scene rocks.

Mace Windo was awsome.

I love Yoda and the Wokkies.

Seeing Anakin kill "Younglings" was great.

Anakin getting his ass kicked was priceless.

And Yoda losing too.

Every fight seemed monumentus...and the saga now blends perfectly. Everything that should have happened, happened. And it happened right.

And for those tuck on the Qui-gon thing at the end, heres what it means. Remeber in V and VI Obi-wan talks to Luke right? How does he do that since he's dead? Qui-gon teaches him on Tatooine. It's the reason Obi-wan gave up fighting so easily in IV. The book makes this more clear, as Qui-gon talks to Yoda several times.

But where were these scenes?
-Mon Momtha? (action figure)
-Padma as an Egyptian (Poster)
-The Ackbar guys?
-Panaka scene w/ Palpy

Just a Few Seconds...

Just about 5 minutes till ROTS!! Can't wait!

And an usher is coming to take my laptop away. Stop! Let me hit publish first! I think I hav g

Waitin' In Line

I just settled in for my 7 hour wait to see SW:ROTS over in a small theather in Redlands. I can't belive how many people are out here. Redlands is a small town, not remotly close to being on a small map, and this theather only has 14 screens, and it's the only one in town, yet there are easily 600+ people in front of me.

As I write this, a few people are getting behind me and looking over my shoulder...

It is one hell of a sight...700 people , half with lightsabers and Vader masks jumping up and down, the other half with either an iPod or a laptop (I have both), and a few people with tents and TVs.

This movie better be good...

On a side note...no E3 Posting for today. :(

Fresh E3 News: Tuesday

Today at E3 a lotta info was released...heres a recap, console by console.

Nintendo Revolution

• Shown
• Will have WiFi support at launch
• No controller details...yet
• DL all Ninetendo games, ever
• Free online
• Very small
• GameCube games will work

Gameboy Micro

• Shown
• No real info on communication
• WiFi

Nintendo DS

• WiFi support: Free and this year
• Several games annouced
• Communicates somehow with the others

Playstation

• FF XII: Crisis Core details
• MGS: Substance info

Xbox 360

• DOA 4 Info
• UT 2007 officalt annouced
• Moutain Dew to give a free 360 away every ten minutes
• More Info Perfect Dark, NBA 2K6, and Gears of War
• Just Cause by Eidos annouced
• Joytech to make 3rd party stuff
• Llamasoft's Neon will (music/colors/dance thing) is on 360

Keynote Roundup

Tonights keynote was alittle underwhelming. Not a whole lot to talk about...most of the stuff is visual. Head over to www.xbox.com to see some the vid, or www.majornelson.com for the MP3.

But, heres what to expect:

• Some big Square News: FF XI is a 360 title
• Some news on backwards compatability: good games will be able to play "somehow"
• All games HD
• Lotta stuff on online connection
• Lotta partner stuff

What I'm wondering about is where is all the hard facts? I want specs!!!

PS3 Official

Right from E3 05...Sony has pulled back the curtain on the PS3. Some of the perks:

• Most hardware rumors true
• Coming 2006 (nothing more released)
• GTA coming "soon"
• Will output 1080p
• Looks nice. Real. F'ing. Nice.

Keynote Notes

Just a reminder: The Xbox keynote starts at about 8 PM. I'll be blogging everything that sounds remotly interesting. Stay here for all the updates.

Xbox 360 Game List So Far

Ahhh! So many games, so little time. Here's my very unoffical list of 360 games.
Ones in italics are rumor stuff

Perfect Dark Zero
Test Drive
Saint's Row
NBA 2K6
NHL 2K6
College Hoops 2K6
Top Spin 2
Amped 3
Quake 4
Gears of Wars
Call of Duty 2
Tony Hawk: American Wasteland
Another Activison Title
Frame City Killer
Condemed: Criminal Orgins
Full Auto
Tom Clancy's GR 3
Halo 2.5
PGR 3

Fresh E3 News: Monday

Final Fantasy XI is coming to Xbox!

This is huge news, FF XI is going to be a very good thing for Xbox. Imagine th possibilites...

Better yet...talk about fresh, TeamXbox got thre story at 4:43, and I wrte this at 4:44. (Time may be shown below as latter due to publication to server time).

The Quiet

It's all quiet before the storm...as thousands head to LA for the biggest week in videogame history...E3 2005.

Major Nelson's alreadly there. He reported on some strange Nintendo locked-box he saw while in-flight to the Smog City. He captured ALL of the details over at his blog.

G4 is preparing for their huge civerage of the event (2 hours a day). Like it or not, it's the best place to get live video from the event.

IGN is teamed up with G4 this year. Expect most of their info to be the same.

TeamXbox continues to deliver the best round-up of current Xbox news, as well as 360 rumors. This just in, UT 2007 is headed full-circle.

Bungie continutes to kill it's diehard fans by delaying the Halo 2 Map Disc untill 7/5/2005

Anti-Booth Babes is gearing up for it's large-scale boycott of Booth Babes, saying they take too much attention away from the actual games they are ment to represent. Their method of protest? Giving away Granie underware.

Time magazine is getting in on the videogame action by having this week's cover story on the new Xbox 360.

And, finaly, Continual Randomnes continues to compile it all up for you in one nice little package. Seriously, stay here this week. I'll do the work for you.

I Won a Fish Tank

My DLand Pics

Anyone who wnats to can cheek out my ride pics from the new Buzz Lightyear ride at Disneyland. Went on it today and I have to say, it's alotta fun.

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Halo/Xbox 360 Ad

Did you all catch the Xbox 360/Samsung Hi-Def Ads played during the MTV special? Notice the music playing in the background? It's Halo!

What are you trying to say MS? Halo+Xbox 360+Hi-def=Great Seller?

Remember back to Xmas 04...TeamXbox is pretty sure Xbox 360 will INCLUDE Halo 2.5. Should be interesting.

As far as the MTV thing goes...I like what I saw. Heres a recap for ya:

• The Net pics that were leaked were correct
• No camera, headset, DVD remote was shown
• Console startup showed
• Perfect Dark is a 360 game
• TC: GR3 is a 360 game
• All games in HD (duh)
• New site www.xbox360.com
• Controller shown (leak)
• Logo shown (leak)
• Aracde is built in