Thursday, September 18, 2008

Force Unleashed Secret Apprentice Figure

I've been playing around with my Photoshop Elements and Corel Painter Essentials. I came up with this over the past week or so. I haven't done much with a photo in either of these programs, pretty cool stuff I'll get better. On this I changed the apprentice hair line to match the game a little more. I also took out joints in arms and added some highlights. So anyway tell me what you think, I'm writing up a review for the game also, but haven't finished my first run through yet so I'm holding off on judgement. But so far I'm liking what I see.

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Tuesday, September 2, 2008

New Force Unleashed Demo Tricks!!!

I was talking to some guys on the Penny Arcade forums and they mentioned catching a Tie Fighter which I wasn't able to do yet. So I thought I would try and this is the result. I also found a new way to reach the easter egg helmet that someone at Gamevideos found by stacking boxes at the tunnel opening and force jumping up. I think jumping over to it is easier. Anyway check it out! Sorry for the bad quality I am looking at getting a capture card set up but budget it tight. Hopefully soon!!



Monday, September 1, 2008

Gears of War 2 Homemade Video

I thought I would post this it's gotten a lot of hits on Youtube. I originally did it for a contest over at www.Gearheadsofwar.com. Song is Indestructable by Disturbed and it fits perfect. Enjoy it!

******* UPDATE ********

I had to remove my video due to the assholes over at Reprise Records who said I can't use Disturbed's music in my video. Why not? I'm not profiting from it. I'm not doing anything except promoting your band. So in return I've sold my 3 Disturbed CD's on Ebay and will never buy another piece of mech, album or ticket from Disturbed/Reprise or anything the two of them are associated with. Fuck you guys and your worthless attitude. I'm sure I won't have much of a effect on you guys but I could careless I just want to vent about it and let other know who they are dealing with.

Tuesday, August 26, 2008

The Force Unleashed Demo Review

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I remember back in 1985 for my Birthday I was taken to Showbiz Pizza (like Chucky Cheese for those of you who aren’t old enough) and I walked up to a machine bathed in a mystical light that was indescribable. No amount of singing, animatronic animals could keep me away. Well it may not have gone exactly that way but aren’t all arcade machines the most glorious thing you’ve seen when your 6 years old? I put in that golden token and played a game that started my love affair with video games. Star Wars from Atari, I got to be in the driver’s seat flying that trench covered in turret fire. Since then Star Wars video games have been good or awful, Tie Fighter vs. X-Wing and Rogue Squadron were good vehicle combat games. The Jedi Knight series let you actually wield a Lightsaber and use force powers and Battlefront let you actually fly, shoot and cut your way to a victory playing as an Imperial or Rebel. Knights of the Old Republic told epic stories not known to us before. As far as everything else you can forget them, they were piles of Wookie turds, I’m looking at you Jedi Power Battles and Episode 3 game. But now Hayden Blackman and Lucas Arts is about to put an end to the drought and put the Star Wars universe on it’s ass in style with The Force Unleashed.

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After a few lengthy delays the full game is scheduled for release on September 16th 2008 for pretty much every system known except the PC and we got a taste of how bad-ass it will be on August 21 when the official demo was released. Don’t listen to the negative fanfare about this game, the whiny bitches all over the internet cry about no multiplayer in the Xbox and PS3 versions that there is not enough saber combat and that the way he is holding the saber is “retarded” or not “the right way”. Well piss off kids because this is the game real Star Wars fans have been waiting for ever since we watched A New Hope over 20 years ago.

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TFU is set between Episode III and IV where George Lucas has allowed little to no story telling. I’m not going to go over plot lines because it’s classic Star Wars and it’s good. Trust me I’ve read it all and Blackman is a good writer, you won’t be disappointed. On to important things like unleashing your force powers all over rebel scum and unsuspecting storm troopers. The demo opens inside a Tie Fighter construction facility and gives you some modest force powers to start out but it’s plenty to go on. You will be able to throw, push, and impale anyone you want. You can pick up almost everything and even pull things from the walls and ceiling. Once in the hanger you can yank down one of those Tie Fighters and politely put it on top of a group of storm troopers. I put up some simple videos that show me demonstrating a few of my favorite things to do. What’s great is listening to the rebel or trooper once you start throwing them around. After I put one through a gravity test he says “Oh so this is how it’s going to be” then I promptly shoot him full of force lighting and boot him across the room. The full game is not far away now and it’s been worth the wait. The Force Unleashed will make you feel like a bad ass in every sense of the word every minute of the game. You’ll be doing things Luke Skywalker only dreamed about.



Sorry for the low quality of the video I don't have a capture card so I filmed it with my digital camera and edited using Movie Maker and threw in the theme to TFU. It just gives you a idea of what is in store.

**Pictures are courtesy of Lucas Arts via TFU Fan Toolkit available on http://www.lucasarts.com/games/theforceunleashed/