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The trailer for Bryan Singer’s X-Men: Days of Future Past is here, and it’s no teaser clocking in at 2 minutes 18 seconds.
There’s so much to process, without even mentioning Wolverine’s streak of grey hair. It seems alliances will be formed, and broken, and that this will be the biggest X-Men film to date.
Watch it now:
X-Men: Days of Future Past is out in theatres on May 22nd, 2014 in Europe and May 23rd in the US.
Activision has officially confirmed ‘Extinction’ mode for Call of Duty: Ghosts following leaks which revealed the mode over the weekend.
The publisher has released an official trailer showing the new four-player co-op mode in action
According to the brief official blurb, Extinction is “an all-new 1-4 player cooperative game mode featuring a unique blend of fast-paced survival action, FPS base defence, scavenging and class levelling”.
The game’s official Facebook page calls it “co-op survival madness, with aliens”.
The video appears to show players using drill-like devices to destroy alien hives. Players work together to protect the drilling devices from incoming hordes of four-legged aliens.
Extinction mode was first outed when screenshots and teaser footage was leaked over the weekend.
The Call of Duty: Ghosts release date is set for November 5 on Xbox 360, PS3, Wii U and PC. It will also arrive alongside the PS4 and Xbox One on their respective launches in November.
Combo Crew the latest Mobile game from The Game Bakers, has you punching goons in the face to string together massive Combos (Who’d have guessed) and work your way through the levels of Mr.Boss’ Tower.
You begin controlling two fighters Gina and Parker, with the opportunity to unlock two more Dolph and Sammo each with their own unique combos to smash their enemy’s teeth in. But just look at the app tile for a sec:
That … That’s Ryu from street fighter does that mean?
YES!
Yes you can play as Ryu, Ken, Chun-Li and Blanka.
Hell, you can even Play as Viewtiful Joe, each with their own combos and original move sets (providing you pay 69p each) …
Wait what was that?
*cough* providing you pay 69p per character. To be honest the main reason I even picked up this game was to maul people to death with the Electrifying Orange Haired Brazilian, but to not even give me the option to work hard and grind points to unlock him is obscured. I understand that it’s a free game but a lot of Freemium titles at least give you the option to earn extras.
But that aside Combo Crew turned out to be incredibly fun, the adrenalin rush from frantically building up your combo meter just knowing that one slip will not only make your multiplier drop but also your super meter as well as potentially fail the level in the later stages will have you in a cold sweat rubbing your fingers raw just trying to keep it going.
Each character also showcases a variety of special moves be it a Juggle Combo for air attacks or a block breaking Heavy Combo, even a screen clearing HADOUKEN!!! All of which will help you build up your meter and unleash a Fruit ninja style Super Combo where you frantically try and chop as many enemies as possible to seriously beef up your combo multiplier.
The music compliments the gameplay perfectly using Double Dragon esc fast passed Chinese music that makes you really want to pound some face, this music only becomes more intense the higher you climb in the tower.
As for story it’s brief, but then as a mobile title it’s hardly going to be Deus Ex basically “In a world where a fist to the face is a perfectly viable solution, Mr. Boss has it all. Now he wants to break the greatest fighters ever! Trapped in his giant tower, you must fight your way to the top to take him down!” (Direct quote form the opening cut scene right there) and basically that’s just it you need to kick some arse and prove your skill to Mr.Boss.
Overall Combo crew is a fun and addictive mobile title, but it does loses its appeal quickly, I suggest playing it in small bursts (probably whilst Pooping) and play it on a Tablet rather than a phone because no human has figures small enough to accurately chain combos on a screen that small, you will accidentally throw your phone across the bathroom if you get to into it.
As a free game it’s definitely worth a download, I honestly wouldn’t suggest downloading the Capcom characters unless you really want to. They don’t alter gameplay in any major way, they just add to the coolness factor. One thing I forgot to mention is the option to literally buy your way to the final boss, why anyone would do this baffles me, if you want to finish the game that quickly don’t get it in the first place.
The International Military seek out a leader who can save the human race from an alien attack. Ender Wiggin, a brilliant young mind, is recruited and trained to lead his fellow soldiers into a battle that will determine the future of Earth.
SPOILER ALERT!!!
Ender Wiggin is the youngest and most gifted of his family, in a world living in constant fear of invasion by Giant Bug people known as the Ferricks …. Fernics … Formics (thank you Wikipedia because they only mention their name once in the film)
He must pass through a rigorous mental training consisting of Zero G paintball, mentally taxing iPad games and “Photo Realistic” space battle simulations. (So any gamers perfect weekend minus the Mountain Dew and Internet Porn.)
So Ender Wiggins is played by Asa Butterfield, at 16 years of age I never expected his acting skill to be incredible but I have to say that after watching him for the best part of two hours he … wasn’t … at all. Now I’m not sure if this was intentional by the actor appearing out of place throughout the majority of the movie, only really feeling like he fits in the film after Ender gets promoted to the rank of Commander. If this is intentional then it’s a commendable performance and one that really makes you feel as out of place as Ender does, but then I think back to Asa’s performance in the 2011 film Hugo where his performance was very similar and honestly kind of annoying.
Ender’s character was by no means the worst in the film Harrison Ford as Colonel Graff was more disheartening due to the fact that Ford just looked like he was picking up a paycheck for the whole film. This is Harrison Fucking Ford, a man that the entire planet knows can act he just shows little to know enthusiasm throughout the entire film.
A trait that thankfully the other heavy hitter in the film Ben Kingsley has managed to avoid, Kingsley plays Mazer Rackham the war hero that drove the Formics away after their first invasion, and is now charged with training Ender so that he is able to save humanity. Kingsley plays Rackham as a mysterious yet open character making him about the only character in the film I actually cared about.
Never having read the book I was left with the feeling that allot of the character development was chopped out of the film.
The leader of the Salamanders, Bonzo (Moises Arias), is the My way or the high way kind of leader that clashes with Ender on multiple encounters finally culminating in a fist fight in the showers that ultimately leaves Bonzo horribly crippled and I felt nothing. I didn’t care if he was going to die or if he’d just never walk again, my main concern was hopefully the idiot who put a step in the middle of a shower room was fired.
I came away from the film with the urge to read the book purely to see if it built up on these characters and actually made me care about them.
Anyway let’s get away from the bad, Enders game is visually beautiful both the CG visuals and the stylised set pieces are incredible. Everything gives of this very Mass Effecty vibe from the IF uniforms to the massive planet destroyer MMD ship. The visuals were crisp and vibrant, really it was the main reason why I wanted to see the movie in the first place and it’s well worth it just to see.
The Formics themselves were a race that I wanted to know more about, but I think the directors decision to limit what the viewer knows/can learn about this threat to humanity really helped you to empathise with Ender and the rest of the IF’s fear and lack of understanding about these creatures. Even know I’m sat trawling through Wikipedia articles on them just to try and gleam some more information on this mysterious race. I wanted to learn about them in the same way that Ender did, and to be honest I felt his frustration at the end of the film regarding the hefty decisions that the IF made for him.
All things said and done I’d say that Ender’s Game is worth a watch even if it’s just for the visuals. I felt it could have benefited from some heavier character development or conversely a greater focus on the actual strategy and tactics behind the epic space battles, each of which is over in less than two minutes.
