Game Reviews

Crackdown
By Sandor Hugert

This game for XBOX 360 was okay but I had higher expectations for it. A month before the game’s release I couldn’t stop playing the demo of the game with my friend, but somehow the game just didn’t deliver once I bought it. The demo had one full city in it while the whole game just added two more cities. The sad thing was that the best city was the one in the demo (Los Muertos). The other two cities: The Volk and Shai-Gen. The Volk was just weird considering that in the whole city construction was taking place. Shai-Gen was sort of cool, but it was just annoying to get the Agility Orbs considering that every building in the city was a skyscraper. By far the most exciting part of the game was collecting Agility Orbs considering that the more you get, the better your jumping skills will be. The cooperative part of the game was also quite fun, but I just wish that they had up to four player cooperative play since then more of my friends could have played. The missions in the game very quite dull since each mission’s goal was to just take down the boss any way you can. The graphics were fine but not quite up-to-date with other games such as Gears of War. The game also got quite boring after a while since there was really nothing to make you want to keep playing. I must say though that the ending was unexpected which I’ll give credit for in my overall rating, I won’t tell you the ending cause I don’t want to ruin the game for you. I hope that the game makers will fix all these little problems and make an awesome sequel because I truly think that it’s possible to make this game a lot better.

Score: 7 out of 10

Arcade Games

Best Arcade Games
Contra
By Sandor Hugert

This has to be one of the best arcade games ever made up there on the rankings with Doom. This game really just shines with its cooperative game play as you and your buddy battle soldiers and aliens right next to each other. It also has some pretty unique weapon upgrades and some cool jumping levels where you have to jump from one ledge to another. Playing this game alone really isn’t nearly as fun as having your buddy help you out. It’s an extremely fun game to play with your friend, it’s really too bad they didn’t have up to a 4 player cooperative game. It’s still a really fun game with just one of your friends helping you. This game is also available on the XBOX 360 arcade to purchase so make sure to buy this one if you own this console.

Score: 8 out of 10

Game Reviews

Call of Juarez
By Sandor Hugert

I had very high expectations for this game for the XBOX 360, considering that I had a lot of fun playing other western games such as Gun and Red Dead Revolver. Sadly I have to say that I was a little disappointed with this game. The story line is really cool how you are switching between two characters as Reverend Ray is chasing down Billy. This gets sort of weird how you basically play every level twice, once as Billy and then as Ray trying to find him. Thankfully the gameplay is different for each character as with Billy you are trying to be stealthy on every level considering that you basically get shot three times and then you die. I found that being with Reverend Ray is way better considering that it’s more of a run and shoot type of gameplay. I myself never really found that being stealthy in a game is too much fun since we play video games for enjoyment. There were a few very weird puzzles in the game where you’re not really sure what to do, and jumping on ledges with a rope is just a bit weird in first person camera angle. They could have at least given you the option to switch between first person and third person camera angles. On the other hand, this game has some of the best graphics seen up to this day when you walk around near waterfalls. I advise people to try this game out, but if you want an awesome western experience in a video game then buy Gun, not Call of Juarez.

Score: 6 out of 10

Movie Reviews

Blades of Glory
By Sandor Hugert

This had to be one of the funniest movies ever made. Will Ferrel and John Heder make a great team together. I could hardly stop laughing during the entire movie. It worked so well since the two characters played totally different characters, and it was just really fun to see them try to get along with each other. The ice skating parts were absolutely hilarious especially when Will Ferrel took the ice. It’s pretty obvious that a movie like this only has good laughs, but other than that the plot was extremely weak. I don’t think many people will actually care about the plot though since they are going to be too busy laughing during the movie. There were also a few sort of creepy parts of the movie for example basically every time John Heder’s fan in the movie was on screen. Even that can be overlooked as well just because of the good comedy in this film.

Score: 8 out of 10

Best Bands Ever

Bands that Rock
By Sandor Hugert

Slash’s Snakepit
This has to be one of my favorite bands of all time. Their album Ain’t Life Grand has the best songs ever created. This band formed as Slash (guitarist) quit from Guns n’ Roses. He gathered some other awesome members and simply just created the best songs ever. Some of their best songs are “Landslide”, “Speed Parade”, “Ain’t Life Grand”, and “Serial Killer”. The songs sort of sound like Guns n’ Roses, but overall they are way better. In my opinion, Slash has to be one of the best guitarists in the world. I highly recommend you buying Ain’t Life Grand by Slash’s Snakepit. The singer in my opinion is almost as good as Axl Rose from Guns n’ Roses.

Score: 9 out of 10

New Music

A Great New Band
Velvet Revolver
By Sandor Hugert

Velvet Revolver is a really good band. It would be pretty hard to actually not be a great band since Velvet Revolver regroups all of the Guns n’ Roses members except for Axl Rose. The new singer isn’t all that great, but it’s easy to get passed that once you hear the great music. With songs like Slither, Dirty Little Thing, and She Builds Quick Machines, it’s hard not to like Velvet Revolver. Make sure to go pick up their new album, Libertad, which comes out July 3rd. The only sad part is that in my opinion Velvet Revolver is probably the worst band which Slash has been in, both Guns n’ Roses and Slash’s Snakepit were better.

Movie Reviews

300
By Sandor Hugert

This has to be one of the best movies of the year in 2007. It had a very well done story line, even though you would think that the whole movie is just pure action. Obviously all the action that you were waiting for was all there. This movie probably had some of the best action scenes ever created from any movie. The actors all did a wonderful job of portraying these warriors of Greece. This movie also had a great feel of adventure to it, which was absolutely amazing. The whole comic book look to the movie was also extremely cool. The only thing that is somewhat a flaw in the movie is that there is way too much screaming in it as the actors try to portray the characters correctly. Basically every sentence that Leonidas says, he is purely just screaming. Overall, this is an extremely good movie.

Score: 9 out of 10