Blacks Op 2: Getting Started

Gettin’ ready to pop smoke for the day and open up this package of FPS goodness.

Okay, we admit. We expected this game to suck. We wanted this game to suck. Gotta say though, so far.…

This game decidely doesn’t suck. +Continue Reading

Red Dawn Redux

We talked about the onset of the Red Dawn remake a couple of days ago, before this trailer was released.  (We choose the word onset because it’s eerily reminiscent of the beginning stages of an STD — given what we’ve seen of this movie, it seems appropriate). +Continue Reading

Going Cyclic With Coco

Ubisoft has built what they’re calling “Team Ghost” as a marketing ploy. They describe it as bringing together “… a group of gaming enthusiasts, each of them real world elites…” +Continue Reading

S.H.I.E.L.D. Barracks Humor

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Total Recall Redux: If I’m Not me, Then Who the Hell am I?

Under the Radar: women in Total Recall future have evolved, and we’re all for it.

Seriously now.. What’s not to like about that? Women with three boobs? That would be enough to get us to the theater on its own. Add in Jessica Biel, Kate Beckinsdale, guns, a Bladerunner-esque dystopian future and women with three boobs? What could possibly be bad about it? Other than the fact that they don’t go to Mars at all, which was pretty central point of the first one (and, more importantly, the sci-fi novel by Phillip K. Dick that inspired it).

Maybe it’s because the last Mars movie (remember the green guys and the really fast bullfrogdog?) sucked so very badly. +Continue Reading

Secret World…Looking Ahead

This one may be something we need to play. Here’s a little preview from The Abject Minion Called Sherman about the upcoming MMORPG Secret World.

Looking Ahead at Secret World

If HP Lovecraft and Chris Metzen had a baby, this would be it.  Well, Chris Metzen would think it was his baby, but the dark lord would have cheated on him with Sam Raimi Jr. and he would have only inherited his MMO tendencies from a strict upbringing fraught with horror.  In other words, the end-all-be-all of what games should be.

The Secret World.  Modern day, no classes, no levels. You’re just a normal guy/gal in a world ravaged by terror and conspiracies.  Everything is true.  Hang out in a bar with your friends, or hunt down werewolves, vampires, and unspeakable horrors, in real modern day areas or other… lesser known ones. +Continue Reading

Medal of Honor: Pay Attention

All of you with short attention spans need to focus here because we’re going to talk about Medal of Honor: Warfighter and get into some gray and not-so-gray areas about war gaming. One of the coolest things we saw at E3 last week was the preview version of the new game but not everyone in the media understands how awesome Warfighter should be when it hits stores in October.

The backstory for you newcomers: Medal of Honor was originally a sort-of-square WWII game inspired by Steven Spielberg’s Saving Private Ryan. It got a modern Afghanistan-set reboot in 2010. Warfighter continues that theme but adds 12 different Tier One units from 10 different countries to the multiplayer version. +Continue Reading

Why We Love Act of Valor’s Scott Waugh

Discussing Scott Waught’s next big project with him.

…and why you should by the DVD now that it’s out.

There are a number of reasons Scott Waugh isn’t a douche. An obvious one is the fact that he did this interview. We’re not the typical reviewers.How many other Hollywood types would sit down with a couple badasses our size and bare his soul?  Not too damn many, that’s the answer. Maybe none.

Michael Moore might, but only if we were laying on a plate covered in gravy.

We had the chance to pow-wow with Scott briefly at the MilBlog Conference in DC recently and walked away thoroughly impressed. He’s polite, grounded and self-effacing without coming across as falsely modest or one of those guys who works at being self-deprecating as part of their strategy. Nothing we discussed seem high-handed or contrived. He even dressed normally and has great hair. (Never underestimate the force multiplication advantage of good hair; it’s almost as important as a beard.) +Continue Reading

American Sniper: Please, No Charlie Foxtrot

Cooper, seen here playing a JTAC named Dirty Raymond, calling in a gun run and coordinating CAS.

Bradley Cooper, whose chief claim to fame is being Face from the A-Team (which works just fine for us) and the good looking teacher asshole from the Hangover (also fine with us), is apparently making a movie. However, what concerns us is that it’s a movie based on Chris Kyle’s autobiography, American Sniper. RUMINT advises that Cooper will produce the movie alongside Andrew Lazar and Peter Morgan, which brings us to our next point of concern. Lazar was partially responsible for such resoundingly execrable gun-totin’ action flicks as Get Smart, The Revenge of Kitty Galore and of course that epic comic book western Jonah Hex. +Continue Reading

Diablo 3: Nostalgia, Chagrin, Slaughter and Disappointment

The proper cover for Diablo III.

Diablo 3…hmmm.…

I was a teenager when I fell in love with its predecessor, and thirteen years later, this is far and away the biggest release I and millions of other fans been waiting for, including the drool-inducing months leading up to Skyrim, Mass Effect 3, and anything-at-all in the Assassin’s Creed series.  It is the sequel to the game which spawned an entire eponymous genre (ie., Diablo Clones), so expectations were astronomical (grunts, note: the Mad Duo said for you to look here).  As soon as I got home from work on the 15^th, I plunked myself down to play this thing.  After the first wave of nostalgia wore off, though, I gradually began to question the whole ordeal.

The graphics were far and away the best thing about the game (trailers were awesome).  The movie sequences were photo-realistic and crisp, and the in-game graphics had been touched up as much as they could without coming up with a new system (3^rd person clickers are, after all, rather limited).  The color palettes went a long way toward immersing the player in the story, and rewarding them with spectacular explosions and effects depending on their abilities.  Overall, I’d give graphics a 9– always room for improvement, but nothing that really wowed me. +Continue Reading