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Planet 51 The Game picture

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22 Jan, 2010

Planet 51 The Game review

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. Games released to come out at the same time as movies are usually very bad. Sometimes they work if they’re inspired by the movie or don’t have to come out to hit a movie deadline but that’s not the case with Planet 51 The Game. In the game you get to play as the ‘alien’ Lem and as the crashed astronaut Chuck as you both work together to find his spaceship and get him home. What the game basically boils down to is a series of boring tasks and races in...

Dantes Inferno

News

18 Jan, 2010

Dantes Inferno movie

If you live in the UK and are looking forward to EA’s Dantes Inferno you may be interested to know you can be the first to see the animated movie at the big screen. Tickets are £13 and £9 concessions and you can get them from Apollo Cinemas. Just make sure you can get to London on 2nd February.

Planet 51 The Game

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11 Jan, 2010

Planet 51 The Game review

I’ve been a big fan of computer generated animation since it started to appear in movies in the 1980’s. When films such as Toy Story, Shrek and Monsters Inc hit the big screen I was instantly grabbed and whisked away into my idea of heaven. After such successes from Pixar and DreamWorks at the box office it’s quite understandable that other movie studios jumped on the bandwagon and started producing CGI movies of their own. As expected, these new movies were quite poor and rather formulaic. After trying their best to copy what made Pixar’s movies great, these other studios...

Avatar The Game

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7 Jan, 2010

Avatar The Game review

I don’t like the look of James Cameron’s Avatar movie because it’s got blue people in it. I’ve never liked The Smurfs and I don’t like tall blue people either. Anyway, people tell me it’s actually quite good so I may have to go and see it but in the meantime I’ll tell you about the game. Using the same idea but not following the plot of the film, you play as Ryder, a soldier for a military group called the RDA who are inhabiting a planet called Pandora full of viscous creatures and plants and an indigenous race of...

Up

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12 Nov, 2009

Up review

I had my first experience of 3D cinema the other day when I watched Up. Once my eyes had adjusted I was initially impressed but then I sort of got used to it. It’s the same with videogames. Next-gen machines come out and everyone goes ‘whooo’ but then the bar has to constantly be raised in order to impress. It’s a pity then that not only does Up have average graphics, but it’s also a very average platform game that’s of little interest to me. You mainly play the game as Carl and Russell as you move round the 3D...

G I Joe Rise of the Cobra

Reviews / Wii

2 Oct, 2009

G I Joe Rise of the Cobra review

If you saved up enough dollars to get to the cinema this summer you may have been lucky enough to catch the sexed-up big screen adaptation of classic cartoon G.I. Jo. If you enjoyed the movie then you might be tempted to flirt with G. I. Joe: Rise of the Cobra for Wii. The game continues on from the story of the movie, this is a plus point as most movie tie-ins simply attempt to relive the story of the film while shoe-horning in “Collect the Bugs” missions. As the adventures spill out onto the Wii, you will take control...

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