My Kinect hasn't been the best of investments so far, if I'd paid anywhere near full what for it I'd be borderline livid, but I did get it on the cheap and I do very much like Kinect Sports. However apart from that software is well sketchy and if anything a bit... young (or a bit Wii-like even).
When I heard about Rise of Nightmares I was quite excited, looked a bit like House of the Dead, seemed quite interesting, uses Kinect. Result. It's been quite a wait for it to turn up and it didn't look all that promising from videos/previews etc and there was no demo (never a good sign), so I rented it yesterday as opposed to buying it, and honestly that seems like a good choice, it's not that I'm not enjoying it... it's just a bit... fiddly.
Combat is good, it picks up on punches, kicks, pipe swings well, but movement less so. A slight move of the shoulders can send you spinning off target. The graphics and voice acting is somewhat lacking and (so far) it's just not very scary, which must be what it was going for.
However, it is quite fun, punching zombies... where else can you do that, as I said the combat is reactive and well done and give them a quick 1-2 and down they go giving a sense of satisfaction. Nothing like kicking a zombie to the ground to make you feel good about yourself.
I've got it for 5 days, by which time I think the story mode will be done, and with no multiplayer and doubtful replay value, I'd say a rental is fair enough. It's not bad at all, it's just not wow.
Worth a go if you're curious though...
Showing posts with label horror. Show all posts
Showing posts with label horror. Show all posts
Monday, 12 September 2011
Wednesday, 8 June 2011
The Human Centipede 2
Heard yesterday that the Human Centipede 2 has been officially banned by the BBFC. To be honest I'm not sure what I think of it. The original was a bad bad film, poor acting, dreadful script, didn't actually show any of the detail of what it hinted at, little horror, no suspense... you know the kind of moderate low budget horror that tried desperately to shock I'm talking about. But I watched it, and got through it.
Then the 2nd one came along and promised to fill the gaps in substance the first one left, promising! However, by all accounts all it tried to do was be a gross as it could with even less substance as the first, resulting in the ban. In a way I do think that they BFCC may have a point, but in a bigger way I'm thinking, how dare you fell me what I can watch.
All this ban is going to do is send everyone who wanted to see it + some extra now curious people onto the Internet to find the film and they'll watch it anyway. By banning something with the availability of information on the web, all you essentially do is make people keen to see what the fuss is all about.
Of what I read plot wise, it sounded a little sick (you have to think who writes these things) but compared to something like 'A Serbian Film', which I've never seen or have any desire to see, which was given a certificate as a slightly cut version in the UK, it sounds like nothing. So why ban it?
Things have come a long way in society since the days of cannibal holocaust and the like trying to shock, then subsequently being banned. With the rise of such things as the internet, is it right to ban things anymore, when they will just be freely available to anyone who wants them? Warn yes, but if there can be no real containment... why ban and create an extra stigma and hype? This has potentially created an audience where previously there was none, or at best a quite small one.
It wasn't going to be stinking out cinemas, I believe it was a straight to DVD jobby. No doubt it was awful and so wasn't going to gain popularity through content quality. Censorship is great publicity!
Then the 2nd one came along and promised to fill the gaps in substance the first one left, promising! However, by all accounts all it tried to do was be a gross as it could with even less substance as the first, resulting in the ban. In a way I do think that they BFCC may have a point, but in a bigger way I'm thinking, how dare you fell me what I can watch.
All this ban is going to do is send everyone who wanted to see it + some extra now curious people onto the Internet to find the film and they'll watch it anyway. By banning something with the availability of information on the web, all you essentially do is make people keen to see what the fuss is all about.
Of what I read plot wise, it sounded a little sick (you have to think who writes these things) but compared to something like 'A Serbian Film', which I've never seen or have any desire to see, which was given a certificate as a slightly cut version in the UK, it sounds like nothing. So why ban it?
Things have come a long way in society since the days of cannibal holocaust and the like trying to shock, then subsequently being banned. With the rise of such things as the internet, is it right to ban things anymore, when they will just be freely available to anyone who wants them? Warn yes, but if there can be no real containment... why ban and create an extra stigma and hype? This has potentially created an audience where previously there was none, or at best a quite small one.
It wasn't going to be stinking out cinemas, I believe it was a straight to DVD jobby. No doubt it was awful and so wasn't going to gain popularity through content quality. Censorship is great publicity!
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