Bioshock Infinitehas been highly anticipated for months now and with reviews starting to hit, it’s clear that something special has been created by the folks at Irrational Games.
In our latest episode of CC Impact, editor Joe Morgan sits down and plays through the first hour of the game so you can experience it alongside him. You’ll get to see how Booker DeWitt gets to the floating city of Columbia, how some of the residents there behave, some combat, and a bit of zipping around the city on the skyhook.
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Gyo: Tokyo Fish Attack Studio: Ufotable Publisher: Hanabee Release Date: March 6, 2013 Price:$39.99 (Blu-Ray) – Available Here
Overview: Gyo: Tokyo Fish Attack began as a manga by artist Junji Ito back in 2001 which was just called Gyo (“Fish” in Japanese), it doesn’t seem like a long time ago but 12 years IS a long time. They’ve finally brought it out as an anime movie that was released, in Australia, early March. Going into this I didn’t know whether to take it seriously, “A movie about walking, death fish? Weird.” was basically how I went in and I’m glad I did because this movie really shattered that thought. I had never seen something like this before but I have now and…well, you’ll just have to read on.
Story: Gyo: Tokyo Fish Attack is an odd movie to say the least. It’s the apocalypse story you never saw coming. Honestly. At first glance this movie seems extremely weird and you’d probably place somewhere on that list in your mind that says; “Movies NOT to watch” but diving into this movie quickly changes that thought, even just quickly reading over some of the original manga details gets you very intrigued because while there’s this “weird story” there’s also those underlying mysteries that you can’t help but ponder after watching. Basically it is a story of fish with mechanical legs who come up on shore, give off a smell of rotting, human corpses and attack anyone and everyone. That there is the most basic explanation, now if I was to get into it more I would definitely be ruining the story for you, yes, it’s good to go in with a bit of an idea where this movie is going but I feel like watching the story naturally progress, expand and escalate is really what makes this movie brilliant.
Now I feel it’s safe to say the “fish attacking everyone” is more of the setting of the story and not the main focus because we have human leads. Kaori is a girl who is spending a couple weeks at a beach house with her two friends Erika who is an extremely promiscuous girl and Aki their fat, nerdy friend who takes a lot of blows from Erika. Emotionally and physically. They seem to be one of the first to encounter the fishy foes, killing one using a desk in the house, their story escalates from there. Surviving a Shark attack the three are in shambles, Kaori flies back to Tokyo to see her fiancee and the other two beautifully show how backstabbing people can be when their life is on the line. Something I loved about this movie is that without much setup i was made to hate some of these people so much. There wasn’t much setup to these characters, no, but with the little setup that was given you knew who you wanted dead and who you wanted to make it and live, that’s something not a lot of movies can do and it’s something to be admired. On the way to Tokyo Kaori meets Shirakawa a young photojournalist who’s totally onto these fish attacks , so much so that the events that transpire between them are mostly in his favor seeing as he is getting the scoop on all these attacks. They help each other through the most part of the movie and it’s great to see how even when friendships fall apart in danger other relationships can be made. I really liked that.
Let’s talk end game. I’m going to try and do this without giving anything away. Most of the movie I sat there with the “Really? Like really?” look on my face, half of what happened took me by surprise and shocked me, some of it was too weird for me at first and it kept getting weirder, the funny thing is that it worked. It got weirder and weirder and it escalated and became something that seemed so different from when the movie started. Starting off I didn’t think I’d enjoy the movie but by it’s end, let me tell you, I was hooked. That’s what made it a great movie.
Visuals: The visuals in this movie are fantastic! Without a doubt in my mind I can say that there was no problem with how this movie looked. I believe there are two types of anime movie; The anime movies based off of a running anime that they kind of put effort into but probably just as much effort as an climactic episode and the anime movies that are like this. They blended traditional animation and CGI animation in a way that you forget that there’s two different kinds of predominant animation in this film. All the characters are drawn and animated like any other film and the fish, water, some vehicles, etc are animated with CGI. It. Just. Works. This would have to be my favorite aspect of this movie. Something else I like is the mouth movements, during intense moments within the film the animation is synced up with the voices extremely well. Another big kicker in this movie is the beautifully drawn backgrounds and settings like the city, houses and vehicles. The way characters move and react are so…real. They use an old-school manga style of intense facial expressions with the big dark shading lines and the wide-mouthed, wide-eyed look that reminds the viewer “This was a manga. I’m watching anime”. Like I said earlier I can’t fault this movie at all when it comes to Visuals.
Audio: My biggest issue with the audio is that I didn’t come away from the movie remembering much of it. It wasn’t memorable. Now I’m talking soundtrack, background music, those aspects. I know there were intense moments were music kicked in and made it more intense but I didn’t come away exactly raving about it when I’ve done that with so much more from within this movie. I just didn’t come away from this movie thinking how good the score was. What makes up for that is the voice acting. Brilliant. You cared for these characters, you could hear the emotion in their voices, you could here the urgency in their voices, you gave a crap about them!
Extras: There actually wasn’t any extras. Now I watched it on Blu-Ray and apart from trailers for other anime and an option to read the credits there was nothing on the disc which is a little disappointing considering how well put-together this movie is. I would’ve liked to see some animation work or something. There IS a reverse side to the front cover which is art of a scene in the movie.
Overall: This movie is fantastic for people that are; One: Fans of anime in general and Two: Open-minded. There’s no way you could watch this movie with the family, especially not younger siblings! This is a “I’m home alone no one will question why I’m watching this” kind of movie. Personally I would only recommend it to maybe one of my friends, it’s that kind of movie but that doesn’t mean it’s a bad movie at all! If you’re a fan of horror, thriller, psychological types of movies you will enjoy this. If you’re just a fan of great animation and well put-together anime films then, yeah, I would recommend you see this one too. This movie isn’t a long one, only 70 minutes so a little over an hour, and I think that’s great because it doesn’t drag on, it doesn’t bore you and I think viewers will appreciate that. I don’t doubt that fans of the manga will love this, I never read the manga but I researched it after watching this and I believe it does it justice and really shouldn’t be overlooked by fans. It is one of those movies that has a very defined audience but to those who watch the movie it’s fantastic and I think that’s great.
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Fans that have been enjoying Sniper: Ghost Warrior 2 may be interested to hear that today marks the release of its new single player DLC Siberian Strike. Placing Captain Cole Anderson in the wastelands of Siberia to locate an undercover CIA Operative, do what he does best, and extract whatever information he can.
Players must guide Anderson through the frozen environment filled with hostiles in a secret base producing WMDs. This time around players will be more on their own, as the open world environment Anderson will be entering will offer no hand holding to lead him where he needs, instead requiring players to rely on the map.
Players can check out the teaser trailer for the DLC embedded below and those interested in purchasing the DLC can find it for 800 MS Points on Xbox 360 HERE, for $9.99 (£8,99) on PC from Steam HERE, or for $9.99 (£8,99) on the PSN.
Dragon Nest, the MMO from eFusion, will received a patch containing its first content update today in preparation for special events and even more new content over the Easter weekend.
The game, which had 120,000 player in March, will be receiving a new in-game area known as the Dark Lair where they will have to survive multiple rounds against the looming abyss. Players will also be able to open an exclusive item known as the Deluxe Box that will contain one of several premium items.
Over the course of the Easter weekend, the game will also have a special in-game event. The longer a player is online, the more items they can receive, and they even have the chance to win one of 10 special Deluxe Boxes if they play more than three hours of all four days.
For more information, you can check out the game here, and be sure to read some of our pastcoverageof the game.
A couple of days ago it was revealedthat Freezing would be getting a second anime season, which is quite surprising given the two year gap between the airing of the first season and this announcement. Well today Comic Valkyrie revealed via the above banner that the second anime season will be called Freezing: Vibration.
Despite the suggestive name, it is being said on Comic Natalie that the anime will skip over the “Brother” story arc and instead continue the series as if it never happened and enter into the “E-Pandora” arc instead. This is likely for the best thanks to the fact that the Brother arc contained horrible events that probably should not be aired in any form.
Today Telltale Games revealed that they will be releasing a video game this summer that will be an adaptation of the Fables comic series known as The Wolf Among Us. The game will be released onto the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, PC and Mac sometime this Summer. The main character is called Bigby Wolf and he is living in New York City.
Bigby Wolf (take a guess which fairy tale character he is) works to keep the other fairy tale creatures hidden from public eye. In speaking with IGN for the announcement, Telltale CEO Dan Connors said:
“Developing The Wolf Among Us based on the Fables universe has allowed our studio to build upon all of the hallmarks of what makes our episodic series so engaging for players. Through an evolution of our approach to choice and consequence, we can further explore the complexity of each and every iconic character in a universe rich with untold history from the darkest sides of the storybooks.”
Get it? Smuggled? Because drug cartel? Oh well. Anyways EA’s Army of Two: The Devil’s Cartel is now available not only in North America but also in Australia while gamers in New Zealand have to wait until Friday to try out this third game in the series.
The game will feature deep customization as well as an “intense story with unexpected twists and turns.” It also features the introduction of a new co-op feature called Overkill which allows players to unleash ultimate destruction by working together. Army of Two: The Devi’s Cartel is available for purchase on the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3.
Earlier today Metal Gear Solid V was announcedand it was said that it will contain everything that fans have seen so far for the game, including Metal Gear Solid: Ground Zeroes and The Phantom Pain.
However fans have been a bit confused as to how these games will work together so after the announcement Hideo Kojima took to Twitter to explain to fans how the two games will work together to create MGSV.
“Ground Zeroes” is a prologue of “MGSV”. 9 years after that event will be “The Phantom Pain”. MGSV is constructed w/ prologue and main game “TPP”. The game play demo I presented today is the opening of “TPP” which is tutorial that starts from crawling.
The folks at independent game developer PixelNAUTS have announcd their next upcoming game at GDC. The game, titled Lost Orbit, will tell the story of an astronaut named Harrison who is trying to get home after losing his ship in deep space. Designed as a vertical platformer, the game tasks players with having to guide Harrison past planets and other heavenly body, as he faces various challenges including an alien race.
Lost Orbit will have a whole host of features such as different obstacles Harrison will face in space, like black holes and gas planets. The game will also include different gameplay modes, like campaign, challenge, and endless, as well as a total of four solar systems with unique aspects.
PixelNAUTS have said that players can expect Lost Orbit on Steam for PC in Fall 2013, with iOS and Android versions to follow later. Be sure to click on the images in the gallery below to see the full sized images released of Lost Orbit and what they can expect.
As many people have guessed since it’s reveal, it turns out The Phantom Pain is in fact the next game in the Metal Gear franchise. The game will be called Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain and it was revealed during GDC today by Kojima Productions head Hideo Kojima. The game contains both Metal Gear Solid: Ground Zeroes as well as Phantom Pain.
Snake has been in a coma for nine years and suddenly Snake wakes up in a hospital and must escape from an unknown enemy. He is accompanied by a man with a bandaged face. Don’t take my word for it though, you can check out the full gameplay reveal from the GDC demonstration below thanks to Rev3Games.
Not only that but you can also check out the game’s announcement trailer and a number of screenshots below. The ending of the announcement trailer shows the game coming to the 360 and PS3, though it is worth noting that the presentation shown at GDC was running off of a PC.
