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Sorry for the double post, but have given this a bit more play and I'm not sure how I feel about it.

Have "finished" it, which takes just over an hour. Like DR though you can't really hope to get everything done and get the good ending first time (I got the D ending) so the idea is you play through it from the start with your stats intact and keep going until you get a "perfect" run on it.

Sounded like a fun idea, but pretty early into my 2nd go it felt really really dull. The missions and questy bits unlock at set intervals, so if you're trying to do it quickly there are periods where there's nothing to do, and playing around with the weapons and zombies wasn't interesting enough for me. It also looks pretty ropey, I'm not sure if this is indicitave of the full game, but its all very lo-res and looks and controls pretty much exactly the same as the first game.

That said, it was fun on that first run-through, not sure if its sold me on the full game though.

only played the demo so far ,may buy the full downoad...starts off with a bloke at a gas station and stuff on the radio he pulls his little girl out of the truck who has a bandaged hand!!!

basically theres this stuff called zombrex that quells the zombiefication and you have to administer it twice a day on time ...

   seems more serious than my (brief) go on rising 1 first weapon you can get is a spiky baseball bat...you can customise some weapons with other stuff.

it looks well for a download game but the demo is worth a punt to get a taste...

Played this for a bit last night, my intention was to play it through in a oner (its apparently pretty short) but after my first death I couldn't be arsed re-doing what I'd just done! Will fire it up again today though.

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With the ''BOOBSHOT'' of Moon Bloodgood, it was R. Without it...PG-13.

A scene so utterly innocuous it's been available on 'no nudity' YouTube ever since.

Really... (toddles off to youtube)

I might rent this, I've got a passing interest in the Call of Duty games but not much more. Shamefully I haven't even played MW2 yet, will be interesting to see how this one pans out as now that Infinity Ward are only Infinity Ward in name pretty much Treyarch will have to really pull their socks up.

Ratings are really much less strict these days when it comes to violence. It's only 'sexual' swearing or extreme gore that pushes films into an R rating.

Which was proven with Terminator Salvation.
With the ''BOOBSHOT'' of Moon Bloodgood, it was R. Without it...PG-13. Just one Topless scene on the cutting room floor was all it took.

All this talk of the ratings board reminds me of This Film Is Not Yet Rated. Watched it quite recently, really good documentary that explains a lot about how ratings in the states work and how weird some of their standards are (they reeeeeeeally don't like sex).

Just caught this, laughed consistently throughout so I'm considering it a success! Also, [spoiler]when Tom Jane appeared with the Vegan police me and my girlfriend nearly had comedy cameo seizures. That guy rocks.[/spoiler]

I loved it. It bears almost no resemblance to the comic mind you, but I thought it kind of did for action movies what the comic was doing for superhero comics, so it worked for me.

Oh fuck yeah.
Who would be good in the role.

Alan Davies perhaps (ducks for cover!!!)

...that's not actually too bad an idea.

Excellent! This could make a really good tv show, even if it just ends up being a one-off adaptation of the first book. Hope they do a good job of it, there's no real reason why it can't work brilliantly.

A really great prog this. Funny, even as a subscriber and long-term reader I still get the benefit of these "jumping on" progs as they always seem to re-energise my love of Tharg. Usually find I read them 2 or 4 times throughout the week which is uncommon.

Great cover, and Damage Report is still around! Yay! It's honestly the 1st thing I read every week for some reason.

Droid Life: A pun so bad it went past bad and became genius.

Dredd: Loving how the meetings seem to have intensified Dredd's urge to get on the streets and bust some heads, with this whole crackdown maybe we'll be getting the old hardass Dredd for a while and he'll get to split some skulls without thinking too hard about why he's doing it.

Age of The Wolf: Pretty early to tell right now, but its a nice set-up. One thing I noticed was how nice the art looks, this is the most focussed Jon Davis-Hunt stuff I think I've seen, with the panel-to-panel quality being very high (in the past I tend to love him/go off him a little/love him as I switch panels but this all looks lovely). One of my favourite things about 2000AD is getting to watch artists getting better and better, and this seems to have been a big step closer to brilliance in my opinion.

Low Life: Doesn't make any sense yet, but its Low Life so it was great fun anyway and at the cliffhanger I was left excited for the rest of the story which is a good way to kick it off.

Defoe: I adored Defoe's first series, but I've gradually gotten less into it as its gone on. I reckon its because I have a bit of trouble keeping track of too many characters in bitty prog chunks from week to week and Mills stuff generally batters you with big casts. For that reason this episode's structure was welcome, it essentially created a bit of atmos while re-introducing all the characters for dummies like me. Loved it.

Dante: When I say I have trouble keeping track of large casts in 2000AD the main culprit for me is Dante. I enjoy it and all, but still have no idea who some of these people are. In a way I don't mind, because I'm sure when I finally collect the whole thing together and read it all sequentially it'll read like a great sci fi soap opera. In the meantime I'm glad to get what I can from it, which is more than enough thrillingtons.

Basically an awesome issue. I now really want that t-shirt offer to come in the post because I'm definitely buying the tits out of that thing.

Great prog I thought, and because of a hectic week I've got the pleasant knowledge that there's another (rather exciting) one arriving tomorrow likely! YAY!

Dredd was the highlight for me, I'd guessed the ending by the halfway point but that didn't make it any less heart-wrenching. Whenever I see Ewing's name on a Dredd I immediately set myself up for a really wacky oddball story (which he's really good at) so this seemed like a side to him I hadn't noticed before.

Elswhere much entertainment was had, although I'm looking forward to a new line-up next week. Nothing wrong with the current crop, but Red Seas and SD have both been coasting along a bit for me without much impact so I'm excited to see something fresh.

Was struck a few times the other night by a bug in Terminator Salvation, its a pretty bug-ridden game but the only class A game breaker that kept popping up was a sudden health bar drain that happened about 6 times completely out of nowhere. Seriously, just wandering along, no enemies and suddenly John Connor died of a sudden unexpected schizoid embolism or something.

Like I say, happened about half a dozen times here and there, but the game was only about 3 hours long so it was a minor inconvenience at worst.

This to Keef Monkey!

"...context..."

Me am drunk!  Trying to say!


No shit, Sherlock!

Also - why do you think Frightfest have refused to show it after the BBFC have said they're gonna cut (censor) it to fuck?  It's only make-believe, you know?  PLEASE DO GET THIS BIT!


There's worse shit happening today on the news - except, oh no, they don't want you to see it in case it spoils your microwave meal TV dinner.  And gosh: what if we all had even an inkling of what REAL LIFE war and murder and, well, reality really IS..

We don't, do we?  Fucking wake up!  This film is a symptom - not the cause...

Yeah I get you, I was kind of stating the obvious but just thought it was a dumb move on the part of my mate and sadly is indicative of how most people will look at and judge the movie. If I do eventually decide to watch it (the Frightfest endorsement has me erring on the side of watching) then  I'll definitely watch the whole thing. I think with Frightfest its partly a time constraint, it would be incredibly difficult for them to get a new cut knocked together in time, but the fact they're defending it speaks volumes to me.

I still havent bothered to watch it mostly because i am not very interested in it.

There were lots of squishing exploding watermelon sounds in the trailer in the above link.

Has anyone else bothered to watch it yet ?

I have one friend who instead of watching the movie just watched clips of the potentially offensive scenes then declared it awful. It may well be awful (I'm not in a position to comment) but from the sounds of things pulling the scenes out of context probably defeats any purpose the movie might have other than to shock.

I think one of the main reasons Bioshock comes across as overrated is that the narrative is fantastic for a videogame and really pushes what you can do with narrative, story and player-complicity in a game, so it totally blew people away when it first popped out. Then everyone started raving about it as such (rightly I think) to the point where it was regarded not as a great videogame narrative but as something more, which it isn't. Its a game, and its stuck with a lot of the cliches inherent with that, but it acknowledges these limitations in a really intelligent way and even weaves them into its core.

Playing it after all the hype though it really can't live up to it, and as Clint Hocking complained with his whole ludo-narrative dissonance argument, it doesn't quite hold up to scrutiny. I kind of see Bioshock as a great example of a game narrative, and a bit of an example of why games aren't quite there yet.

And the boss fight at the end felt tacked on, and shit.