TV Review: Chuck – “Chuck Versus The Zoom” (Advance Review)
Chuck day is finally here!
Fan favorite series Chuck returns to NBC tonight for the first episode in its final season, “Chuck Versus The Zoom”. Following the surprising Season 4 finale, Chuck, Morgan, Sarah, and Casey find that running their own spy business isn’t the easiest thing in the world, even WITH the Intersect at their disposal.
Beware of spoilers!
PS3 Game Review: X-Men: Destiny
Choose your powers. Choose your allies. Choose your destiny.
by Caleb Paullus, Video Game Editor
Choose your limited powers. Choose you allies which don’t really seem to make a difference. Sort of choose your destiny.
That’s really what the tagline should be for the game, but if they did that, it probably wouldn’t sell better than it is. Let me start off by saying I’m a BIG fan of Marvel, but I’m not a fanboy that will fall on my knees, worship and adore anything that has the Marvel name slapped on the package. X-Men: Destiny was a very frustrating game to play.
Firstly, it is not a true RPG: your tech tree for powers is not very advanced. Playing through the game, I expected that leveling up would make a big difference when coming across the same type of bad guys. It really didn’t.
TV Review: The Walking Dead – “Bloodletting” Episode 202 Advance Look
EPISODE 202: “Bloodletting”
Coming to the aid of another, Rick discovers a possible safe haven. Shane must go on a dangerous mission to get badly needed medical supplies.
by Kevin Gaussoin, Editor-in-Chief
Last weekend The Walking Dead shambled back into our living rooms and our hearts (and braaains). The 90-minute premiere led our group of survivors down the road to ruin, where they hit a dead end. As you no doubt know already, one of their number didn’t return after a zombie chase, and everyone worked together to search. Of course this led to the explosive cliff-hanger ending where a beloved character gets quite a dear surprise.
Beware minor spoilers!
NYCC2011: Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning Preview Panel
Get ready to conquer a new kingdom, because Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning is coming out to hit your consoles in the face with fantastical awesomeness. Of course, by fantasical awesomeness, I mean logic and sense-making. For a lot of fantasy fans, this is a wet-dream come true.
The game is a single-player RPG, centering around the Well of Souls: a sort of resurrection machine. Up until the creation of the Well of Souls, resurrecting the dead was not possible, and its sudden appearance affects the world greatly (the NPCs are drastically affected, shown by their in-game dialogue). The player is the first life form resurrected by the Well of Souls, and is left to explore the world they left behind through new eyes. The player’s actions affect gameplay, the environment, and future quests.
NYCC2011: TV Review: Once Upon a Time – “Pilot”
Fables? What do you mean you wish we had gone with Willingham?
by Corinne Sudberg, Reporter
TV Review: The Walking Dead – “What Lies Ahead” Season Two Premiere Advance Look!
by Matt Sernaker, Managing Editor
After nearly a year’s absence, The Walking Dead have returned! The fan-favorite series kicks off with a BANG this Sunday (October 16th at 9pm) on AMC, with a 90-minute premiere, “What Lies Ahead”.
Blu-ray Review: Transformers: Dark of the Moon
Written by Caleb Paullus, Media Editor and Kroze Kresky, Media Editor
Transformers: Dark of the Moon was one of this summer’s biggest hit movies in the box office and now it comes home on DVD and Blu-Ray!
Movie Review: Real Steel
Written by Ashley Penrod, Assistant Editor
So, picture that you have several movie-ingredients sitting on your countertop. Said ingredients are as follows:
- Rocky
- Transformers (first one – the not-crappy one)
- Ong Bak
- Million Dollar Baby
- Wolverine
- C-3PO
Along with random bits of freaking awesomeness (add to taste) – what might one expect to get after blending these bits and pieces? The answer can be found in the new Disney CGI romp, “Real Steel”. As I hadn’t even heard of the movie, my counterpart, Managing Editor Matt Sernaker, told me “Its Rock-em-Sock-em Robots: The Movie. You’ll like it.” While this answered all of none of my questions, I was bored and figured a movie sounded good.
DVD Review: Thor & Loki – Blood Brothers
by Josh Powell, Editor-at-Large
A pleasant surprise: Released on DVD this month by Shout! Factory, in conjunction with Marvel Knights Animation, comes Thor & Loki: Blood Brothers – a “motion comic” based on the 2004 MK limited series of the same name.
DVD Review: Thor
On September 13th, Thor makes his home on DVD and Blu-ray!
With a star studded castcast, Chris Hemsworth (Star Trek), Natalie Portman (Star Wars Episodes I-III, Black Swan, V for Vendetta) and Sir Anthony Hopkins (Silence of the Lambs, Beowulf); fantastic visuals and epic fight sequences, Thor was the perfect way to kick off the summer of action movies.
DVD Review: Community: The Complete Second Season
POP POP!
Jeff, Troy, Abed, Britta, Annie, Shirley, Pierce, Chang, and Annie’s Boobs are back for another round of fun and excitement as Community: The Complete Second Season comes home to DVD!
The gang is back and ready to start their second year together at Greendale Community College, and new challenges and surprises will push the bonds of this Study Group to their limit. Paintball was just the beginning. Get ready for zombies, clay-mation, trampolines, babies, politics, Betty White and more in the thrilling second season.