Brutal Legend and Overlord 2

I played Brutal Legend and Overlord 2 a while back but I never reviewed them so I figured I have nothing else to do so I might as well look over them again and give you some of my thoughts on the games.

Brutal Legend is the latest installment from the crazy awesome dudes down at Double Fine. Their last game was Psychonauts, which came out of the blue and was awesome. I don't think I ever finished it though...

Anyway, Brutal Legend follows the adventure of Eddie Riggs who is voiced by Jack Black. Eddie Riggs is a roadie for a band. He builds things, repairs guitars, and makes everyone else look good while staying out of the limelight. Eddie is killed when he saved one of the idiots in the band. He then is transported to the land of Heavy Metal...

Brutal Legend is an amazingly good game. It follows the same art as Psychonauts, meaning that everyone looks a bit cartoonish and full of hyperboles. The plot has weird areas which are kind of spoilers I suppose, so I can't really talk about them. The game does rank up as one of my favorites ever. Brutal Legend does begin to fail very VERY hard when you have to do RTS elements. They are really difficult and the controls are awkward on consoles. That aspect of the game reminds me of something else too...


Overlord 2 is in many aspects related to Brutal Legend. They both have an RTS element, though Brutal Legend doesn't use it as much as Overlord 2 does.

In Overlord 2, you're some dude who was almost lynched as a kid for being incredibly awesome. He became evil and is now attempting to take over the world.

I haven't played Overlord 2 in quite some time but what I do remember of it I remember fondly. Towards the end of me playing it, it got really boring and repetitive. Probably hard too but if I say that it'll seem like I really suck at games. Anyway, Overlord 2 is fairly fun. I was disappointed that you (as in the human.. thing) didn't do much in the game. I love slashing people up with the sword. It also pads the game with a lot of useless additions. You can add decorations to your underground fortress of doom, but there's no point.You can revive some minons you lost, but there is also no point to it. The underground place is way too complicated and way too huge. It takes long to do anything there. Oh well. I think I liked it though.

Anyway, those are my reviews.

Book of Eli

Well I'm back to making reviews I suppose. The first review of 2010 shall be "The Book of Eli".

The book of Eli is a film based in a Fallout 3-esque apocalyptic future. Denzel Washington is a Lone Wanderer traveling west across the lawless and barren wasteland of the USA. He's been traveling 30 or so years reading a book over and over every day. He's run into many traps and foes along his travels and has become very adept at detecting where people are hiding.

Gary Oldman is a leader of a town who is looking for the 'twinkie' of his childhood as Woody Harrelson did in Zombieland. A book that is very near and dear to him. He hires goons to kill and loot travelers to find the book. He discovers that the Lone Wanderer has it and he will do anything to get his hands on it. The Wanderer will have none of that though, and will protect the book at all costs.

The movie is pretty good in my opinion. Sure, a lot could have been better. It felt a bit empty and boring at parts, but I still enjoyed it. It reminded me a lot of Fallout 3, which I'm sure some of the writers have played. Denzel Washington even mentions "I Fought the Good Fight" at one part.

I can see how many people didn't like this movie. I didn't think it was a major masterpiece but it was a good movie. Sure, the plot was a bit... thin. They could have done more with the plot and actually said why everyone nuked each other. I'm sure the writers could only think of Fallout plot points, so they didn't say more about how they survived.

It was good though. I'd go see it if I were you.

I also have to mention how stupid the poster is. Why did they have to shove that comingsoon.com right out there? It destroys the look and feel of it. Whatever.

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince Game

I am extremely mad and bored right now so here's a review.

I got the game for Harry Potter and the blah blah blah two days ago and I just finished it yesterday.

It was shit, but what can you expect from something like this? The movie wasn't based around action. It was based around humor and potion making. That sounds really fun doesn't it? They made a lot of shit up for this game, and I think it could of really improved if they didn't confine themselves to only the movie. Didn't they know there is a book on this? They pulled so many random fights and Quidditch matches out of their ass it's retarded. The Quidditch matches are basically fly through rings and at some arbitrary time you'll get the snitch. You don't even control the flying. It's like a throwback to those shitty FMV Sega CD games. You could seriously just leave the character in one place and you'd be fine. Besides when you're going through those fucking goal loops. They did that like once in the entire series and you're doing it 20 times. The fucked up part of all of this is that Ginny is as good of a seeker as Harry. I thought Harry was supposed to be some prodigy at this or something. And during the liquid luck sequence you can't even control your character. The whole game is really boring. Even the action. All you'll do is just mash on the stupify button and strafe around the enemy hoping that the barrage of 5000 stupifies you're shooting at them kills them first. Ignoring all of that, the other retarded thing you have to do here is potion making. God I hate potion making. The game couldn't even keep up with my mouse turning skills when you have to mix the shit, and since when is liquid death pink? Fuck this game. It is shit.