Enter the Matrix
Guess what game I got today, lol. Yup, Enter the Matrix, the video game based off The Matrix: Reloaded, but from a different point of view, that of Ghost and Niobe. The two characters were rarely in the movie itself, which raises qeustions about why they are in the game, but in some cases it's better not to be playing as the all-powerfull Neo, and it unloacks more elements of the deep story-line. The idea of the game is absolutely fantastic. It is clear that it is very polished from the time you boot up your system, from things such as the beginning video to how you load up your game or choose your character. The Wachowski brothers do a very good job of keeping you into the game, by bringing in cut-scenes that were actually filmed, and looking as if they could have been in the movie itself. In the playable parts, close hand combat is very fun with the inclusion of the Focus meter, a meter that decreases when you slow down time, but goes back up slowly afterwards. While slowing down time, it allows you to execute much stronger and awsome moves, and you can even dodge bullets. It is deffinitly an original tool added to a video game (maybe Max Payne is similar, but I've never played it) and it brings you back to your Matrix fantasies. That's where the good parts end, however. Despite being able to change the controls, it is very difficult to control your character, as you turn slowly, and they are very jumpy. When fighting a bad guy, it seems like you are doing the same things over and over again. The levels also feel repetative in the sense that they arn't that detailed, and it's like going through a maze or something. As you can see, it's good that the Wachowski brothers directed the game, but they could have done better with the game developer. Although they tried, they really tried. lol
In other news, I might as well have had my soccer practice today. After winning by 6 goals (we arn't allowed to go over that number, or they take off our final score, like we would usually get 3 points for a win, but if we go over we'd only get 2) we were just playing around with the ball, passing it to each other. The team was awful; we scored 4 goals in the first 5 minutes, and I pretty much assisted all of them, but did I get credit? NOOoooooo. In any case, we ended up winning 8-2, but I didn't score any goals. We have a game tommarrow too, which I hope will be easy, but not this easy. Wish me luck. :)
Oh, and I was planning to get The Matrix on DVD, since I just have it on VHS without the 'Making of' stuff. However, when I got there, I learned it was sold out (o_O) so I'll just save my money and get the Animatrix when it comes out. Those 9 films look awsome, and by world renowned anime directors such as the one who made Cowboy Bebop, no less. I don't see how I could not get it.
Guess what game I got today, lol. Yup, Enter the Matrix, the video game based off The Matrix: Reloaded, but from a different point of view, that of Ghost and Niobe. The two characters were rarely in the movie itself, which raises qeustions about why they are in the game, but in some cases it's better not to be playing as the all-powerfull Neo, and it unloacks more elements of the deep story-line. The idea of the game is absolutely fantastic. It is clear that it is very polished from the time you boot up your system, from things such as the beginning video to how you load up your game or choose your character. The Wachowski brothers do a very good job of keeping you into the game, by bringing in cut-scenes that were actually filmed, and looking as if they could have been in the movie itself. In the playable parts, close hand combat is very fun with the inclusion of the Focus meter, a meter that decreases when you slow down time, but goes back up slowly afterwards. While slowing down time, it allows you to execute much stronger and awsome moves, and you can even dodge bullets. It is deffinitly an original tool added to a video game (maybe Max Payne is similar, but I've never played it) and it brings you back to your Matrix fantasies. That's where the good parts end, however. Despite being able to change the controls, it is very difficult to control your character, as you turn slowly, and they are very jumpy. When fighting a bad guy, it seems like you are doing the same things over and over again. The levels also feel repetative in the sense that they arn't that detailed, and it's like going through a maze or something. As you can see, it's good that the Wachowski brothers directed the game, but they could have done better with the game developer. Although they tried, they really tried. lol
In other news, I might as well have had my soccer practice today. After winning by 6 goals (we arn't allowed to go over that number, or they take off our final score, like we would usually get 3 points for a win, but if we go over we'd only get 2) we were just playing around with the ball, passing it to each other. The team was awful; we scored 4 goals in the first 5 minutes, and I pretty much assisted all of them, but did I get credit? NOOoooooo. In any case, we ended up winning 8-2, but I didn't score any goals. We have a game tommarrow too, which I hope will be easy, but not this easy. Wish me luck. :)
Oh, and I was planning to get The Matrix on DVD, since I just have it on VHS without the 'Making of' stuff. However, when I got there, I learned it was sold out (o_O) so I'll just save my money and get the Animatrix when it comes out. Those 9 films look awsome, and by world renowned anime directors such as the one who made Cowboy Bebop, no less. I don't see how I could not get it.
Been a While
Hey hey, havn't been here in FOREVER, eh? I don't know how much HTML I remember after all this time. ><;
Let's see, what have I done since my last update...well, for one, I got a GameCube, which is absolutely amazing. So far, the games I own are Metroid Prime, Super Smash Bros. Melee, The Legend of Zelda: OoT/ OoT Master Quest, The Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker, and Splinter Cel. GameCube clearly has much better graphics than PS2, and their good games are fantastic games, such as Metroid Prime. We also already have four WaveBird controllers, and a GameCube - GameBoy Advance link cable, so we're set, we as in my brother and I. Speaking of GameBoy Advance, we recently got an SP. You'd be surprised how much you REALLY need that backlight.
What else...well, school ends the 19th of June, and I'm eagerly awaiting that date. I think that I havn't been doing that well this quarter, and there are few days left before exams start. The sooner the 19th comes, the better. Let's just leave it at that, lol. ;)
I saw The Matrix: Reloaded last Wednesday as part of the midnight showing, even though it was at 10:00 pm. It was a good movie, but I much prefered the first one. In the sequal, they focused a lot sex and comedy, and the huge fight scenes got kind of bland and boring after a while. The movie was also extremely confusing, and very hard to understand when you first see it. After the movie, however, I went on the net and read a little more about it, catching up on all the confusing parts. Since then, I've come to the conclusion that I rather enjoyed the movie, and suppose that most of the things I didn't like were filled up when I caught onto the story line. The first is still better, though, heh. Oh, and if you stay through the credits, they have a preview for the third film. Of course, I didn't know about it and missed out. I hope to see the movie again soon for both the preview and to go through the confusing parts once again for clarification.
I've been doing Love Hina summaries for theOtaku.com lately, but they are so lengthy and time consuming that it's taking me more than a day to complete just one episode. I just want to get this out of the way so that I can concentrate on other things for the time being. For my birthday this September, I'm hoping to get Rouruni Kenshin, which has 96 episodes and I can get dubbed for about 100, and I may do something with that, but I'm still thinking about it. In other news with theOtaku, I'm now a super moderator on their forums, better known as category moderator now. I look over the Art & Design category, which has three forums, but I can use my "powers" all over the boards.
Other than my dorky hobbies [-.-] I've been playing soccer on my recreational team, and we're not doing too bad. We have won every game except again one of the worst teams and arguably the very best. The one against the bad team was a fluke, and we wern't playing very hard, but nothing could have been done about the good team. They ended up winning 3 to 2, and claimed that we were the best team that they have played all season, which is a good thing. This weekend we have two games, and no practice, so wish us luck.
Well, that's it for now. I hope to start updating much more frequently. :)
Hey hey, havn't been here in FOREVER, eh? I don't know how much HTML I remember after all this time. ><;
Let's see, what have I done since my last update...well, for one, I got a GameCube, which is absolutely amazing. So far, the games I own are Metroid Prime, Super Smash Bros. Melee, The Legend of Zelda: OoT/ OoT Master Quest, The Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker, and Splinter Cel. GameCube clearly has much better graphics than PS2, and their good games are fantastic games, such as Metroid Prime. We also already have four WaveBird controllers, and a GameCube - GameBoy Advance link cable, so we're set, we as in my brother and I. Speaking of GameBoy Advance, we recently got an SP. You'd be surprised how much you REALLY need that backlight.
What else...well, school ends the 19th of June, and I'm eagerly awaiting that date. I think that I havn't been doing that well this quarter, and there are few days left before exams start. The sooner the 19th comes, the better. Let's just leave it at that, lol. ;)
I saw The Matrix: Reloaded last Wednesday as part of the midnight showing, even though it was at 10:00 pm. It was a good movie, but I much prefered the first one. In the sequal, they focused a lot sex and comedy, and the huge fight scenes got kind of bland and boring after a while. The movie was also extremely confusing, and very hard to understand when you first see it. After the movie, however, I went on the net and read a little more about it, catching up on all the confusing parts. Since then, I've come to the conclusion that I rather enjoyed the movie, and suppose that most of the things I didn't like were filled up when I caught onto the story line. The first is still better, though, heh. Oh, and if you stay through the credits, they have a preview for the third film. Of course, I didn't know about it and missed out. I hope to see the movie again soon for both the preview and to go through the confusing parts once again for clarification.
I've been doing Love Hina summaries for theOtaku.com lately, but they are so lengthy and time consuming that it's taking me more than a day to complete just one episode. I just want to get this out of the way so that I can concentrate on other things for the time being. For my birthday this September, I'm hoping to get Rouruni Kenshin, which has 96 episodes and I can get dubbed for about 100, and I may do something with that, but I'm still thinking about it. In other news with theOtaku, I'm now a super moderator on their forums, better known as category moderator now. I look over the Art & Design category, which has three forums, but I can use my "powers" all over the boards.
Other than my dorky hobbies [-.-] I've been playing soccer on my recreational team, and we're not doing too bad. We have won every game except again one of the worst teams and arguably the very best. The one against the bad team was a fluke, and we wern't playing very hard, but nothing could have been done about the good team. They ended up winning 3 to 2, and claimed that we were the best team that they have played all season, which is a good thing. This weekend we have two games, and no practice, so wish us luck.
Well, that's it for now. I hope to start updating much more frequently. :)
