GAME ON! *Indie Game: The Movie Special*

There is a movie that I have been following for some time now. The movie hasn't been released yet, and still I just know it is going to be a favourite of mine and many many others. This movie is both a show of great film making (if the little teaser videos are anything to go on) and a very informative insight into the world of indie games and their development. I am of course talking about...

Indie Game: The Movie

This film has been hugely anticipated for some time now. Ever since I stumbled across it a while back, it has been the first movie that I want to see that has come to mind every time. This little clip of Edmund McMillen is what first attracted me to them. 

I was in a complete haze of Super Meat Boy fever. Like a lot of people around that time, the thought of an actual game coming for the arcade market that might grab your attention for longer than two seconds was most exciting. So all amounts of fandom kicked in and I went on a hunt for all things SMB and Team Meat. As soon as I spotted this clip though, it became less about Super Meat Boy and more about "Who the hell made this amazing short clip?!" This was a perfectly put together clip and so easy to watch and fall in love with. The shots are utterly gorgeous and the way the content is put across, as much as it had a lot to do with the man himself, the manner in which it was put together had me glued. So who were these people? 

James Swirsky and Lisanne Pajot

These two have changed the way I think about films forever. I honestly cannot explain what it is, I don't know whether it is just the way all the little shorts and the trailer are shot that does it, but I find myself comparing other documentaries with the thought of "This isn't as good as IGTM". It is a totally biased way to look on things and I know when critiquing things you should look at it on a whole. But once you have found something as amazing as this to you, you cannot help but compare it. These guys have made documentary perfection so far in my book, and the film isn't even properly finished and out yet.

Well it is now just mere months until a release for the film and they have just announced some amazing news for the film. This trailer for a start is the most hard-hitting thing I have watched in a while and just pulls my emotions from one point to whole other on entirely.
You know what? Rather than have me tell you any more, I think it's about time you watched this official trailer (That's one announcement) and headed on over to their site and checked out all the content. If you like what you see, help them out. They have a new Kickstarter Campaign that you could always help out with, or the old classic of buying the DVD and if a hard copy of a film isn't your fashion and you want to "get with the times" they have a digital version for pre-order also (Another Announcement).

James and Lisanne... Thank you so much for this piece of magic.

All Geared Up!!

So a few years ago now I got myself an Xbox360 after a long time of denying that it exists purely due to the thought that nothing could be as good looking or entertaining as playing Spider-man 2 on the PlayStation 2. 

I had never heard much about the games that were coming out for it, or what kind of games they were. Just a couple of brief looks at my mates one he had bought when they first kind of came out here in the UK. So when I did eventually get one I just picked most of the popular games that were around for it at the time. 

My Gran (amazing woman that she was) bought me Gears Of War special edition (in the steel case with the art work book and everything) for my Christmas. I put the disc in and started it up. I was hooked!

What happened from there was all night gaming action, I missed college a few times, made friends on it, made some enemies on it and had some crazy good fun!

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This game had a great little story, but just not enough to keep me that gripped; the multiplayer was most definitely where my focus lay.

That is where Gears of War 2 fell for me. The multiplayer was just trying to be... too much. The story in this had been so much better and just left the first one like it's NPCs, cold, STRANDED and alone. So why had the multiplayer been so shocking? Now I do realise that this may seem totally wrong, I do know of a lot of people that thought the first one was sluggish and not up to much.

 

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Well, that is where a new monster hurls itself in the midst. Ever since GOW2 there has been quite a wait. We have been left clutching our gold lancers from the epic edition of Gears2. I myself have had two tattoos on my wrists, Gears is in my veins. 

Gears of War 3 is almost upon us, but before they release it, they had a small tester session. The Beta was released to people that had pre-ordered the game or purchased a copy of Bulletstorm epic edition. 

 

 

This by far, was the best multiplayer I have ever played. Not just out of the Gears series. EVER!! I got my old Xbox live buddy on (shout out to Gary Markie) and just had some more sleepless nights and one hell of a lot of fun fragging guys and taking them out with some of the old favourites, but also some amazing new weapons such as, Sawn-off shotgun, One shot (sniper rifle thing) and Retro Lancer (powerful assault rifle with bayonet).

I seriously cannot wait for this to come out. This game is very highly anticipated on my part and looks to be the next big game for Xbox360 in multiplayer! 

In the mean time before the game releases we will hopefully have more advertisements such as this to get excited over. Enjoy the amazing campaign video that came out just days ago.