The 10 Worst Game-Inspired Movies of the Last 10 Years
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Found in: Blogs, List of the DayWatch the First Trailer for Silent Hill: Revelation 3D
Back in 2006, the original Silent Hill movie received not so stellar reviews, bottoming out around 30 percent on both Metacritic and Rotten Tomatoes. But because Hollywood believes in second chances, here’s a trailer for the sequel!... read more
Found in: Games, NewsLone Survivor Review (PC)
What if you were the last person alive? There is this scene early in The Omega Man, a half-decent Charlton Heston movie, that sums it up for me. Heston is the last man on Earth. At night he fends off vampiric hoards, but during the day he is alone, watching Woodstock in a room full of corpses and driving around in an expensive car. At one point he hears a payphone ring. Another phone starts to ring, and then, the overwhelming sound of thousands of telephones going off at the same time. He shouts, savagely, “There is no phone ringing... read more
Found in: Games, ReviewsSilent Hill: Downpour Review (Multi-Platform)
When the original Silent Hill titles took abstractions of purgatory, character casts of mysteriously-burdened sinners and the visual language of personal hells and made them into games, it created a take on the horror genre that deservedly installed itself in history.... read more
Found in: Games, ReviewsNine Ridiculously Oversized Videogame Weapons
There can't be many things more fun for videogame designers than dreaming up weapons. In the real world, building a 500-lb. shoulder-harnessed rocket launcher is fairly impractical, but... read more
Found in: Blogs, List of the DaySilent Hill: Shattered Memories Review (Wii)
Developer: Climax Group Publisher: Konami Platform: Nintendo Wii It’s never a good sign when something has to tell you how scary it’s supposed to be Call it the Count Floyd rule. Silent Hill: Shattered Memories isn’t as desperate as SCTV’s horror movie host, but it’s less frightening than funny. It touts its psychological profiling of the player, but does it as hamfistedly as possible. You’ll take the occasional grade-school psychology exam, administered by a therapist who looks and talks like a soap-opera villain. This melodramatic emphasis on the dark and mysterious dominates the writing and voice acting, spoiling what could... read more
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