Army of Two

By Sandor Hugert

This game looks absolutely amazing.  The graphics look really nice, and the game play just seems really cool.  The whole game is about working together cooperatively with a friend throughout the whole campaign.  They have shown things like back-to-back shooting to cover each other, carrying your friend while he is wounded, and driving and shooting in all types of vehicles.  It’s also really cool that you can also play on this game online with a friend over XBOX Live.  The trailers have also shown that if you can’t work together properly with a friend then you won’t be able to beat the game.  Everything about the game seems pretty good, and hopefully it will live up to its expectations.

Release Date:  Delayed Till March 2008

Halford

By Sandor Hugert

Halford is a band named after the lead singer:  Rob Halford.  He was on Judas Priest back on the old days, and now he even went back to his old band.  For some reason, in my opinion he created the best music when he was into his solo albums.  He’s got some great songs such as Trail of Tears, Forgotten Generation, and One Will.  His music is like a mix of rock and metal.  If you’re into that type of music than definitely check this band out considering that Rob Halford is also known as the “Metal God”. 

Grand Theft Auto 4

By Sandor Hugert

Everyone is hoping for this game to be the next great Grand Theft Auto game.  From what I’ve seen, the game definitely has potential to be one of the best games of the year.  The graphics look amazing and actually realistic unlike other GTA games where the graphics looked like they came from a comic book.  I’ve read a lot about the game and it seems much more realistic as well considering that your character uses a cell phone to get in touch with his bosses for each mission, and then you have to find a computer in one of the libraries to find your destination or possibly send e-mails to your boss.  It has also gotten way more difficult to get rid of the cops when they’re right behind you which just makes the game better and more realistic once again.  I hope the Rockstar might add some online games to the whole package as well.  The only weird thing is that they chose New York City as the setting considering that it has been done in so many other games such as True Crime and all the Spider-Man games.  I suppose that if they just make the graphics really nice then it will be a much better looking New York City (the game calls it Liberty City just like in GTA 3).  I have pretty high expectations for this game so hopefully it will deliver.

Release Date:  Got Delayed Till Spring of 2008

Super Contra

By Sandor Hugert

This game is basically just as good as the first Contra.  It’s still a really fun 2D game, and even more enjoyable when you play with a friend in cooperative mode.  The weapons are really awesome in this game and way better than in the first one.  I guess the levels are better done, but it’s still not that different.  There are levels that are presented in a bird eye view, which doesn’t work that well in Super Contra.  The only bad thing about the game is just how difficult it is.  It’s almost impossible to beat the second level even with a friend, I guess it’s a plus that there are only five levels when you look at it from a difficulty perspective.  The game is still worth five dollars on the XBOX 360 Arcade, so just buy it or at least download a free trial of it because it’s still pretty fun.

Score:  7 out of 10

Zodiac

By Sandor Hugert

This was probably one of the most interesting movies of the year.  The whole movie is about investigations for finding out who the Zodiac really is.  I’m not going to give any spoilers on who he really is or isn’t, but I will say that the ending is not quite satisfying.  If you know something about the real Zodiac case then you know why the ending can’t be good for the movie.  I looked up some facts about this case, and apparently the movie stayed just about 100% faithful to how the real case turned out.  The movie showed really well how people became obsessed with this case, and basically just ruined their lives just to find out who the Zodiac really is.  All of the actors in the movie portrayed their characters wonderfully.  Everything about the movie was just perfect except the fact that it was almost three hours long.  They could easily have made the movie like two hours long if they would’ve just skipped some parts that were really didn’t contribute anything to the whole story line.  I really didn’t expect much from this movie, but I was really surprised that it’s probably one of the best movies of the year.

Score:  9 out of 10 

Heavenly Sword

By Sandor Hugert

This game for Playstation 3 looks really cool.  It looks a lot like God of War, which is never a bad thing considering God of War 2 is probably my favorite game.  The graphics for this game look absolutely amazing.  The fighting seems really cool and it looks like you can perform many types of combos in the game.  I’m really glad that Sony finally decided to make this game for Playstation 3 not the PS2 unlike God of War 2.  I doubt that this game will have any type of online play, which is always a negative, but I doubt that these types of game can really even have any good online play.  I hope that this game turns out to be as good as God of War 2, or even better.  Make sure to download the demo to the game, which is released on July 26, 2007 on the Playstation Store for free on the Playstation 3. 

Release Date:  September 4, 2007

Halo 3

By Sandor Hugert

This is probably the most anticipated game of the year.  The XBOX 360 customers finally get the game that they have all been waiting for.  I have seen trailers for the game and it looks really good, but not that different from Halo 2.  I’m not actually a big fan of Halo, but I’ll probably still buy it as long as it has a cooperative online campaign mode.  It’s really just not that much fun to play a campaign alone in any game anymore, it’s way more enjoyable to play through the game with some of your friends.  I don’t think that the death match online game will be that great because it will just have some professional Halo players on there that will be impossible to kill just like in Gears of War.  It could still be fun at times though, I guess.  Hopefully, the story line will be pretty good since it’s the end of a trilogy.  I’m sure that Bungie will make a really good game considering how popular these Halo games are.  I can’t wait to see how good the game will be. 

Release Date:  September 25, 2007

Redline

By Sandor Hugert

This movie was basically so bad that it was almost just funny watching it.  It seriously didn’t have any plot to it.  They tried to establish some type of plot, but it just didn’t work at all.  The whole car racing scenes were somewhat cool, I guess.  The only reason why the racing scenes were pretty cool was because of the awesome cars such as Ferraris, Lamborghinis, and Mercedes.  The cars looked really cool.  However, what really matters in movies just didn’t work in this one.  The acting was horrible, the characters were extremely random, and the plot that was created during the end was just weird and dumb.  It was also funny to see action scenes in the movie, and then in one second you see a really dramatic scene, which just doesn’t work since these little dramatic scenes last like ten seconds after the action.  Some of the main characters die in the movie, but the other characters hardly mind at all, and just continue their daily activities like nothing happened.  I didn’t expect much from this movie, but this was just horrible.

Score:  3 out of 10    

Premonition

By Sandor Hugert

This was a pretty weird movie.  In the beginning of the movie, we really had no idea why the main character’s husband dies one day, and then comes back alive the next day.  I thought that the movie will be focused on this, but as we get into the movie much more conflicts come up.  The whole explanation to the movie makes sense, but it’s still just a little too weird, I’m not going to reveal to you what the explanation because that would spoil the whole movie.  The ending is also not quite satisfactory since basically nothing changes, again I won’t go into spoilers here.  Sandra Bullock was a good choice for this movie considering that she did a pretty good job playing this lost mother in the movie.  Overall, it was a pretty good movie, but the whole thing was just a little too weird.

Score:  7 out of 10

Indiana Jones 4

By Sandor Hugert

I’m sure that this movie next year will be absolutely amazing.  The new technology that they can put into this movie will make it a lot more exciting and just overall cooler.  They even got a new actor, Shia LaBeouf, who appears to be on an uprising after great success in Disturbia and Transformers.  Harrison Ford also returned which might just be a little weird since he’s a little too old to play Indiana Jones again.  There have been rumors that Shia plays Indy’s son which might work perfectly in even more sequels when Shia will just be the main character in the movies.  There have been rumors around the Internet that there will be like three more sequels to come to Indiana Jones.  The storyline keeps changing every week for the movie as new rumors spur up.  There was one time when it seemed like the movie will be about finding Atlantis, but that changed to finding Noah’s Ark therefore it looks pretty official that the title of the movie will be Indiana Jones and the City of Gods.  I just wish that instead of making like three or four more Indiana Jones movies, George Lucas should just make Star Wars 7, 8, and 9 considering that I’m sure that Harrison Ford would love to play Han Solo again.  Overall though, I’m sure that this movie will be awesome, no matter what the plot will be.

Release Date:  May 22, 2008