Resistance: Fall of Man
By Sandor Hugert

This game for Playstation 3 was absolutely amazing. It was probably one of the best games ever made. The graphics were really good and the game play was really cool. The story actually made sense, which hardly ever happens in my opinion. This has to be one of the best launch games ever for any console. The guns used in the game were so cool since they even had guns that shot through walls and some other cool stuff like that. You even got to drive in some unique futuristic vehicles. The graphics had to be some of the best graphics I’ve seen in any video game. I really hope that they make a sequel to this outstanding game. It was also so cool how you got to play in all types of weather conditions: snow, rain, and obviously sunshine. The online feature of the game was also sort of cool even though there have been way better online games made before for death match game play. It was still a nice feature to just have online game play for a launch title.

Score: 9 out of 10

Rainbow Six: Vegas
By Sandor Hugert

This game is very well done. The single player campaign is sort of cool, but you really should play it with other people over online. The game would get really boring without the online capabilities that it has. The cooperative game play is okay, I guess, but it could have been a lot more interesting if they added a better story line to it instead of just terrorists taking over Vegas. It would have been a lot cooler if they actually had some type of story line to it, but they didn’t have that. Where the game really shines is the death matches over online that is up to 14 players (not 16 which the game claims). It is extremely fun as you can customize you character as you get points for playing online and winning. There are many types of game modes, but your ordinary 7 vs. 7 is still the best one. The levels are very well done as they give you an opportunity to hide in many locations, which is my favorite thing to do in these types of games. I sort of wish that they made the game into a third person shooter instead of a first person shooter considering that the customization really doesn’t make much of a difference if you can’t see your character. The graphics are really sharp and clear, but they don’t necessarily compare to a game such as Gears of War. It still has pretty good graphics just not the best when you compare it to other big title XBOX 360 games. Overall, the game is pretty well done, but it could have been a lot better if they put some more effort into it.

Score: 7 out of 10

Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End
By Sandor Hugert

I myself never really liked these Pirate movies, but I guess that the third one was a little better than the other two. Let me start of by saying that the special effects and the fight scenes were amazing in this movie, but to me that was about it. The whole story line was a little weird, and it was basically just about double-crossing other characters. This was okay for a little while, but I mean a three-hour movie about double-crossing is just overdoing it a little. The actors all did a good job, but I personally don’t see what’s so amazing about Johnny Deep as Jack Sparrow. I was also pretty bored with this movie considering it’s three hours long. I did think that this movie ended the trilogy pretty well, but I mean there are thousands of rumors circling around on the Internet about a Pirates 4. I’m sure that they will make one after the huge box office achievements that the trilogy made.

Score: 6 out of 10

One of the Best Bands Ever
Guns n’ Roses
By Sandor Hugert

Guns n’ Roses is probably one of the best bands if you like hard rock. Axl Rose did a great job of being the vocalist as he added an extra little something to each song just with his voice. The drummer and the guitarists were all outstanding. Obviously one of the best guitarists of our time, Slash, did an awesome job in this band just like he did in Slash’s Snakepit and now in Velvet Revolver. In my opinion, Slash is probably the best guitarist in the world. They had four outstanding albums with Use Your Illusion 1 probably being the best with great songs such as “Don’t Cry”, “November Rain”, and “Live and Let Die”. Their most popular song that is “Welcome to the Jungle” is found on the Appetite for Destruction album. It’s really too bad that they had to split up and form new bands that are also good, but it will never be the same as Guns n’ Roses. If you have some time on your hands then definitely download songs from this band or just purchase their awesome albums, you will not be disappointed with doing either of those.

Mario Party 8
By Sandor Hugert

This new game for the Wii doesn’t disappoint, surprisingly. The mini games are still really fun even after this being the 8th game is this long franchise where I taught that no sequel could beat the original Mario Party. This game actually does beat it, mainly due to the cool new controllers that the Wii came up with. It doubles the amount of fun to be had in these party games. You obviously need at least one other friend to have some fun with this game considering it is a board game. If you have a four-player party then you’ll have even more fun in this game. This is where the main flaw comes into place, which is that there is no online play in this game. Nintendo promised us that there would be a lot of online games for the Wii. They haven’t released one online game yet, so that is very disappointing on Nintendo’s part. Overall though, this is a very fun game and is a must have for your Wii collection.

Score: 8 out of 10

Live Free or Die Hard
By Sandor Hugert

This movie was really good. It had to be one of the best movies of the year. The action was terrific and nonstop. It was probably the best Die Hard to date. Bruce Willis did an amazing job once again as John McClane. I was even surprised to see that Justin Long did a good job as well in the movie considering that I’ve never really seen him in any action movies. The villain also acted pretty cool most of the time. The movie at many times was totally unbelievable with all of the action scenes that Bruce Willis pulled off and there was this one villain who just wouldn’t die, plus he did some amazing stunts like jumping from buildings and other totally unbelievable things. It was just a little too much at times considering that these characters hardly even had a scratch on themselves after falling on cement like twenty times. In my thoughts, there was hardly a story line to the movie, but you can quickly get past that like I did after seeing all of the perfect action scenes. Overall, I thought that the movie was awesome, definitely one of the best of the summer after all of the other disappointments.

Score: 8 out of 10

God of War 2 for Playstation 2
By Sandor Hugert

This has to be one of favorite games ever made. It had everything that a person wants to see in a video game. It had the best action in a game, great story, interesting and challenging puzzles, and even awesome boss fights. The length of this game was also just about perfect considering that I never really got bored of the game, which rarely happens. I really liked the first God of War, but surprisingly I thought that this one was actually better than the first one. Towards the end of the game, I thought that Sony went a little overboard with all of the boss battles. It just seemed like someone at Sony just realized that they didn’t have enough bosses so they decided to add like five of them at the end of the game. Also, this isn’t really a flaw but at times the puzzles might be a little too difficult to do, I constantly had to find walkthroughs of the game on the Internet to beat those puzzles. The boss fights were extremely fun and the difficulty was just about perfect for most of them anyway. I don’t really understand why Sony didn’t just make this game for Playstation 3 as well considering that many more people would buy it if God of War 2 came out for it. They could have way better graphics for the game for Playstation 3. I honestly think that this might me one of the best games ever made. Great job Sony!

Score: 9 out of 10

Ghost Rider
By Sandor Hugert

This was just an average superhero movie. We should be used to these types of movies after Spider-Man, Daredevil, and Hulk. This one was basically the same thing just with an amazingly awesome character. I have to say that Ghost Rider is probably one of the coolest looking characters ever made. The story line like I said is just like others: average guy gets power to save father, father dies, hero doesn’t want power, he fights evil, he wins, and then decides to keep power to fight more evil (sequel time!). This movie wasn’t really bad at all, but it’s just we’ve seen these movies a bit too often lately from Marvel. I can’t say that that’s a bad thing considering that there really haven’t been any horrible Marvel movies other than the Blade trilogy, but even that was somewhat acceptable. Nicolas Cage does a wonderful job portraying the Ghost Rider, but now he’s saying that he doesn’t want to do a sequel, which just sucks. The action in this movie wasn’t really up to par to lets just say 300. I was expecting really cool fight scenes since Ghost Rider has easily become one of my favorite characters, but that didn’t really please my expectations. The special effects of the motorcycle were amazing. I think that this movie sort of ended up just like Spider-Man 3, you would think that they would both be really cool movies with all these interesting characters, but somehow they both ended up being a little disappointing.

Score: 7 out of 10

Gears of War
By Sandor Hugert

This was probably one of the highest anticipated games of 2006 for XBOX 360. I personally didn’t see how it was that good, but that doesn’t mean that it was a bad game. The single player game was very short but the graphics were perfect and so were the level designs. The action in the game is just as amazing as you saw in the trailers. In my opinion, cooperative online play for the single player game was the best part of the game. It was just extremely fun to beat the whole game with my friend while we were just chatting about random things with our headsets. The normal online death matches are just not that fun since most people playing that are experts and you’ll just get killed really easily. It is just way more enjoyable to play with your friends that play on the same level as yourself. I actually wouldn’t have even really liked this game if it wasn’t for cooperative gameplay. Another problem that I had was how I really only had fun with the game for like 2 weeks due to the short length of the game.

Score: 7 out of 10

Evan Almighty
By Sandor Hugert

I was a huge fan of the first movie, Bruce Almighty, but without Jim Carrey the second one had no chance of being even nearly as good as the first one. I was right; Evan Almighty wasn’t good at all. You can get over the fact that Jim Carrey didn’t come back, but this movie just wasn’t funny at all. At most I had like two or three good laughs during the movie, but that is extremely sad consider how Bruce Almighty was just hilarious. The whole Noah’s Ark plot didn’t really grab my attention at all either, just because the only laughs you get out of that is when he hits his finger with a hammer. The whole time when the animals were following him was just a bit weird. I suppose some people might find it funny how Steve Carell started looking more and more like Noah. I just taught that we have seen that type of comedy way too much before in movies such as the Santa Clause trilogy. The whole movie just wasn’t that funny. I’m just wondering how much more sequels will they make to Jim Carrey movies without actually having Jim Carrey in the sequel. There has been three movies so far: Dumb and Dumberer When Harry Met Lloyd, Son of the Mask, and Evan Almighty. These movies all did horrible at the box office, although Evan Almighty isn’t doing that bad but not nearly as good as Bruce Almighty. I did not like this movie at all, even if you enjoyed Bruce Almighty (like me) the sequel has no elements linking it to the first one.

Score: 3 out of 10