Author: WManns

Mystery Science Theater 3000 Classic TV has long been one of my loves, including this gem, which is available both on DVD and through Netflix! The story goes like this: Begun in 1988 on a local cable-access channel in Minnesota by writer and comedian Joel Hodgson, and friends Kevin Murphy, Trace Beaulieu, Josh Weinstein, Patrick...

Paul Starring Simon Pegg, Nick Frost and the voice of Seth Rogen Genre: Sci-fi comedy Rating: R for language including sexual references, and some drug use Around 70 or so years ago, an alien crash-landed on Earth, and after being the guest of our government for as many years, decided to escape. He finds the...

Devil May Cry series By Capcom One of the best console-to-PC ports of a popular game is currently available on Steam, so why not look at it and its prequels? This is the kind of twitch-action I can get into, similar to the previously-reviewed Bayonetta by the same creator; it’s got a great style, a...

Deus Ex By Eidos/Square Enix Genre: First-person RPG Since 2000, there’s been one series of RPG with the deepest, most politically charged story, the most diverse means of game play, and the most intense high technology on display. That series is Deus Ex, named after the Latin term “Deus ex machina,” or ‘god from the...

The Settlers 7: Paths to a Kingdom By Blue Byte, most recently distributed by Ubisoft Genre: Real-time strategy For almost twenty years, a German-based software company, Blue Byte, has been manufacturing some of the best-regarded “underdog” strategy titles, the Settlers series. This series, while it may have a storyline in some of its installments, and...

HOARD By Big Sandwich Games Genre: Top-down Action-strategy Rated: Everyone for Fantasy Violence Downloadable Yet another independent title finds its way onto my computer, and like most others I’ve tried, this one is really great. You take control of a dragon! How awesome! And your goal is to amass more gold than all the other...

The Chronicles of Riddick Way back in 2000, director David Twohy brought together actors Vin Diesel, Radha Mitchell, Cole Hauser, Keith David and several others,  and told us the far-future tale of a crew of civilians whose freighter was damaged in a freak meteor storm above a white-hot, desolate moon lit by three suns. Now...

From Dust By Ubisoft Montpelier Genre: God game (strategy) Rating: E10+ for mild violence. A fantastical, mythological re-telling of the distant origins of man, From Dust sets you as the Breath, a godlike being represented by a simple cursor on screen, but capable of manipulating the elements of Water, Earth and Fire to reshape the...

Bastion By Supergiant Games, Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment Genre: Action RPG Caelondia. Once a country by degrees gritty and industrious, but also beautiful and idyllic. That all changed when the Calamity struck. Something caused the world to simply shatter, its people turned to statues of ash, with no hope of repair, and so the ending...

Oddworld: The story of a unique, though maligned franchise. Way back in the late 1990s, a company founded by special-effects experts called Oddworld Inhabitants began a years-long journey to tell us tales of the adventures of non-human, yet sentient species on a bizarre, diverse planet known as Oddworld. The first in this offbeat series, Abe’s...