Wade Manns – The Corsair Assassin’s Creed and Assassin’s Creed II by Ubisoft Genre: Third-person action-adventure-platforming Rating: M for strong violence, sexual situations, blood, and strong language. Back in 2007, the software company Ubisoft, which had previously done more realistically-themed stealth-heavy action games such as Splinter Cell, Rainbow Six and their sequels, came out with…
Wade Manns – The Corsair “Star Trek” Starring Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, and Karl Urban Genre: science fiction. Rating: PG-13 for sci-fi action and violence, and brief sexual content. Regardless of how old one is, almost everyone has been affected by, or at least heard of, the phenomenon that is “Star Trek.” Whether we’ve only…
Wade Manns – The Corsair Grand Theft Auto IV: The Ballad of Gay Tony by Rockstar Games and Rockstar North Genre: third person driving/action/shooting (downloadable content) Players: single player, or up to 16 players over Xbox LIVE. Rating: M (blood, intense violence, partial nudity, strong language, strong sexual content, use of drugs and alcohol) Throughout…
Paul Smith – The Corsair It’s hard to digest the fact that this decade is rapidly coming to a close. It seems as if just yesterday we were still partying like it was 1999 (please forgive this unavoidable Prince reference). But, alas, the decade has passed gracefully into the annals of the history books as…
Wade Manns – The Corsair The Beatles: Rock Band by EA, MTV Games and Harmonix with the cooperation of Apple Corps Genre: Music Players: up to 4 locally or via Xbox LIVE Rating: T for Mild Lyrics, Tobacco Reference The Beatles is one of my favorite bands of all time. That magical combination of four…
Wade Manns – The Corsair “Wet” developed by Artificial Mind and Movement (A2M) published by Bethesda Softworks rating: Mature, for blood and gore, drug reference, intense violence, sexual content, strong language. Wet is a stylized 70s-style third-person action shooter, complete with film grain on the main playing field, filmstrips intruding upon the gameplay and cutscenes,…
Timm Showalter – The Corsair Shinedown fans attending the show this Friday, Oct. 16, at 7:30 p.m. inside the Civic Center might think they have passed through a time warp back to 1985 when they hear Eddie Murphy’s, “Party All the Time.” Have no fear; this is just the precursor to the rockin’ out Las…
Paul Smith – The Corsair “Why not be utterly changed into fire?” asks Aaron Weiss, the lead singer of mewithoutYou, on his band’s fourth studio album, it’s all crazy! it’s all false! it’s all a dream! it’s alright. The question is posed repeatedly at the close to the awesomely epic track, “The King Beetle on…
Paul Smith – The Corsair It was October of last year; PJC student Patrick Hudson sat alone inside the End of the Line Café waiting for his friend, former PJC student Andrew Gartman, to join him. They were to discuss how, together, they would implement Gartman’s idea for creating a local poetry group. Gartman never…
Wade Manns – The Corsair Brutal Legend Produced by Electronic Arts and Double Fine Productions Genre: third person action, real-time strategy Rating: mature (blood, language, suggestive themes) Jack Black is one of the most entertaining and unique actors on the Hollywood scene today; he started work in the comedic band he founded alongside Kyle Gass…