Game Review: Deadrising 2

DEADRISING 2

Deadrising 2 is the sequel to Deadrising, it was one of the first games released on the xbox 360. The premise of the game is you are Chuck Greene, a father, a zombie killer, and a badass, well a badass with a heart of gold. This game takes place in a mall-pavilion kind of place with several malls from all around the world in a super mall thing I don't know. Chuck Greene has a daughter who has been bitten, but there is a super drug out there called Zombrex, it keeps people alive for 24 hours once they've been bitten. This is how the story starts, with Chuck in a game show where he slays crowds and crowds of zombies on a motorcycle with chainsaws ductaped to the front of it.

Now if you've played the last Deadrising, you will be familiar with the PP system and what not, but in this game, Chuck gets extra XP or PP, by combining a few household items into a deadly inferno of death :D. So This can be amusing for an hour or so, once you find out that placing some diamonds inside a flashlight gives you a lightsaber, you throw all realism out the window, and all other use of most weapons. Sure you can find an array of items and combine most of them into wacky super over the top excitement amazing weapons, but most of them are really useless, and the weapons become tedious to lug around. The weapons will all eventually break, but there are things to make the game easier like comics, and copious amounts of orange juice. So you'll probably be asking why this all matters.

Well, it's all about making the game easier, the higher level you are, the easier the bosses become, and trust me you'll need ALL the help you can get. The bosses are ordinary people that have went insane in some aspect, and most of the time killing them is optional, but fairly easy if you know what to do.

The story line is not all that strung together, and sometimes choosing between saving a person, or killing a main boss can be tedious, especially since all the events are on timers, and the time still counts when you are in the mission, one time I was stuck on this very easy helicopter boss, but I had to rush there from my last save so it only gave me about 10 sec to actually fight it before he flys away. This pissed me right the fuck off, how the hell am I supposed to do a fight that lasts 5 minutes in 30 sec? This made time management of vital importance.

MY FINAL THOUGHTS:

• Fun
• Repetitive
• Lack of strong story line
• I would rent it

MY RATING:  7.8/10

First Review: Chronicle

Chronicle

**** = Contains Spoilers

At first I was really stunned by the movie, the trailers were elusive enough to make me curious  and action filled enough to catch my Amurican instinct of violence! It was a good plot, it really was! People in their late 20's play as seniors in high school who find a mysterious rock that somehow gives them all super powers! Golly gee wilikers Batman!

So the main trio, a kid, his older cousin, and the black fellow to even it out, are all three given these super telekinetic powers where they can lift objects with their minds. The movie starts out with the nerdy kid, no friends, abusive dad, sick mom. Throughout the movie the plot unfolds into an even thicker nerdy kid, no friends, abusive dad, sicker mom, and older cousin has a love intrest. The kid, grabs a video camera to practically catch his dad wailing on him. Don't really know why the kid just never called 911 to get the dad in prison, but the dad gets drunk every day, and got hurt doing some boring job that was mentioned once in the movie and never again. So lazy drunk dad is beating on his kid, and the kid gets the camera, and takes it with him everywhere. This reveals that shockingly the kid is picked on everywhere he goes, and the camera doesn't help but to get the kid's ass kicked more.

Cousin gets black friend for diversity reasons, and the kid for the camera to go down into a dark hole in the ground. Now, I am no scientist, but I am pretty sure perfectly round caves do not form in the middle of wheat fields in no where. They find a stone, gives them all powers blah blah blah.

From the beginning you can tell that nerdy kid is far stronger mentally than the other two, and surpases them in power, because let's face it when the other two are off socializing and having friends, nerd is getting powerful >:D. Okay no seriously the kid soon finds himself among new friends and starts doing all these cool things with his powers. This part of the movie kind of hits home with anyone who has ever flet abandoned. Now after about an hour of this happy fun time fooling around shenanigans with the kids I got bored, really really fucking bored. This is when the main focal point of the entire movie shifts.


****
So the gang are driving down the road, some asshole is behind him blaring on the horn, he probably was going to see his son who had cancer and really needed to get there, but we never find out because nerdy kid swipes his car off into a lake! Well, the black friend, who is honor roll, never in trouble, pinnacle of all that is right in the world, dives right in to save the redneck who is now sinking to his doom. Of corse the guy is alright, at least that is what we are lead to believe because the entire movie just calls 911, and leaves and doesn't mention him or his possibly cancer ridden son.

So now the nerd kid becomes probably evil kid, and the rest of the movie is the kid getting stronger, like the first half of the movie. I will leave a ton of the story out because I did actually enjoy it, but the whole movie ends with more holes than a swiss cheese factory, and it left me annoyed that I did not know the end, but un caring about a sequel.
****

MY FINAL THOUGHTS

• Bad special effects, obvious hang wire flight.
• Odd camera angles, didn't need to be the main focus of the story.
• Good story, bad acting, lame ending

The only thing I learned from this movie is when I get super powers with my friends, I need to kill them to ensure my dominance over you puny mortals.

MY RATING

6.7/10

What this blog is about

Thus unto him a remote was given, and the brain was.... F%$! it, I'm here to rate things based on the Berto Scale (A scale I use exclusively, 1 being the lowest 10 being the highest)  and tell you what to buy. What makes me different from the billions of other people trying to make it on the web/new/telly rating things? Not a whole lot, except: 

1. The Doctor lies
2. I shall not, under any circumstances be bought out into saying something that is not my own belief. 
1. *Note I will sometimes refuse to do a review if I find it to be a waste of time*
1. Upon request I will release reviews that I found to be a waste of time
3. I will be brutal, I will look for flaws, I will look for mistakes
4. I shall not whore out for money, I won't do a review if someone pays me to.
5. I'm better than the rest.

Now I guess a little introduction might be in order, I am MrFidelmios, I play games, I watch movies, and I have a youtube channel. Done.  I am not trying to be an ass, but it takes alot to please me, I am just honest.  I am not sure if I want to vlog this or blog the reviews (And on a side note, blog does not appear on my spellcheck, but vlog does.. dafuq). Now, I think once this blog get's going, i'll go ahead and post a poll of what the people want to have me do, vlogs vs blogs. 

Text for now because of the time saving, vlogs might be treats...

-This is Fidel signing off.