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Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune

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Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune was one of the first two game that I purchased last week after getting my Sony PlayStation 3. Yeah, if you missed it I know own a PS3. :D

Prior to my purchase, I hadn’t heard or read anything about the game… or just about any other PS3 game for that matter. But the package looked cool, and Sony was pushing it with a PS3 bundle, so I figured I’d give it a shot. I was actually quite pleased with the game which I finished earlier today.

It’s kind of a cross between Tomb Raider and Prince of Persia (what can I say, I like those types of games). You’ll spend a bit of time hanging from ledges, swinging from ropes, and jumping off of cliffs. And when you aren’t doing that, the rest of the time is spent dodging gun fire. I swear, by the time I finished, I thought I had taken on a small country.

Story wise the game may remind you a bit of National Treasure or Indiana Jones, though towards the end of the game it takes a swerve that resembles Return to Castle Wolfenstein more than anything. Definitely worth getting if you are looking for a good adventure game on the PS3. Yes, it is a PS3 exclusive.

Prince of Persia (2008)

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Despite that nice new PS3 that I got for Christmas, I’ve not been able to put down my Xbox 360 remote just yet. I’m in the middle of Prince of Persia, and I’m having a lot of fun with it.

I find it ironic that as New Year’s Eve approaches, I’m stuck in the middle of Prince of Persia. A year ago on New Year’s Eve my home was broken into and most of my video games were stolen including two Prince of Persia games;  The Warrior Within and The Two Thrones. I was in the middle of The Warrior Within at the time.

The graphics of the game took me a while to get use to, but they aren’t bad by any means. I was just expecting them to look more like Assassin’s Creed (another awesome game!).

The new Prince of Persia is more of an acrobat story than anything. You spend most of your time jumping, running, and climbing. A few puzzles are mixed in to break things up, but for the most part that is all the game offers.

Combat? Oh sure, you get that on occasion. Usually when you are fighting one of the main bosses, which you’ll do several times. Aside from the bosses, you may run into another enemy here and there, but it’s certainly not the combat game I would have expected.

There is also a good bit of dialogue within the game, part of it offers details to the story, while other parts of the dialogue (usually from the Prince) add some humor and comic relief… some of which has had me rolling on the floor.

Those of you who enjoyed Assassin’s Creed may be happy to know that you can play through Prince of Persia as Altair via an unlockable skin. Both Assassin’s Creed and Prince of Persia are Ubisoft games.

Vantage Point

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With 88 Minutes having already wasted a few hours of my life, I didn’t think I’d be able to pick a worse movie, so I browsed through the Comcast OnDemand listing again and came to Vantage Point.

Not only did this movie suck, it’s gimmick did not work at all, in fact I think it was absolutely annoying. You basically get to re-watch the first 20-ish minutes of the movie three or four times, each from a different “vantage point”.

You get the same movie, without the annoying “rewind” if you start your movie about half way in.

88 Minutes

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Being home from work sick, and having already watched The Clone Wars I was getting incredibly board. So I found myself browsing the Comcast OnDemand movie listings. I cam across 88 Minutes staring Al Pachino.

Aside from a tooth brush scene early on the movie, this was actually pretty dull and boring. You have Al Pachino with really bad hair running around for an hour and a half as women in his life are murdered in a way similar to killer he put away a few years before.

Don’t waste your money on this one… wait till it ends up on TV or the free movie section.

Star Wars: The Clone Wars

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During the whole marketing blitz that accompanied the Star Wars: The Clone Wars animated movie, I really had no desire to see it. That was until I started watching the animated series that followed. I’m really enjoying the series… funky animation and all.

I went to Wal*Mart today to pick up a few things, and was back in the electronics section looking for a speciffic gift for my father-in-law, when I found myself facing the newly released DVD of The Clone Wars. So, I decided to pick up a copy.

The movie was fun to watch, and certainly less painful to watch than Star Wars: Episode I – Episode III. The animation, though different, makes the lightsaber battles even cooler.

Samuel L. Jackson and Christopher Lee return in the animated film reprising the roles of Mace Windu and Count Dooku. And believe it or not, Anthony Daniels also returns as C-3PO (he’s been C-3PO in all the movies).

Aside from that, it’s just Star Wars. Some will like it, some won’t. I did.