Friday 11 March 2011

Enslaved.

Some wonderful voices and animations in here, spotted throughout the dated gameplay.
A bit hack and slash, but the plot was fantastic, and most of the tech aspects were spot on...bar the textures.
some were great, some were bloated and had TOO much detail, others were blown up and had pixelated from afar. A real shame it wasn't polished...but some gorgeous concepts and levels.

Battle for, what could be, a random US city..

Battle for LA, i know, a somewhat inventive title, was charged.
You can probably guess where the film fell over a little, but my god did it have some pace. Really fast paced and exciting. A little bit of realism helped it through certain scenes, though some of the obvious sfx (explosions with fireworks) let it down a bit.
really fun though.

Rango

Wow. Must say first - fantastic texture work, and very smooth plausible animation.
very impressed. The pot was a little wanting, and some of the characters undeveloped, but it was well worth watching, especially from a technical viewpoint.

(note for me: I think, based on watching these types of films, and my choice in games, im really siding with texturing and animating as a specialisation.)

Tuesday 22 February 2011

The Cobbler and the Thief (the one that stole 1hr and a half!)

Utterly depressing. A complete mess, but a mess that would've mde a wonderful film had it been released on time. such a shame.
This review sums it up better than i can 

Nausica

Now i know Miyazaki has made some truly great works, but this one i felt was lacking a little. Though can fully see the
inspiration that was taken from it for Final Fantasy - there are so many aspects and characters nicked.
I just felt it could have been grander and the main characters evolve a little more. Static Fantasy :(

Grit Ftw

Wow. Ace. Coen bro's. Wonderful. Well done.
As the name susgests, it's gritty. It's lovingly paced and sucks out the action slowly and carefully.
A real western treat.

Definitely Tangled...

Oh Disney..trying hard now are we? Not as dissapointing as i set it up to be, though the unbelieveable characters
still f£$%$ing sing. An average plot, with some gorgeous visuals, mired with good 'ol Disney flourish riding on the
back of shrek's topsy-turvy fairy tales. watchable, barely, though better watched with something physical to do. (hoovering anyone?)