Now it is time for a recent review of dirty pleasures that have come into my retinal grasp. First take was "RISE: Blood Hunter" staring Lucy Liu (Kill Bill & Charlie's Angels) & Michael Chiklis (The Shield). It's about a reporter who has a hacker pal at the Newspaper she works for that hacks into a secure website that gives him an address of some place that they preform a ritual sacrifice on this girl. She won't take the lead when he wants to go with her. He dies she finds him dead, goes to the place that leads you into a Pulp Fiction like story line. Before I was left for dead, after I broke out of the morge, how I got here, my life before death, who I'm hunting, back to my death torture seen and finally the end of the movie. She is out for revenge on a guy who made here a VAMPIRE. This movie according to the "MAKING OF THE MOVIE" special feature says they were making a vampire movie. Could have fooled me pal, I saw four seens of blood that with out any other information would never made me believe this was vampire flick. Sure they make it like she hungers for the blood when she picks up a hitch hiker, or the part he drinks from her when he's in bed with another woman. I almost took the whole seen for a bad twisted joke on maybe they were going for the old ritual satanism bit. Well, to make matters worse this is as you can tell by the picture the UNRATED version. Should have been more gore? Maybe an extra few seens of Nudity? Raw Flesh being eaten? Not one good nude seen of an unknown actress, something to make the movie worth a damn or time you took to watch it. No, you have this prolonged seen of Lucy Liu hanging upside down and Michael Chiklis cuts her down and saves her until the bad supposed vampire guy shows up. Now (Michael Chiklis) plays a drowned out cop off duty because he's like any cop in a film.... ... .. A drunk. His daughter was killed by this vampire and he's out to find him. They join forces when the movie is 75% done, he gears up goes in to the next site where another vampire festival is happening and helps Lucy defeat the vampire then he made a promise to kill her in the end so she did not have to live like one of them, THEE END! Do yourself a favor, watch the trailer (Being the only good thing) 10 to 20 times and you saw not only the best scenes but all the movie was worth, beyond that all I would use this movie for is bad sound bites and frizbe.
Next I take you back to my Mii section to introduce to you one of the best survival horror games since Resident Evil rose back up from the grave on the GCN. I present to you "OBSCURE: The Aftermath" While not perfect and the characters still having the some what of a polygon shape to them, the game is worth playing over and over. It starts out with a recap of the first game, being this the sequal from the orginal OBSCURE on the PS2 - XBOX & PC. It features some fenomenal music compose by the Boston String Quartet and the Paris Childrens Choir. So the music gives you the real creeps and sets an awesome mood to be scared. You can play solo or a buddy can jump in at any time on a second Wii remote. Your characters are in College a few from the previous game and a few new faces, you start off playing this guy name Cory who's going to this party with his girlfriend. When they get there the typical blonde that every horror movie has is in the game with a few of your other pals an they tell you about a FLOWER that everyone has been making tea with around the campus and they thought it was time that you all tried it. Oh and the fact that all of you an your pals want to get into some Theta Delta Gamma Party being held at some fraternity house. You try the tea have a really messed up dream, with an erotic over tone in the midst of silent hill flash back effects an a ghost image that appears to freak you out. You see your girlfriend get her head chewed off no matter what you do, very gorey and very cool. You wake up and see the University seems to be ran sack by someone who wanted to trash the place. On to the next to characters who are at the fraternity house and the bouncer won't let them in. Sneak around back and climb to the roof, oh look a hockey stick and well you dozy donkeys wouldn't let me in so I'll... yeah smash the window and let myself in. You use the Wii nunchuck to move your characters about, and regular remote is the point censor for you to look around the room 360. So points you have to swing both remotes like your boxing to get alien like creatures off you, other moments you have to hold B for instance and swing the remote up to make the guy jump up the wall. Try the jump seen when you have to go from ledge to ledge, don't let go of the B button. Lots of inuendos and bad college humor but the game is damn impressive. I personally prefer a co-op mode since you get to the hospital and while swinging from a ledge trying to climb around the building your NPC run by the computer doesn't know how to cover you with the pistol when the flying ghost come in to knock you down. Oh and I advise in one player mode if you use the electric chainsaw (LOL) watch out for your buddy the computer has a habit or maybe a laughing spell by running the NPC in front of you. Co-op prides more control the action scenes and less hazards of letting the computer play, yes the view factor can be funky sometimes in Co-op but for the most part I would love to play an RE game like this. At certain points you can pick and choose who's in your team of two characters, but you'll soon discover you will have to have certain people since each character in the game has a different special ability you need to use at some point in time, whether acrobatics or moving large objects to hacking a door access panel. Buy this game, I really think you'll enjoy it. I don't know how it plays on the other systems but as for the Wii this takes the current "MHG Award." I take my leave now, but give you a sound bite from the game.
"HEY DUDE, your party sucks man!"
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