http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHKQ7ZE9pvw I don’t know what to say about this…… shit! That’s all I can say about this mishmash named Spacethunderkids. NOT EVEN 4KIDS DUBS ARE THIS BAD! I MEAN I WANT TO THROW UP LISTENING TO IT. AND WATCHING IT. ALLIE I FEEL SORRY YOU FOR EVEN WATCHING IT. NO ONE SHOULD BE SUBJECTED TO THIS. NO ONE NOT EVEN THE DEVIL HIMSELF. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYqyJiizxwY Ok Right,down,right-down, punch!!! SHORYUKEN!!!!!!!!
Next Week: Next week is Uwe Boll week. HU-FUCKING-RAY!
Next Week: Next week is Uwe Boll week. HU-FUCKING-RAY!
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| — | If you call this the worst movie ever, you’re being generous. :p |
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7m9xo923H8 OH MY GOD! All I can say is….. Here comes the pain!
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GAME OVER!!!! When the Smackdown vs raw series ended I wondered if WWE ‘12 would be as good as it portrayed itself to be? Well at least it has an intro this time: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=unkes1_T8Ng ABOUT FUCKING TIME. Well that is the highspot except for the championship belts and legends. Ther gameplay is a work in progress to say the least. THERE’S TOO MUCH COLLISION WHEN I TRY TO DO A RUNNING GRAPPLE OR STRIKE! The A/I is retarded as always. And I didn’t get to the worst part. ROAD TO WRESTLEMANIA! Basically it’s fight and press the finisher button for a cutscene 80% of the time with TOO FUCKING MANY BACKSTAGE FIGHTS! IF I WANTED TO FIGHT IN THE BACKSTAGE I’D PLAY WCW BACKSTAGE ASSAULT…. YOU KNOW WHAT I CHANGED MY MIND I STILL WOULDN’T TOUCH WCW BACKSTAGE ASSAULT WITH A TEN FOOT POLE. Now there are still some funto be had like the wakeup taunts are good, the WWE universe mode is better but still has quite a few flaws. And theres create your own arena mode. IGN gave this game a 9.0. FACKING BULLSHIT!!!!! MY ASS IS A 9.0. I’M GIVING THIS GAME A BRONZE. AND A COURNETTE FACE FUCK THQ!!!! HERE’S HOPING WWE ‘13 IS BETTER.
NEXT TIME: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAwWPadFsOA MORTAL KOMBAT!!! GET OVER HERE NEXT WEEK!
NEXT TIME: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAwWPadFsOA MORTAL KOMBAT!!! GET OVER HERE NEXT WEEK!
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The sad part is, WWE ‘12 was hyped to be the best wrestling game ever made. LMFAO As if this game would EVER hold a candle to Fire Pro and AKI. |
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFV9HK455Rw&list=FLsznX96_bq8h9jnmczrC1aQ&index=2&feature=plpp_video I can’t help it I love magical girls animes, it has a hold on me.
Plot:
Hikaru Shidou, Umi Ryuuzaki, and Fuu Hououji are on a field trip to the Tokyo Tower with their respective schools. The girls are blinded by a flash of light and hear a voice calling for the Legendary Magic Knights to save Cephiro. They fall through the sky into another world, Cephiro. Once there, they meet Master Mage Clef. Clef explains, “[In Cephiro], one’s will has the ability to change reality for better or worse. The dark fears in people’s hearts become monsters, while a well-intended wish can do miracles. One person, the Pillar, whose will is stronger than anyone else’s, is responsible for maintaining through her prayers the well-being of Cephiro.”
In the first story arc, the current Pillar, Princess Emeraude, has been captured by her high priest, Zagato. The three girls are charged with the task of saving Cephiro by activating the three Rune-Gods (魔神, Mashin?). They are given a bizarre creature named Mokona to guide them on their journey. After the girls find and destroy Zagato, they finally reach Emeraude, but they learn that she had fallen in love with Zagato, hindering her ability to pray solely for Cephiro’s well-being. They at first believed that Zagato had attempted to solve the problem on his own terms by stealing and imprisoning Emeraude, but in truth, she imprisoned herself. Feeling responsible for her actions, she summoned the Magic Knights to kill her since no one from Cephiro could harm the Pillar. Her dark side then took over, seeking to destroy the Magic Knights for killing her love. After a short defensive fight against Emeraude, the Magic Knights had no choice but to kill her.
The second story arc deals with the complications caused by the first season’s climax: three warring planets, Autozam, Fahren, and Chizeta, have begun their attempts to conquer Cephiro and a new Pillar must be chosen before the whole planet is destroyed. Hikaru, Umi, and Fuu are once again summoned to Cephiro. It is later discovered that Hikaru, Umi, and Fuu’s will to go to Cephiro sent them back once again in the anime, whereas in the manga they were summoned by Mokona.
Eventually, Hikaru is chosen to become the new Pillar. However, she rebels against the Pillar system, deciding that the fate of the planet should not be the responsibility of only one person which, like Emeraude before her, effectively prevents that person from ever being able to live and love freely.
Hikaru, Fuu and Umi return to earth, but still can visit their loved ones in Cephiro.
Differences in the anime adaptation
The first season remains mostly faithful to the first arc of the manga aside from the inclusion of the original character Inouva and a multitude of subplots, but the second season shows a rapid departure. Most notable differences are the creation of two anime only antagonists, Nova and Lady Debonair, who were born from the intense despair of Hikaru and the people of Cephiro respectively after the death of Princess Emeraude. It is also revealed by the Rune Gods that the girls were summoned back to Cephiro by their own will, most notably Hikaru’s as her strength of heart also allowed her to become the new Pillar, a position she rejects in a similar fashion to the manga.
CLAMP does it again! Another good anime this one gets a gold. Next Time: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mf01SHe_C4o&feature=BFa&list=FLsznX96_bq8h9jnmczrC1aQ&lf=plpp_video This anime is overlooked as per usual with some animes.
Plot:
Hikaru Shidou, Umi Ryuuzaki, and Fuu Hououji are on a field trip to the Tokyo Tower with their respective schools. The girls are blinded by a flash of light and hear a voice calling for the Legendary Magic Knights to save Cephiro. They fall through the sky into another world, Cephiro. Once there, they meet Master Mage Clef. Clef explains, “[In Cephiro], one’s will has the ability to change reality for better or worse. The dark fears in people’s hearts become monsters, while a well-intended wish can do miracles. One person, the Pillar, whose will is stronger than anyone else’s, is responsible for maintaining through her prayers the well-being of Cephiro.”
In the first story arc, the current Pillar, Princess Emeraude, has been captured by her high priest, Zagato. The three girls are charged with the task of saving Cephiro by activating the three Rune-Gods (魔神, Mashin?). They are given a bizarre creature named Mokona to guide them on their journey. After the girls find and destroy Zagato, they finally reach Emeraude, but they learn that she had fallen in love with Zagato, hindering her ability to pray solely for Cephiro’s well-being. They at first believed that Zagato had attempted to solve the problem on his own terms by stealing and imprisoning Emeraude, but in truth, she imprisoned herself. Feeling responsible for her actions, she summoned the Magic Knights to kill her since no one from Cephiro could harm the Pillar. Her dark side then took over, seeking to destroy the Magic Knights for killing her love. After a short defensive fight against Emeraude, the Magic Knights had no choice but to kill her.
The second story arc deals with the complications caused by the first season’s climax: three warring planets, Autozam, Fahren, and Chizeta, have begun their attempts to conquer Cephiro and a new Pillar must be chosen before the whole planet is destroyed. Hikaru, Umi, and Fuu are once again summoned to Cephiro. It is later discovered that Hikaru, Umi, and Fuu’s will to go to Cephiro sent them back once again in the anime, whereas in the manga they were summoned by Mokona.
Eventually, Hikaru is chosen to become the new Pillar. However, she rebels against the Pillar system, deciding that the fate of the planet should not be the responsibility of only one person which, like Emeraude before her, effectively prevents that person from ever being able to live and love freely.
Hikaru, Fuu and Umi return to earth, but still can visit their loved ones in Cephiro.
Differences in the anime adaptation
The first season remains mostly faithful to the first arc of the manga aside from the inclusion of the original character Inouva and a multitude of subplots, but the second season shows a rapid departure. Most notable differences are the creation of two anime only antagonists, Nova and Lady Debonair, who were born from the intense despair of Hikaru and the people of Cephiro respectively after the death of Princess Emeraude. It is also revealed by the Rune Gods that the girls were summoned back to Cephiro by their own will, most notably Hikaru’s as her strength of heart also allowed her to become the new Pillar, a position she rejects in a similar fashion to the manga.
CLAMP does it again! Another good anime this one gets a gold. Next Time: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mf01SHe_C4o&feature=BFa&list=FLsznX96_bq8h9jnmczrC1aQ&lf=plpp_video This anime is overlooked as per usual with some animes.
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This is the list of the 28 wrestlemanias and my quick opinions.
1. Main event: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5aUxD1g37o&feature=watch_response Hulk Hogan and Mr. T w/ Jimmy Superfly Snuka vs Rowdy Roddy Piper and Mr. Wonderful Paul Orndorff w/ Cowboy Bob Orton
ShowStealer: None.
Comments: If this show failed, WWF would’ve wentdownhill but this show lived up to the hype and more.
Grade: *** 3/4
2. Main event: LA: Steel Cage match for the WWF title Hulk Hogan (c) Vs. King Kong Bundy NY: Boxing Match Rody Roddy Piper Vs. Mr. T Chicago: WWF VS NFL Battle Royale
Showstealer: Tag Team Title match: The British Bulldogs w/ Ozzy Ozbourne and Capt. Lou Albano vs. Greg Vallentine and Brutus Beefcake (C) w/ Jimmy Valiant.
Comments: The first stinker of a werstlemania but to be fair to have 3 sites for one wrestlemania was a risk.
Grade: **
3. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OyEktjpjHQY&feature=relmfu Main Event: WWF Title match Hulk Hogan (c) vs. Andre the Giant
Show stealer: Intercontinental Title match: Randy “Macho Man” Savage*(C) VS. Ricky “The Dragon” Steamboat (AKA Greatest IC title match of all time.)
Comments: Thanks to this Wrestlemania WWF became a worldwide event, check out Savage/Steamboat at least once in your life.
Grade: ****3/4
4. Main event: WWF Title finals: Ted Dibiase vs. Randy “Macho Man” Savage
Showstealers: None
Comments: This Wrestlemania is good because of Randy Savage’s efforts in the tournament. Then again how can you live up to the previous Wrestlemania.
Grade ***1/2
5. Main Event: WWF Title Randy Savage (c) vs. Hulk Hogan
Showstealers: IC title match Ultimate Warrior(c) VS. Rick Rude.
Comments: Noit as bad as everyone says it is but not great.
Grade:**1/4
6. Main Event: Title for title: Hulk Hogan(c) vs. The Ultimate Warrior (c)
Showstealers: None
Comments: This was supposed to be Hogan’s passing of the torch to Ultimate Warrior if Warrior wasn’t such a douche.
Grade ****
7. Main event: WWF Title match: Hulk Hogan vs. Sgt. Slaughter(c) w/ Gen. Adnan
Showstealer: Retirement match: Randy Savage vs. Ultimate warrior (Watch the ending too.)
Comments: This was supposed to be in the LA Collusium but because of Slaughter being the most despised champion in recent history it was moved to the smaller LA Memorial Sports Arena.
Grade: ***
8. Main events: WWF Title Match Randy Savage vs Ric Flair (C) and Hulk Hogan Vs Sid justice
Showstealer: IC title match : Roddy Piper (c) vs. Bret Hart.
Comments: Underrated Wrestlemania but remember when you have lemons you make lemonade.
Grade **3/4
9. Main event: WWF title Yokozuna vs. Bret Hart (c) and WWF title match Hulk Hogan vs. Yokozuna (c)
Showstealers: None but two decent matches. The key word is decent.
Comments: What a fucking travesty and this isn’t the worst of the wrestlemania’s The point is Hogan beating Yokozuna in secionds made Hart and Yokozuna look weak.
Grade *
10. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qAT-Snt3pig&feature=relmfu Main Event: WWF Title match Bret Hart vs. Yokozuna (c)
Showstealer: IC title ladder match: Razor Ramon (c) vs. Shawn Micheals
Comments: Leaps and bounds better than WM IX. The ladder match is one of the greatest mathces in WM history check it out. Also check out Bret Vs. Owen.
Grade: ****1/2
11. Main event: LT vs Bam Bam Bigelow
Showstealer: Unless you count the WWF title match as such then none.
Comments: WHAT THE FUCK WAS VINCE SMOKING? WORST WRESTLEMANIA EVER! But Shawn vs Diesel was good.
Grade: 1/2
12. Main event: 60 minute ironman match for the WWF title Bret Hart (c) vs Shawn Micheals
Showstealer: Diesel Vs. Undertaker
Comments: Only had 6 matches but then again with the 60 minute ironman match (One of my favorite mathces by the way.) it was understandable.
Grade: ****1/4
13. Main event WWF title match Psycho Sid (c) vs. Undertaker
Showstealer :Submission match Bret Hart Vs Steve AustinSpecial referee Ken Shamrock
Comments: Terrible wrestlemania but check out Hart Vs. Austin foir how to make an interesting match.
Grade: *1/4
14. Main event: WWF Title Match Shawn Micheals (c) w/ DX vs Steve Austin Special enforcer Mike Tyson.
Showstealer: Undertaker Vs. Kane
Comments: One of the best WMs of all time. No bad matches. Oh and the Austin era began that day.
Grade: *****
15. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4Dq-zodMZM Main Event: WWF title match: Steve austin vs The Rock (c) special referee Mankind
Showstealer: European title match X-pac vs Shane Mcmahon(c)
Comments: RUSSO!!!!!!!!! Even Wrestlemania isn’t safe from him but thank god for Austin vs. Rock and Shane Vs. X-pac.
Grade: *1/4
16. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47W4NAXg-xg&feature=relmfu Main event: Fatal 4 way for the WWF title Triple H (c) w/ Stephanie McMahon vs. The Rock w/ Mr. McMahon Vs. The Big Show w/ Shane Mcmahon vs. Mick Foley w/ Linda McMahon
Showstealer: Triangle Ladder Match for the world Tag Team Titles. The Dudley boys (C) vs. The Hardy Boyz vs. Edge & Christain.
Comments: Another Underrated Wrestlemania but it could’ve been better. Check out the ladder mtahc and the IC/European title triple threat match.
Grade: **1/2
17. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5sMrRI913Y&feature=relmfu Main Event: WWF Ttile No Dq match Steve Austin vs The Rock(c)
Showstealer: Do I have to pick one? Well TLC 2 for the world tag team titles THe Dudley Boyz (C) vs. The Hardy Boyz vs. Edge & Christain but there were a lot of good matches.
Comments: BEST WRESTLEMANIA EVER! From top to finish! EVen Vince vs Shane was good.
Grade: *****+ (As many stars there are in the sky)
18. Main event: WWF undisputed title match Triple H vs. Chris Jericho(c) w/ Stephanie Mcmahon
Showstealer: Icon vs. Icon Hollywood Hulk Hogan vs. The Rock
Comments: Another great wrestlemania thanks to the icon vs icon match whcih at the time I never thought I would ever see.
Grade: ****1/2
19. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pg3QS0OG1vE&feature=relmfu Main Event: WWE Title match Brock Lesnar vs Kurt Angle (c)
Showstealer: Again just one? ok! SHawn Micheals vs. Chris Jericho
Comments: Another great Wrestlemania thanks to the solid card (More Solid than X8.)
Grade: *****
20. Main event Wrold Heavyweight Title match Triple H (C) vs. Shawn Micheals Vs. Chris Benoit
Showstealer: Chris Jericho vs. Christian
Comments: Good Wrestlemania, My Brother Brian’s favorite match is the main event of this WM. And please Skip Lesnar v.s. Goldberg You’ll thank me.
Grade: ****
21. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5REFPI8B7E&feature=relmfu Main Event: World Heavyweight title match Triple H (C) vs. Batista
Showstealer: Shawn Micheals vs. Kurt Angle
Comments: Not as great as the previous 4 WMs but still enjoyable. Debut of Money in the bank match.
Grade: ***
22. Main event: WWE title match John Cena (C) vs Triple H.
Showstealer: Hardcore Match: Edge vs. Mick Foley.
Comments: Solid Wrestlemania even the women’s title match was good.
23. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKGABvBK3G8&feature=relmfu Main Event: John Cena (c) vs. Shawn Micheals
Showstealer: Money in the bank: Mr. Kennedy (Kennedy!) vs. Matt Hardy vs. Jeff Hardy vs. Finlay vs. King Booker vs. C.M. Punk Vs. Edge VS. Randy Orton
Comments: This is what a wrestlemania should be about, The spectacle and madgesty. Skip the lumberjill match.
Grade: ****3/4
24. Main Event: World Heavyweght title match Edge (C) vs. Undertaker
Showstealer: Retirement match Ric Flair vs. Shawn Micheals (“I’m Sorry I love you!”)
Comments: One of the last Great Wrestlemanias until 28. The Retirement match still makes me cry for obvious reasons.
Grade ****3/4
25. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wXBswW5_ys&feature=relmfu Main Event: WWE title match Triple H (C) vs Randy Orton
Showstealer: Undetaker Vs. Shawn Micheals
Comments: This had all the makings of a great WM but the ball was dropped. BIG TIME! Check out Taker Vs. Micheals
Grade: **
26. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXqdUSqy7lM&feature=channel Main event: Streak vs. Career Undertaker vs. Shawn Micheals
Showstealer: Randy Orton vs. Cody Rhodes Vs. Ted Dibiase
Comments: Not as bad as everyone says it is just take it with a grain of salt.
Grade ***1/4
27. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pK5HLj7eynA&feature=relmfu Main event: WWE title match The Miz(c) vs. John Cena
Showstealer: No holds barred match: Triple H vs Undertaker
Comments: After rethinking it over this isn’t a bad WM maybe the main event was a let down but this WM will be remembered for setting up WM28 and Edge’s last match.
Grade: **3/4
28. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_YquXjghvc4 Main event: Once in a lifetime The Rock vs. John Cena
Showstealer: End of an era Hell in a cell: Triple H vs Undertaker Special Referee Shawn Micheals
Comments: Best wrestlemania in 4 years. They had a year to hype the Rock/Cena match and it didn’t disapoint.
Grade: ****1/2
Next Week. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6MCjp4FyME
1. Main event: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5aUxD1g37o&feature=watch_response Hulk Hogan and Mr. T w/ Jimmy Superfly Snuka vs Rowdy Roddy Piper and Mr. Wonderful Paul Orndorff w/ Cowboy Bob Orton
ShowStealer: None.
Comments: If this show failed, WWF would’ve wentdownhill but this show lived up to the hype and more.
Grade: *** 3/4
2. Main event: LA: Steel Cage match for the WWF title Hulk Hogan (c) Vs. King Kong Bundy NY: Boxing Match Rody Roddy Piper Vs. Mr. T Chicago: WWF VS NFL Battle Royale
Showstealer: Tag Team Title match: The British Bulldogs w/ Ozzy Ozbourne and Capt. Lou Albano vs. Greg Vallentine and Brutus Beefcake (C) w/ Jimmy Valiant.
Comments: The first stinker of a werstlemania but to be fair to have 3 sites for one wrestlemania was a risk.
Grade: **
3. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OyEktjpjHQY&feature=relmfu Main Event: WWF Title match Hulk Hogan (c) vs. Andre the Giant
Show stealer: Intercontinental Title match: Randy “Macho Man” Savage*(C) VS. Ricky “The Dragon” Steamboat (AKA Greatest IC title match of all time.)
Comments: Thanks to this Wrestlemania WWF became a worldwide event, check out Savage/Steamboat at least once in your life.
Grade: ****3/4
4. Main event: WWF Title finals: Ted Dibiase vs. Randy “Macho Man” Savage
Showstealers: None
Comments: This Wrestlemania is good because of Randy Savage’s efforts in the tournament. Then again how can you live up to the previous Wrestlemania.
Grade ***1/2
5. Main Event: WWF Title Randy Savage (c) vs. Hulk Hogan
Showstealers: IC title match Ultimate Warrior(c) VS. Rick Rude.
Comments: Noit as bad as everyone says it is but not great.
Grade:**1/4
6. Main Event: Title for title: Hulk Hogan(c) vs. The Ultimate Warrior (c)
Showstealers: None
Comments: This was supposed to be Hogan’s passing of the torch to Ultimate Warrior if Warrior wasn’t such a douche.
Grade ****
7. Main event: WWF Title match: Hulk Hogan vs. Sgt. Slaughter(c) w/ Gen. Adnan
Showstealer: Retirement match: Randy Savage vs. Ultimate warrior (Watch the ending too.)
Comments: This was supposed to be in the LA Collusium but because of Slaughter being the most despised champion in recent history it was moved to the smaller LA Memorial Sports Arena.
Grade: ***
8. Main events: WWF Title Match Randy Savage vs Ric Flair (C) and Hulk Hogan Vs Sid justice
Showstealer: IC title match : Roddy Piper (c) vs. Bret Hart.
Comments: Underrated Wrestlemania but remember when you have lemons you make lemonade.
Grade **3/4
9. Main event: WWF title Yokozuna vs. Bret Hart (c) and WWF title match Hulk Hogan vs. Yokozuna (c)
Showstealers: None but two decent matches. The key word is decent.
Comments: What a fucking travesty and this isn’t the worst of the wrestlemania’s The point is Hogan beating Yokozuna in secionds made Hart and Yokozuna look weak.
Grade *
10. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qAT-Snt3pig&feature=relmfu Main Event: WWF Title match Bret Hart vs. Yokozuna (c)
Showstealer: IC title ladder match: Razor Ramon (c) vs. Shawn Micheals
Comments: Leaps and bounds better than WM IX. The ladder match is one of the greatest mathces in WM history check it out. Also check out Bret Vs. Owen.
Grade: ****1/2
11. Main event: LT vs Bam Bam Bigelow
Showstealer: Unless you count the WWF title match as such then none.
Comments: WHAT THE FUCK WAS VINCE SMOKING? WORST WRESTLEMANIA EVER! But Shawn vs Diesel was good.
Grade: 1/2
12. Main event: 60 minute ironman match for the WWF title Bret Hart (c) vs Shawn Micheals
Showstealer: Diesel Vs. Undertaker
Comments: Only had 6 matches but then again with the 60 minute ironman match (One of my favorite mathces by the way.) it was understandable.
Grade: ****1/4
13. Main event WWF title match Psycho Sid (c) vs. Undertaker
Showstealer :Submission match Bret Hart Vs Steve AustinSpecial referee Ken Shamrock
Comments: Terrible wrestlemania but check out Hart Vs. Austin foir how to make an interesting match.
Grade: *1/4
14. Main event: WWF Title Match Shawn Micheals (c) w/ DX vs Steve Austin Special enforcer Mike Tyson.
Showstealer: Undertaker Vs. Kane
Comments: One of the best WMs of all time. No bad matches. Oh and the Austin era began that day.
Grade: *****
15. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4Dq-zodMZM Main Event: WWF title match: Steve austin vs The Rock (c) special referee Mankind
Showstealer: European title match X-pac vs Shane Mcmahon(c)
Comments: RUSSO!!!!!!!!! Even Wrestlemania isn’t safe from him but thank god for Austin vs. Rock and Shane Vs. X-pac.
Grade: *1/4
16. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47W4NAXg-xg&feature=relmfu Main event: Fatal 4 way for the WWF title Triple H (c) w/ Stephanie McMahon vs. The Rock w/ Mr. McMahon Vs. The Big Show w/ Shane Mcmahon vs. Mick Foley w/ Linda McMahon
Showstealer: Triangle Ladder Match for the world Tag Team Titles. The Dudley boys (C) vs. The Hardy Boyz vs. Edge & Christain.
Comments: Another Underrated Wrestlemania but it could’ve been better. Check out the ladder mtahc and the IC/European title triple threat match.
Grade: **1/2
17. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5sMrRI913Y&feature=relmfu Main Event: WWF Ttile No Dq match Steve Austin vs The Rock(c)
Showstealer: Do I have to pick one? Well TLC 2 for the world tag team titles THe Dudley Boyz (C) vs. The Hardy Boyz vs. Edge & Christain but there were a lot of good matches.
Comments: BEST WRESTLEMANIA EVER! From top to finish! EVen Vince vs Shane was good.
Grade: *****+ (As many stars there are in the sky)
18. Main event: WWF undisputed title match Triple H vs. Chris Jericho(c) w/ Stephanie Mcmahon
Showstealer: Icon vs. Icon Hollywood Hulk Hogan vs. The Rock
Comments: Another great wrestlemania thanks to the icon vs icon match whcih at the time I never thought I would ever see.
Grade: ****1/2
19. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pg3QS0OG1vE&feature=relmfu Main Event: WWE Title match Brock Lesnar vs Kurt Angle (c)
Showstealer: Again just one? ok! SHawn Micheals vs. Chris Jericho
Comments: Another great Wrestlemania thanks to the solid card (More Solid than X8.)
Grade: *****
20. Main event Wrold Heavyweight Title match Triple H (C) vs. Shawn Micheals Vs. Chris Benoit
Showstealer: Chris Jericho vs. Christian
Comments: Good Wrestlemania, My Brother Brian’s favorite match is the main event of this WM. And please Skip Lesnar v.s. Goldberg You’ll thank me.
Grade: ****
21. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5REFPI8B7E&feature=relmfu Main Event: World Heavyweight title match Triple H (C) vs. Batista
Showstealer: Shawn Micheals vs. Kurt Angle
Comments: Not as great as the previous 4 WMs but still enjoyable. Debut of Money in the bank match.
Grade: ***
22. Main event: WWE title match John Cena (C) vs Triple H.
Showstealer: Hardcore Match: Edge vs. Mick Foley.
Comments: Solid Wrestlemania even the women’s title match was good.
23. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKGABvBK3G8&feature=relmfu Main Event: John Cena (c) vs. Shawn Micheals
Showstealer: Money in the bank: Mr. Kennedy (Kennedy!) vs. Matt Hardy vs. Jeff Hardy vs. Finlay vs. King Booker vs. C.M. Punk Vs. Edge VS. Randy Orton
Comments: This is what a wrestlemania should be about, The spectacle and madgesty. Skip the lumberjill match.
Grade: ****3/4
24. Main Event: World Heavyweght title match Edge (C) vs. Undertaker
Showstealer: Retirement match Ric Flair vs. Shawn Micheals (“I’m Sorry I love you!”)
Comments: One of the last Great Wrestlemanias until 28. The Retirement match still makes me cry for obvious reasons.
Grade ****3/4
25. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wXBswW5_ys&feature=relmfu Main Event: WWE title match Triple H (C) vs Randy Orton
Showstealer: Undetaker Vs. Shawn Micheals
Comments: This had all the makings of a great WM but the ball was dropped. BIG TIME! Check out Taker Vs. Micheals
Grade: **
26. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXqdUSqy7lM&feature=channel Main event: Streak vs. Career Undertaker vs. Shawn Micheals
Showstealer: Randy Orton vs. Cody Rhodes Vs. Ted Dibiase
Comments: Not as bad as everyone says it is just take it with a grain of salt.
Grade ***1/4
27. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pK5HLj7eynA&feature=relmfu Main event: WWE title match The Miz(c) vs. John Cena
Showstealer: No holds barred match: Triple H vs Undertaker
Comments: After rethinking it over this isn’t a bad WM maybe the main event was a let down but this WM will be remembered for setting up WM28 and Edge’s last match.
Grade: **3/4
28. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_YquXjghvc4 Main event: Once in a lifetime The Rock vs. John Cena
Showstealer: End of an era Hell in a cell: Triple H vs Undertaker Special Referee Shawn Micheals
Comments: Best wrestlemania in 4 years. They had a year to hype the Rock/Cena match and it didn’t disapoint.
Grade: ****1/2
Next Week. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6MCjp4FyME
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I actually liked WrestleMania 15. I wasn’t the best WM, but it was damn fun to watch. And yes, X-7 is indeed THE best WM of all time! There’s no question! For me, 9 is the worst. There was just nothing enjoyable about it. 11 was ok. |
Okay so there’s been this petition going around about people wanting to get Toku shows on Crunchyroll.
Which number one is super naive and number two is just a bad idea considering how asshattish Crunchyroll can be.
But the point is that Bandai, and Toei as a whole, really do not give a shit about you pirating their toku.
Here’s why:
Point One:
Kamen Rider and Super Sentai are prime examples of merchandise driven shows. That means their primary function, apart from being made to entertain, is to sell toys. Which means all of the ridiculous funding that goes into the series doesn’t just come from when you watch it on TV or buy the DVDs- if anything that shit is secondary revenue. The big money comes from when those Kamen Rider Fourze belts sell out during christmas. The big money comes from when a die hard fan spends over twenty bucks on a gashapon machine trying to get that one phone charm he really wants. It comes from saving money by releasing a new Climax Heroes every year. It comes from music sales. It comes from merchandise sales. Nothing more, nothing less.
Shows are created with the toy line in mind. Rider seasons, for example, are usually planned two seasons ahead - The concept for W was more or less finished when Kiva started airing. This is not uncommon for most places - I have literally been a fly on the wall in business meetings for publishers and people who run TV shows where the focus is ‘Yes this is a great show, but how many toys can we sell from it?” Hasbro does it and you can bet your ass Toei does that too.
Why was Hibiki changed halfway through to Toshiki Inoue as the head writer? Because the toys weren’t selling. They thought that by changing the head writer they could get people interested in the series again and make sure toy sales picked up. It of course, had the opposite fucking effect because the man essentially fucked the series, but that’s another thing entirely.
So yeah, even if you download the series and pirate and torrent it or whatever, but at any point ever have bought something from Bandai and Toei because you wanted Kamen Rider/Sentai merchandise, then they have done their jobs.
Point Two:
You guys know that Toei is aware of TV-Nihon’s existence, right? They have contacted TV-N once and only once about something, and that is when they requested they take down their sub of Kamen Rider The First, because it got DVD release in the States. Hence TV-N actually having subbed it, but it being unavailable to download on the site itself. They’ve only ever acted out once before, and that was to ask another separate group to take down their V3 subs, since they had just released a V3 DVD in the states with their own subs, because it was big in Hawaii back in the day.
But more or less, the company’s attitude seems to be the same as most anime companies who do not mind their work being fansubbed - it’s free advertising for the merchandise they’re selling. If anything, the shit you buy is just a little extra bonus cash for the monstrous cash cow that is Toei.
Point Three:
Funnily enough, the west is not, and never has been Toei/Bandai’s main target in terms of making money with Sentai or Kamen Rider. That distinction of course belongs to Japan, Korea, and most of East Asian region. Hence localized content in Korea, with Kamen Rider merchandise seeing release there every other year. Latin countries such as Brazil also are big on toku, but don’t really see the actual merchandising side of it.
In conjunction to the point above, anything that you buy for them is just a bonus. Tokusatsu has already proven it’s never going to be a massive force in the west, apart from Power Rangers.
(And while we’re speaking about Power Rangers, I would much rather spend my money on Gokaiger merchandise than support the horrid, fucked up, racist train wreck that is Samurai. But that’s neither here nor there.)
You have to realize that you are not their target audience. People in Japan have been arrested for pirating that shit, sure. But in conjunction to the fact that Toei knows about TV-N, and yet has only asked them to ever take down one thing, it’s that they’re smart. They get to sell more toys without having to even bring the show over and go through the messy process of localization. Who bought Shinkenger toys while that show was airing? I did. And my money went straight to Bandai. It didn’t go through Bandai America when so that Bandai of Japan would lose cash, my money went soley to online distributor to Bandai of Japan. How much easier and better is that for the company?
To conclude although people’s passion for toku is admirable, and so forceful that they would try to get it on a distributor like Crunchyroll, is admirable. However, it’s also stupid, and I’m not even going to get into the problems that Crunchyroll has anyway. Toku like Sentai and Kamen Rider is, and always has been, a niche genre. It’s never going to be big in the west, and it’s never going to receive the amount of support , that say, Batman has in the US. It’s not. It’s something intrinsically and culturally important to Asia, and that’s where their focus is.
Reblog, spread this around, because it is surprising how many people don’t know how this industry works. But the bottom line is you should not feel guilty for doing something that isn’t really illegal. The US holds no rights to any of the Rider shows for example, so you having watched that footage doesn’t really hurt anyone anyway, especially if you’re buying their merchandise.
And like hell I would ever give Crunchyroll any of my money anyway.
Keep enjoying tokusatsu, folks, and enjoy it on great websites like TV-Nihon or KRDL.
Which number one is super naive and number two is just a bad idea considering how asshattish Crunchyroll can be.
But the point is that Bandai, and Toei as a whole, really do not give a shit about you pirating their toku.
Here’s why:
Point One:
Kamen Rider and Super Sentai are prime examples of merchandise driven shows. That means their primary function, apart from being made to entertain, is to sell toys. Which means all of the ridiculous funding that goes into the series doesn’t just come from when you watch it on TV or buy the DVDs- if anything that shit is secondary revenue. The big money comes from when those Kamen Rider Fourze belts sell out during christmas. The big money comes from when a die hard fan spends over twenty bucks on a gashapon machine trying to get that one phone charm he really wants. It comes from saving money by releasing a new Climax Heroes every year. It comes from music sales. It comes from merchandise sales. Nothing more, nothing less.
Shows are created with the toy line in mind. Rider seasons, for example, are usually planned two seasons ahead - The concept for W was more or less finished when Kiva started airing. This is not uncommon for most places - I have literally been a fly on the wall in business meetings for publishers and people who run TV shows where the focus is ‘Yes this is a great show, but how many toys can we sell from it?” Hasbro does it and you can bet your ass Toei does that too.
Why was Hibiki changed halfway through to Toshiki Inoue as the head writer? Because the toys weren’t selling. They thought that by changing the head writer they could get people interested in the series again and make sure toy sales picked up. It of course, had the opposite fucking effect because the man essentially fucked the series, but that’s another thing entirely.
So yeah, even if you download the series and pirate and torrent it or whatever, but at any point ever have bought something from Bandai and Toei because you wanted Kamen Rider/Sentai merchandise, then they have done their jobs.
Point Two:
You guys know that Toei is aware of TV-Nihon’s existence, right? They have contacted TV-N once and only once about something, and that is when they requested they take down their sub of Kamen Rider The First, because it got DVD release in the States. Hence TV-N actually having subbed it, but it being unavailable to download on the site itself. They’ve only ever acted out once before, and that was to ask another separate group to take down their V3 subs, since they had just released a V3 DVD in the states with their own subs, because it was big in Hawaii back in the day.
But more or less, the company’s attitude seems to be the same as most anime companies who do not mind their work being fansubbed - it’s free advertising for the merchandise they’re selling. If anything, the shit you buy is just a little extra bonus cash for the monstrous cash cow that is Toei.
Point Three:
Funnily enough, the west is not, and never has been Toei/Bandai’s main target in terms of making money with Sentai or Kamen Rider. That distinction of course belongs to Japan, Korea, and most of East Asian region. Hence localized content in Korea, with Kamen Rider merchandise seeing release there every other year. Latin countries such as Brazil also are big on toku, but don’t really see the actual merchandising side of it.
In conjunction to the point above, anything that you buy for them is just a bonus. Tokusatsu has already proven it’s never going to be a massive force in the west, apart from Power Rangers.
(And while we’re speaking about Power Rangers, I would much rather spend my money on Gokaiger merchandise than support the horrid, fucked up, racist train wreck that is Samurai. But that’s neither here nor there.)
You have to realize that you are not their target audience. People in Japan have been arrested for pirating that shit, sure. But in conjunction to the fact that Toei knows about TV-N, and yet has only asked them to ever take down one thing, it’s that they’re smart. They get to sell more toys without having to even bring the show over and go through the messy process of localization. Who bought Shinkenger toys while that show was airing? I did. And my money went straight to Bandai. It didn’t go through Bandai America when so that Bandai of Japan would lose cash, my money went soley to online distributor to Bandai of Japan. How much easier and better is that for the company?
To conclude although people’s passion for toku is admirable, and so forceful that they would try to get it on a distributor like Crunchyroll, is admirable. However, it’s also stupid, and I’m not even going to get into the problems that Crunchyroll has anyway. Toku like Sentai and Kamen Rider is, and always has been, a niche genre. It’s never going to be big in the west, and it’s never going to receive the amount of support , that say, Batman has in the US. It’s not. It’s something intrinsically and culturally important to Asia, and that’s where their focus is.
Reblog, spread this around, because it is surprising how many people don’t know how this industry works. But the bottom line is you should not feel guilty for doing something that isn’t really illegal. The US holds no rights to any of the Rider shows for example, so you having watched that footage doesn’t really hurt anyone anyway, especially if you’re buying their merchandise.
And like hell I would ever give Crunchyroll any of my money anyway.
Keep enjoying tokusatsu, folks, and enjoy it on great websites like TV-Nihon or KRDL.
“
| — | I think the best case scenario would be if a tokusatsu show was dubbed as a parody, similar to Dynaman on USA Network and that one episode of Power Rangers DinoThunder. Or maybe they’ll release subbed Zyuranger episodes on DVD as Power Rangers Presents: Zyuranger or something like that. But other than that, you’re absolutely right about Toku not getting localized here. |
GAME OVER!!!!! This game is awesome! Slow motion shooting and a gripping story. A good learning curve to boot. Plot:
The story is told in medias res and consists of three volumes: “The American Dream”, “A Cold Day in Hell”, and “A Bit Closer to Heaven”. The game begins in January 2001, as New York City finishes experiencing the worst blizzard in the history of the city. The intro sequence shows Max Payne, a renegade DEA agent and former NYPD officer, standing at the top of a skyscraper building as police units arrive. He then experiences a flashback from three years ago.
Back in 1998, Max returned home to find that a trio of apparent junkies had broken into his house while high on a new designer drug called Valkyr. Max rushed to the aid his family, but was too late and his wife and their newborn daughter had already been brutally murdered. After his family’s funeral, Payne transferred to the DEA.
Three years later, Max Payne is employed as an undercover operative inside the Punchinello Mafia family responsible for the trafficking of Valkyr. His DEA colleague B.B. gives Max a message asking him to meet another DEA agent, who is also Max’s best friend, Alex Balder, in the NYC Subway station. Max’s arrival at the subway results in a shoot-out after he encounters mobsters working for Jack Lupino, a Mafia underboss in the Punchinello crime family, attempting a bank robbery by breaking through from the station. Working his way back to the surface, Max encounters Alex, who is then killed by an unknown assassin. Payne becomes the prime suspect in the murder because he is still undercover and the fact that he fled the crime scene. Additionally, the Mafia find out that he is a cop and now want him dead.
While searching for Lupino in “businesses” owned by him, Max busts a Valkyr drug deal and discovers that the Russian mobster Vladimir Lem is engaged in a fierce turf war against Punchinello’s men. Max eventually finds Vinnie Gognitti, Lupino’s right-hand man; he wounds and chases Gognitti through the city and finally learns the location of Lupino’s hideout, a nightclub named Ragna Rock. After gunning down the insane Lupino, Payne meets Mona Sax, a female contract assassin, who pours him a drink which turns out to be laced with a sedative. In this state Max is found by the Mafia and is dragged away to be tortured.
Max manages to escape from the Mafia-owned slaughterhouse and enters a brief alliance with Vladimir Lem. He agrees to kill one of Vladimir’s traitors, Boris Dime, and his men aboard the cargo ship Charon at the Brooklyn riverfront, which contains a shipment of high-powered firearms belonging to the Russian mob, which Max keeps in exchange for the favor. After surviving a bomb ambush at the Mafia restaurant Casa di Angelo, Max uses the new-found Russian mob’s weapons to storm the residence of Don Angelo Punchinello. There he finds the body of Lisa Punchinello, Mona’s sister, and discovers that the Don is only a puppet in the Valkyr market when the mafioso is killed in front of Payne by agents of Nicole Horne, a ruthless CEO of the Aesir Corporation. Horne then injects Max with an overdose of Valkyr and leaves him for dead, as he experiences a drug-induced nightmare and suffers his internal torment and guilt for not being able to save his family (as well as strange letters allegedly written by his deceased wife telling him that he is a character in a video game).
After surviving the overdose and awakening, Payne pursues his only lead to a steel foundry located over a hidden underground military research complex. Inside he discovers that Valkyr is the result of Valhalla Project, an early 1990s U.S. military attempt to improve soldiers’ stamina and morale following earlier The Ladder experiments; the project that was sharply halted due to poor results, but was later restarted by Horne and Aesir. He also discovers that his wife accidentally found out about the project, and Horne let loose the crazed Valkyr test subjects into his house. Aesir initiates “Operation Dead Eyes” to get rid of evidence and witnesses, including their own scientists. Max escapes the bunker at the last moment just as it self-destructs.
Max then gets a call from B.B., who arranges a meeting at an underground parking lot. B.B. reveals he shot Alex and framed Max for his murder; a running gun-fight then commences as Max chases him through the garage. After killing the traitor, Max gets a phone call from a man named Alfred Woden asking him to come to the Asgard Building. Alfred reveals himself to be part of a powerful secret society called the Inner Circle, which has strong ties to the U.S. government. The Inner Circle members inform Max about Nicole Horne’s identity but cannot pursue her themselves because “their hands are tied”. They ask Max to kill Horne in exchange for dropping any criminal charges against him. Suddenly, Asgard is overrun by Aesir gunmen who kill everyone in the meeting room except for Max, who escapes, and Woden, who pretends to be shot. Max has to fight his way out of the building.
Max arrives at the main office of Aesir Corporation and makes his way through this high-tech security building while avoiding strafing runs by a minigun-armed helicopter. Along the way he runs into Mona Sax again in an elevator, but she is shot in the head by Horne’s men after she refuses to shoot Max; her body vanishes when Max goes back to the elevator. At the top Max finally confronts Nicole, who escapes to the roof and boards the helicopter. Max shoots the guy wires of the building’s antenna, which snaps off and crashes into the helicopter, killing Horne.
The game’s storyline returns at the very point where it had first started. The NYPD Emergency Service Unit arrives at the scene, arresting Max and leading him out of the Aesir building, where he sees Alfred Woden. Knowing that Woden will ensure his safe passage through the judicial system, Max smiles genuinely.
Well if this doesn’t deserve a platnum nothing will. And this game is no less brilliant as the first game. Plot:
Two years after the events of the first game, Max Payne has quit his job at the DEA and returned to his former job as an NYPD detective. While investigating a series of murders by a group of contract killers called the Cleaners, Max encounters Mona Sax, who was assumed dead at the end of the previous game. Wanted for the murder of Senator Gates, Mona is arrested despite Max’s protests, and taken to the police station. While at the station, Max overhears his new partner, Detective Valerie Winterson, talking on the phone about Mona. Suddenly, the station is attacked by the Cleaners, who are looking for Mona. Before they reach her, Mona breaks out of her cell and vanishes into the night. After Max meets her again at her residence, where they fight off the Cleaners who followed Max to her place, they begin hunting down the people responsible for the attack. Their search leads them to a construction site, where Max and Mona defend themselves against the Cleaners. After their foes flee, Detective Winterson arrives and holds Mona at gunpoint. Mona claims that Winterson is there to kill her while Winterson claims that she is simply trying to arrest a fleeing fugitive. After several moments of consideration, Max shoots Winterson, allowing Mona to escape. Before she dies, Winterson shoots Max, leading to his hospitalization.[5]
After Max leaves the hospital, he begins looking for answers. When Max is kidnapped by Vladimir Lem, head of the local Russian Mafia, he learns that the Cleaners work for Lem, who uses them to eliminate the competition to his businesses. Max then learns that Lem is part of the secretive Inner Circle, led by Senator Alfred Woden, who had ensured that the charges against Max were dropped at the end of the previous game. Lem plans to kill Woden and gain control of the Inner Circle. Max also learns that Mona is a hired gun for Woden, with orders to kill Lem and Max. After Lem reveals that Detective Winterson was his mistress, he shoots Max in the head, and leaves him for dead in a burning building. Mona rescues Max, and together they go to Woden’s mansion to save him from Lem.[5]
At the mansion, Mona knocks Max to the ground in an attempt to follow her orders to kill him, but discovers that her feelings for him keep her from doing so. Lem shoots Mona after realizing that she will not kill Max. Woden then appears in a wheelchair, and lunges at Lem; Woden is killed during the ensuing struggle. Max and Lem then begin to fight, until Lem triggers a bomb that he planted in the mansion. After they both drop to the floor below, Max pursues Lem through the mansion. Max faces Lem in a firefight, and eventually destabilizes the platform below Lem, causing it to fall to the floor below, killing Lem. Max returns to Mona’s side as the police arrive, and she dies in his arms. If the game is completed at its highest difficulty level, Mona survives.
What made the first game good was made even better another platnum. Next time: This is what happens when worlds collide.
The story is told in medias res and consists of three volumes: “The American Dream”, “A Cold Day in Hell”, and “A Bit Closer to Heaven”. The game begins in January 2001, as New York City finishes experiencing the worst blizzard in the history of the city. The intro sequence shows Max Payne, a renegade DEA agent and former NYPD officer, standing at the top of a skyscraper building as police units arrive. He then experiences a flashback from three years ago.
Back in 1998, Max returned home to find that a trio of apparent junkies had broken into his house while high on a new designer drug called Valkyr. Max rushed to the aid his family, but was too late and his wife and their newborn daughter had already been brutally murdered. After his family’s funeral, Payne transferred to the DEA.
Three years later, Max Payne is employed as an undercover operative inside the Punchinello Mafia family responsible for the trafficking of Valkyr. His DEA colleague B.B. gives Max a message asking him to meet another DEA agent, who is also Max’s best friend, Alex Balder, in the NYC Subway station. Max’s arrival at the subway results in a shoot-out after he encounters mobsters working for Jack Lupino, a Mafia underboss in the Punchinello crime family, attempting a bank robbery by breaking through from the station. Working his way back to the surface, Max encounters Alex, who is then killed by an unknown assassin. Payne becomes the prime suspect in the murder because he is still undercover and the fact that he fled the crime scene. Additionally, the Mafia find out that he is a cop and now want him dead.
While searching for Lupino in “businesses” owned by him, Max busts a Valkyr drug deal and discovers that the Russian mobster Vladimir Lem is engaged in a fierce turf war against Punchinello’s men. Max eventually finds Vinnie Gognitti, Lupino’s right-hand man; he wounds and chases Gognitti through the city and finally learns the location of Lupino’s hideout, a nightclub named Ragna Rock. After gunning down the insane Lupino, Payne meets Mona Sax, a female contract assassin, who pours him a drink which turns out to be laced with a sedative. In this state Max is found by the Mafia and is dragged away to be tortured.
Max manages to escape from the Mafia-owned slaughterhouse and enters a brief alliance with Vladimir Lem. He agrees to kill one of Vladimir’s traitors, Boris Dime, and his men aboard the cargo ship Charon at the Brooklyn riverfront, which contains a shipment of high-powered firearms belonging to the Russian mob, which Max keeps in exchange for the favor. After surviving a bomb ambush at the Mafia restaurant Casa di Angelo, Max uses the new-found Russian mob’s weapons to storm the residence of Don Angelo Punchinello. There he finds the body of Lisa Punchinello, Mona’s sister, and discovers that the Don is only a puppet in the Valkyr market when the mafioso is killed in front of Payne by agents of Nicole Horne, a ruthless CEO of the Aesir Corporation. Horne then injects Max with an overdose of Valkyr and leaves him for dead, as he experiences a drug-induced nightmare and suffers his internal torment and guilt for not being able to save his family (as well as strange letters allegedly written by his deceased wife telling him that he is a character in a video game).
After surviving the overdose and awakening, Payne pursues his only lead to a steel foundry located over a hidden underground military research complex. Inside he discovers that Valkyr is the result of Valhalla Project, an early 1990s U.S. military attempt to improve soldiers’ stamina and morale following earlier The Ladder experiments; the project that was sharply halted due to poor results, but was later restarted by Horne and Aesir. He also discovers that his wife accidentally found out about the project, and Horne let loose the crazed Valkyr test subjects into his house. Aesir initiates “Operation Dead Eyes” to get rid of evidence and witnesses, including their own scientists. Max escapes the bunker at the last moment just as it self-destructs.
Max then gets a call from B.B., who arranges a meeting at an underground parking lot. B.B. reveals he shot Alex and framed Max for his murder; a running gun-fight then commences as Max chases him through the garage. After killing the traitor, Max gets a phone call from a man named Alfred Woden asking him to come to the Asgard Building. Alfred reveals himself to be part of a powerful secret society called the Inner Circle, which has strong ties to the U.S. government. The Inner Circle members inform Max about Nicole Horne’s identity but cannot pursue her themselves because “their hands are tied”. They ask Max to kill Horne in exchange for dropping any criminal charges against him. Suddenly, Asgard is overrun by Aesir gunmen who kill everyone in the meeting room except for Max, who escapes, and Woden, who pretends to be shot. Max has to fight his way out of the building.
Max arrives at the main office of Aesir Corporation and makes his way through this high-tech security building while avoiding strafing runs by a minigun-armed helicopter. Along the way he runs into Mona Sax again in an elevator, but she is shot in the head by Horne’s men after she refuses to shoot Max; her body vanishes when Max goes back to the elevator. At the top Max finally confronts Nicole, who escapes to the roof and boards the helicopter. Max shoots the guy wires of the building’s antenna, which snaps off and crashes into the helicopter, killing Horne.
The game’s storyline returns at the very point where it had first started. The NYPD Emergency Service Unit arrives at the scene, arresting Max and leading him out of the Aesir building, where he sees Alfred Woden. Knowing that Woden will ensure his safe passage through the judicial system, Max smiles genuinely.
Well if this doesn’t deserve a platnum nothing will. And this game is no less brilliant as the first game. Plot:
Two years after the events of the first game, Max Payne has quit his job at the DEA and returned to his former job as an NYPD detective. While investigating a series of murders by a group of contract killers called the Cleaners, Max encounters Mona Sax, who was assumed dead at the end of the previous game. Wanted for the murder of Senator Gates, Mona is arrested despite Max’s protests, and taken to the police station. While at the station, Max overhears his new partner, Detective Valerie Winterson, talking on the phone about Mona. Suddenly, the station is attacked by the Cleaners, who are looking for Mona. Before they reach her, Mona breaks out of her cell and vanishes into the night. After Max meets her again at her residence, where they fight off the Cleaners who followed Max to her place, they begin hunting down the people responsible for the attack. Their search leads them to a construction site, where Max and Mona defend themselves against the Cleaners. After their foes flee, Detective Winterson arrives and holds Mona at gunpoint. Mona claims that Winterson is there to kill her while Winterson claims that she is simply trying to arrest a fleeing fugitive. After several moments of consideration, Max shoots Winterson, allowing Mona to escape. Before she dies, Winterson shoots Max, leading to his hospitalization.[5]
After Max leaves the hospital, he begins looking for answers. When Max is kidnapped by Vladimir Lem, head of the local Russian Mafia, he learns that the Cleaners work for Lem, who uses them to eliminate the competition to his businesses. Max then learns that Lem is part of the secretive Inner Circle, led by Senator Alfred Woden, who had ensured that the charges against Max were dropped at the end of the previous game. Lem plans to kill Woden and gain control of the Inner Circle. Max also learns that Mona is a hired gun for Woden, with orders to kill Lem and Max. After Lem reveals that Detective Winterson was his mistress, he shoots Max in the head, and leaves him for dead in a burning building. Mona rescues Max, and together they go to Woden’s mansion to save him from Lem.[5]
At the mansion, Mona knocks Max to the ground in an attempt to follow her orders to kill him, but discovers that her feelings for him keep her from doing so. Lem shoots Mona after realizing that she will not kill Max. Woden then appears in a wheelchair, and lunges at Lem; Woden is killed during the ensuing struggle. Max and Lem then begin to fight, until Lem triggers a bomb that he planted in the mansion. After they both drop to the floor below, Max pursues Lem through the mansion. Max faces Lem in a firefight, and eventually destabilizes the platform below Lem, causing it to fall to the floor below, killing Lem. Max returns to Mona’s side as the police arrive, and she dies in his arms. If the game is completed at its highest difficulty level, Mona survives.
What made the first game good was made even better another platnum. Next time: This is what happens when worlds collide.
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| — | I would love to see a new Max Payne on PS3 and Wii U. |
Game Over!!!!! Admit it you love pounding enmies to dust in a video game!!!! And Fighting games are the best at doing that. Whenever it’s 1 on 1 or 2 on 2 or even 3 on 3 it is a great genre. So here are my top 11 fighting games. Why top 11? Because the legend will never die! (A little Soul calibur reference there!)
#11. Street fighter alpha 3: I know i was hard on this game for it’s music but the game play is….. Delicious! 3 different fighting styles you can’t go wrong with that.
10. Rival Schools: Like i said an underrated gem of a game. If you haven’t tried it yet do so. Which reminds me I gotta find it.
9. Soul Edge (Soul Blade): This is the game that started it all and it still holds strong with an epic intro and epic music.
8. Tekken 4: Worth the wait to play it on the PS2. The stages are more interactive which was a break through at the time.
7. Bloody roar 2: This is the game I grew up with. If you can’t find Tekken this will do.
6. Soul Calibur 2: Continues the awesome soul calibur legacy.
5. Mortal Kombat 2: The best of the series and better when played with a friend.
4. Street fighter alpha 2: My favorite of the alpha series.
3. Super Street figther 4: What is old is new again or something like that!
2. Tekken 2: My favorite of the tekken series and they are all great!
1. Soul calibur: Hell yeah this game is the best for being the one to break the mold of arcade perfect games. This surpassed the arcade version in more ways than one but I already reviewed it.
Well what do you think. I’m always open to what games you guys like but just because street fighter 2 isn’t on the list doesn’t mean I like it any less. It’s a top 11 list not a top 12 list.
Next Time: Shoot em up at it’s best.
#11. Street fighter alpha 3: I know i was hard on this game for it’s music but the game play is….. Delicious! 3 different fighting styles you can’t go wrong with that.
10. Rival Schools: Like i said an underrated gem of a game. If you haven’t tried it yet do so. Which reminds me I gotta find it.
9. Soul Edge (Soul Blade): This is the game that started it all and it still holds strong with an epic intro and epic music.
8. Tekken 4: Worth the wait to play it on the PS2. The stages are more interactive which was a break through at the time.
7. Bloody roar 2: This is the game I grew up with. If you can’t find Tekken this will do.
6. Soul Calibur 2: Continues the awesome soul calibur legacy.
5. Mortal Kombat 2: The best of the series and better when played with a friend.
4. Street fighter alpha 2: My favorite of the alpha series.
3. Super Street figther 4: What is old is new again or something like that!
2. Tekken 2: My favorite of the tekken series and they are all great!
1. Soul calibur: Hell yeah this game is the best for being the one to break the mold of arcade perfect games. This surpassed the arcade version in more ways than one but I already reviewed it.
Well what do you think. I’m always open to what games you guys like but just because street fighter 2 isn’t on the list doesn’t mean I like it any less. It’s a top 11 list not a top 12 list.
Next Time: Shoot em up at it’s best.
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My top 11 fighters: 11) Virtua Fighter 2 10) Fighting Vipers 9) Fighters Megamix 8) Soul Calibur II (GameCube Edition w/Link) 7) Super Smash Bros. Melee/Brawl 6) Super Street Fighter II 5) Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 4) Mortal Kombat II 3) Street Fighter Alpha 2 2) Tatsunoko vs. Capcom 1) Marvel vs. Capcom 2 |
