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(11/14/08 12:00am)
To coincide with this week's arrival of the highly anticipated and much-hyped video game Mirror's Edge, EA and EA Digital Illusions CE (DICE) have also released a digital album featuring the game's theme song by Lisa Miskovsky, as well as five different remixes by noted dance and electronica artists Benny Benassi, Junkie XL, Paul Van Dyk, Teddybears and Armand Van Helden. As a whole, the album is a solid effort and definitely worth a listen, but listeners shouldn't expect anything groundbreaking.The title track, "Still Alive" (not to be confused with the hilarious end-credit song by GLaDOS at the end of Portal), is performed by Swedish pop rock star Miskovsky, who enjoys a considerable reputation across the pond in Sweden but is relatively unknown here in the states, although she did help write of "Shape Of My Heart" for the Backstreet Boys in 2000.
(11/07/08 12:00am)
After four long years in development, Fallout 3 finally emerged from the vault last week. Was it worth the wait? Hell, yes.In the game's alternate history, technology after World War II evolved at an incredible pace while American society remained rooted in the idyllic, Leave it to Beaver-esque 1950s, similar to Disneyworld's Tomorrowland, only with the imminent threat of nuclear holocaust on everyone's mind. Nuclear war eventually broke out between the United States and China, and scores of people across America took shelter in giant underground Vault-Tec fallout shelters to escape the destruction and wait for the radiation to clear.
(10/31/08 12:00am)
Most first-person shooters funnel players through level after level of monsters or Nazis, holding their hands telling them what to do next and waiting until the end of the game to give them all the badass weapons.Far Cry 2 is not most first-person shooters.
(10/24/08 12:00am)
Last Friday Max Payne, the movie adaptation of the video game of the same name, hit theaters. Overall, the movie is solid, but when critiqued as an action flick, it is like ordering a hot juicy steak and receiving a chicken salad.Mark Wahlberg (The Happening) stars as the titular character, an NYPD detective still following leads on his wife and child's murders from three years ago. While at an informant's house party, he runs into Natasha Sax (upcoming Quantum of Solace Bond girl Olga Kurylenko), who later winds up hacked to pieces in an alley behind Max's apartment. When Max realizes that his wife's and Natasha's murders are somehow related, he teams up with Natasha's sister Mona (Forgetting Sarah Marshall's Mila Kunis) to find the murderer.
(10/24/08 12:00am)
The Alley Theatre's latest production of Edmond Rostand's 1897 comedy, Cyrano de Bergerac, is nothing short of spectacular.For anyone who did not read the play in a high school English class, here's a summary: It follows the dashing exploits of French Army cadet Cyrano de Bergerac. He is an expert swordsman who has a penchant for poetry and a gift for words, but he also has an exceptionally large nose that kills his confidence with the ladies, especially with his distant cousin Roxane. When Roxane falls in love with an inarticulate cadet named Christian, who can't string together a coherent sentence to save his life, Cyrano decides to help Christian out by telling him what to say to Roxane, and the play takes off from there.
(10/10/08 12:00am)
Last Thursday, futuristic anti-gravity combat racing made its debut on the PlayStation 3 with WipEout HD, the latest entry in the WipEout franchise.Since WipEout HD is essentially a retooled version of the PlayStation Portable titles WipEout Pure and WipEout Pulse, some gamers may be hesitant about spending money on the game. Rest assured - there is plenty of stuff crammed in there for both veterans and newcomers alike.
(10/10/08 12:00am)
The Rice Light Opera Society returns to the stage this week with a solid production of W.S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan's one-act light opera, "Trial by Jury." The play is directed by electrical engineering graduate student Patrick Kruse and Claire Hein (Sid Rich '08), with music direction by music graduate student Michael Dirk.The simple plot of the play revolves around the plaintiff Angelina - played by Brown College freshman Rosanna Butterfield - who is suing her former husband, Edwin, played by Geoff Copper (Sid Rich '07), for calling off their engagement. The deep-voiced usher (Sid Richardson College freshman Andrew Owens) urges the members of the jury to remain unbiased, but as soon as Edwin enters, he begins receiving abuse while Angelina's beauty causes the entire men's section of the jury to swoon, and it quickly becomes apparent that things may not be quite so easy.
(09/12/08 12:00am)
In the four years that students around the world spend in high school, just over two million minutes (60 minutes times 24 hours times 365 days times 4 years) will tick by. What the students do with that time and its impact on not just the rest of their lives, but even the economies of their respective countries is the focus of a new documentary titled Two Million Minutes.Directed by Chad Heeter and produced by Robert A. Compton, the 54-minute film takes a look into the lives of six high school seniors from the United States, China and India and manages to offer up some candid footage and interviews with not only the children but their parents as well. In addition to a camera that follows each of the students around, interviews with several prominent entrepreneurs, education specialists, politicians and university professors round out the discussions in the movie.
(04/18/08 12:00am)
The Will Rice Players' production of Neil Simon's The Odd Couple may sound like an unassuming little play, but it manages to deliver a highly entertaining experience for fans of comedy and drama alike.Written for Broadway in 1965, the play centers on a man named Oscar who has been divorced for some time and lives alone in an eight-room apartment. He decides to take in his friend Felix, who has recently separated from his own wife. Eventually, their polar-opposite personalities begin to clash, and this conflict forms the humorous centerpiece of The Odd Couple.
