The Weekly Release

[bapenguin]

Another week, another Weekly Release. We are fast approaching the fall season, and as we do, more and more games will become available. The list is starting to beef up with a few gems like Harvest Moon:Another Wonderful Life, Delta Force:Blackhawk Down, and Graffitti Kingdom.

Monday:
Codename: Panzers, Phase Two (PC (http://www.gametab.com/pc/codename.panzers.phase.two/4340/))
Blitzkrieg Anthology (PC (http://www.gametab.com/pc/blitzkrieg.anthology/4359/))
Lock On Gold (PC (http://www.gametab.com/pc/lock.on.gold/4385/))
Animaniacs: The Great Edgar Hunt (Xbox (http://www.gametab.com/xbox/animaniacs.the.great.edgar.hunt/4382/), GameCube (http://www.gametab.com/gcn/animaniacs.the.great.edgar.hunt/4383/))
Animaniacs: Lights, Camera, Action (GBA (http://www.gametab.com/gba/animaniacs.lights.camera.action/4384/))
Disney's Kim Possible 3: Team Possible (GBA (http://www.gametab.com/gba/disneys.kim.possible.3.team.possible/4416/))
Disney's That's So Raven 2: Supernatural Style (GBA (http://www.gametab.com/gba/disneys.thats.so.raven.2.supernatural.style/4417/))

Tuesday:
BloodRayne 2 (PC (http://www.gametab.com/pc/bloodrayne.2/2748/))
Advent Rising (PC (http://www.gametab.com/pc/advent.rising/3976/))
Makai Kingdom: Chronicles of the Sacred Tome (PS2 (http://www.gametab.com/ps2/makai.kingdom.chronicles.of.the.sacred.tome/3573/))
Graffiti Kingdom (PS2 (http://www.gametab.com/ps2/graffiti.kingdom/4302/))
Outlaw Tennis (Xbox (http://www.gametab.com/xbox/outlaw.tennis/4367/), PS2 (http://www.gametab.com/ps2/outlaw.tennis/4368/))
Delta Force: Black Hawk Down (Xbox (http://www.gametab.com/xbox/delta.force.black.hawk.down/3834/),
PS2 (http://www.gametab.com/ps2/delta.force.black.hawk.down/4386/))
Harvest Moon: Another Wonderful Life (GameCube (http://www.gametab.com/gcn/harvest.moon.another.wonderful.life/4329/))
Harvest Moon: More Friends of Mineral Town (GBA (http://www.gametab.com/gba/harvest.moon.more.friends.of.mineral.town/4328/))

DVD
Steamboy: Director's Cut (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0348121)
xXx: State of the Union (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0329774)
Ghost in the Shell: stand Alone Complex Volume 7 (http://www.imdb.com/rg/GHO7_REC//title/tt0346314)
The Jerk: 26th Anniversary Edition (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079367/)

Theater
Sky High (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0405325/)
Must Love Dogs (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0417001/)
Stealth (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0382992/)

Just a friendly note, don't go see Stealth...you've seen it already, when it was called Short Circuit, Terminator, etc etc

[Chagrinful]

I've read some good reviews about Steamboy, might have to rent/but that one.

[Klade]

I think this is the third time Advent Rising has come up on the release list? Hopefully this time it will actually ship, if not I'm canceling my order, I'll just wait till it actually comes out.

[Benny]

Just a friendly note, GO see Stealth...you haven't seen it already, etc etc

[TheKeck]

Just a friendly note, don't go see Stealth...you've seen it already, when it was called Short Circuit, Terminator, etc etc

I have no idea if Stealth is any good or not, but I was totally unaware that Short Circuit and the Terminator were the same movie. Amazing.

[XenonCJ]

On the upside, Stealth doesn't have a "2" by its name, unlike so many other movies this season...

[Xaerin]

You see one movie about robots/ai/computers built to help and given a mind of their own going wrong you've seen them all.

It's really good to see a gamecube exclusive release, it's been a while. Who could have guessed that simulated farming could be so popular?

[frederec]

Man, this week is brutal for me. Two Harvest Moons, Graffiti Kingdom, and Makai Kingdom. If you haven't heard of Graffiti Kingdom, it's an action rpg where you can draw your monsters and give them abilities and powers. It's a kind of sequal to Magic Pengel, and the drawing system looks way more robust in this one. And it's just $30, as are the two Harvest Moons, which makes this week's expenses a little easier to handle. And the cute dog pre-order deals will go nicely with the cows I have from the earlier preorders.

If anyone's been tempted to play harvest moon, I can't encourage you enough to pick up More Friends of Mineral Town for the Advance (or the original Mineral Town, if you can't handle playing as a girl). It's an update of the PSX (N64) version, which was the best of them all. Tons of fun.

[XxSATANxX]

Well I'm sure STEALTH is a B movie.

I'm a sucker for jets,sci fi,computers gone mad. Not sure I'd feel the need to bash a movie I have'nt even seen. Guess that's cool and edgy and stuff.

If you want to bash a movie. Asstasstic 4 was pretty bad. On the flip side just saw Batman Begins. Very good.

[benson]

Just a friendly note, don't go see Stealth...you've seen it already, when it was called Short Circuit, Terminator, etc etc
But Stealth has Jessica Biel in it, which is nice.

I was also considering seeing Sky High as it has Bruce Campbell, Dave Foley, and Kevin McDonald in it. Can't be all bad...

[kathode]

I've read some good reviews about Steamboy, might have to rent/but that one.
Probably good for a rental. I'd rate it about a C+, maybe a B-. Just not really that intriguing of a story. Also a bit overly long and the second half of the movie is almost literally nothing but steam valves blowing open.

[XxSATANxX]

Nevar mind what I said. Just saw the first blush reviews on Stealth.

Guess the movie sux ASS. Turns out the good folks here at EA are trying to save you a few bux.

[Klade]

Have no idea what the movie is actually like but the trailer for Stealth hit a number of alarms for me that haven't gone off since Battlefield Earth.

[TheKeck]

You see one movie about robots/ai/computers built to help and given a mind of their own going wrong you've seen them all.

I don't doubt that Stealth sucks, as people seem to be saying. It looks terrible from the previews. But still, for anyone to claim that they get the same experience from watching Short Circuit and the Terminator movies is just ludicrous. That's like saying, don't see Ocean's 11, you already did, when it was called The Great Train Robbery, The Great Escape, etc etc.

You see one movie about elaborate/intricate plans to do something amazing, you've seen them all.

[netcraazzy]

Personally I thought the trailers for Stealth looked like crap. Sometimes it does not take a crystal ball to tell when a movie is going to be bad, I'd say Stealth falls into that category pretty well.

[agentgray]

Ha!

The Jerk 26th Anniversary Edition.

"The new phone book is here! The new phone book is here!"

[ÜberJumper]

I'm so going to see Stealth this weekend.

Just for the dogfighting bits.

[Intruder]

The only reason to go see Stealth is the hopes that the editors accidentally slipped in those secret hardcore clips staring Jessica Biel. One can only wish.

[Mondopest]

Problem: They are not professionals. Navy fighter pilots, aside from confident, are professionals. The "pilots" of the fillm play up the 'Im too cool for my cockpit' fighter pilot aspect while losing that facet of professionalism. It just isnt convincing - in fact - it comes across as convincing as Tara Reid playing, say, an anthropologist. I mean, who in their right mind would cast her as that?

[Taco]

But Stealth has Jessica Biel in it, which is nice.

Yes. Hook, line and sinker. I don't even know what the movie is about, but i'll check it out ;).

[danhoo]

In one of the Stealth trailers, I noticed Joe Morton plays some military guy who says something like "These machines are the future of warfare" or something like that. This, I thought, was hilarious, mainly because Joe Morton also played the geek scientist guy in Terminator 2 who was considered the guy who started everything with the machines. I kept thinking (jokingly) "did the guy learn nothing from Terminator 2?"

[The Mystery Cow]

Animaniacs?

ANIMANIACS?

Is the target audience for this game even old enough to know who Wacko, Yakko, and Dot are?

/misses the TV show

[huntr]

i guess not alot of u guys watch anime. after seeing the early trailers for stealth, i knew theyd taken alot of "inspiration" from Macross Plus

ace pilots... check
robot plane...check
robot plane goes pyscho...check

[Scull]

Steamboy, Steamboy, Steamboy, Steamboy, Steamboy, Steamboy, Steamboy, Steamboy, Steamboy, Steamboy, Steamboy, Steamboy, Steamboy, Steamboy, Steamboy, Steamboy, Steamboy, Steamboy, Steamboy, Steamboy, Steamboy, Steamboy, Steamboy, Steamboy, Steamboy, Steamboy, Steamboy, Steamboy, Steamboy, Steamboy, Steamboy, Steamboy, Steamboy, Steamboy, Steamboy.

Guess what I'm getting on Tuesday.

[51|RandoM]

i guess not alot of u guys watch anime. after seeing the early trailers for stealth, i knew theyd taken alot of "inspiration" from Macross Plus

ace pilots... check
robot plane...check
robot plane goes pyscho...check

They probably never saw an episode of Macross in their life.

The theme is very common. People have been writing about automated war machines going out of control pretty much since automation became a sci-fi theme.

It is a summer action movie, expecting it to be good is like expecting a cheerleader to quote Plato under the stands. It just doesn't work that way very often.

[The Mystery Cow]

i guess not alot of u guys watch anime. after seeing the early trailers for stealth, i knew theyd taken alot of "inspiration" from Macross Plus

ace pilots... check
robot plane...check
robot plane goes pyscho...check

Barring the fact the planes don't turn into giant robots, there are no pop stars, all of the protaganists are human, and there's no AI desperately trying to prove its love to said protaganist? I also doubt the denouement takes place around a giant alien spaceship that crash-landed to Earth in the latter half of the twentieth century.

Probably a steaming pile? I'll give you that. A rip-off of a decade-old anime series that *most* Hollywood types have probably never even heard of? That'd I'd be a bit more reticent to admit.

[Liquidize105]

Wow, those are some inventive subtitles the 2 harvest moon games have. I can definitely think of no better :eek:

[ÜberJumper]

k, I get the impression that some of you have seen Stealth.

Does this scene...

http://images.rottentomatoes.com/images/movie/gallery/1146673/photo_01_hires.jpg

... involve a discussion about god creating man and the whole eating the apple thing?

[huntr]

They probably never saw an episode of Macross in their life.

The theme is very common. People have been writing about automated war machines going out of control pretty much since automation became a sci-fi theme.

It is a summer action movie, expecting it to be good is like expecting a cheerleader to quote Plato under the stands. It just doesn't work that way very often.

sci fi movie producers/writers never seeing macross in their life? id beg to differ, you dont get those kinds of jobs without knowledge of whats going on in sci fi for the last 30+ years. it might not be a complete rip but id be damned if they didnt take something

[The Mystery Cow]

sci fi movie producers/writers never seeing macross in their life? id beg to differ, you dont get those kinds of jobs without knowledge of whats going on in sci fi for the last 30+ years. it might not be a complete rip but id be damned if they didnt take something

No. They get those jobs by scraping and clawing up the Hollywood ladder, taking just about any writing/directing/personal assistant-ing job they can get, until they finally, FINALLY get a break.

Maybe there's a lot of overlap in science fiction and anime fandom NOW, but not in the generation running the shows in Hollywood now. A buddy of mine works as a writer on "The Dead Zone," and if I were to ask him and his crew about Macross, I'd probably get a bunch of blank stares.

Believe me - anime is not as pervasive in the cultural zeitgeist as some people would like to believe.

[ÜberJumper]

Mystery Cow:

The cross-over's going to be in the art and computer graphics departments, where the guys designing and animating the combat sequences are certainly going to look up all the great dogfights ever show in multimedia.

You can certainly bet that because the aerial sequences in Stealth are all CG, that the animators and artists had been influenced by Macross.

[The Mystery Cow]

Mystery Cow:

The cross-over's going to be in the art and computer graphics departments, where the guys designing and animating the combat sequences are certainly going to look up all the great dogfights ever show in multimedia.

You can certainly bet that because the aerial sequences in Stealth are all CG, that the animators and artists had been influenced by Macross.

Then in that case, the movie's just as likely to be influenced by Top Gun, Pearl Harbor, Tora! Tora! Tora!, Hell's Angels, or any other of the hundreds of films to feature aerial dogfights as it by Macross. Even moreso since, like I mentioned earlier, I don't think the jets in Stealth transform into giant robots.

'Sides, the original poster was accusing the makers of Stealth of stealing *story* points, not dogfighting scenes.