Cyber Fucking Punk! This is one of the things that made VAC happen. After watching the mindphazer video from frontline assembly and watching battle angel. My heart was set on Industrial music. Not just music, but the view of man and machine. Cyborgs, a ruined utopia, and anarchy. I still see this as the real future that is to come. I see a wasted environment. I see bounty hunters, I see cyborgs, and enhanced humans with bio electronics. I see the world changing so much, that it will not be able to support life the way things are now. Mankind will have to fuse itself with machines to survive the upcoming apocalypse. I still believe this. Make sure you turn on subtitles, and put it to japanese audio. The American dub is SHIT!
Battle Angle paints the perfect picture of how I see the future turning out. The anime is amazing. Came out in 1993, all I had seen at the time was akira. This is what purely sold me into anime, This vhs. I rented it from a video store on a whim. I was lucky. To this day, Gally is my favorite anime character of all time. A tiny girl with a bob hair cut. Mostly a machine.
Bounty Hunters, Cyborgs, Dystopia. My favorite fiction. I am very angry that they never finished the manga translation. This is a huge manga. This could of been stretched out a lot more than it is. Pissed off that people really failed to see the potential of all of it. I recommend checking out the manga as well. James Cameran(titanic, terminator, aliens) was rumored to be working on a live action movie based on this and the manga. I hope it still comes out, Gally will be a CG character, and the rest live action. No idea for sure though.
This is seriously my all time favorite anime. Even though it’s short, and not complete, it is still my favorite. I give this a 5 out of 5. Click here to buy Battle Angel.
I think this is the best record ever made. From start to finish, every song is AAA. I still listen to this lp quite often. I grew up with this record one could say. I came of age to this record. Many things in my life happened when this music was playing, either at clubs, on the radio, in my x gf’s car driving long distances, or on MTV.
For me, Depeche Mode is the band I turn to when I get tired of listening to all forms of music. It has the power to renew my interest even if I am totally burned out on music. Electronic POP music. One of the Few POP bands I can actually stand. Picking a favorite song on Violator is extremely hard. I love how the songs ebb and flow, build tension and release it.
I will have to say, Enjoy The Silence, Is probably my favorite song on Violator. This has the best production ever. Every sound in that mix is golden. No bad sounds, Everything is punchy and vibrant. The music is amazing as well, Who would of thought a 909 snare could hook a song like that. I think my favorite part of that song is the filter sweeps that come in during “all i ever wanted”. It’s Neat.
In my opinion, this is the is the best sounding electronic lp ever made, and I am strictly speaking from a production stand point. Listen to the sounds. How it’s mixed. The Performances. I mean this is the best sounding pop record ever made. This in combination with some of the best song writing ever, honestly put this LP over the Top. Depeche Mode is no where close to being my favorite band. But this is probably my favorite LP in most all the categories I can think of. Engineering, Mixing, Recording, Songs, Performance. I mean, This is Golden in ever way.
My second favorite song is Halo. If you have never heard any of this, you really must be living under a rock. For a long time, No one was able to escape hearing something from this LP either on MTV, the radio, TV, everywhere, clubs. I still love this record. Has there been a POP record made with this quality since? NO WAY. Nothing has even come close to this in the entire music world. It truly is a GEM.
I finally updated my links to buy all my cds, in the discography. You can now click to buy from metropolis, itunes, and amazon. I recommend amazon because it’s drm free, meaning it will play on any device, itunes stuff must be played with ipods only, that sucks. If you have an ipod I recommend itunes, if you have anything else, I recommend amazon. Amazon also has superior sound Quality as well. I have been very happy with all the CD mp3s I have downloaded from Amazon.com. And The price if you buy the full LP is form 7.99 to 9.99 on average. I make more money that way as well(online sales that is). I am picky, and a lot of the cds I cannot find in stores around here. Amazon is great and has a lot of stuff up now.
Also, you can buy t-shirts for lust with blood still. Very cool shirts I think. good art.. Look to the right, there are links to amazon, itunes, and my shirts. Just click on the images.
Anyway, Thats all for now. Take care, and enjoy the updates..
This is a cult classic. Started as an anime, but then a live action film was made out of it. I prefer the live action film honestly. The goriest kung fu movie ever made. Very cheesy. But the best kind of cheese. I rank this up there with evil dead 2 in the gore factor. This is one of my favorite martial arts films. This came out in 1991 in asia. I think 1993 in america.
The main character is blessed with super human strength. He can punch through people and also punch them and make them explode. This movie contains some of my all time favorite fight scenes. Intestines are used as a weapon. I mean it’s pretty far out. The story takes place in a prison. A dystopian world where global warming has ruined society. My favorite scene in this movie is where the main character’s arm get’s cut, then in the middle of a fight, he ties his severed tendons back together with one hand and his mouth. Hhahaahahaahah.
If you are into super violent and gory films, this is not the film you want to pass up. I’m seriously amazed that most people do not even know about this film and that is why I decided to shed some light on it. In my top 10 for gory and horror films. Be sure and buy this, I have watched it 20 times at least, I show to people every chance I get.. Click here to buy Story of Ricky on DVD.
Over all: I waited a long time to review this. More than anything I was waiting for the Omega Dawn expansion to come out. Well I have it now, I was able to download it through booting up warhawk even before it hit the playstation network. It was $7.99 and a 144mb download. Ok now, so what is so great about warhawk? I think it captures the PC game feel of capture the flag very well in the over all mechanics. Like in battlefield and unreal tournament 2k4. It feels fast pace. You will have to control areas and take over bases like in onslaught mode in ut2k4, but you never heal the node or anything. You just stand by the flag to take over the base. The graphics look pretty good but won’t win any awards. I must say that the floating sky level looks phenomenal and really gives off that “we are way up in the sky” feeling. The game play is solid. The maps are done right and the areas can be huge or small. There are a lot of vehicles. Tank, Jeep, Warhawk, and the KT-424 drop ship. The flying is where this game has it nailed down. I wasn’t very good at first, because I didn’t know how to control the plane. There are two flying modes, hover and jet. Hit the triangle to switch into jet(and back) because you start in hover. Now it controls like a regular jet. In hover mode you float and use the r2 and l2 to control altitude. In jet mode double tap r2 to get a super boost, and use the right analog stick to do rolls, this is very fun and very effective at shaking off missile locks. Flying around the maps never gets old, Dog fighting never gets old, and that is what saves this title from being a run of the mill generic shooter. For the price, This is a no brainer. Its $39 bucks. With the outrageous prices of games these days, 65+ dollars after tax and shipping. It is nice to get a AA title at a PSP game price. I recommend buying the headset pack if you don’t have a bluetooth head set but that will put you up to 59 dollars. If not, get the regular blueray version for $39. If you get tired of it, you can trade it in or sell it and get some money back. With store downloads, you don’t have that option. Which kind of sucks (I hope they allow you to trade or sell downloaded games on the HOME network when it launches.). The omega Dawn Add on adds a lot of value to the game but brings the price up to about 50 dollars. If you really love the game and are tired of all the maps, this expansion really is the shot in the arm this game needed to stay fresh. The new drop ship adds a totally new gaming experience. You can get in a jeep with the flag, and the drop ship can pick up the jeep with the flag. This is awesome and makes the game a lot more frantic. Below, to get the video trailer to play please click on the “Warhawk - Omega Dawn Booster Pack - Trailer” text in the player window.
Ok what don’t I like about Warhawk? When you start up and log in, you have to agree to the user license over, and over, and over, and over every time you log in to play. THIS SUCKS! There is no single player mode. I like single player a lot, and feel even a sub par single player would of made me like this game a tad bit more. The graphics feel dated, especially after playing call of duty 4 and unreal tournament 3. Everything but the flying has this generic even keel feel and look to it. The character art is not that great. Very ww2 future dystopia, kind of like the Genine in Stargate Atlantis. But honestly those are my only complaints. Because I still play this game a lot, and with the expansion I see myself playing a lot more now that I am tired of Call of Duty and Unreal.
There are a lot of shooters out on the market. But none of them have the flying of Warhawk, and that is where this game delivers the goods. Even if you have the cream of the crop shooters on the PS3, none of those can give you that sense of flying and dog fighting like Warhawk can. So if planes are your thing, this is your game. Even if its not your thing, this game will win you over. The flying is special, everything else is pulled off well in a generic way, and holds it all together to make this game extremely fun. With friends you can play it split screen as well. Lan, or internet games. The other real highlight is, there are a ton of people playing this. The games don’t lag. There are dedicated servers for this, so none of this “host ended game” crap like on the xbox and call of duty 4. There is also a ranking system, that allows you to unlock mostly costumes and paint for your air craft etc. The good thing about this, and I praise this game over call of duty 4 because of this, the online games seem more even, so the rookies are not forced to play with the high ranking veterans. This really helps people not get overwhelmed when they first start playing.
Seriously, one of the best gaming experiences I ever had was when heavy sausage and I were playing online together, we would strategically park jeeps by the enemy flag then get the flag. The two of us would hop in the jeep. There is nothing like the rush of running away from air craft in the jeep trying to get back in your base with the flag. Driving the jeep is frantic when bogies are on your ass. Then if you are on the back of the jeep(the jeep holds 2), you can shoot down the aircraft chasing you with the machine gun. This is so amazing. One of the best times I have ever had in a game like this. Takes planning, strategy, and team work to get the most out of this game. But seriously, get with some friends and plan it out, and you will love this. Running away in the jeep with the flag is more fun than any other capture the flag I have played even in the AAA titles. So. Don’t look past this one if CTF is your thing.
6.5 Presentation
No story really. Just multiplayer. The menus are ok, but look kind of dated. But i had no problem finding servers.
7.6 Visuals
The game plays well, with a high frame rate. But you can tell this is due to a kind of bland and generic dated look. It’s not awful, but not at all cream of crop. It’s average. The high frame rate saves this.
8.0 Audio
The music is very well done. Sounds great. The sound fx are good. It’s tight.
8.6 Game Mechanics
The flying mechanics are what make this a AA title.. But every thing else is generic. Over all, GREAT.
9.4 Replay
I bought this last september. I am still playing it. With Omega Dawn and future add ons, this will be a gold mine for years to come.
7.9 Total Score.
(out of 10 / not an average)
This is not a system seller like call of duty 4, uncharted, ratchet and clank, and unreal tournament 3, but it is a nice addition to those AAA titles. And for the price, Warhawk is worth checking out. Go buy it Click here to buy Warhawk for PS3.
Music Listened to while writing this review: Toxic Coma - Unusual Proctology Best ov 1996-1998.
December 25th, 2007 by Hexfix93
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