Rabbit Hole

Prelude to Life
Original Screenplay by: William McMahon
Janurary 27, 2008

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No More Heroes - Initial Review Link
Genre: Action Sandbox
Release Date: January 22, 2008
Developer: Grasshopper Manufacture
Final Rating: 8/10

Synopsis from IGN Games: There’s only one way to the top ranks of the underground world of paid assassins and it’s going to get messy. Lucky for Travis Touchdown, he just knocked off the world’s eleventh best without breaking a sweat. The life of fame and fortune couldn’t be closer.

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No More Heroes follows the life of a newbie assassin named Travis. His ultimate goal in life is to become the number one assassin in the city he lives in, Santa Destroy. Each assassin has his or her own rank, ranks start at one (being the highest) and 11 (being the lowest); Travis starts at 11. The entire game is Grand Theft Auto style sandboxing. In order to go up a rank you must first make enough money to pay for the event, in order to make money you have to do side jobs around the city. It’s all pretty basic and easy to grasp. There is another character in the life of Travis; a hard boiled girl named Sylvia. She is the one who guides Travis through his race to the top and sets up all his matches.

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So far we are 1 month into 2008 and I can sadly say I am looking forward to NOTHING in the realm of video games and technology. 1 month in… thats 1/12 of the year I have two games that are on my list: No more Heroes for the Wii and Universe at War for the PC. At this rate 2008 will produce a whopping 24 interesting video games. But the fun doesn’t stop there… whats with this lack of technological advancements? I was for sure Apple was going to released some new BIG product for us, but instead they released a shittier skinnier version of the Mac Book Pro.

Don’t even get me started on the amount of video game delays we have experienced this month! It seemed it all started with the announcement that Super Mario Smash Brothers Brawl was going to be delayed then the rest of the video game development world jumped on the band wagon.  Just today Haze and Mercanaries 2 were delayed. I know there are tons more I just crap them out of my mouth because of how pissed I am.

On top of all this crap, THQ buys a whole bunch of development teams, cancels a whole bunch of IPs and then looses stock… EA is buying everything that is waved in front of them, christ even Halo 3 is getting beaten out by Call of Duty 4. WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON WORLD?!

I guess this is good in some resepect… I might be able to do homework, and it gives me time to figure out why my 360 is burning every power supply I own. Maybe I can do something productive since the development community isn’t feeding my vegging addiction.

p.s. I have a new blog and new site…