Listen up Noir fans! LA Noire has become a fairly divisive game around our office, but I for one don’t care. I love me some film noir, so I thought it’d be fun to remove LA Noire’s music track and insert iconic scores from some of my favorite film noir …
Read More »iPhone/iPad game of the day: Burnstar lets you play with fire, Bomberman-style
On iPhone Game: BurnStarPrice: $1.99 / £1.19Size: 13.2 MBGet it now on iTunes: US (opens in new tab) / UK (opens in new tab) On iPad Game: BurnStarPrice: $1.99 / £1.19Size: 13.2 MB Get it now on iTunes: US (opens in new tab) / UK (opens in new tab) We all …
Read More »25 Useful Super-Powers
Invisibility You know you’ve got it when: You go all see-through, obviously. Made famous by: Sue Storm ( Fantastic Four ), Sebastian Caine ( Hollow Man ), Violet Parr ( The Incredibles ), Harry Potter How would you use your power? Handy if you wanted to spy on your boss, …
Read More »7 reasons were looking forward to the end of the world
Don’t know if you’ve heard, but the end of the world is upon us. According to Harold Camping and his cult-like Family Radio, tomorrow –May 21, 2011 (opens in new tab) – will be the second coming of Jesus Christ. So, all the believers in the world will be called …
Read More »The 35 Best Movie Star Websites
Samuel L Jackson The Site: SamuelLJackson.com (opens in new tab) Design: A stark, blocky look centred around a traditional blog layout. 3/5 Content : Fulsome. The news is regular, and there are well-maintained stashes of photographs and interviews. 3/5 Star Input: It’s official, but it doesn’t look like Big Sam …
Read More »iPad reviews of the week: Pulse: Volume One, Siege Hero, Imaginary Range, Thor: Son of Asgard, Frisbee Forever
We’re diving into a diverse set of premium and free new releases for the iPad this week, with the paid options headlined by Pulse: Volume One, a striking and original rhythm game, as well as Siege Hero HD, which sort of plays like a first-person Angry Birds. And then there’s …
Read More »The Top 7… Things in games that will never be realistic
Look at games! The sky. The trees. The grass. The water. All of these things look real. And games will continue to get more real-looking as technology throws us ever closer to a promised land of perfect visual fidelity. Just this week, for example, Rockstar’s LA Noire will introduce character …
Read More »Sam Ashursts House Of Horror: Zombies, killers and ballerinas
Hello fright fans, my name’s Sam Ashurst and I’m Total Film’s resident cult horror expert. I spend so much time banging on about ’70s giallo movies, ’80s VHS trash classics, ’90s serial killer flicks and ’00s foreign chillers that TF have finally decided to give me my own column. Possibly …
Read More »How Alice: Madness Returns begins with blackmail, Jabberwock-men, and a very mad Hatter
Did Alice really burn her own family to death as a child? We presume not, but who knows? She is completely, utterly mad, and as 10 years in an asylum and round-after-round of vintage therapy sessions have proven useless, only the memories she recovers in Wonderland can reveal the truth. …
Read More »Ocarina of Time 3D: Hands-on with boss rush and… ugh, the Water Temple
Imagine my surprise when I walked into an Ocarina of Time appointment and immediately heard “today you’ll be playing the Water Temple.” After fainting, barfing, then barfing until I fainted again, I was able to shed off 13-year-old PTSD long enough to try the new 3D version of said temple, …
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