Predator: Dark Age

Check out this wicked fan film that put the Predator in the Dark ages and fighting a rag tag bunch of knights.

For more info on its creator check out this page. http://www.jamesbushe.co.uk/

Decker Shado reviews

Im a big fan of internet reviewers like AVGN and That guy with the Glass's but for me this is the guy who stands out. He's fun and witty and is a guy's guy with great hair. The Best as he puts it. Best of All he's an Alien and Predator fan.

You can check out more of his stuff here.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsxn3qKFpbnD-8f1d9F5ipA

Book Review: Alien:River of Pain.

Alien River of Pain is for me the final insult in a series of unadulterated fan wank like novels....if they were written buy fans who never watched the movies. Sloppy writing and shoe horning like your trying to fit a square block  into a saxophone. Christ this book is bad on so many levels.

Christopher Golden story centers around the fall of the colony Lv-426....cool, cool only got to see a bit of that in the Dark horse comic Newts tale and the faith of the Marine Unit stationed there!...Wait what?
What fucking marine unit. There was no mention of marine unit at the Colony. Did it slip Bruke or Gormans mind to mention it and get this there was also a research vessel there which with to escape. Right so heres the big issues with this added plot point.

• If there was marines on LV-426 already how come the Marine squad sent there didnt seem to know anything about it. Hicks or Aphone were never like maybe we could check to see if any of the jarheads stationed there are alive. For that matter how come when the got stranded and are low on ammo they never go "hay lets check the unit that was stationed here's barracks for more Pulse-rifle ammo and weapons. 
• Frost states that most of the damage done to the colony was small arms fire and explosives used for mining not USCM weaponery which these guys seemed to have.
• The Hero Captain Brackett manages to escape with some of the colonists and while the story states he's trying to avoid contacting Wayland-Yutani the jerk never bothered to send out a transmission saying "yeah the planets fucked....dont risk your lives trying to save people cause their dead and you will be two if you land there!"
• Agien when shit hit the fan with the dropship gone and the reactor going to blow how come no one bothered to check the colony logs to see...holy shit theres a ship stationed here. Fuck it I know it was gone at this stage but surely some one might have gone...yeah the colony might have a ship maybe we should double check.
• They told Ripley that it might be nothing only a downed transmitter then why send more fucking marines if you had ones there already....sure those ones had their own communications unit. You could argue Bruke knew what went done but still wouldnt Wayland-Yuntani want keep the USCM outta its shit as much as possible.

Also the story has this fucking god aweful subplot involving Newts moms relationship with this Marine Captain Brackett which hits ever so slightly he might be Newts real father. Golden also gets lazey and pulls segements straight from the movie but not just Aliens but Alien also...and word for word....thats not writing thats dictating a fucking script to a novel. Then agien I should have seen how bad this books was when the slogan was The prequal story of the Doomed Colony Hardlys Hope from the blockbuster movie Alien!. 
They couldnt even get the fucking movie right. Sweet christ this book is indeed a river of pain and a lake of shit. I rather get facehugged then have to read another one of these fucking books agien.  Aviod this book like the smallpox.

Game over man Review: Alien Isolation

Well Im back after a long break  during which  I finished Alien Isolation and let me tell you Ellen Ripley had a walk on the park compared to her daughter Amanda.

This game makes you sing for your supper. I had to restart at an easier difficulty setting cause it was so damn hard. The Story is set 15 years after the events of Alien and Ellen Ripley daughter Amanda decides to join a team of Wayland-Yutani representatives to a station called Servastopol where the Nostromo's black box has turned up. When they get there the station is in ruin and people are fighting to survive a lone xenomorph which was cause of all the mayhem.

The story is full of twists and turns and has allies and foes alike dropping like flies to the xenomorph. Despite the games pants browning atmosphere and difficultly  the story is so compelling it brings you back for more and more. The most standout parts of the game which there are many is the first encounter with the Alien where your unarmed and under prepared. The other is the perspective part of Marlowe the Captain of the ship which tracked the Nostromo to LV-426 and enters the Jockey ship. I've played many many games where you see the dead pilots chamber and this buy far is the best representation of it.

The A.I on the Alien while not as good as the Xbox one and PS4 is still pretty clever and it feels like its hunting you.  The graphics are stunning for the 360 and the detail if you'v time to take it in while your not hiding under desks or in lockers is amazing.
Sound design and music wickedly lends to the tension of the game making it nail biting hearing the pounding footsteps of the xenomorph and chilling music as your being stalked through dim corridors.

On the station the Alien is not your only foe. Human survivors will kill you if you confront them outta fear of attracting the xeno or if they think your trying to steal their loot. You can either take them on with weapons and risk attacting the Alien or sneak past them and avoid a dangerous situation. The Worker-Joes on the other hand are a hole other kettle of fish. These creepy window dummy looking synthetics will track you down and beat you to death with ease. Your only course of action is to either stun them with the baton and bash their brains in or use fire arms which agein risks drawing out the Alien either way their big trouble.

You do get weapons and you'll want to use them sparingly. You get a pistol and shotgun which is good taking out humans but the shotgun is only one along with the blot gun to take out the Worker-Joes. As I siad before these fire arms will only lure the Xeno and does nothing to him ((which I have a slight problem with))
The only real effective weapon to use on the xeno is the flamethrower. It scares it off and is a sure fire way ((pun intended)) to keep the star beast off your back....aleast for a while. You can also craft weapons such as explosives and distractions. Speaking of which the crafting system takes a while to get used to but when you do its a must to progress in the game.

With all those pro's there are a few cons. The Puzzels can be a pain in the arse as the last thing you wanna do is figure which shape matchs to which or is this grid in the right place while that things hunting you. Hell some of the puzzels confused the hell outta me and in the finish I just randonly bashed some buttons to sort it.
Also this game is bastard hard I mean I repect its trying to push the player to their limits but there were times my foot wanted to go into the Tv set and its a long ass game....maybe over staying it welcome slightly but hay who wants to play game that ends before you can really enjoy it.

All in all Creative Assembly have made a wonderful Alien game that does the franchise justice and with sprawling station to explore play through after play through and a wicked selection of DLC such as the amazing Crew expendable where you can play is Ripley, Parker or Dallas this games life span is limitless.
So if your a fan of the Alien franchise like me theres no question buy this game....and sleep with the lights on.

Game over man review: The Thing

So while the Dark Horse comics do a fair enough job of giving a fair go at a Thing sequel but for me the game does the best job at it.
Released in 2002 for PS2, Xbox and PC the game was a combination of third person survival horror mixed with team based combat.
You play captain Blake and his team is sent of investigate what happened at Outpost 31 and the Norwegian camp a mere 24 hours after the movie. There Blake suspects one or more of your team mates are infected. The enamies range from small things called scuttlers like the Norries head. These can be dispatched with small arms fire but with the larger creatures they must be injured then burnt after to stop them. Weapons range from pistols, machine guns, shotguns, flamethrowes and explovies. The combat also effects the difficulty. Your giving a wide range cone on an easier level while its harder when the cone is smaller and your fire field is smaller.

The other aspects of that game that are cool are the fear and trust management sysetem. If your team mate is afraid you need to calm them and if you do odd things and hurt other team mates and you could have a coup on your hands if they think your the Thing.

The downside to team elements selecting your team mates and arming them as the A.I at the time was not up to top notch. Example you could give your team mate a flame thrower to kill the thing beast while you hit it also with the shotgun. However this fool could fuck off into another room and hide of cry. Also another niggle if your team mate has been normal or if you even tested them with a blood kit and their fine you come to a boss battle their going to turn into the thing. That got to me a bit but still a minor niggle.

The voice cast is amazing Perr Sollie does a wicked turn as the grizzled but also cool Captain Blake. X-files William B Davis does the voice of the shady Colonel Whitley and none other then the main man John Carpenter lends both his likeness and voice to Dr Faraday.

A fun and intresting game that takes a while to get used to and if your a fan of the Thing its a must.

An Important Christmas message

Remember folks an alien imitation dog isnt just for Christmas! Its for a life time....no really that fucker can last about tens of millions of years in the Tundras Ice....you've been warned. 

John Carpenters the Thing.

I remember staying up late watching this wicked flick on Tv3 when I was a young lad. Its was action packed  ,gory  and packed with suspenseful  but what got me was the alien. It wasent just one creature like the xenomorph or Predator its was anything it wanted to be.I picked it up on VHS years later and my love for the movie grew. John Carpenters the Thing was a remake of the 50's movie from Howard Hawks the Thing from another world with itself is an adaption of John W. Campbell book Who goes there?

Hawks for his movie dropped the shape shifting aspect of creature for a more B-movie monster. Carpenter loved the concept and made it the focal point of his movie. What if your trapped in a place, isolated and those around you are not as they seem.

Set in the Antartic in the winter of 1982 at a U.S research station 31 the movie plonks us into the action in a what the fuck moment when a dog is chased in to the camp buy what would seem to be stir crazy Norwegians. Shit goes from bad to worse resulting in some of the U.S outpost traveling to the Norwegian base and finding that some very crazy shit took place there. They return and some realise that some people are not what they seem. This plays out paranoia and suspense like nobodies business. The men soon turn on each other and one buy one the team is picked off either buy the creature or the men them selves.

This is one of my top fave movies of all time, The acting is wicked, the music is amazing but what else would you expect from Ennio Morricone, the effect while not as flashy today a still the fucking bomb. Rob Bottin should have gone on to do bigger things...no pun intened. This was John Carpenter at his A game and yet another great collabortation with the ever awesome Kurt Russel as McReady. The Ending of the movie is fantastic...It makes you wonder who came out on top.

The ending along with the fact this movie came out in 82 the same time as a friendly alien called E.T showed up did cause issues for its success and the film didnt do well at all. Over the years it found a massive cult following spawning a video game, a range of comic books and a prequel movie in 2011 but more about them later.

So if your like me and your a huge Sci-fi and horror fan .....you need to see this movie...its mandatory and if you dont think so well then "You gotta be fucking kidding!"