I Am Legend

I Am Legend is a pretty good movie. Although the zombies appear really stupid looking if you see them too long (The very first one he sees is wearing golf pants) they manage to startle you when they jump out of a dark doorway making guinea pig sounds. The plot is very good all except for the ending *spoiler alert* where he sacrifices his life to safe some people that most of the movie goers won't care about, other than that it's all good (but the dog dies.)
Some of the coolest special effects don't even occur when Will Smith is fighting freaks who want to eat his flesh, the very best effects are the way New York City was aged. The weeds poking through the cement, the cars stopped in their places, and the buildings covered in quarantine plastic.
When Will Smith isn't fighting it definitely isn't boring due to lack of dialogue, even though 80% of the movie only has Robert Neville and has dog, the directors have filled the plot with flashbacks and interesting things for Will to say to his dog, such as,"Eat your vegetables, I'm not kidding now."
Most of the zombie stuff is only mildly scary and the blood is kept to a minimum. The part with probably the most violence in the whole movie is when he sets a trap for them and starts mowing 'em over in his SUV.
In conclusion if you're looking for a good movie to go see, this would be a good one to see, unless you have really small children.

Super Mario Galaxy and RayMan Raving Rabbids 2

My parents recently let my brother and I pick out two games to purchase we chose Super Mario Galaxy and RayMan Raving Rabbids 2.

-SUPER MARIO GALAXY-
Super Mario Galaxy is a very fun game! It has controls similair to Super Mario 64 but Nintendo made sure to include plenty of new features.
First off there's the small little thing that YOUR IN OUTER SPACE! The gravity is probably the most amazing thing about that, it is so much fun to jump through the middle of a dough-nut shaped planet and have it pull you through the middle and set you back down on the other side. Also when you jump into a special type of star that flings you through space it gives you a very interesting view of things, like flinging around a fiery planet that shoots lava around you.

The other great thing about this game is the way it looks. The cut-scenes look almost like the CGI in some of the year's best animated films. And even in game the graphics are still amazing, despite being in the middle of a void we call space the game still looks very bright and the lighting effects are amazing! Mario looks more polished than in probably any other Mario game so far.

The game isn't the most difficult, a semi-experienced player can go through it with the minimum requirements in about 2 days with no trouble.
New players will find the game fun to play as well as experienced players. Those new to the franchise will enjoy all of the new features while those who have been playing Mario since it first came out will find that it has enough of the qualities from the old games as well as enough to keep the game from feeling just like all of the others.

Grade: A++



-RAYMAN RAVING RABBIDS 2-
RayMan Raving Rabbids 2 is about the same as the first, but that's a good thing. I don't mean it has all the same minigames but it is still all minigames.
The best thing that they did was to keep all of the slapstick humor as well as all of the Rabbids weirdness.
Another great thing is that you can actually play as the Rabbids instead of plain old RayMan and there is a whole boatload of costumes you can make the Rabbids wear.
A new thing in one of the minigames, the plunger shooting one to be exact, is that the background is a real video and all of the Rabbids are animated in which gives it a very new(and nice) look.
The graphics aren't always the best graphics they could have done but once your into the minigames you'll hardly notice it.
All of the minigames are fun there are some that you'll like better than others, but there isn't ever a minigame that I have disliked. There are only fifty or so minigames, but they are all very replayable.
The minigames are divided up into different cultural groups like South America, USA, Asia, Europe, and the Tropics. In America you may have to play football, or get your "kids" to shut-up on a road trip. In Europe you may have to go on a Toure De France like race just with a tricycle.
This game was also pretty easy, some of the minigames take out quite the beating on your arms, but an average player could probably unlock them all in about one day.
I would recommend this game to pretty much anyone, and if your trying to get someone you know into video games this would be a very good starting point.

Grade: A++