Film Review: Pathfinder (2007)
Despite terrible reviews, the serious lack of Viking films forced me to grab the Pathfinder Blu-Ray from Netflix. I figured, if anything, Pathfinder would provide some awesome, stylized Viking action. I mean, it looked cool.
Now that the movie is over, I retain the same feeling. Pathfinder looked cool. In every other aspect, it falls drastically short.
What little of a story Pathfinder contains goes like this: Norsemen arrive in undiscovered America searching for land. To make room, they slaughter countless Native Americans until they finally depart, leaving a small boy behind. This boy is then taken in and raised by a native tribe. Years later, when the Norsemen return, the boy, now fully grown into Karl Urban, fends them off.
Demo Impressions: NecroVision
NecroVision is a new first-person shooter from small-time developer The Farm 51 that takes you back to a World War I that is teeming with vampires, zombies, and other ghouls. This is far from a new concept, but NecroVision is the first title of the sort that I've played that effectively conveys the brutality of World War I and the horror of the paranormal. I know that sounds odd, and I've never experienced either of those things in real life, but the absolute terror the game conveyed was on par with what I imagine the situation would really be like. This concept of mixing monsters and historic wars isn't new, but it's almost always handled in a tongue-in-cheek fashion. Despite the silly title, NecroVision seemed to be taking the premise somewhat seriously. Or so I thought.
