Friday, September 19, 2008

Of Politics...Football...Games...and stuff :)


Been a long time since I posted...well anyways lets get on to my thoughts on stuff thats happening nowadays.


POLITICS

Well well, I've never been so excited about Malaysia politics before. The people on top now are making silly actions which cause us rakyat to be even more hot t
han ever. ISA arrests seems like typing in a cheat code will playing a game. Some fat racist dude doesn't get any proper punishment cause he's one with the gov'. They are desperate. They are scared to meet up with Dato Seri A.I. Seems like everything is gonna change soon...I just hope that there is no violence or bloodshed involved.


GAMING

The long awaited Star Wars Force Unleashed is out!




WARNING! THERE MAYBE SPOILERS AHEAD

The Story
This a
ll started before the formation of the Rebel Alliance :

Darth Vader's doing his usual routine, hunting and killing jedi's before episode 4. Went to Kashykk, wrapped up a jedi and found that his son has potential. So he trains that kid to be his secret apprentice to kill his enemies and to bring the emperor down.


So fast forward, and the kid growns up to become a powerful sith apprentice. Goes around and whopping jedi and sith butt. Yes, somehow some other hidden sith's try to beat the kid up but then end up getting owned. Cut things short, the emperor found him and asked Vader to dispose his apprentice, in which he did and
rescue him again after that. Vader then tells the apprentice to
seek rebels and form an alliance to bring down the emperor, and also to cut ties with him so the rebels won't suspect that he's still an undercover agent for Vader.

Here is where the apprentice is human, he fell in love with his pilot and eventually really wants to be the good guy, not some undercover bad dude. So he ends up gathering all the Rebel leaders, only to get them caught by Emperor and Vader who is secretly tailing him. He then goes to the Death Star, beat the crap out of Vader and Emperor (Yes, he DOES beat the crap out of them), saved the rebel leaders and only to be electrocuted to death by the cunning Emperor Palpy.
The Good
You can electrocute troops, slice them to
pieces with your saber, throw them around like dolls, throw stuff at your enemies, choke the crap out of them, etc. Never before a Star Wars game has this much force powers to play with! :D

There are other modes like the Order 66 mode where you control a jedi/sith and play in a beat-em-up mode a.l.a Double Dragon/Final Fight. Force Duel mode which plays like a regular fighting game, and Historic Missions mode where you playback those memorable scenes from SW movies with a twist.

The Bad
Not as good as the PS3 or XBOX 360 version (duh), where the maps are larger, graphics are better, the environments are more interactive (you can push enemies through walls!), and animations are more realistic. :/

Points to ponder
  1. The main character, codenamed "Starkiller" is actually more powerful than Vader and the Emperor. Heck, he tapao'd Vader first, and then he still has the energy to tapao the Emperor after that. Kinda shameful for those two main baddies for Star Wars as they lose credibility by getting whacked from a character from the expanded universe. Seems kinda wrong for me.
  2. Vader's intention is still unexplainable. Did he really want to bring the Emperor down by training "Starkiller" and later plot to use him to unite a Rebel Alliance? Or does he just treat "Starkiller" as a tool for himself to gather and expose all the Rebels so he can capture them? Hrm...

FOOTBALL

Liverpool beat Man Utd. LOL. Take that Man Utd fans. Don't think you guys are invincible without Ronaldo. :P We did it without Torres, and Gerrard just came for a cameo appearence. :D

Anyways, Liverpool are winning lots of games so far. That's what a real champ needs...luck, skills, determination and consistency to create results. I would rather win in smaller margins all year
round, rather than winning 10-0 in a match and losing in another.