This week on the ParaNerds Podcast, the nerds speak about The Simpsons Game, Halo 3, Back to the Future: Episode V: Outatime, EarthWorm Jim HD, Parasite Eve, Alan Wake along with new releases and News (See below). They also speak about The Top Ten What Were They Thinking? (Game Edition) and a little about the Playstation Import game Kyuiin.
NEWS
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Playstation 3 Deals
Xbox 360 Deals
Red Dead Redemption Free DLC
League of Legends allows “Gay”
Super Smash Bros:Brawl Orchestra Video
Walking Dead Video Game not Based on Comic
PSThree Announced at GameCom?
Double Dragon Remake Coming to XBLA
70′s Batman Skin for Batman Arkham City
Battlefield 3 Pre-Orders High
NetFlix Subscribers Stream Through Consoles
MW 2019 is five years old at this point and on previous gen hardware, but it is still the best looking Call of Duty game to date.
MW was an excellent videogame. They messed up Spec Ops big time, but aside from this it was a huge step in the right direction initially. Most notably, at launch it seemed to come from a very cohesive creative vision that was felt across gameplay, to story to art style/visual direction. It was also very notably written by prominent ex-Naughty Dog guys that quit almost immediately before release.
That COMPLETELY dissolved through post-launch content and the full pivot to a "cross-mode" narrative that completely obliterated the cohesion in overall story direction. Warzone then "became" the new face of Call of Duty and the franchise completely removed itself from anything remotely creatively "good". It is a pure money machine, so I kinda get why they're doing it....but I personally completely lost interest.
I would love to see Infinity Ward move off CoD and get to make their own product with full control. They clearly have some massive talent in their ranks but it's perverted by Activision's corporate interests.
GB: "With this feature, we take a look back at the incredible Batman: Arkham City with the aim of analyzing it from the perspective of a 2024 release."
Call Of Duty is back with its yearly instalment, but is Modern Warfare 3 breaking new ground, or just a lazy cash grab? The answer may not surprise you in today's review from JDR.
