The X-Files resist or serve game review

I am an avid fan of the X-Files to this day but was not such a hardcore video game fan. My interest in video games was more or less gone by the year 2000.
Aside from a few games such as GoldenEye 007 and survival horror games which was really just the Resident Evil game series.

But since I'm a huge X-Files fan and saw snapshots of this game online, I had to see for myself. I was lucky since this game was just like Resident Evil with it's own storyline and many other differences. What a great way to enjoy playing two of your favorite characters in your favorite genres.

Weather you're a fan of Resident Evil or the X-Files or both, this game is a must play for you. However, despite it's great storyline and scenarios for each character, the game is not without faults.

Since this game is survival horror and like Resident Evil, it lacks realism. Take for example shooting a wall or a window. Not a scratch or a bullet mark. Only enemies react when shot. I know making the game is more realistic is expensive and time consuming, but realism is still what makes a game more appreciated.

On the subject of guns, most weapons used in the games, including automatics have cheap sounds and effects. This will give you a definite answer that realism was definitely not on the producers agenda, but rather good gameplay and storyline which the game meets.

I also dislike some secret keys and items that are impossible to find and to proceed with the game unless one looks up these things. A specific key in this game took me hours to find until I found the answer online. I cannot imagine myself finishing the game if I did not.

Other fans complained about the graphics. I agree the graphics could have been better but I'm not complaining.
Also this game does not compare to Resident Evil with many difficulty levels and weapons choices. I finished the game with both characters' scenarios and there was nothing more to do. It does not offer unlockable items and scenarios like Resident Evil. Once you've finished it there's nothing more to do with it.

Otherwise it's a great game and highly recommendable by me over most of PlayStation 2's fancy and boring games.

Overkilling The Wicker Man remake

I first saw The Wicker Man in December 2007 on TV when I was on a month's vacation in Karachi.
We actually opened it in the middle of the movie. One of my parents likes Nicholas Cage's movies and I also got an interest in it. A little later the movie had my complete attention. To see the suspense and the creepiness of the island and the realistic scenario of how easily people can revert to savagery just be situating themselves in a remote area away from the modern world.

Since I did not get to see the movie from the beginning I did not know the title and so I looked it up and then rented it on DVD upon my return to North America where I live.
The movie was a great and realistic horror/suspense movie for fans of such genre to enjoy.

It was upon looking it up that I also discovered the movie was actually a remake of a 1973 version with Christopher Lee in it. I saw the 1973 version on YouTube and was rather puzzled to see comments mocking the remake while praising the original. To me it was them describing the remake when praising the original and describing the original when mocking the remake.

I thought that something is wrong with me, but now I realize it's not me. Some fanatics of originality have a way of underrating remakes and overkilling them even though the original Wicker Man needed a remake. A remake that made up for the original's poor dialogue, cheap acting, childish soundtracks and songs which the lovers of the original found to be "creepy" and "realistic."

The remake had no such. It had no childish singing or cheap special affects that the original had. The "sacrificing" scene was also violent as opposed to the original where the victim didn't even offer any resistance to the cult that was killing him.

I can understand why The Wicker Man is not so popular. I myself wouldn't buy it since it is one of those suspense/horror movies you wouldn't want to see more than once.
But to call it a bad movie or compare it to the original is a joke. This movie had everything needed for a good suspense horror and gave us a brief insight to Celtic mythology, though I have to mention I sense possible stereotypes in the movie.

Readers would have to watch both movies to better understand what I mean. The only negative things about the movie is it calls for sequel due to the way it ended. The other negative thing is the mysterious mother and daughter Nicholas Cage sees in the beginning who disappear without a trace as well as those strange dreams he has, also unexplained.

With or without these mistakes, the 2006 version of The Wicker Man is superior to the original in every way and met it's ambitions as a remake that the original so miserably failed in.