Matthew R. Reis: Film and TV Critic

Pray for me Blog exclusive! I rented “Prey” for free yesterday thanks to a Redbox Play Pass coupon I received. This isn’t a review of the entire game since I only rented it for a single night ($3 game rentals are rip-offs!) Small sample size aside, I came away mightily impressed by Arkane Studios’ reboot of the original “Prey” (2006) . Set in 2035, Morgan Yu (the protagonist) awakens inside a posh San Francisco apartment. Life is good, he or she (you choose which gender to play as) is a surefire one-percenter, but something’s afoot. A glitch reveals that Morgan’s inside a partially simulated environment and has had a memory wipe. It’s the player’s job to break out. Once outside the confines of the fake apartment, you realize that you’re onboard the Talos 1 Space Station. The crew aboard the space station had been studying a dangerous species of alien called the Typhon ( derived from Greek Mythology , meaning a giant, deadly monstrosity) for years. The hope was that the coll...

Bite me. Blog exclusive! Console gamers have surely heard about Nintendo's upcoming next-generation Wii U console. But for the ill-informed this console is the successor to the best selling Wii video game system. One of the nicer aspects about the Wii U is that it finally promises to bring high definition visuals and smoother action to Nintendo games, which in my opinion is the Wii's biggest shortfall. Launch date is set for Sunday, November 18th, 2012 and if I save up enough coin I hope to be purchasing Wii U alongside ZombiU, one of the numerous titles available the same day. Now say what you want about the cutesy, tongue-in-cheek title but ZombiU looks to be really frightening. The game's back-story centers around an age old Welsh doomsday prophecy that has unfortunately come true. Players take on the role of a survivor in a post-apocalyptic London full of flesh-eating zombies. ZombiU is a 'survival horror' game which means that the pace of the game is slow ...