85 is not average

Have a good look at these screens:

Take a guess what game it’s from.

Here’s a clue, it’s from a remake of a game you may have played in the arcade if you are of a certain age. You may have even played in the sit down version, positioned next to the Space Harrier and Star Wars Cabinet.

Give up?

Well, it’s from the new Spy Hunter game starring Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson.

You know? Spy Hunter? That game in the 80s where your car turns in to a boat to the tune of the Peter Gunn theme?

I kid you not.

http://thespyhunter.com/

View now:

We thank you, Japan.

No one really expected a game based on the ‘run-away success’ Da Vinci code, to really get anywhere. Not only is it now a movie tie in, its also a fairly boring, hype based subject. This post is less about the game, and more about the effort of the BBC News story about it. Chet pointed this out on IRC today: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/5007998.stm

A summarisation of the discussion that follows, highlights the relentlessly poor quality of games reviewing the BBC produce. Jonathan Fildes begins the review with the standard opening, a small amount of cautiosly optomistic hype; “Even before its release, the Da Vinci Code video game had a lot to live up to.” In all honesty, did it really. Living up to a mediocre fictional novel, with a mediocre film tie in staring a few out of work actors, who really are worth more, does not leave a lot to live up to; (Jean Reno, what has happened to you?).

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So you’ve probably seen that that E3 thing is happening, as it does every year, and everyone sweaty person and his sweaty mum wants to know what sweaty things are going on there. Fortunatly, someone has condensed all the relevant information about the Playstation 3, into a short video. Please view it. Now.