D Flynn

A waste of time. Terrible dialogue, poorly acted, over long, generally silly. Rebel Moon is basically a series of bad fetch quests in a bog standard RPG game. It's the equivalent of a few CGI cut scenes in a game. Only that does a disservice to the many good game cut scenes out there! Storywise, it's a poor Star Wars rip off, heck some of the terrible Star Wars rip offs of the 80s were better.. Evil Empire Vs bunch of rebel good guys, you know the drill. The heroine has to assemble a bunch of heroes to fight the bad guys. To achieve this she goes to where the secret heroes are, finding these heroes turns out to be as simple as asking In a bar where they are... why the Evil Empire hadn't thought of doing that God knows!. She asks them to join her fight. They go I need X or Y, she does X or Y and they join. Once assembled they fight the big bad and 'win'. That's it. If you think my review lacks depth, well it's deeper than all the characters and story. **Spoiler** Oh and when could a spear penetrate a spaceship window? Oh yeah, when the window is standard single pane house glass. Hey who needs good solid shielding to fly in space?? Worse the controls for a massive space ship are all controlled by one gunner. Yeah that makes sense!

The first series was so slow it was untrue, then it kind of got to be OK. then silliness took over... Now in series 6, after 2 episodes it's just plot hole central. We've got miracles basically happening all over the shop, we've got formerly sensible characters acting like they're in The World Beyond, and even Alicia is now acting like a silly teenage girl. In short whilst they've bumped the action up for series 6, they've totally removed any sense of believability. One thing from episode 2, there were 9 Rangers at the camp, 2 got done, yet the other 7 miraculously just vanished, including the one who was acting as lookout (and crack shot) from the guard tower. You can probably still enjoy this show, you just have to gloss over the huge amount of plot holes. **Spolier alert** Update as of Series 7, so near the end of it which is the only reason I can be bothered to stick with it! Sadly, by Series 7 Episode 8 it gets even more silly and completely ignores most of the rules and things that have been in place since the start. Now we have Alicia as the only person in the show's history that can survive a bite (let alone a self amputation in a dirty dusty sewage tunnel). Oh and let's have rocks that fall through a tunnel, a tunnel that has no damage visible above where the rocks fell, it's like they just materialised exactly where they needed to be.... And let's round things out by telling someone that you'll destroy them and are now at war, and them just going Oh OK, go on then off you go, me and my armed men here won't just shoot you... Any credibility this show has, has been completely and utterly lost. Localised nuclear winter that does nothing apart from make the background look a bit yellow, not one person has had any form of radiation sickness... Someone who has lived in a nuclear bunker, alone for many years, but they're still sane and sensible and immaculately dressed with perfect hair... Really?

This film is rather dull, badly acted, but does have some nice looking sets and over the top Hollywood style battle scenes. The 3 person point of view premise is a clever one, but really badly utilised. All 3 main characters are wooden and I ended up hoping they'd all die. As for the acting, my word, the leading men are garbage. I kept expecting the Americans to start talking in 'Brah' like speak, like 'Brah, she totally wanted it so I like totally gave her it, even when she like really didn't want it brah'... Damon is poor, Kylo Ren is Kylo Ren, Affleck is a complete joke and the most 'brah' like of the three. Even the ladies are not immune to being average at best and the usually reliable Comer slips in and out of the oddest accents at the strangest times. You could possibly excuse it if it was a device for each version of the story, but it's mid way through each. One point she's very English, then there's a really bad almost 'Alo 'Alo style French one and then all of a sudden she's Scottish. the film is also overly long, and shaving 30 minutes off it would help greatly. All in all this feels like a major missed opportunity.

It's a clunky old style game. I've seen nothing new or ground breaking in it. The graphics are OK, maybe 3 / 4 years old looking. Controls are horrible, you can't switch weapons if you have the scanner open. Scanning things is confusing, there's next to no feedback about it, at least No man's Sky shows that you're doing something, in Starfield you have the scanner open, walk towards something... oh and then press E, but it only works if you're close enough to the thing...and there's no feedback to tell you that you're not. Oh then you have to scan x amount of the same thing before it's classed as being scanned, which is almost impossible when the creatures are flying. Inventory management, OH MY GOD! What decade are we in? Go into your inventory, go into a section, hover over something and then remember what key to press to do something... oh and then make sure you press the right key to exit the inventory or you just go back a level, it's clunky in the extreme. Then you get the loading screens, everywhere you go, load, go out , load, go somewhere else, load... Thankfully I've got a fast SSD, I can't imagine how horrid it would be on older hardware. There's no seamless flight, you can't fly across a planet's surface. You can walk across a planet, I'm not sure how far, because it just gets really boring to do so. Everything is based off fast travel, it's like Bethesda knew how dull it all is. Space, the big selling point, the new and exciting focus of the game. Oh no, that's right there is no point to it. in short there is no actual space flight, there is no real exploration. You go where you are told to go, there's no point going anywhere else. The sense of speed and movement in space is non-existent. Move your mouse and shoot at things just like we used to do in the old Star Wars arcade games, that's about it. Story, so far I've mainly followed it, but it's really just a case of go where you are told to go. Decisions don't actually seem to matter or make a difference. It really does feel like Skyrim / Fallout, which as good as they were, they were good for their time, they have not aged well, seriously, if you think they are *still* the peak of gaming excellence these days then you really haven't played any modern games. In short, do not believe the hype, and if you've paid £70 for this then I really hope you like it, because it truly is not worth it. There is nothing new or exciting in this game, it's a rehash of everything Bethesda have done for years, but these days it just does not feel fresh, well to me anyway, i guess I've been spoiled by games that have advanced in many more ways than this. 5 years ago this would have scored a 4/5, but nowadays, I'm being generous giving it a 2/5.

Well, this franchise needs someone to put it out of our misery. Some spoilers, but really you know what's going to happen anyway. I thought OK, Tales from different parts and at different times of the outbreak could be interesting. However 2 episodes in and it's clear it's just more of the same, this feels awfully like a vanity project. Episode 1, take he worst bits of the last 5 series of Walking Dead and make a stand alone episode of it. Some dull loner, loses his lovely dog, and decides to go and find his internet love, only it's a year into the zombie outbreak. So far, so implausible. Add in the inevitable getting hijacked, not once, but twice, by a really weakly written woman and then by an unknown assailant, who leaves a sheep!? Seriously, what on Earth!? Anyway, they both seemingly are going to the same place, and so can walk it there... yadda yadda predictable yadda... it actually goes downhill from the sheep leaving part! So i'll end this bit of the review here. Episode 2 - ahhh now this looks interesting, a real tale from the very start of the outbreak told by normal people. Ahhh yes this is what we want, the incredulity, the shock, the dismay... Oh then they fricking turn it into the weakest ever version of Groundhog Day instead, and repeat, repeat, repeat it. A good seeming version of a tale, ruined by some utter random and pointless weirdness. No doubt they felt they were being clever, they're not. Both episodes also share a love of really, really terrible green screen and poor effects (I've seen Youtube tutorials do better explosions!). Maybe I'm missing something, maybe these tales are being sold as bad versions of Twilight Zone? Maybe they are meant to be funny or something? On either point, these fail. Stick to the original twilight Zone for weirdness that clicks into place, and stick with fear The Walking Dead and latter Walking Dead for dreary characters who just want to waffle on and on and on. 1 star is too many for this grabage.