The guys go all Rambo on your ass. Is Burnout Paradise lost? Summing up all fears about the new Jack Ryan movie. Plus, the Wager returns for Oscar season!
This week in Movies:
It has been 20 years since Rambo III, but this week Sylvester Stallone is back as the one man army. Alex, Dan, and Jeff head out into the jungle to rescue their review of Rambo from some evil dictators.
Tom Clancy's heroic intelligence officer, Jack Ryan, has been portrayed on film by the likes of Alec Baldwin, Harrison Ford, and Ben Affleck. News of Ryan Gosling stepping into the role prompts the guys to discuss whether he's worthy of such company.
This week in Video Games:
Criterion's Burnout racing games have delivered blistering speed and intense crashes over several incarnations. The newest in the series, Burnout Paradise, pushes the envelope in a completely new way, offering an entirely open-ended world to explore amidst all the spectacular wrecks and races. Alex, Dan, and Jeff take this Paradise city for a spin to really find out if its grass is green and its girls are pretty.
Plus:
The Summer Wager tested the guys' box office predictions for the blockbuster movie season. With winter upon us, the stakes have been raised, and a new wager has been laid down. Check out the Alex, Dan, and Jeff's Academy Award picks and make your own prediction about who will be cooking breakfast for whom!
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Posted by gm_wil on 02/16/2008 at 09:32:31 pm in Totally Rad Show
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Wish I did...I friggin hate...HATE grocery shopping...
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Posted by diane on 02/16/2008 at 05:38:30 pm in Totally Rad Show
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Reason # 288 as to why I need to move.
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Posted by Heyseuss on 02/16/2008 at 05:18:32 pm in Totally Rad Show
"Thank you! Thank you! Thank you, for resurrecting this. I never saw the answer. Damn you work and all of your off-site meetings to promote synergy.
Fantastic! I don't have time to buy anything from any actual stores except groceries and things I can find at Target. If only the grocery store delivered..."
I get my groceries delivered.
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Posted by diane on 02/16/2008 at 05:24:09 am in Totally Rad Show
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Thank you! Thank you! Thank you, for resurrecting this. I never saw the answer. Damn you work and all of your off-site meetings to promote synergy.
Fantastic! I don't have time to buy anything from any actual stores except groceries and things I can find at Target. If only the grocery store delivered...
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Posted by damnedeyez on 02/16/2008 at 03:42:54 am in Totally Rad Show
"Yes.
If you start browsing on Amazon by clicking on our link, anything you eventually buy during that session counts as a referral from us. :)
-Jeff"
OK, so I'm resurrecting this because I'm curious...it sounds like it's a cookie that way, so would going to Amazon.com directly, finding something I'm interested in, and then inserting that item code into the URL you guys link with work?
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Posted by damnedeyez on 02/07/2008 at 08:12:33 pm in Totally Rad Show
Well, there you go...I'm anti-social and haven't touched the multiplayer.
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Posted by cr4sh on 02/07/2008 at 08:01:52 pm in Totally Rad Show
"81? Do they give you an unlisted car for getting your Elite license or finishing the game? Or was there a code I missed? (I have 74 of 75 stock, plus the four branded cars they list on sites like gamespot, plus the Steel Wheels for preordering.)
As for finishing, I have all 14 stunt runs to do, most Showtimes to set and like 8 rewards to win (most of which are stunt run/showtime related.) Admittedly, after spending 40 hours racing around at top speed...Showtime is difficult to get into.
Not that it matters now, but I'll have to pay closer attention to the turn signals...hadn't noticed the extent of them before."
There is an 'unlisted' car unlocked for completing two full sets of challenges(all 2 player + all 3 player or any combination of the obvious). I don't care for it much, but it was a nice unexpected treat.
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Posted by damnedeyez on 02/07/2008 at 05:10:27 pm in Totally Rad Show
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81? Do they give you an unlisted car for getting your Elite license or finishing the game? Or was there a code I missed? (I have 74 of 75 stock, plus the four branded cars they list on sites like gamespot, plus the Steel Wheels for preordering.)
As for finishing, I have all 14 stunt runs to do, most Showtimes to set and like 8 rewards to win (most of which are stunt run/showtime related.) Admittedly, after spending 40 hours racing around at top speed...Showtime is difficult to get into.
Not that it matters now, but I'll have to pay closer attention to the turn signals...hadn't noticed the extent of them before.
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Posted by nroa9882 on 02/06/2008 at 01:15:34 pm in Totally Rad Show
Dude...epic tip! I played the game for a bit, but have put it aside (I got sucked in to COD4 multiplayer...must beat all the challenges!). Now I'm sitting at work and I'm dying to get home and try this. This will work perfectly for my friend who sucks at looking at mini-maps or notifications and I constantly have to tell him where to turn, or where an enemy is. Thanks.
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Posted by cr4sh on 02/06/2008 at 11:58:30 am in Totally Rad Show
Getting in on this pretty late(started a new job and I've fallen behind in all of my on-line media intake) but I thought I would pop in and mention that Burnout Paradise includes a feature to help you make it through races, etc.
***DISCLAIMER: I write the following as a certified Burnout Paraidse fanboy. I unlocked all 81 cars, I have the game 101% complete, and I've played nearly 70 hours of Burnout Paradise in the past couple of week.***
If you are on the roads(the game doesn't give you hints into or out of shortcuts) the game will send you on the shortest route(again excluding shortcuts) and signal you to turn a specific direction at the next intersection. At first I didn't notice this feature, I was fairly overwhelmed by the speed of the game and the intense focus it took to avoid traffic while building boost while making the correct turns. When I did notice this feature I thought it just flashed the name of the street you needed to turn onto on the left or right side of the screen and made a noise. As I got better at the racing I noticed that the turn signal on your vehicle also flashes in the direction you need to turn. And eventually I made a startling realization: The SOUND the it makes is DIFFERENT for left and right turns _and_ the sound/flashing sign are faster the closer you are to the turn. Once I realized this my racing improved astronomically. Without taking my eyes off the blurred pavement and oncoming traffic I could tell which direction I needed to turn and how soon I would need to make the turn. Discovering the full depth of the racing hint thingy was truly a revelation for me and if you haven't noticed it I hope it helps you as much as it did me.
I do miss the old Crash mode, and showtime is indeed a poor substitute(but only by comparison). Overall I think the game is loads of fun and there are very few changes I could even suggest. Two things I wish were included are: a) Custom waypoints which, when activated, the game would guide you to the waypoint the same way it guides you to the end of a race and b) use the race hint thingy to guide players to location specific challenges as well. Everything else I feel works. Even as I closed in on my Burnout Elite license and there were fewer and fewer events to choose from I never got frustrated with driving back to the starting point(or a different event) when I failed an event.
Also here's a hint for online play: when working through the challenges(with 2-8 players) if a challenge requires everyone to get to specific location and it's a long ways away from where you are at(or everyone is spread out), create a short(or long) custom online race that ends close to the challenge location. Doing this really sped along our challenges while also giving us some great fun racing.
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