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Reviews: music & game
FMUSIC
Sigur Ros
☆☆☆☆
Let's just skip a lengthy introduction and get straight to the point. This
album is incredible. You owe it to yourself to listen to this. Put away your Motorhead albums and give this one a chance.
From Iceland, Sigur Ros creates beautiful, ambient music that sounds like it's from a movie soundtrack. In fact, their songs have been in movies. Remember that scene in The Life Aquatic when Bill Murray and his crew discover what they were
ing heavy section. "Milano" is another favorite with its driving energy and soar-
looking for? That excellent song was Sigur Ros's "Staralfur".
Sigur Ros has had several successful albums, and with Takk... they make their best one to date. The track "Se Lest" has a great use of bells and xylophone and a great middle section with circus-influenced music. "Saeglopur" has an incredible outro alongside a mind blowing vocals. One of the best tracks is "Hoppinolla" featuring a slow building piano intro, the perfect soundtrack for waking up in the morning.
Sigur Ros creates some of the most emotional music you'll ever hear but in a totally refreshing and groundbreaking way. None of the songs are in English, so you won't know any of the lyrics - vocals are rarely used anyway. Instead, the instrumentals supply all the power and will leave you feeling things you never have before.
You can hear the entire album for free at www.myspace.com/sigurros. You owe it to yourself to listen to this.
- Chris Brower
GAME
Ultimate Spider-Man PS2, Xbox, Gamecube
Another Spider-Man video game,and I jumped at the idea of adding this one
☆☆☆
to my collection. I enjoy being the Spider-Man character and doing whatever the superhero can.
Ultimate Spider-Man dives into the comic book series of the same name and follows it pretty well. Although the storyline in the game has not shown up in the comics yet, it would make quite a good read if it did.
The dual player facet is pretty good. Being able to control the villian Venom is a plus. While
The graphics for the game are cellshading and the use of comic panels
Venom is a plus. While Spider-Man relies more on web-swinging and web-zipping to cover ground more quickly, Venom relies on his massive Hulk-like jumps to cover great distances. Most of Venom's missions are destroying things that try to kill him, while Spider-Man is saving people.
The gameplay shadows much of Spider-Man 2: The Game where you can explore New York. But since Spider-Man is much younger, you don't learn all the cool Spider-Man maneuvers and fewer random crimes pop up, so some of the replay value is lacking.
make it feel like your watching a comic book in motion. But I do wish it had a movie function to watch some of the scenes again.
Ultimate Spider-Man
is a good game. But it is way too short. There could be so much more, but it ends too soon and leaves you wanting more.
10
- Chris Moore