So, WipEout HD has been released on the PSN. I got it, and needless to say, I’m prety impressed with it. It runs in full 1080p, 60fps and it looks absolutely beautiful. My TV only supports up to 1080i though. 
For those who aren’t familiar with the WipEout series of games, basically, it’s a racer with mega-fast gravity vehicles and weapons. Kinda similar to the F-Zero games.
About the only criticism is that all the tracks are rehashed from the two PSP WipEout titles. But I’ve never played them, so that doesn’t affect me in the slightest. And apart from that, nobody seems to have a bad thing to say about the game. And it also has trophies. 
It also has a rather cool new feature: Photo Mode. You can pause the game at any point and use a virtual camera to take a photo of the scene. You can move around, zoom in and out and tilt the camera, as well as take pictures from inside the vehicle and a fixed point looking down on the track. And you can then get some cool post-processing effects like editing the saturation, motion blur, speed blur, and mess around with the focus and aperture settings. And you can then export them as full 1920×1080 JPEGs. Here’s a few I did, which are completely shit compared to some of the ones I’ve seen floating around the net.
I also watched the new Rambo film last night. I managed to pick it up on Blu-Ray for a tenner, and since I loved the originals and heard good stuff about the new ‘un, though I’d give it a go.
OMGWTFBBQ!?
This movie is AWESOME. There’s not much in terms of plot (as to be expected with Rambo. Basically - missionaries go into Burma, get caught, Rambo goes and gets them out, killing half the Burmese army in the process), but the sheer amount of action and violence more than makes up for it. I lost count of the many times I went “Whoa, that is fucking awesome!”, because someone got ripped in half or their head blown off or their throat ripped out. There is so much violence it’s unbelievable, yet, it doesn’t at any point seem to feel over-the-top.
Apparently, Rambo V is in the works. Lets see how that turns out.
Brooks Kranock Says:
uhm yeah i can digg it
Nilsa Wiler Says:
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