Resident Evil: Degeneration was a pretty good movie. I wouldn’t quite say it deserves the 9.1 rating it got on IMDB, but it’s close. This is the new anime version of Resident Evil. I think I preferred the actual actors over anime, but whatever.

Movie starts in an airport. One of the original survivors of Racoon City (Claire) meets up with Rani and Rani’s aunt. About 15 minutes into the movie all hell breaks lose as the senator tries to leave using a public route. His body guards are then attacked by a zombie. More zombies come, flesh feast begins. They’re now trapped inside. Leon comes in to save the people, including the senator and Claire who are still trapped inside the airport. They get out alive, aside from one of the S.R.T. members being killed, and it goes into the informational part of the movie. We learn the WilPharma created a vaccine for the T virus as the trucks pull up loaded with them.

Few minutes go by, trucks blow up – Inside job. Claire and the head research developer go to WilPharma HQ to get something. HQ blows up – new G virus released. S.R.T. members brother exposed and mutates. Attacks and kills a dozen or so military personell. Leon comes in and saves the day. Movie goes to the “inside man”, who’s trying to sell the data and what-not for the T and G virus strains. Watch the movie to find out the rest.

This movie only got a 6/10 from me. It was a good movie, but a bit too drawn out. The script was spoken as if you were in a game, but not the newer ones, more like Resident Evil 1.. Slow and you could tell they were reading a script most of the time. Action was good, and the animation was great. Lots of booms and bangs.

-Nito

Well, I started playing World of Warcraft about 3 and a half years ago. I played for about 2 months, then stopped until a little over 3 months ago. I got the Burning Crusades, which wasn’t that much of a difference to me, since I always play undead. I waited about 2 weeks after WOTLK was out, to avoid the lag and what-not in the starting area. This expansion is one of the best I’ve seen for any game. As long as you have a character at or above level 55, you’re now able to create a Death Knight, which as all other classes, has three(3) specific talent trees it can follow – Blood, Frost or Unholy.

Blood is a self-healing tree, and was the first spec I played. It’s great for PvP, as you get healed after almost every blow taken, on top of your bloodworms attacking the player and repleneshing your health. But I got bored of that spec, as it’s harder to solo quest with.

I respec’ed to Unholy, which is a lot like my Warlock. You get a minion (all talent trees get one), but yours is like a pet in the sense that it doesn’t have a two(2) minute time limit. Some nice AoE’s (Area Attacks). And the bone shield helps a shitload (40% less damage taken while active).

I haven’t tried Forst yet, but I hear they make great tanks, and even better tanks if you drop a few points in Blood.

Needless to say, I’ve been addictd to WOTLK since I got it. 8/10 from me.

-Nito

I saw the previews for this game, and it was supposed to be this years greatest strategic war game, so I got it for Xbox 360. It might be so, although the game is confusing as shit, and the controls are even worse. On screen click movement for a controller based game doesn’t really do it for me.

Game’s based in the future. Nuclear warfare’s been disbanded, thanks to a worldwide laser net (I think?). Now everything’s done the old fashion way – Tanks and soldiers. So you command a few squads at a time – Single unit selection isn’t an option, which makes the game even worse because each member of that squad has to take out the same target. The camera views are shitty. I can’t even really tell you much about this game, because I only played the first two levels, and then stuck Assassins Creed back in.

Overall, this game got a 4/10 from me. I guess this type of game isn’t the best development project for Ubi – Stick to first person shooters, and you’ll continue to strive.

-Nito

My girlfriend and I saw the previews for this game, and thought it would make a nice edition to our Xbox collection. She’s not much for zombie anything, but being the gamer she is, decided to get it anyways. Not only because I’d play it, but because she wanted to try it out as well. Needless to say, she didn’t like it very much, and after being freaked out after about 10 minutes of game play, called it quits. So, I get the game all to myself, lol.

First of all, I’ve played both Single and Campaign mode. They both do pretty much the same thing, aside from the finale in campaign. However, your best bet would probably be to play this on Live, as I think it was meant to be played that way anyways.

Game play’s smooth, and the graphics are phenomenal. I love zombie anything, and this one got me hooked. I think it would be a better game if you were to earn your way up the levels, instead of being automatically given them all, but heh – whatever. There’s plenty of zombies to shoot, and the “special” breeds are a bitch if you don’t catch them before they get the drop on you. It’s also fun to grab an auto shotgun, and find yourself a car with an alarm, get somewhere high, and make the car alarm go off.

All in all, this was another great choice in games, and will probably be even better once I play it on live.

7.5/10 (Because level jumping is for nubs)

-Nito

At the advice of a friend, I purchased this game for Xbox 360 off Ebay for like $10, which after playing it was well worth every penny. The game starts off kind of slow, and the tutorial is trippy as shit, but slow. After the tutorial, you’ll get into the actual gameplay, which starts out slow, but increases as you make your way through the game.

You’re a trained assassin in a “brotherhood”. You play the top rated assassin in the brotherhood, but you fuck up by breaking the creeds in the first mission you play. You’ll have to earn your way back up the ladder. In order to do this, you’ll need to complete objectives, as well as gathering certain elements throughout the game. These elements consist of flags and view points (I haven’t gotten all that far yet, so this is only in about the first hour of gameplay).

Anyways, game’s fun, and I love being able to play a hand-to-hand combat game instead of firearm based. Kinda gets old, ya know? But, yeah. If you like being able to get up close and personal with your targets, this is definitely the game for you. Awesome graphics, smooth gameplay.

9/10 from me.

-Nito

I can’t even remember when I started playing this game. It’s a free FPS, designed by the K2 Network. There’s five(5) different character types to choose from. Engineer: Specializes in fixing vehicles – Medic: Field heals – Sniper: Long range attack/Recon – Assault: CQC and supression – Heavy: Demo for the most part.

Game was fun, until they hack-apps started getting distributed to skids trying to be bigger than they are. K2 went to work, battling hack mods and memory swappers. Shit, I even got banned at one point, although that was completely my fault for building a api program to control winamp through the game. Quick MAC address change, and that was fixed (Yes, they ban MACs, not IPs).

I stopped playing the game for about eight(8) months, and just recently started up again. Looks like they’ve cleaned up most of the aim bots and other various hack-apps. The thing I think i find the most humorous, is that the developers of the programs rarely use them, it’s once they get leaked that they become a nuisance. My comment towards skid’s that feel the need to use someone elses program to make themselves feel better about themselves – Play the game how it was meant to be played, or write your own apps, simple as that.

-Nito

Alright, so I’ve had this movie for about a year and a half on my HDD, and just watched it tonite. Snakes on a Plane was a pretty good movie. Putting aside the fact that I’m not too fond of snakes, there were a few points in the movie that made me jump, only because for once I wasn’t able to anticipate the scene coming up – Which is definitely a plus.

Movie’s based around a witness to a murder in Hawaii. You see the “bad guy” twice maybe throughout the entire movie. After about 20 minutes, the movie gets moved from Hawaii to an airplane heading to the LAX airport, where the witness will testify against the “bad guy” (I can’t remember his fucking name, sue me).

The flowers have been covered in a pheremones (possibly a misspell), and there’s a timer set to automatically open the door to a crate of venomous snakes. When this happens, all hell breaks loose on the plane. The first snake attack scene is pretty graphic, and lasts about 10 minutes. The captain dies, due to a snake (of course). Mass panic as everyone tries to get away. Cut to witness – Cut back to panic.

They make it to the front room, and barricade themselves in using luggage (yeah, because snakes can’t crawl through any tiny gap…..). More panic, more attacks, more deaths. Side of the plane gets blown out to save them from the snakes. End of the movie’s up to you to watch.

All in all, wasn’t that bad. 6/10

-Nito

I lol’ed during this movie (a lot). So, Alien Raiders is a movie where a rogue group of scientists hunt down aliens that came from a meteorite type stone (it shows a little video about 2/3 the way into the movie). The effects were awesome in the movie, and the acting was good – for the most part. I don’t know what made me not really like this one. It was a bit corny, but I’ll give you an overview of what happened anyways.

Movie starts between two places: Grocery Store and back of a Van. Six(6)? (I’m not reall sure how many scientists start out) go into the grocery store, because they think the “King” alien is there (also revealed later on in the movie). They kill a few people, including a off-duty police officer and take the rest hostage. Their “spotter” gets killed by the cop prior to him being killed. So they’re forced to use a different method of checking. They release the hostages that were cleared by the spotter, and move the rest into the back of the store.

About 30 or 40 minutes into the movie, they start the procedure, which involves the remaining uncleared hostages to drink a half gallon of milk. They sit there for about another 10 minutes before they pull the store manager in first. They cut off one of his appendages and figure out it’s not him. Next please? Anyways, movie goes on, alien shows up, kills a couple of the guys, la-di-da, movie ends with a twist. If you want to know, you’ll have to watch it. I don’t do endings =)

This wasn’t all that good of a movie though. 6/10, because I liked the effects and I love violence.

-Nito

Alright, for the first official post, the most recent movie I’ve watched.

Diary of the Dead is a mix between Blair Witch and Resident Evil, which turned out to really work. This movie was one of the best zombie flicks I’ve seen in awhile.

It started out with a college film crew doing a shoot for a zombie flick (ironic, eh?). The news starts talking about attacks from people believed to be dead. Movie changes to tenseness between all characters, as they try and figure out what’s going on. Skip about 20 minutes into the movie, and all but two(2) of the original group are on the road in a winnebago, when they run into their first actual zombie, which turns out to be a nicely toasted state trooper.

Skip another 10 or 15 minutes, and they’re in a hospital which is empty (you never actually find out if it was due to everyone leaving or dying). Few more zombies killed, one character bitten and another one dead. Another 15 minutes skipped and we make our way to a city where the “gangsters” (or so it would seem) have taken control. The main character uploads the footage he’s been recording to myspace, argument ensues with his girlfriend -> Zombie attack.

I’m not going to go any further, as you get the gist of it. It was a good movie in my opinion. I downloaded it, but if it weren’t available via torrent, I’d still have to say purchasing it would be worth it.

-Nito

Alright, so I’ve decided to start my own blog for the simple fact that I can’t/won’t/don’t want to post my rants and what-not on the main forum anymore, nor do I want to post anything that doesn’t have to do with the Development team on the development blog.

First off, let me introduce myself. I’m Nito Belmont (Alias of course), from the original Belmont Family blackhat group on IRC (not to be confused with the scripties you see claiming to be one in the IRC rooms these days). I’m a software engineer, gamer, RPer, ex-infantry (US Army) and sometimes when it’s nice out, a skateboarder. I’m the founder of Phux Development (Not affiliated with the UNIX OS). We’ve been around since mid 2000, doing various work on the web and for desktop enhancement.

What can you expect to read in this blog? Well, Tons of game reviews, since I’m an avid gamer. Mass movie reviews, as my girlfriend and I watch a shit ton monthly. Quick tips on various things, ranging from gaming, electronics, coding and design. Personal projects most likely, which are usually vb6 or Python (Weird combo, I know). And of course, what would a blog be without the random rants every once in awhile?

Hope everyone gets something from reading the blog at some point.

-Nito