A new month and a new Geekcast.
This week we cover some of the finer things as we wait for the next wave of great games. We discuss many different movies this week from comic spin-off movies to zombie post-apocalyptic movies. We also talk about some of the news that was dropped over the week, such as a circular Monopoly.
You can give it a listen after the jump or download from iTunes.
Developed by Visceral Games and published by Electronic Arts, Dead Space:Extraction is a new on-rails shooter set before the events of last year’s survival horror title, Dead Space. Released for the Nintendo Wii, the game utilizes the wiimote and nunchuk controller to allow players to gun down and dismember alien zombies from a new point of view. I recently got my hands on the title and gave it a run-through, but does this shooter make the cut?
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Protagonists. They come in all shapes, sizes, colors, and creeds. The most successful of these creatures seem to be the strong and silent type. From Link onward, a majority of our protagonists have been mute or near-mute with fairly generic personalities. This can be used to great effect or detriment on behalf of the creator, depending on the quality of writing to flesh out the character. Two of the most recently successful of these silent heroes shall be our subjects for today’s Thursday Throwdown.
