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Trailer Review: Wanted

Posted by John Constantine

Being something of an equal opportunity nerd, I don’t limit myself just to videogame geekery. I am also known to enjoy a comic book now and again. Not graphic fiction, nor graphic novels. Comics, funny books, four-color rags. Some of them involve improbably proportioned men and ladies performing impossible acts of vigilantism. One of my favorite scribes of such material is Mark Millar, the Scottish gent best known for his summer event series called Civil War that saw Iron Man and Captain America punching each other. Millar’s also the latest comics writer to start selling damn near all of his properties to Hollywood studios for big screen adaptations, the first of which actually came out this past summer. Wanted the movie didn’t have a whole lot to do with Wanted the comic book outside of some basic premise and tonal elements, but it was still a decent flick to eat popcorn to. It was simply missing the comic’s bite.

The videogame adaptation of Wanted, due out in early 2009, is notable for a couple of reasons. First, even in trailer form, it looks significantly better than the vast majority of movie-game tie-ins. It’s also a sequel to the movie as opposed to a direct adaptation, which isn’t unheard of, but it’s still an interesting choice for a game not releasing alongside a theatrical or even DVD release. Most exciting, though, is that the Swedish gunslingers behind Bionic Commando’s rebirth, GRIN, are making it. Sure, the verdict’s still out on whether the new Bionic Commando is all that and a bag of chips, but the demo levels I’ve played prove GRIN’s ability to make a mean shooter level. As you can see in this trailer for Wanted, one of the levels has you jumping, dodging, and taking cover vertically through a crashing airplane. That is cool as hell.



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Sonic Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhood
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John Constantine, our superhero, was raised by birds and then attended Penn State University. He is currently working on a novel about a fictional city that exists only in his mind. John has an astonishingly extensive knowledge of Scientology. Ultimately he would like to learn how to effectively use his brain. He continues to keep Wu-Tang's secret to himself.

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