Review Mania

Time to put on my critic face again. Here we go.

Toy Story 3: The Video Game

This is a platformer AND a sandbox or, as the game developers so cleverly called, a toybox, and this is probably also the best movie game ever made. The platformer's ok if a little too repetitive but the sandbox is awesome. You can play as familiar character, Buzz, Jessie, or Woody. You go around taking missions, but the fun is YOU DON'T HAVE TO! You are free, even encouraged, to have fun and buy more playsets to get more places to explore like Sid's Haunted House, Zurg's SpaceCraft, or an awesome race track. You can also mine gold, fight bandits, race, go ghost busting, blow stuff up with dynamite, shoulder charge people, help army practice parachuting, haunt people or turn them into fairies, and, my favorite, go around zapping everthing with a lazer gun. Racing is awesome but doesn't control well so I prefer to get around on Bullseye the horse or a fire breathing dragon. Now don't be thinking, "Cool, a fantasy dragon!" Actually, it's more like a stuffed Webkinz and the fire turns into pretty little hearts. Yeah. Pretty little hearts. Now onto the glitches. They go from awesome to superlame. Your cars can get stuck and there are annoying audio rough parts. The awesome? I found a patch of ground where you can mind infinite gold, but when I came back later it disappeared. I guess good things don't last forever. Anyways, this game gets an 8.5 out of 10. If you have the choice, you should get the PS3 version. The XBOX and Playstation got superior reviews than the Wii, but the Playstation game lets you play as Emperor Zurg.

Harry Potter 6: The Movie

I don't want to talk about the story, so if you haven't read Harry Potter get of the computer and read a book. Let me tell you the important things. David Yates did an excellent job with my personal favorite Potter movie. The performances are pretty good, but Emma Watson and Dan Radcliffe stand out. The special effects are fine especially with the bridge scene at the beginning. This is the best Potter movie so far, and I recommend it.

8 out of 10