BURTON REVIEWS (and news)

After a grievous delay and less than enthusiastic receptions to the previews of The Order 1886 I went into this game worrying that this would be yet another disappointing entry into the awkward early years of the next generation. However the first party studio behind it, Santa Monica , the twisted and blood thirsty minds behind the God of War series, gave me hope in the quality of this generations next triple A game. While this game hasn’t quite lived up to the reputation of excellence that the PlayStation’s first party games have in the past it is definitely still a product worth experiencing. The story of The Order 1886 takes us back to Victorian London and follows Galahad and his squad, knights of the Order, as they have to stamp out a rebellion that is erupting within the city. All while maintaining their sacred oath of protecting mankind from the Werewolf, or Lycan, infestation. While the story’s grounded tone and cool concept of a company of Van Helsing-esque badass’ protect...

With a very impressive heritage that makes my Sci-Fi loving heart flitter with the unique and interesting District 9 and the down right awesome Elysium and now the upcoming promise of an actually good new entry into the Alien series, Neil Blomkamp had me instantly on board for his new movie. While I did go in with more tempered expectations than I did, or will do, for the afore mentioned movies I still had a very large amount of faith in the already proved brilliant talent involved. That may have been a mistake. The story of Chappie takes place in the near future where the police forces are now filled with robots, each with a basic AI system that allows them to not need a human controller to operate them when in the battlefields. But now their creator, Deon Wilson (Dev Patel), wants to push this amazing scientific achievement even further and creates the first authentic artificial intelligence, Chappie (a Blomkamp regular: Sharlto Copley), with a consciousness all of its own. And ...