Game Trailers

Just been looking over Eurogamer.TV and come across some great new trailers.

First up is Speedball 2 which I guess should technically be Speedball 2 v2 or something as they're not calling it Speedball 3. Basically it's a remake of the Amiga classic looking to regain the spirit of the original for PC and probably Next Gen consoles. Considering the Bitmap Brothers are behind this one, hopefully it won't be shit.

The other video which caught my attention was the teaser for the new Burnout which as now been officially named Burnout Paradise and will be coming out on Xbox 360 and PS3. Not much to be seen in the teaser as it's not due out for sometime yet, but if they can keep it fun, I'm going to look forward to it. Although alarm bells are ringing when they mention it's going to be a "free-roaming experience" which sounds like the mechanic used in the recent Need For Speeds and Test Drive Unlimited. To be honest, I prefer the conventional menu style for selecting what objective to tackle next. I hope they re-introduce the "burnout" which the series was named after. It was re-introduced in Burnout 4.5, AKA Burnout Dominator on PSP (And PS2) and it works so well.

Anyway, I should probably go to bed now and stop wasting my time watching videos online.

Bullshit!

A program which is currently airing every Tuesday at 8pm on BBC3 called The Bulls*** Detective annoys me. It's basically a ripoff of the excellent Penn & Teller: Bullshit show aired in America (recently finished completing my collection of all episodes aired in the states). It's such a clone that the people at the BBC basically saw the US show and remade for the UK, even down to the show title (Although censored as it's pre-watershed). The UK show covers the same subjects, although it does tackle them in a different way. Where in the US show, the hosts never actually interview the interviewees themselves, they just comment on recorded footage of them meaning the interviewee doesn't have the opportunity to argue back, in the UK show they have "investigators" who actually appear to go hands on to deal with the subject of the show.

However, the US it's presented in a much more entertaining fashion, with Penn and Teller using their magic tricks to help show how silly claims made are and the ways they use their unique form of editing and voice overs to make the interviewees out to be the idiots they are (such as those claiming magnet-therapy is real). That said, I did disagree with their episode about passive smoking, which they've acknowledged is now inaccurate using more recent studies and the episode about gun control, which I do understand why Americans are so keen on guns, I still think it's a bad idea for them to be available to the public

While both shows do their job of exposing commonly ill-conceived ideas about things, the main thing that pisses me off is just how close a clone of the show the UK show is. They could have at least changed the title and tried to cover more subjects specific to the UK so I don't feel so patronised to be told it all again after watching the US show. If you've not had a chance to see the US show, I'd strongly recommend it, some shows are obvious from the outset despite the loons that believe the subject matter, but some episodes are real eye openers.