Epinions Recent Reviews for Vash

The King of Iron Fist Returns!

Fri, 1 Jul 2005 20:09:55 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author Vash - There was a time when a certain game so consumed me that I nearly failed out of school. Every lunch found me at the university game room with a stack of quarters and a frenzy in my eyes – Tekken 3 had me heart, mind, and soul. It was more than a...

Depraved and unrelenting... the gaming equivalent of death metal. Action adventure title of the year!

Fri, 1 Jul 2005 20:03:45 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author Vash - Sometimes you can equate a game with a genre of music. Playing it gives you that same emotional high as listening to an album. That being said, SCEA’s God of War is death metal. Not heavy metal. Not even thrash metal. “The Many Misadventure’s...

Amazing and epic metal from the Holy Land

Fri, 3 Sep 2004 12:19:31 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author Vash - It’s the concept album to end all concept albums. It’s about three men’s journey into history and the great flood that cleansed the world from sin. Orphaned Land’s Mabool – The Story of the Three Sons of Seven is an enlightened...

Hero (2004): Fantastic Historical Rewriting with Kung-Fu!

Fri, 3 Sep 2004 12:10:08 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author Vash - Is this a growing trend? Will quality martial arts movies now originate from somewhere outside Hong Kong? If the results look half-way as good as Hero does, then I say "Bring it on!" But perhaps I'm getting a bit ahead of myself. There are reasons,...

A Creepy, Kooky, Ultimately Uninspired Experience

Fri, 3 Sep 2004 11:36:59 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author Vash - There is a bandwagon. And people always want to jump onto it, for good or for ill. But many times, the bandwagon is too small to accommodate all the hangers-on. And so it goes for atmospheric horror video games of the decidedly Japanese tinge. Already...

A Triumphant Return to Form

Fri, 3 Sep 2004 11:25:36 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author Vash - I had written these guys off after Supercharger. Hell, The More Things Change… was the beginning of their decline (although I did dig it for quite some time). After a blistering and staggering first album, Machine Head seemed to have...

The Getaway for PlayStation 2: Wonderful potential only partially squandered

Fri, 11 Jul 2003 01:34:49 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author Vash - Many games try to create cinematic experiences on par with Hollywood - usually with less than desira...

The Dynamic Duo

Sat, 12 Apr 2003 03:29:54 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author Vash - You know chocolate and milk? They are two great tastes that go great together.

In this world, there are many duos that work well: Peanut butter and jelly. Beer and pizza. Penn and Teller. Even Bonnie and Clyde. Leave it to Hong Kong comedian...

Damnation is right...

Fri, 21 Mar 2003 07:04:51 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author Vash - After wrapping up my review of Still Life (go check it out now! I'm here all week and please, try the fish...) I figured I'd stop the "retro-reviewing" of albums that've been released for years and do a little "pre-reviewing" for one that isn't...

Transcending "Metal" one album at a time

Fri, 21 Mar 2003 06:44:33 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author Vash - I have been a fan of heavy music for quite some time (pushing 15 years now) and have had many favorites. I've even come to grips with the various sub-genres and their respective leaders. My collection of music is over 300 albums deep and nearly each and...

Not quite Vash...

Fri, 3 Aug 2001 11:34:03 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author Vash - Well, seeing as how I am actually using Mr. Stampede's name as my moniker, how can I not rate this?

That aside, the Japanese-animated TV show set on the Planet Gunsmoke really started me on the road to toy collecting as as a hobby. Seeing...

The Little Hand-Held That Could

Thu, 2 Aug 2001 14:20:27 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author Vash - In the world of portable electronic gaming, people have had many options. From those venerable wrist-watch LCD games to the old Tiger Electronic handhelds that ruled 5th grade - portable video games seemed pretty primitive. And they looked to stay that...

Bloody, Bloody Death and Lots of Explosions

Fri, 2 Feb 2001 18:21:48 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author Vash - When it comes to Hong Kong cinema, only a few names pop up in most people’s minds – Jackie Chan and Jet Li for example. And it when it comes to Asian directors, moviegoers will unanimously shout out the hallowed name of John Woo. His rocket to...

Sega Dreamcast Grey Console: A Tragedy in the World of Gaming

Thu, 1 Feb 2001 12:06:53 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author Vash - Looks like Goliath actually won this battle. Sony and their ever crushing hype-machine have wiped out one of their main hardware competitors, Sega. It can be hard to comprehend exactly what happened, but it appears Sega is always in the right place at...

Wake up America! It's about time we had a real martial-arts movie here!

Wed, 31 Jan 2001 17:38:11 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author Vash - Isn’t it fantastic that one of the current top-ten movies in the United States is a movie with foreign origins? And with subtitles to boot? It gives me hope and cuts the edge of my cynicism towards the movie-going public. Granted, the quality of films...

Marvel vs. Capcom 2 - Argh! My Brain!

Fri, 14 Jul 2000 01:40:11 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author Vash - 56 playable characters. 3 on 3 tag-team battles. Linkable supers for relentless destruction of your enemies. Utter insanity. These phrases best describe Capcom’s latest fighter now available on the U.S. Dreamcast. And that’s not even scratching the...

Dead Or Alive for PlayStation 1: Beware! Bouncing breastage! A Prequal to the Dreamcast smash

Mon, 22 May 2000 00:11:03 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author Vash - What? A game based on Sega’s Model 2 board on the PSX? How can this be?

Well, to be honest, I was equally surprised to hear about the conversion from the near-perfect arcade translation on the Saturn to the PSX. This would be a true test to...

The KING of Iron Fist

Mon, 22 May 2000 00:05:36 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author Vash - Every once in awhile, something will come along to change the standards by which we judge things. For the Atari 2600, its very existence was revolutionary. The Nintendo Entertainment System showed us how a real game was made (read Metroid) and the Sega...

Boston University: Don't let school get in the way of your education

Sun, 21 May 2000 23:30:42 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author Vash - What to say?

I have yet to meet an alumnus of Boston University who has nothing but good things to say about this school. I definitely don't fit that mold.

Don't get me wrong, I had some great times here. But I won't deny the fact...

What are the politics of nothing?

Sun, 21 May 2000 21:24:26 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author Vash - This is a hard movie to review. I'm not even sure I'm qualified to do so. SLC Punk hit me quite hard. Maybe because a lot of the movie visualized how I used to wish my life were like, or how I had pictured it. A glamorized life of "causing...

Traffic was never this funny

Tue, 21 Dec 1999 20:00:22 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author Vash - What do you get when you put Jackie Chan into a non-Jackie Chan movie? And then add Chris Tucker? And then puree it into a fine goopy mess? Why, you get the runaway hit Rush Hour! A buddy-cop movie that capitalizes on the unmatched (well, nowadays...

A destined punk rock classic!

Wed, 15 Dec 1999 19:46:58 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author Vash - Where to start?

No Use For a Name was once considered a run-of-the-mill pop-punk band back when they had just released "Leche Con Carne" a few years ago. During that time (a well deserved rise in the popularity of punk music), there...

Avoid "Vampires" like garlic

Tue, 16 Nov 1999 19:21:31 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author Vash - This is not a horror movie. Nor is it an action movie. "Vampires" just seems to be an exercise in routine filmmaking. All the elements are there but it just doesn’t work because of bad execution. I feel bad for the book it’s based on, Vampire$...

Who wants some?

Wed, 10 Nov 1999 19:24:54 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author Vash - SYSTEM INFO

K6-III 400 / 160mb RAM

Diamond Viper 770 (TNT2) 32MB Ram

SBLive! Value

First-person shooters (FPS) have captured the hearts of gamers. It is a true phenomenon. Unlike any other genre in computer gaming history, the...

An American Movie in Hong Kong Style

Wed, 10 Nov 1999 18:56:22 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author Vash - I think Laurence Fishburn’s character, Morpheus, said it best when he proclaimed:

"No one can be told what The Matrix is."

The closest explanation fails to carry with it the sheer impact that experiencing it has. Similar...