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By Erik Waters
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There is no arguing that
Wii Sports is a great game.
Packaged with the Nintendo
Wii console on release day,
Wii Sports became the perfect
blend of fun and tutorial with
its five simple sports games
on one disc. While most
of the sports games played
'Superbad' saves the day
By Grant Wallace
Staff Writer
grannntß7@yahoo .com
“I am McLovin.”
With that one line,
Superbad hits successfully
made my favorite comedy
movie of the year so far.
Who is McLovin you
may ask (warning, spoilers
ahead). According to Fogel
(aka McLovin), his fake ID
has him as a 25 year old
Hawaiian organ donor. His
friend Evan sees him more
like an Irish R&B singer.
And according to his
“friend” Seth, his picture
makes him look like a
future pedophile. Fogel’s
reasoning behind all of
this? “Everyday hundreds
of kids go to the liquor
store with fake IDs that say
they’re 21. Just how many
21 -year-olds are there in this
town? It’s called strategy.”
Throughout the entire
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incredibly close to their real
life counterpart, one game
didn’t feel quite right with
its summarized gameplay:
baseball.
While hitting and
pitching controlled well with
the new Wii controls, other
important baseball aspects,
such as base running and
fielding, were oddly left to
the computer A1 to control.
Hits were calculated on
where the ball landed in the
park and base running felt
similar to old-school sandlot
“ghost man" rules. In other
words, Wii Sports' baseball
feels nothing like America’s
favorite pastime.
Enter the new baseball
game simulation The BIGS.
Taking the same motion
sensing controls of Wii Sports'
baseball. The BIGS manages
tt i add the complete experience
two-hour movie, the band
of misfits forms together
to complete one common
goal: Get booze, get to the
party, and get laid.
Seth (Jonah Hill) and his
best friend Evan (Michael
Cera) were miraculously
given the chance of a
lifetime to get alcohol for
the evening’s party. Seth
sees this as his last chance
to get with Jules (Emma
Stone). His approach:
get her so drunk that she
would have to sleep with
him (among other various
sexual acts he wishes she
will do to him).
Evan respects the
female population a bit
more, and hopes he will
finally confess his true
feelings for his long time
crush Becca (Martha
Maclsaac) tonight. Seth
mainly uses Fogel just to
get the alcohol, holding
a grudge against him
of controlling and playing in
a baseball game. Whether it
makes this feat accessible and
fun for all players is about to
be discussed.
One of the first things
that players will notice when
starting a quick game of
The BIGS is how this isn’t
exactly an accurate portrayal
of real baseball. Sure, some
of today ’s hometown heroes
are exponentially expanding
in size by the season, but in
The BIGS , everyone but the
batboys look like they tire
possible gym buddies with
Jose Conseco.
On top of the beefed
up players with their edgy
appearances and attitudes,
the game itself is an over
dramatized spectacle of
impossiblecatches .smash hits,
and extremely aggressive base
running. With an all-amund
caricaturized presentation of
baseball. The BIGS is best
described as a resurrection of
aggressive sports games like
the glory days of NFL Blitz.
Gameplay wise. The
BIGS is rather, excuse the
for getting into the same
university as Evan, a school
he did not get into. Seth
Rogan (Kncxked Up) and
Bill Hader (Saturday Night
Live) act as two police
officers who are about as
qualified in their line of
work as is Kelso from Iliat
70s show .
My first impression
of the movie was “how
could they have possibly
gotten away with just the
R rating?" The MPAA is
obviously more concerned
with showing actual sex
scenes then the description
of them. All through the
movie, Seth makes endless
references to exactly how
sex is performed, how
he wishes to perform it,
and other various acts that
would not make it past my
editor for this review.
Yet however raunchy
the dialogue may seem,
the movie is downright
hilarious. I can easily see
why the movie has received
high ratings and had a
consistent number one spot
at the box office.
Having seen it twice
now, the movies' best
quality is its infinite one
liners. Due to the strong
language, lines like “I have
a boner” won’t fit well with
ever-quotable Napoleon
Dynamite fans, but they
will leave you busting a
gut. For the benefit of the
few of you who have been
slackers and not seen this
movie yet, I will save you
the laughs and strongly
recommend you see one of
the funniest films this year.
5/5
pun, hit or miss. Batting is the
biggest thing that takes awhile
to get used to. Swinging
doesn’t feel quite as natural
as Wii Sports due to a nasty
delay when swinging the
physical Wii-mote and the
on-screen player swinging,
but it does become easier with
practice and timing. Delayed
swing aside, the options at bat
feel a lot more in depth here as
ball placement and coinciding
base runners help increase
strategic plays.
Pitching on the other
hand feels much tighter and
expansive in The BIGS as
opposed to Wii Sports' two
button pitch availability.
Players are given four or five
solid pitches that .when thrown
right, can be downright nasty
for batters. Even little things
like twisting of the wrist and
flick speed is registered on the
Wii-mote to make every pitch
different than the last. It’s just
a shame that the rest of the
game isn’t as fun as pitching
and hitting.
Despite the irony that
Wii Sports baseball doesn't
Cartel climbs the charts
By Grant Wallace
Staff Writer
grannntS 7 @yahoo .com
Cartel has reached
the pinnacle of their
career. With their major
label debut in stores by
the time you read this,
they’ve clearly made a
jump from the two-track
demo tape they handed
me for free nearly four
years ago.
Slowly but surely.
Cartel was
giving my
hometown of
Conyers a spot
on the map, a
spot previously
owned by the
rising young
actress Dakota
Fanning. Being
in the only other
band to come
out of Conyers,
my own band
certainly has
our work cut
out for us, but
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Cartel has given us that
hopeful proof that it
doesn't matter where you
come from (despite their
decision to claim Atlanta
as their home now).
But I don’t hold
grudges. Unless you
decide to take up
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even allow players to field
the ball and round the bases,
the biggest downfall of The
BIGS by far is the lackluster
fielding and base running
controls. Fielding is an
absolute pain, mainly because
the overpowered hitters will
smoke it out of the infield
before players even have
a chance to lay exit for the
ball. Even when the ball is
hit mid-field where a player
shexild easily make the play,
the game has a tough time
choosing who is closest to the
ball which oftentimes turns
into an unnecessary hit.
In the rare excurrence
that a player stops the ball with
the seemingly useless piece
of leather situated on their
hand, the game goes through
another complete relapse
w ith throwing to bases. Some
developer somewheredecided
that it would be a neat idea to
have people flick their wrists
in one of the four directions to
throw to a bag, but the game
has real trouble deciding what
direction a Wii-mote has been
flicked in. The bottom-line is
residence in a giant
plastic bubble of course.
Since their initiation
to the scene in 2004
with the Ransom EP,
Cartel released their LP
Chroma the following
year to put us at their
current discography.
On August2lst,their
newest installment will
grace the streets, simply
titled. Lose it. Pulling in
a rather lengthy 15 tracks
in a quicker-paced 52
minutes, Cartel follow
in line like you were all
hoping they would. That
is, if you were a Chorma
fan. For the Ransom
crowd, we had a nice
run.
Cartel bring back that
candy coated pop-rock
expect a ton of unearned ruas
to flcxxl in with this sloppy
mechanic. Thankfully, and
mercifully, the developers
have also assigned bases to
the Wii-mote’s D-pad for easy
throwing.
Overall, The BIGS really
has some game-hindering
flaws that keep this arcade
baseball game from beaming
the next great spoils game.
When it works.it really works,
but those moments are too
few and far between and will
possibly end up frustrating
gamers. With really only
three differing modes to play,
including a slightly barebones
Create-a-R(x>kie mcxle, this
game is a disappointment
for sports and Nintendo Wii
enthusiasts looking for that
complete baseball experience.
Just don't forget to dust off
that copy of Wii Sports ever)'
so often.
Waters’ rating
7.0
that made Epic Records
lose it (pun intended),
which led to the labels
re-release of Chorma
and their brand new
sophomore album. If
you caught a glimpse of
the quintet on “Band In
a Bubble”, and hopefully
just a glimpse, you can
see why they are taking
off they way they are.
Nothing says fame and
fortune like a MTV/Dr.
Pepper reality show
about making
this album in just
20 days. Fact
of the matter
is, there is a
rather apparent
two-year gap
between their
releases, so the
actual reality of
this show is a bit
ironic.
But the
bottom line
is this. Cartel
writes hits, big
hits. Racking
in a steady 40K plays
a day on Myspace, it’s
easy to see people are
taking notice. Love them
or hate them, you have
to admit they’re giving
Fall Out Boy a run for
their money. And Dakota
Fanning.