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Show Nintendo's Metroid Prime Is a Bug Killer When Will Insect Injustice End? long Knves Drawn Rainer Maria Polyvinyl Records 00 jfj TN ,r "Metroid Prime" Nintendo GameCube ecipe for a tasty album: Mix equal U Mith parts simple-on- - Sonic Youth and Pavement, toss in three cups of sweet and sour Sleater Kinney, garnish with lyrics laced with personal emotion. Hooray for an alternative nation's musical cookbook! By following its simple directions, Rainer Maria has succeeded in producing a record n sure to please rock. cravings for Knives effort Drawn, the fourth Long by the Wisconsin natives s who adopted their band name from of a German poet, is nothing shocking. Absent is the experimental noise of their pioneering ancestors, but each song is tightly crafted, intelligent and full of heart. Lead singer Caithlin De Marrais dominates with pleasingly vocals reminiscent of riot grrl-er- a bands such as Seven Year 3itch and Bikini Kill (though De Marrais pitches a less aggressive, more melodic tone). Fellow members William Kuehn and Kyle Fischer contribute their snapping drums and ringing guitar to round things out. Savor the nature of lyrics formed out of actual poetry (no artificially penned ingredients here!), and be sure to let it all settle before engaging in any dance. Oh, and I really loved No. 2 (not No. j that was the dude from "Star late-nig- ht post-moder- two-third- off-ke- y head-bobbin- g Trek"...Right.) -- Cdidid jeremyred-mag.co- m jamiered-mag.co- fl sum m mm 1:11 if mm immmm Also Showing THE RING and STANDING IN THE SHADOWS OF MOTOWN TROMADANCE is January 22 6:00 to Midnight and Free (out offour) by Peter Koeisch think the editors wanted to 1 throw me a curve ball by hav- ing me review a game instead of an album. OK, so this is the first game I have ever reviewed, plus I barely understand my Apple Macintosh from 1984, so if you are actually going to read on, just bear with me. I will review this album I mean game to the best of my technology-inep- t abilities. Here it goes... At "Metroid Prime's" beginning, the player is immediately c immersed into a and vast realm aboard a space station. The station has been sci-f- i hijacked by vermin this all takes place in the distant quadrants of deep space. The mission is to seek out the disturbance and destroy it. Although they could just send in countless amounts of military personnel, they have left this entirely in the hands of one Henry J. Metroid. Just kidding, there is no Henry J. It's just Metroid. Editor's note: Her name is Samus and she's in a special suit. In the far nether regions of Tallon IV, cockroaches and other nefarious entities have taken over and brutally killed the workers on this space station. Metroid has been sent to alleviate the disturbance and restore power to the futuristic government by which she was sent...I think. I didn't get that far. Anyway, Metroid is a sort of a future Orkin Man, equipped with laser gun, laser cannon and electric missiles. But poor Metroid's task is not an easy one. She has been sent to kill all those nasty bugs and make an evil-fre- e space station. Since this is the game's basic fundamental, the game is fashion, played in a to it computmaking comparable er greats like "Doom," "Quake" or even "Quake II." The player is Metroid in a perspective, which is cool because she has all of these robotic technological advancements. Henry J. err, Metroid can turn into a ball to go faster or move through cramped spaces, and scan areas 1, m you'll miss this week's v" Y f At g i Anyway, Metroid is a soxt of a future Orkin Man, equipped with laser gun, laser cannon and electric missiles for signs of life or clues to the main enemies' sordid agendas. But the game is not so robotic that it consumes the missions and makes the game boring. Far from it. There is still a very human element, making this game a blast to play. This space realm is filled with dark-sidecreatures and agendas. The complex missions at hand surpass any previous gaming agenda, like getting poor Frogger across the street before he gets squashed by the oncoming cars. This game is so realistic, I nearly shit myself. Luckily, I life-lik- self-propelle- d u ' ' . first-perso- n Mumor . J first-perso- n C"""3 ' I 0 hyper-realisti- flesh-eatin- JG f7VT IMF- - Retro Studios e, d realized that my TV was only large and my overloaded senses relaxed when realized I was just squinting at a very tiny screen. Once I overcame the fact that the GameCube controller has so damn many buttons (in fact, it has 10 more than the Atari's universal red button), I was excited to find out what each one could make Metroid do. Whether it be rolling around as a ball, zooming in on an object needing to be scanned for clues, automatically see metroid, page R12 Skatin' Utes hockey games. 4. - T itii . . (til ' w 1 Saturday, 118 Don't miss collegiate hockey at Steiner Ice Arena (across from the Eccles Tennis Center on Guardsman Way). Game time 7 p.m. high-spee- ft ' Washington "Mental Health Night" Admission only $1. The University Neuropsychiatric Institute and Cardinal Healthcare will provide information on mental health awareness, especially detection and treatment of depression and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. f - , ' I d www.utehockey.com IKES m uimism tmnn & Camespot.com said it was a masterpiece. Stufsaid it sucked, but he didn't play it. Pete doesn't know what he's talking about. RED Magazine January 16, 2003 Rs |
