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[email protected] Technique Entertainment Editor: Daniel Spiller 17 Friday, Assistant Entertainment Editor: September 12, 2008 Entertainment Jennifer Aldoretta Sexy Jesus rocks in new comedy premiered motion picture continues Re l e a s e Da t e : Aug. 27, 2008 the tradition of good things coming from Sundance. Di R e c t o R : Andrew Flemming Steve Coogan plays Dana Marschz, Ge n R e : Comedy a struggling drama teacher in the rap- idly degenerating town of Tuscon, Ra t i n G : R for language includ- ing sexual references, brief Arizona, a place he explains as “where nudity and some drug content dreams go to die.” Together, with his two awkwardly st a R R i n G : Steve Coogan, Cath- passionate drama students, Marschz erine Keener is living the dream, writing stage ad- aptations for Hollywood fi lms. Our take: « « « « « His dreams are quickly crushed, however, when his lackluster play By Kevin Shain is railroaded by his nemesis, the Contributing Writer school drama critic. Every once in a while, a movie Furthermore, drama becomes comes along almost out of the blue one of the only art electives left and completely defi es all expecta- for students to take, catapult- tions. Hamlet 2 happens to be one of ing his class attendance from those movies. a double dose of drama die- Now some may be wondering, hards to a handful of inner- “But doesn’t everyone die at the end city teens. of Hamlet? How can there possibly be Adding insult to injury, a sequel?” the fi nancially unstable Th e answer is quite simple, really: school administration time travel. Now I won’t get into some has planned for the dis- of the more detailed bits of the plot, solution of the drama such as the song and dance number program at the end of “Rock Me Sexy Jesus,” but I will tell the semester. you that Hamlet 2 is as much a work Not to be outdone of art as its prequel. Th is 2008 Sundance Film Festival- See Hamlet, page 21 Image Courtesy of Focus Features Spore provides cute, light-hearted fun By Andrew Ho either an herbivore or a carnivore, greatest amount of detail that a creature is animated beautiful- Contributing Writer gaining new parts as ‘upgrades’ in player will put into Spore will be ly (no matter how many limbs its evolutionary arms race. Bigger the editing tools provided to de- or toes it may have) and the en- Th ree years is a long time to and bigger the adorable bacteria sign buildings, vehicles, and of viron- ments are wide CITY SCENE wait for anything. In the case of (or whatever you’d like to call it) course, the species themselves. and varied. Th e the long overdue Spore, it spent gets, until it makes the leap from Spore Creature Cre- s o u n d t r a c k nearly eight years in produc- a vast primordial soup to dry ator was released is oftentimes GT Six Flags Night tion and planning. I land, reaching the Crea- earlier in the year nonexistent or can even recall ture phase. to give players a very simple in Tech’s annual night at Six back in 2005 After a lot of eating, head-start, and by the initial phases Flags will take place next Friday, when Will fi ghting and socializing Sept. 1 gamers had and changes aptly Sept. 19 starting at 6 p.m. Ticket Wright visited with other species, your already created according to what’s prices are currently $13 but will Georgia Tech. pack of creatures press over 3 million happening on the be increasing to $18 after today. Even though on to the Tribe phase. diff erent spe- screen. Free time tickets for shuttle bus- Spore wasn’t offi - As in previous phases, cies. Even bet- Particularly for folks ses to and from the park are also cially announced your species can go about ter, all 3 million in Computational Media, available. until a month or so Images Courtesy of Whitneywarring Williams on other tribes or make plus creations have debates will no doubt rage on later at that year’s Electronic allies out of them. a possibility of making an appear- whether Spore is a cosmically- Entertainment Expo (E3), As your species begins to dom- ance in your game, making Spore scaled toy rather than a true Indigo Girls Concert news got around fast, and thus, inate the planet, which by then is perhaps the fi rst (and undoubtedly game, much like Th e Sims is Atlanta’s Indigo Girls, a duo the waiting began. the Civilization phase, you lead the largest) ‘massively single-play- considered a virtual doll-house made up of Amy Ray and Em- As of Sept. 7, the wait was one particular faction of your spe- er online game’. Spore even comes by many. Additionally, the fi rst ily Saliers, are performing at over. cies in uniting the world under with community and export tools four phases of the game pale Chastain Park Amphitheater to- Th e theme of Spore is cen- one philosophy. Lastly, and un- just in case you want to show off in comparison to the space morrow night, Sept. 13 at 8 p.m. tered around the idea of evolu- doubtedly the phase that contains your latest cre- frontier in terms of scope and Tickets range from $30 to $55. tion, where the player basically the vast majority of gameplay ation’s dance to complexity, passing by almost starts off as a microscopic (and depth, your civilization launches your friends on too quickly to be en- surprisingly cute) microorgan- into the skies with their very own YouTube. joyable. Egyptian exhibition ism, skipping through billions spaceship. Beyond the in- Whether you’re of years to the point where said While this might seem over- tricate details and someone who Th e Atlanta Civic Center is creature ascends to the stars whelming to many, it has to be God-like scope rarely plays games hosting National Geographic’s and beyond. said that swimming around as a of the gameplay, beyond Solitaire second exhibition of ancient Spore is divided into fi ve cute little cell is easier than a game there’s the typi- or Texas Hold’Em on Egyptian artifacts including items phases of evolution, begin- of Pac-Man. Th e diffi culty ramps cal Maxis charm that weekends, or a devoted from Tutankhamun’s and other ning at the Cell stage where up ever so slowly throughout the can be seen everywhere in Spore. gamer (or one who’s simply torn pharaohs’ tombs. Th e exhibi- the player swims around as a game, and there’s always fun to While the graphics may not be on whether Spore is worth the tion begins on Nov. 15 and lasts miniscule cell to gather food as be had in each phase. Perhaps the photorealistic by any means, every long wait), it’s an easy choice. through May 2009. Entry prices have not yet been announced. ENTERTAINMENT Technique • September 12, 2008 • 19 Braid enchants with time-altering adventure By Hamza Hasan standard for the rest of the game set of aligned books waits to be create a memorable, challeng- anyone else. Assistant Online Editor to follow, which it does quite opened. ing and immersive experience, Many times, Braid becomes faithfully. With quiet, almost As the player walks into each the last of which is rare for a more of an experience and less of While most games on Xbox New Age sounds a la Jonathan podium containing a book, a se- platformer. a game, which speaks volumes Live Arcade are fl uff and a waste Elias, the sound design perfectly ries of literature appears on the Th e only main goal of the for its credibility. Easily the best of space, equivalent to the Wii accompanies the gameplay and screen, vaguely yet beautifully game is to collect jigsaw puzzle XBLA game to come out, over library, a recent release has stood the visuals. depicting the story. pieces and arrange them into 50,000 copies were downloaded out quite noticeably. It takes de- Th ough the individual as- Th e poetic value of the the picture. All six pictures in the fi rst week of its release. cades-old styles and stories and pects of art and sound fortify game’s script is evident, enlight- unlock the fi nal level, which is I found the title compelling, creates a new, rich gameplay ex- the experience of Braid, the ening the reader and player with easily one of the most intense downloaded the trial version perience that is simply incompa- game does not depend on these a deep story, even from the fi rst conclusions I’ve ever seen. and simply bought it immedi- rable. Th is game isBraid . artifacts like other games do. For few lines. Th ose who enjoy good Th e pictures themselves can ately after I fi nished the trial, Th e setting of Braid is a Ma- its gameplay experience alone, literature will most certainly en- be used to solve puzzles in real something I’ve never done, even rio-style archetype: the protago- Braid is easily as good as other joy Braid. time, showing how intercon- with full length games. nist must fi ght a series of mon- games like Halo 3, GTA IV and Th e main focus of Braid is nected the components of the With a script worthy of a Pu- sters, solve puzzles and traverse Call of Duty 4.

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