Song Of The Half: Facade by: Disturbed!

A fantastic song!

We here at Hellinspace in conjunction with our other site, HellsDepot are introducing a new thing that we hope will give you guys even more opportunity to find some really cool Horror/Scifi entertainment to enjoy!

That being the item, 'of the half'! What does that mean... Well simply put, we have 6 categories in which we regularly write about, and so every month we are going to award a particular item from one of those categories that our staff have found that we really like, and that deserves special merit! 

And for this month we thought that we would mention the song, 'Facade' from Disturbed's 2008 album: 'Indestructible'! Let's just put it this way... I can tell you why I like this song, but for more information why not just check out this song for yourself!

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4 Awesome Crossover Fighting Games

One thing that became popular back in the 1990s was the use of crossover games, rather they be crossovers between 2 competitive fighting games or cross overs between a competitive fighting game, and another game or a competitive fighting game between 2 other games that initially not a fighting games at all.

With that said, I thought that you guys might enjoy these awesome cross over fighting games!

At number 4: Street Fighter X Mega Man (2012):

'Ryu' from the Street Fighter series vs, 'Mega Man' from the, 'Mega Man' series!

At number 3: Mortal Kombat Vs. DC Universe (2008):

Mortal Kombat Vs. DC Universe brings together the good, the bad & the ugly from a classic video game, and a series of classic comics that are the basis from some great video games!

At number 2: Battletoads & Double Dragon (1993):

Battletoads & Double Dragon... A good combo, eh?

At number 1: Marvel Vs. Capcom (1994):

Marvel Vs. Capcom... A classic video game!

Top Five Killer Disturbed Songs

David Draiman playing with Disturbed live in Philadelphia in 2001!

You know I will be honest and say that I have only gotten in to the music of, 'Disturbed' recently... The truth is though, is that this band that has been around since the 90s and is pretty bad ass!

The reason that I say this is the fact that there sound is truly spectacular, I mean they seem anyway to me to take the best part of a lot of heavy metal bands of the 90s, including: Metallica & Marilyn Manson as well as Nine Inch Nails, and turn that in to a sound that is all there own!

So for those of you guys who are fans, I thought you guys would enjoy this, and for those of you haven't heard them yet... Well I thought that you guys would enjoy the 5 songs that I would consider to be the top 5 best songs they have ever made! So enjoy!

At number 5: Indestructible (2008), from the album with the same title.

For  number 4:  Asylum (2010), from the album with the same title.

The next one on the block at number 3: The Night (2009), from the album, 'Indestructible'.

At number 2: Warrior (2010), a song that is also from the album, 'Asylum'.

And last but not least, at number 1: Meaning Of Life (2000), from the album, 'The Sickness'.

Mortal Kombat Vs. DC Universe (2008) - Video Game Review

[caption id="attachment_330" align="alignright" width="220"] Official Score = 2 1/2 Devils[/caption]

Being a gamer from way back I have come to truly see the harmony in the diversity of popularity in games over the decades... Yeah I said it, but I am not talking about some sort of strange metaphysical, 'can listen to the Earth's song type of thing'...

No, what I am talking about more directly has to do with having seen one generation of popular game turn in to the next... A great example of this is that when I first started  playing video games, the style that everyone seemed to shoot for was RPG/2D shooter games... And going in to the 90s,  it was competitive fighting video games and RPGs... ( I have to admit that I kind of lost some time in between finishing High School. and starting Hellinspace,) but since starting Hellinspace, it has become primarily first person shooter games.

So it was with some delight when I discovered the cross over game, 'Mortal Kombat Vs. The DC Universe' (2008)!

Published by: Midway Games, this awesome cross over game had characters such as: 'Superman', 'Batman', 'Green Lantern', 'Wonder Woman' and a bunch of other superheroes and villains from the DC Comic universe, as they battle against the likes of the classic video game characters: 'Scorpion', 'Sub-Zero', 'Kano' and a ton of other great characters from the classic video game series, 'Mortal Kombat'!

[caption id="attachment_2729" align="aligncenter" width="450"] 'Superman' as he is taking down, 'Raiden'![/caption]

Now this game was developed for the XBox 360 as well as the Playstation 3... Unfortunately though, I haven't played the Playstation 3 version of this game yet, but I can tell you this about the XBox 360 version of this game... It has great graphics... Fun music... And well if you were a fan of both of these individual franchises before playing this game, then I think you will find it a lot of fun to play this as a cross over or just fighting one set of characters or the other!

The main problems with the, 'XBox 360' version of this game is that the controls are hard to learn, the fatalities are almost impossible to do, and after you beat it a few times, the game starts to get a little dull!

In the end though, the game was worth a once over, so give it a chance, it may not be the best game in the world, but it does have it's moments!

http://youtu.be/PcOoCxwJCzY

Fracture (2008) - Video Game Review

[caption id="attachment_330" align="alignright" width="220"] Official Score = 2 1/2 Devils[/caption]

You know, I have to admit, the more I get in to these modern, Horror/Science Fiction video games, the more I find that I really like them!

You see for me, I pretty much skipped over a few generations of some of the video game systems that are now considered to be 'retro'... A good example (albeit I have to admit that I am glad I skipped it), was the era of, 'Playstation 2' & the like... Don't get me wrong, I know that there are people that probably are out there that still swear by this system... But the few games I did have the opportunity to play on it, I found to be so boring that I ended up just skipping that generation entirely... Well thank god that with the birth of the XBox 360 and other more modern video game systems that we have relief!

And one of the games that I recently played that is the reason that I mention all of that is the video game, 'Fracture' (2008)!

[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="640"] This game is literally, 'Groundbreaking'![/caption]

Developed by: Day 1 Studios and Published by: LucasArts for both the Playstation 3 & the XBox 360, this video game told the story of a future Earth, where in the United States, the population has become so divided by the East Coast side and their belief in perfecting mankind's technological acumen, and the west coasts belief that mankind should focus on improving man itself, that a civil war erupts that will eventually involve the newly formed, 'Alliance' (really east coast forces with some international assistance), and the, 'Pacificans' of Pacifica... (A newly formed nation on the west coast of North America.)

[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="480"] The battle in Washington for the fate of the, 'Alliance'...[/caption]

The truth is, is this game has an amazing story, with shockingly fun special effects, and great graphics... The problems... The controls are a little bit difficult to maintain (especially since when I was playing, I continuously ducked when I was fighting (and that is particularly annoying when it came to fighting because ducking really slows you down...)) The other problem that I had... Now before I begin, let me say this... I absolutely love hard games... This game had the hard parts in all the wrong places!

In the end though, despite it's few problems, and I found it worthy of going through, and if you try it out, you might find the same thing as well!

http://youtu.be/BssuyrNxIHs

Star Wars: The Force Unleased (2008) - Video Game Review

[caption id="attachment_330" align="alignright" width="220"] Official Score = 2 1/2 Devils[/caption]

I will admit that I spent some time away from the video game world... So coming back in to the world of video games I found that I was a little bit of a novice, but I got to say that I was really quite impressed! The X-Box 360 is an amazing system that has taken video  games to that point where it has come very close to being a sort of controlled movie! And one of the first Video Games that I played as a novice to the X-Box 360 Was the video game, Star Wars: The Force Unleashed (2008)

Based on the Star Wars movie saga, Star Wars: The Force Unleashed is a video game that was released by LucasArts for PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3, Wii, and Xbox 360 consoles and on the iOS, second-generation N-Gage, Nintendo DS, PlayStation Portable, and Java-equipped mobile phone handhelds, and told the story of how just after the Emperor betrays the Jedi, Darth Vader decides to take on his first apprentice in the child of another Jedi...

Now this child's name is, 'Stakiller' and at first would ultimately do anything that his Sith master, 'Darth Vader' asked him to do, including infiltrate the newly formed Rebel Alliance... But while on this mission, the light side of the force so to speak begins to take hold and the longer he spends with the rebels, the more and more he ends up defecting to help the Rebellion... (You could almost say that he did what Luke could never do for Anakin in the movies! )

[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="533"] The dark apprentice for Darth Vader is about to get a rude awakening to the truth about his dark master![/caption]

And in the end, Starkiller will end up going after the man who was his father and trying his best to destroy him!

In the end I played this game on X-Box 360, and so I can't really  say how the game was for the other systems, but I can say this about the X-Box 360, it took me a little while to figure out the controls on this one. As for the story, it was pretty awesome... (Although if we consider the fact that the whole reason that Anakin Skywalker went over to the dark side was to protect his family... Then why through out this video game did they not get mentioned?

As for the special effects, they were obviously pretty awesome! And as for the music... Well what can I say... They did a pretty amazing job!

In the end, the only other thing that I don't really understand is why non of the characters from the prequel trilogy were not more predominantly displayed?

This video game is a hard one to get used to, but if you really work on it, trust  me when I say that it is worth the effort!

http://youtu.be/asvKQOJZXcs