Moving one ring of course moves all satellites on that ring, so you have to regularly shift rings so that the right satellites take on the saucers that they’re best at destroying, and the support/money-producing platforms remain out of harm’s way. This idea forces you into thinking up a new tactical style which becomes second nature in no time at all, the hallmark of a simple and compelling idea done right. It’s a rather clever idea really and completely changes the mechanics of the tower defence genre, putting as much emphasis into manoeuvring your satellites into the path of attacking aliens as building them. There are several rings around the base with only a few places on each ring to build them, but each ring can be rotated so the satellites can change position. The setup is that the titular Gorg are aliens invading Earth’s solar system, and you have to defend each planet or space station with an array of orbiting weapon-mounted satellites. There’s only a certain amount of spots you can place them, yes, and once placed you can’t move them… but you can move the spot. Except in this case, you don’t, as those “stationary” platforms are a little more mobile. All defending, no attack, hold off the assaulting forces through careful management of stationary defence platforms, the main resource is the sun, you know the drill. Even an exclamation mark would’ve made it 80% more tantalizing.Īmbiguous title aside, Unstoppable Gorg, like PVZ, is a tower defence game. Futuremark’s Unstoppable Gorg could really have done with a title like that. Plants Vs Zombies is catchy, intriguing, memorable, and makes you want to play it just to find out what it’s about. Highly recommended.Did you know that PopCap’s phenomenal tower defence title Plants Vs Zombies was originally going to be titled ‘Lawn of the Dead’? A swift no-no from the Romero estate curtailed that, but I have to wonder if the game would’ve been as popular as it is now if it had that title instead. This type of film never goes down too well with critics and you can predict the reviews already - yes Unstoppable IS cheesy, it IS forced, it IS derivative and has all the depth of a puddle, but if you want to switch your brain off for 100 minutes and sit back for a magnificently enjoyable slice of escapism, you couldn't do much better. The near total lack of CGI means the film looks suitably gritty and the pace is utterly, utterly relentless - there's no time to breathe here, just set-piece after set-piece with only brief conversational respites to quickly set up the next danger faced by our blue-collar heroes.
There's perhaps a little too much Shak圜am for my tastes but for the most part everything is shot with enough scope to be extremely impressive.
Scott's track record in the field puts him in the perfect place to deliver the goods, and there's very little of the distracting, overdone camera-work that has plagued his recent output. Enough about the acting though - when you're watching a film of this nature, you want the action sequences to impress rather than worry too much about the story, and on this front Unstoppable delivers. Washington and Star Trek's Chris Pine play it straight for the most part - their characters are the reluctant Johnny Everymen found in most films that rely on extended peril for thrills, and they've both nailed the mixture of brooding intensity and occasional comic relief that typifies movies of the genre. Scott has little time for characterisation or back story, preferring instead to kick things off via a pair of laughably incompetent rail yard employees roughly five minutes in, and then letting his leads fill in the blanks as we go along for the ride. It's not without its faults, but Unstoppable is a brisk, solidly entertaining thriller from start to finish. Tony Scott and Denzel Washington's latest collaboration is pretty much the definition of high concept - a runaway freight train loaded with thousands of gallons of diesel fuel, eight carriages of a highly toxic chemical and a worryingly curvy track ahead of it, versus two train operatives armed with little in the way of stopping impending disaster bar a one-car locomotive and their vivid imaginations.
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