Star Wars

By noreply@blogger.com (Adam Whitehead) Although you can determine your character's gender, race and abilities, Lucasfilm has decreed that for canon purposes the main character in Knights of the Old Republic was male and your character in Knights of the Old Republic II was female.

By noreply@blogger.com (Adam Whitehead) Four thousand years before the time of Vader and Palpatine, the Galaxy is divided by war. The mighty warrior-clans of the Mandalorians invaded the Galactic Republic and were thrown back by a fleet led by the Jedi warriors Revan and Malak. But, during that struggle, something happened to th...

By noreply@blogger.com (Adam Whitehead) Having already waxed incoherent on the subject of Jedi Outcast, I now turn to the final game in the Dark Forces aka Jedi Knight series. Jedi Academy sees some interesting twists to the established formulae. Most notably, whilst Kyle Katarn plays a major role in events, he is not the player ch...

By noreply@blogger.com (Adam Whitehead) Anyway, Katarn, somewhat stiffly and with a strangely limited field of vision, blasted his way through various missions for the Rebels, eventually defeating a project by the Empire to build some badass new robot stormtroopers, who, unlike their human counterparts, actually could hi...

By noreply@blogger.com (Adam Whitehead) Anderson had first emerged in SF circles in the late 1980s and early 1990s, with a number of okay, mid-level SF novels like Resurrection, Inc. He hit the jackpot with media tie-ins, penning the Jedi Academy trilogy of Star Wars novels in 1994 (the first big series in the new Star Wars book lin...

By noreply@blogger.com (Adam Whitehead) Spaced marks the first major collaboration between actor/writers Simon Pegg and Jessica Hynes, director Edgar Wright and actor Nick Frost. Most of this team would go on to make Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz, but for my money Spaced remains one their strongest work, mainly due to its longer...

By noreply@blogger.com (Adam Whitehead) But then things started changing. It's difficult to pinpoint where it started. For many, it was when George Lucas started using elements from the comics and novels whilst writing the Star Wars prequels. 'Coruscant', the Republic/Imperial capital, was first named by Timothy Zahn in the 19...

By noreply@blogger.com (Adam Whitehead) Firefly was the third television series to be created by Joss Whedon, who had previously developed Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997-2003) and its spin-off, Angel (1999-2004). Whedon had expressed a desire to explore the genres of science fiction and Westerns, and had also become interes...