Go live the Dream as a game creator
Dreams
Dreams comes from Media Molecule, the people behind Little Big Planet, and it shares the same imagination, ambition and determination to turn players into makers.
Start with Art’s Dream, made in-house, which combines 3D adventuring with point-and-click puzzling, button-bashing combat, interactive storytelling and even some Robotron-style blasting, all to a jazzy soundtrack.
Next dive into the wealth of user-generated content, which feels like YouTube for games. You’ll find puzzlers, first-person shooters and homemade RPG titles.
It can feel daunting but ,with minigame-style tutorials, it’s fun once you master it.
With the exception of Pitch Black, Vin Diesel’s nonFast & Furious and Marvel franchise work has been patchy at best.
Bloodshot doesn’t buck the trend – but at least the gravelvoiced star is in his action wheel house.
He stars as Ray Garrison, a soldier slain in battle who is reanimated with superhuman strength and fast healing abilities.
Diesel really should have had his fix of comic book fare, having voiced the Guardians of the Galaxy’s Groot and the gravitydefying hijinks he gets up to in the Fast & Furious flicks.
Apparently not, though, and in fairness he is the best thing about this mad mess.
But no matter how charismatic and bone-busting Diesel is, he’s badly let down by an overload of shoddy digital effects.
Dave Wilson is making his directorial debut here and although he has a history working on visuals, rather fittingly it’s mainly on video games.
That’s exactly what Bloodshot feels like as characters plod their way through repetitive action scenes where Ray works his way up towards the final boss.
Guy Pearce (Dr Harting) continues his career malaise in a role that feels like a copy and paste job of his smarmy turn in Iron Man 3.
Toby Kebbell (Martin Axe) isn’t given much to do but he’s positively overworked when compared to Eiza González (KT) and Talulah Riley (Gina).
The screenplay – co-written by
Jeff Wadlow and Eric Heisserer – seems to be under the impression it can throw supposedly shocking twists at us; but when they are telegraphed so much – with at least one given away in the film’s trailer – you’re just left shrugging your shoulders.
The ruthless killing machine trying to piece together his past trope is so overworked it’ll be more exhausted than a costumewearing marathon runner at the finish line.
Lazy, derivative and predictable, Bloodshot is a comic book movie that belongs in the past.
The fifth run isn’t the brilliant anthology show’s finest but still includes moments of genius.
It gets better as it goes on with standout episodes involving magic and mental health.