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Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War IV Looks To Right The Wrongs Of Its Predecessor

Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War IV Looks To Right The Wrongs Of Its Predecessor https://ift.tt/VFGJQnU Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War IV is arriving nearly a decade after the release of the third game in the real-time strategy series, and after spending some time with an extensive preview build that covered the opening missions of two its campaigns, I’m happy to report that it seems to be a return to form after the ill-received changes in Dawn of War III. The Dawn of War series has always reinvented itself with each entry. Dawn of War II eschewed the first game’s focus on amassing large armies in favor of micro-managing smaller groups, or sometimes individual units. It removed the original's base-building mechanics, and its maps were less of an open-ended sandbox, hewing closer to being an isometric action-RPG. While these changes didn’t sit well with some players of the original Dawn of War, others found the alterations to be bold, and the game was received positively , with man...
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Fast X - We Really Need Talk About What's Going On With Cipher

Fast X - We Really Need Talk About What's Going On With Cipher https://ift.tt/AUlFCKy

Fast X is an overwhelming film with a lot of moving parts. You've got four almost entirely separate story threads running through the film: Dom on his own investigating new baddie Dante Reyes, Tej, Roman, Han and Ramsey trying to stay off the grid, Dom's brother Jakob and son Little Brian having a road trip, and Letty and Cipher having to team up to escape a blacksite prison in Antarctica.

That last thread is an odd one. It doesn't take up much of the movie--it's only three or four scenes, which are scattered throughout the movie in a way that feels almost random since they have no bearing on anything else that's happening. But more interesting than this thread itself is what it might be signaling about Cipher's future. Could they be setting Cipher up to join the family? Yes, they certainly could be. I'm not sure that they are doing that, but they've certainly put themselves in the position to do so.

I'm not sure that's the best idea, though. The story is already a huge mess in narrative terms, and how they handle Cipher could also irrevocably muddy the franchise's core themes, too. Let's break it down.

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