Josho Brouwers's Blog, page 4
January 21, 2016
The Great Silence (1968)
Decades ago, Italy produced a great many genre movies initially at least inspired by Hollywood productions. In the late 1950s, movies set in ancient times flourished, and films such as the 1958 Hercules helped create the sword-and-sandal or peplum genre. A little later, in the 1960s, Italian films such as Sergio Leone’s A Fistful of Dollars (1964) helped usher in […]
January 19, 2016
Endless Legend
A superlative turn-based strategy game with a unique setting and offering its own take on the genre. X X X X X
January 15, 2016
Mad Max, the videogame
This open-world game is great, although the final few story missions soured me somewhat on the experience. x x x All in all, though, the good definitely outweighs the bad. If you haven’t played the game, I thoroughly recommend you check it out, although you might want to take it easy as far as the […]
January 10, 2016
Exiled: the fall of Troy
Yesterday, I wrote about the remastered version of the Homeworld games. One of the most interesting elements of the original game is its plot. The Kushan (our protagonists) have found a hyperspace core and reach for the stars. The evil Taiidan Empire wants to stop them from doing so and destroys Khardak, the world of the Kushan. A […]
Meanwhile, on another blog
One of the main reasons I had for relaunching my personal website is so that I would have a venue to write about stuff that I can’t really cover elsewhere. For Karwansaray Publishers, I contribute to the blogs of both Ancient Warfare magazine and Ancient History Magazine. Naturally, I can only post on topics there […]
January 2, 2016
December 28, 2015
Prince of Persia
I love the Prince of Persia games. Of course, there have been so many of them that I need to qualify that statement. First of all, I’ve never played the original 2D games. The first game in this series that I played was 2003’s Prince of Persia: Sands of Time. I also played the two sequels, Warrior Within (2004) […]
December 19, 2015
The Man from UNCLE (2015)
Hollywood seems to have entered a golden age when it comes to making movies based on existing properties. In the past twenty years or so, we’ve had movies based on popular book series such as Harry Potter and The Hunger Games, as well as a seemingly endless stream of films based on comic books. There have also been loads […]
December 14, 2015
Are museums just collections of things?
This blog post was actually published on 25 September last year on the previous version of my personal website. Since people have been asking me about this article, I have decided to republish it on my new website. Back in September last year, I also posted a follow-up article on the purpose of an archaeological […]
