Sentences with phrase «big franchise series»

So far, no big - budget game studio has added a Battle Royale mode to a big franchise series, but it has seemed like only a matter of time before it hits a Call of Duty or a Battlefield, a Division or a Destiny.

Not exact matches

Series creator Chris Carter has even written a third entry in the franchise's film department and, based on what the ratings will be like, we'll probably see more X-Files in the future, whether in terms of more episodes or a big blockbuster of a movie.

Now one of the biggest video game companies around is working with roboticists and engineers to make James an amazing new limb inspired by one of his favorite series, and one of the greatest game franchises of all time.

This Halloween, the seasonal offerings include some big - ticket gift sets, like «Chucky: The Complete Collection,» an anthology of all six films in the «Child's Play» series (Universal; Blu - ray, $ 84.98; DVD, $ 59.88; not rated), and «Friday the 13th: The Complete Collection,» which offers Blu - ray editions of 12 films in that slasher franchise, from the original 1980 «Friday the 13th» directed by Sean S. Cunningham to its 2009 remake - reboot directed by Marcus Nispel — in effect, closing the circle (Warner Home Video; $ 129.95; R).

OPENING THIS WEEK Kam's Kapsules: Weekly Previews That Make Choosing a Film Fun by Kam Williams For movies opening December 10, 2010 BIG BUDGET FILMS The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (PG for frightening images and action fantasy sequences) Third installment in the film franchise based on the C.S. Lewis series of fantasy novels finds Edmund (Skandar Keynes) and Lucy Pensie (Georgie Henley), along with their cousin Eustace (Will Poulter), returning to the magical land of Narnia to embark on a dangerous, seafaring mission taking them to the edge of the world.

Unlike the Naruto: Ultimate Ninja Storm series which is more and more a mess of technical, balance and gameplay issues these days, Brave Soldiers delivers what is a nice, franchise - based fighting game, at first, i was expecting a simple fighting game with some button mashing, however, the game proved me wrong and i fell in love, the combo system, while easy, is a lot more deep than the one in the Naruto games, with all of the characters having two special attacks, two «burst attacks», a knock - away and a launcher respectively, a throw and an ultimate attack (called a «Big Bang Attack»), every character also has an universal dodge - action that sends them behind their enemies while spending one cosmo bar, making bar management that much precious and shielding you from a half - a-hour combo, unlike in the NUNS series, the fighting and the characters are nicely balanced, with every character being fun to play and viable at the same time, the game runs smoothly without frame - rate issues and the cell - shaded graphics, character models, arenas and effects alike are nice to the eye, battles are divided into rounds, with all the tiny nice stuff like character introductions and outros being intact (fun fact: the characters will even comment on their score after the battle), the game also features an awakening system, called the «Seventh Sense» awakening, unlike the NUNS awakening system which became severely unbalanced in the later game, every character simply gains a damage / defense boost, with the conditions being the same for all characters, eliminating situations when one character can use awakening at almost any point in the battle, or one awakening being drastically stronger than the other, the game has a story mode with three story arcs used to unlock characters, a collection mode, tournament modes, a survival mode, a series of special versus modes and online battle modes.

For better and worse, Dead Rising 3's story sticks to the franchise's goofy roots, but this game does finally ditch many of the series» biggest faults.

It was definitely the Brat Pack generation, big TV series, the beginning of franchise action films, teen comedies.

Monster Hunter Stories has been a big name in the Monster Hunter series since its original Japanese release for the Nintendo 3DS back in October of 2016, and now it's the franchise's biggest mobile release yet.

This entry in the franchise brings a lot of firsts to the series, with the biggest departure being the fact that it is no longer a third person survival - horror game but more of a dungeon crawler with a heavy multiplayer focus.

Based on the 12th novel in James Patterson's long - running series, the studio is clearly hoping that «Alex Cross» can reboot the film franchise that stalled out after 2001's «Along Came a Spider,» but surely there was a better option to play Cross than a man whose biggest claim to fame is dressing up like a fat black woman.

In fact, PA3 opened bigger and though it had the series» weakest legs to date, it still ended up with a domestic gross close to the first film and a franchise - high worldwide take of $ 203 M. And while the production budget again rose, it was still kept to just $ 5 million, well under the competition and far less than the marketing costs of such a high - profile wide release.

Johnson doesn't show up until the fifth (official) entry in the «Fast & Furious» series, and he sits out a lot of the seventh movie, but he's a big part of what made this franchise jump from a decent series of car - racing movies to one of the best and biggest action franchises on the planet.

As a big fan of the Silent Hill franchise I've been quite disappointed with the past Silent Hill comic series.

Directed by Nick Park, who created the «Shaun the Sheep» series, itself a spinoff of his universally - acclaimed «Wallace and Gromit» franchise, the film follows Shaun and the flock as they head into the big city to rescue their farmer.

There's been an overwhelming sense of nostalgia at theaters this summer, with films like «Mad Max: Fury Road,» «Jurassic World» and «Terminator Genisys» all reviving decades - old franchises on the big screen, and «Vacation» continues that trend with the latest installment in the National Lampoon series that began with Chevy Chase, Beverly D'Angelo and a rotating door of actors playing their two kids.

Dirt is arguably their biggest racing franchise and after the release of the excellent Dirt Rally, Codemasters have returned again with Dirt 4, the next mainline game in the Dirt series.

While director Alex Proyas» original was a commercial and critical success, creating a franchise that included a big - screen sequel, a television series and two direct - to - video movies, Relativity's plans have met with one obstacle after another.

My interest in the franchise was reignited by a captivating E3 debut trailer for Monster Hunter: World, which will bring the series back to consoles — and potentially a much bigger audience — next year.

In recent years the most notable franchises that have been subjected to this were the Harry Potter series, and the biggest case of stretching single source material out, The Hobbit trilogy.

Introducing an all - new faction called the Banished who take the place of traditional franchise antagonists the Covenant, thus far it looks as though the series» RTS gameplay remains largely unchanged, albeit with bigger battlegrounds, new units and new commander abilities.

The biggest franchise in their fighting game arsenal is The King of Fighters series.

as their extraordinary television series franchise expands to the big screen, and I recommend finding the biggest one around to watch this spooky trek into things paranormal and extraterrestrial.

The second to last entry in what is a so - so franchise, «The Divergent Series: Allegiant» is squirrelly, chasing from one big concept to another without satisfactorily executing most of them.

«The Lone Ranger» is a franchise so long dormant — a radio series that moved onto TV in the 1950s, the property last saw the big screen in 1981's ill - begotten «The Legend of the Lone Ranger» — that Verbinski and his writers think the only way out is to reduce the story to ironic rubble.

But while the similarities between them are plentiful, Disney Infinity isn't just one game, but a candy concoction mixed with two additional franchises also popular with children: Little Big Planet and the LEGO series.

Nine years is certainly not the biggest gap between films in a series (the recent sequels in the Indiana Jones and Tron franchises took a lifetime to come to fruition), but it is nevertheless a long time since Ferrell & Co. brought their off - the - wall characters to the silver screen.

So while Disney was hoping that John Carter could be the next big franchise film, and they took a huge chance on a relatively little - known book series, I am guessing that Carter will join Prince of Persia and The Sorcerer's Apprentice in the potential Disney franchise graveyard.

Blackout aims to celebrate the history of the Black Ops series so far, taking on elements from the franchise such as RC - XDs, traps, and zombies to form something big.

The last decade or so has seen a number of young adult novel series come to life on the big screen in the form of blockbuster film franchises.

Who knows, but we can only guess that with the reception of «The Bourne Legacy» still a question mark, and Matt Damon's returning to the series an even bigger guessing game at this point, it's probably nice to have something franchise ready in reserve to continue pursuing a path that has served them well thus far.

Konami, eager not to give up what is arguably one of their biggest franchises, they decided to move on with the series and passed the reins on to Yota Tsutsumizaki.

Thanks to the success of the Expendables franchise, which Sylvester Stallone fashioned into a frat party of over-the-hill meatheads, yesterday's action stars are back in vogue in a big way, as proven by all the over-50 fare that's followed Stallone's guns - and - grunts series.

His Metal Gear series is one of the most revered franchises of all time, and the stories of Solid Snake, Raiden, and Big Boss are downright legendary.

It's been a long road to the big screen for Uncharted, the action - adventure franchise from Naughty Dog, and one of the biggest exclusive games for the PlayStation series of home consoles.

There's no denying that J.J. Abrams was tailor - made for the job of reviving the «Mission: Impossible» franchise, what with his past experience turning Jennifer Garner into TV's favorite super spy, and if it's any consolation to fans of the soon - to - be-cancelled ABC series, the director's big screen debut feels exactly like «Alias: The Movie.»

April 2018 marked the return of the third instalment of Marvel's epic Avengers series to the big screen for one of the franchise's most superhero - packed movie to date.

Diesel left the series (his character, Xander Cage, was killed off in a DVD supplement and replaced by Ice Cube for the poorly received sequel xXx: State of The Union) to embark on a string of drama, sci - fi and family - comedy roles; but after a string of disappointments with Chronicles of Riddick, Find Me Guilty and Babylon A.D. he ultimately returned to the Fast series - only to see it reborn as an ensemble action franchise that's now one of the biggest and most beloved movie properties in the world.

Aside from incorporating some of the biggest franchises in pop culture — from Marvel superheroes to Pixar movies to this year's addition of Star Wars — Disney's Infinity series also allows players to make their own creations.

It tells the story of an important event in the Metroid series, which is Samus meeting the big Metroid, so I wanted players to have the opportunity to experience this very important event in the franchise.

MGS franchise is so deep not to mention the ZOE series go so far back and have had a way bigger impact on the industry..

Even though player choices aren't a big part of AC III, I felt like it would have been a nice change of pace and a good ending to the entire series, but of course Ubisoft enjoys large piles of money and the Assassin's Creed franchise will live on as the ending shows.

After months of looking at the evolution of gaming's biggest franchises, it's time to end this year's run of From Pixels to Polygons by looking at the game (and series) that helped put Nintendo on the map: Donkey Kong.

If we're being honest, I've never been the biggest fan of the Devil May Cry series; I picked up and voraciously devoured the first title, had my gaming tastebuds soured by the second and skipped the following two titles as a result, only coming back to the franchise with the release of the much maligned DMC reboot, of which I'm not ashamed to say I probably preferred over the original iterations.

One of the biggest issues a franchise needs to overcome is being more than just another title in a series.

I suspect that a lot of these issues may be solved when the next game in the franchise, Invizimals: The Resistance, arrives with its card - free ways, but at present, that's still a barrier to entry, and it's a big enough barrier that you'd be wiser to just wait for The Resistance to wash up on North American shores than to invest your energy in this entry in the series.

«Assassin's Creed IV» is not a revolutionary entry in the franchise from either a narrative or gameplay point of view, but it's a big, fun, polished game that shows just how flexible this long - running series can be.

The Black Ops series is one of the biggest of the Call of Duty franchise.

Thanks to its gameplay innovations, and helped along by just a hint of controversy, the series has shifted 125 million units since its inception, becoming the fifth biggest - selling videogame franchise of all time.

This news was particularly disappointing for fans of the Dead Space series, arguably Visceral's biggest franchise.