Sentences with phrase «characters around the screen»

You can't control your character around the screen like in an action game (or at least in the current stage of development).

No company did more to popularize this method of moving your character around the screen, interacting with objects and other, non-playable individuals, than Lucasfilm Games, subsequently known as LucasArts.

Though you can technically pause the game, even while menus are up and being used you're still able to move your character around the screen.

But the simplicity of moving one of its three characters around the screen also comes with added risks - namely an increased chance of negative outcomes.

Not exact matches

The augmented reality game from Japan's Nintendo (ntdoy), where players walk around real - life neighborhoods to hunt down virtual cartoon characters on their smartphone screens, has more than 65 million users in the United States just seven days after launch.

The original arcade game, released in 1980, involves using a joystick to move a tiny yellow character — PacMan — around a two dimensional mazelike grid on a video screen.

Of course, superfans of the fourth wall - breaking Marvel Comics character will be delighted to see Ryan Reynolds» Merc with a Mouth back on the big screen, slicing up baddies and roasting everyone from his enemies (this time around it's futuristic soldier Cable) to his frenemies (Hugh Jackman's Wolverine) to his own studio, 20th Century Fox, just as he did in 2016's surprise smash «Deadpool.»

Even the subtitles, used when characters speak Spanish, get into the act, certain key words being made larger or the whole lines jumping around the screen as the people talk.

In many regards, The Catch certainly achieves its goals, but when the lives of every person on - screen revolve around one character and viewers are left wondering how a private investigation firm can afford a huge futuristic office with an enormous staff, it takes away from some of the fantasy.

Dragon Ball Z Battle of Z will let players form teams with up to four characters to participate in group melee action, take on massive boss battles, or challenge other players around the world for brawls featuring up to eight characters on screen at the same time.

But on February 28, for one week, about 1,000 movie theaters around the country will screen a version of the movie that is both the same — same plot, same characters, derived from the same filming sessions — and completely different, featuring exactly 763 new jokes.

With a strong Guy Pearce performance, and supporting characters that are surprisingly rounded given what little screen time they have, it's a good drama that hits upon themes of accepting one's mortality, living without fear of the inevitable, and treating those around you as if your existence on this plane were about to expire at any time.

«As the game progresses, alcoholic beverages can be consumed to increase damage output, resulting in screen - blurring effects; in one cutscene, drunken characters are depicted stumbling around a party.

Furthermore, the battle itself is a mess, with my two supporting characters running around getting in the way, UI text and other junk littering the screen, weird Kinect prompts in the upper right, and awful quicktime events throwing things into disarray every few seconds.

In between these boss levels, Castles is a relatively easy - going match three that is built around the fairly unusual idea that players control a character on screen who must physically move blocks into place by pushing and pulling them.

Rating: 8/10 — featuring Pacino's most effective and rewarding screen performance for some time, Paterno rightly keeps its focus on its leading character while also exposing the hypocrisy and deception going on around him; an intelligent but modest drama that packs an emotional wallop when it needs to, it's also a movie that successfully avoids being exploitative or insensitive.

Despite his enduring role in pop culture, numerous attempts to do the Hulk justice on screen have left fans more angry than the Green Goliath himself and Marvel's only attempt to build a solo movie around the character didn't fare much better.

Invited to Suwon for a screening of one of his films, arthouse director Ham Cheon - soo (Jeong Jae - yeong) finds himself spending the day hanging out with aspiring painter Hee - jeong (Kim Min - hee), leading to a checklist of Hong - isms: comically awkward conversations over food, followed by even more awkward scenes of people apologizing; strangely contentious interactions with new acquaintances; jumbled chronology; characters standing around in the cold for much longer than they should.

Sensible Software's unique title is an arcade game of sorts, in which your character (a disembodied green head) floats around a screen dislodging bricks to kill -LSB-...]

Its brilliant colors and startling characters spring from the screen and remind us how very, very tired we are of simpleminded little characters bouncing around dimly in 3 - D.

The single screen showing the faces of characters shows them in a distance around a caravan, but upon magnification it becomes clear that at least two of them are duplicates, meaning either placeholders or NPCs.

It's no secret that the cast of Bryan Singer «s upcoming «X-Men: Days of Future Past» film is pretty massive — with a who's - who of movie mutants from previous films and a number of new characters set to make their silver screen debut, there's a lot of excitement around what the X-Men movieverse's take on the unseen mutants.

Features Include: — Fight as 25 Street Fighter characters (three new characters and six more coming as free updates)-- Higher resolution graphics and wide screen support — Intuitive virtual pad controls allow players to execute full move sets including Unique Attacks, Special Moves, Focus Attacks, Super Combos and Ultra Combos — Take your game to the next level with a MFi controller like the Gamevice — Battle head - to - head against players from around the world via Wi - Fi — Single player «arcade» and multiplayer modes — Unleash super moves with a tap of the «SP» button — Four levels of difficulty

The TV blares horrible tidings from around the world, but it must compete more than ever with the characters» attachment to their own personal screens.

You'll be able to see on the screen which enemies around the map your current character will fare well against in battle, and who puts you at a disadvantage.

It takes a special kind of writer to turn Michael Shannon (General Zod) into just another character actor, but the innately talented Shannon gets nothing to work with here and essentially fumbles around whenever he's on screen.

There are hundreds of characters running around on the screen at any one time.

The names Hideo Kojima and Guillermo del Toro appear on screen just before the main character turns around, revealing that he is played by The Walking Dead's Norman Reedus.

The other level we played was called «Once Upon a Time,» which showcased the Vita's touch controls, where we would swipe the screen and move things around in the level for our character to continue.

Basically, you use your left hand to control your character by moving around with the stick and pressing a shoulder button to jump while your right hand is used to tap, swipe, rub, and drag on the touch screen.

Two have no dialogue, and one of those two spends all her screen - time walking around in a Xena: Warrior Princess-esque fetish outfit, two are celebrity cameos, four of them are princess peach-esque trophies for the male characters, and only two of them have any relevance to the over-arching alien invasion plot.

In addition to Ms. Lawrence and Mr. Sutherland, returning to the fold are Josh Hutcherson as Peeta (still lacking even an ounce of screen presence), Woody Harrelson as Haymitch (giving a bit more effort this time around), Lenny Kravitz as Cinna, Paula Malcomson as Katniss» mother (seen recently as Abby in «Ray Donovan «-RRB-, Willow Shields as Prim, Liam Hemsworth as Gale (his most exciting scene is washing his hands), and of course the instant electricity and energy provided by Elizabeth Banks as Effie and Stanley Tucci as Caesar — two of the most colorful characters this side of 1970's era Elton John.

Williams» screen time isn't as plentiful as one might expect from the star, because while his character drives the story, it actually centers more around Todd and Neil.

Gameplay in Wild Guns Reloaded involves around your character shooting at any threat on a static screen where you see the enemies keep popping out left and right, either hidden in the background, or rushing to attack you directly on screen.

One character named Hoppy Bobby annoyingly jumps around the screen while you play as him.

He adds one of the great things about Scratch is the plethora of support resources that exist online and the team found an extensive tutorial on building and scripting a platform character that moves around the screen.

Schools and organizations around the world are hosting screenings of a short film called The Science of Character, which explores the research behind character development and encourages us to focus on our character strengths for greater personal and community wellCharacter, which explores the research behind character development and encourages us to focus on our character strengths for greater personal and community wellcharacter development and encourages us to focus on our character strengths for greater personal and community wellcharacter strengths for greater personal and community well - being.

«It allows people to jump around wherever they want and get access to these classic story lines that have become part of our pop culture and also learn more about the characters they are seeing on the big screen.»

Easily fixed really, just put a luminous aura around your character when many are on screen, or an overhead arrow.

If the comparison to Super Smash Bros hasn't really clued you in, then what we're talking about here is a bunch of cartoon characters squaring off in a 2D fighter involving plenty of pain and special moves The only real bummer is that the game doesn't have an online mode, so you won't be able to take on your friends from around the world, instead you'll have singleplayer and split - screen only.

- characters are drawn in the main screen in a super-deformed style - features a lot of fan - service - play as Eduard, an innkeeper of an inn who doesn't have a lot of customers - stumble into a cave while looking for crystals and meet a girl who has amnesia - this girl also has six sisters who unlock each other's memories as you come across them - your subordinate at the inn gets the idea to put all of the girls into maid uniforms - the girls transform into battle - appropriate clothing during the battle sequences - strategy / action - RPG hybrid - unlimited movement within a circle around the character's starting point - combo system - when attacking weaker enemies, you knock them back in a fashion that takes out others and builds up a combo - extra turn awarded if you manage to take out 10 or more enemies in one swing - enemies do respawn their weak helpers at a hit point cost to them - right side of the screen shows a time bar so you know which friend or foe will attack nex - male character you play as is more of a support role in battle - he'll provide a lot of your stat buffs - events for each of the maidens that give them a chance to level up and unlock new abilities in each battle - possible 18 quests - each of the girls has their own quirks

As gamers we're pretty used to characters thoughts and feelings not matching up to the on - screen action — Far Cry 3 is a good recent example, with Jason trying to deal with the trauma of killing someone while seemingly having forgotten the 20 or so pirates he massacred on his way around the island.

There's a bunch of new rules added but they're optional of course which is good because I didn't like most of them (and they require you to use a Rabbid's themed card deck with Rabbid characters running around the screen and they're just annoying sometimes).

Ranged characters can still be cumbersome as targeting specific enemies or other things is a little hit and miss, a problem that came to a head during a mission based around Gandalf and Radagast in which my chosen wizard (Gandalf) insisted on shooting at something across the screen with his staff rather than whipping out his sword and killing the orc that was in the process of pummeling his face in.

Every direction on the D - Pad even serves a purpose here, and it's kind of overwhelming looking at all the text on the screen before you've even moved your character around, but once you get into the game itself you'll quickly realize why the control system is presented in such a way that's new to point and click adventures.

This will give players the ability to fly around freely with their character and battle tons of enemies on screen at a time on the ground and in the sky.

There's a wacky cast of characters to choose, each of whom will jump around the screen in joy or wince in despair, depending on how well the game is going.

Presentation is striking, taking a page out of Paper Mario's playbook by making all the on - screen characters paper thin (most obvious when they're turning around).

There are no graphics, there's text swimming around the screen, there is no implied empathy for any of the characters therein, and at its core, it's merely a morality lesson all wrapped up in a heavy - handed set of pseudo choices.

All characters have a similar template compared to Street Fighter where some characters have projectiles, or arms that reach across the entire screen, or the ability to fly around the playfield.