Sentences with phrase «earlier installments»

In either case, this one has a score by Jesper Kyd, whose work you may know from early installments of Assassin's Creed or Borderlands.

We understand that neither Costas Mandylor nor Cary Elwes will be returning to play their respective characters, who both ended up becoming Jigsaw apprentices in earlier installments.

From a darkly - lit battle in Berlin to a climactic one featuring a well - placed submarine, these scenes can be a bit messy and lack the cohesiveness of some of the chases from earlier installments.

A great deal of the time, Golden Abyss actually felt like it rivaled earlier installments like Drake's Fortune; the only underwhelming aspect of the game falls more so on the story arc than it does visual representation.

Running between 600 and 800 pages (depending on the nationality of the printing), the 2007 finale was one of Rowling's longest, and more than twice as long as earlier installments.

The problem with the «Fifty Shades» franchise — if it can be called a franchise — is not so much its portrait of a controlling man manipulating his lover past her comfort zone, although earlier installments feature such scenes.

Earlier installments focused on crash test dummies, frontal crash testing and roof strength testing.

Yet, Color Splash is actually a game that deserves players attention, it may lack the certain charms of the franchises early installments and struggle with a core system, but offers an enjoyable experience either way making up for its shortcomings with a great adventure.

After missing out on the very early installments of The Legend of Zelda, I basically brushed the series off because I feared I had fallen too far behind to truly appreciate the story that started all those years ago.

The ninth installment in the long - running franchise will be developed by Crystal Dynamics, which also developed earlier installment in the series such as Legend (2006), Anniversary (2007), Underworld (2008), and this year's Guardian of Light.

The account revealed that, like earlier installments within the sequence, Black Ops four may have a Zombies mode.

This is the sequel to 2015's Star Wars Battlefront, which was a relaunch of the popular video game that saw two earlier installments released in 2004 and 2005, respectively.

Earlier installments of «Pax Kaffraria,» this eight - chapter project, were featured in the Hammer Museum's «Made in L.A. 2012» exhibition, for which he received the best - of - show Mohn Award.

(Also commendable: a poignant coda to the complicated saga of Alan Rickman's Snape, a character painted with broad, unsatisfying brushstrokes in early installments, but whose development since Yates took over the series in 2007 has given the sullen professor room to flourish.)

Subsequent installments need to stop relying on rehashing stories and themes from earlier installments (or at least not do so as blatantly).

He wrote in his diary, after the first criticisms of the early installments of the novel began to appear:

It's an early installment toward a total 17.5 percent contingency fee for Golub's firm that probably will exceed $ 15 million or even $ 17 million once the full cost of the settlement is known.

The epic sweep (and increasingly epic length) of the final books proved, at least for myself, less congenial to Rowling's talents than the taut plotting and drawing - room deduction of the earlier installments.

Retains the homemade virtues that made the earlier installments such an un-selfconscious, pleasingly clunky delight.

Lawrence is as solid as ever, but her character isn't as compelling as it was in the earlier installments of the story.

Fans were excited to learn that the game would have strong similarities to the early installments of the fan - favorite Marvel vs. Capcom franchise by utilizing a 3 vs. 3 tag system.

During the summer, Bandai Namco announced Dragon Ball FighterZ, a 2.5 D fighting game modeled after the early installments of the Marvel vs. Capcom franchise.

In the earlier installments, he is a spirit, while in Animal Crossing: City Folk, he is a genie.

That our hero survives after the myriad attacks on his life in the earlier installments does not speak well for Voldemort's minions, but this time they mean business.

The plot is a logical extension of the franchise's earlier installments.

Released in January, Dragon Ball FighterZ is a fighting game with 2.5 D graphics that utilizes the tag - team mechanics of the early installments of the popular Marvel vs. Capcom franchise.

Here again, for those who missed them, are my two earlier installments from Berlin.

The overt shift to explicit science - fiction and mysticism, and away from the tech - worship of early installments is both welcome and effective, and if you give a damn about any of the characters across the 18 movies that lead to this, it's difficult not to feel consistently impacted by this two and a half hour barrage of event.

Which may explain why this Harry Potter lacks some of the grace and fluidity of earlier installments and a lot of our favorite characters, such as Hagrid (Robbie Coltrane), give what are essentially glorified curtain calls.

Even if you aren't familiar with the early installments of this franchise starring Mel Gibson, it looks like this reboot with Tom Hardy will still be quite the spectacle on the big screen.

Yes, Pirates movies always feature complicated plots with numerous characters, but the earlier installments felt fresh and exciting, this go around just feels uninteresting and stale.

Both Pegg and Frost are playing characters who are markedly different from their personas in the earlier installments of the unofficial, otherwise unrelated trilogy; Gary is more ragged, poised over the abyss, while Andy is still and determined not to be hurt again by withholding his emotional involvement in the reunion.

Meanwhile, director Chad Stahelski previously revealed his ambitions for the new film, saying it will be more «intricate» than the earlier installments.

One of the earliest installments of this season's Oscar Guide covered the Best Original Song category.

As a continuation of Caesar's story and a visual spectacle, War for the Planet of the Apes intermittently satisfies, but not enough to overcome its weaknesses or stand up to its earlier installments.

Although there are a few memorable ones (including one featuring Bourne and Parsons on a bike), none of them are truly superb, especially as compared to some of the great fight sequences in the series» earlier installments.

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You can even preserve notes and highlights that a reader has made on the earlier installments, when the serial is updated.

Early installments in this double - tough - guy series, which began with The Monkey's Raincoat (1987), drew appropriate comparisons to Robert B. Parker's Spenser and Hawk.

I think the factors that make me respect The Catch the most are the same things that make it not as much of a thrill ride as the earlier installments of Vanessa Michael Munroe books.

This is an early installment, if not the first, in Kenyon's popular supernatural romance series.

I urge readers who are new to the series to go back to earlier installments, especially the first two, to catch up.

Surely I should be burned at the stake for such insinuations but there is a clear reason for why Mario Party has failed to offer the same level of enjoyment as its early installments, and that reason is nostalgia.

For all its emphasis on customization, it's a bit disappointing to see the game retain the generic character portraits used in earlier installments, especially now that other areas of the presentation, like enemy characters, have been improved.

Earlier installments in the franchise launched on Tuesdays, but the latest entries launched on Fridays so this Nov. 3 release date is plausible.

Finding his way to a rural village in Europe, he faces new threats that are a departure from the traditional lumbering zombie enemies of the earlier installments in the series.