Sentences with phrase «genre staples»

I mean, the contents are a bullet - pointed list of genre staples that make me sick with anxiety just writing them down.

Of all the movie genre staples, this particular flavor of crime - flick is among the most pleasurable and familiar.

Still, before long, you'll get your mitts on other genre staples like a shotgun, beam rifle, surface - to - air missile launcher, and a mortar launcher.

Rock Band 2 doesn't have a «post-punk» category, per se, but it certainly has enough related tracks to warrant another bracket: genre staples like Devo and Talking Heads, revivalists like Maxïmo Park and the Killers, and close calls that take the label to its logical extreme (e.g. Sonic Youth, which is more rightly referred to as a «noise rock» band).

The cast is composed of the usual suspects — including such genre staples as the broken family, complete with quirky daughter and absent but loving father (John Cusack); the humanitarian scientist (Chiwetel Ejiofor); and the Machiavellian government official (Oliver Platt).

You can see it in his hoarding of genre staples for one - scene (Adrienne Barbeau) and in some cases one - line (Michael Parks) roles, but more importantly, you can see it in the gentle Hollywood satire Argo briefly — perhaps too briefly — becomes.

The Siouxsie and the Banshees Pack firmly adds to the list of genre staples with their breakout hit «Hong Kong Garden,» but then veers hard toward the pop side of things with songs like «The Killing Jar» and «Kiss Them for Me.»

This brutal action adventure stars genre staples Robert Z'Dar, Matt Hannon, and Gerald Okamura.

Directed and co-written by Fred M. Andrews, a longtime production designer, this low - budget entry heaps on the gore and the T&A genre staples and can best be described as «Swamp Thing» with teeth, razor - sharp teeth.

His story contains many great crime genre staples — a love struck criminal, a beautiful country girl, a menacing father figure, lusty...

A throwback to the grand tradition of horror anthologies, this British compendium of genre staples manages a few frightening moments within its tedious episodic structure.

The insidious recruitment techniques of religious cults used to be a veritable genre staple, beginning, perhaps, with the fascination surrounding the highly publicized Manson Family murders in the late 1960s.

It's a definite genre staple for 1980s teen flick enthusiasts, which explains its constant cable airings.

On the features front, genre staples confirmed to be making an appearance include: a crafting system to create and improve weapons and armor at both ends of the experience spectrum, the option to customize your character's gender and facial features, and of course, droves of creatures in all shapes, sizes and levels of lethality.

That being said, there are still plenty of annoying genre staples present — like the massive wooden crates and highly flammable barrels scattered throughout the supposedly high - tech facility.

Your ship starts with the usual genre staples: a machine gun / blaster cannon with unlimited ammo and a finite set of bombs for blasting bigger baddies.

Somehow by cobbling together a bunch of different genre staples, City of Brass creates something totally new.

Along with the fighting genre staple, the Vs. mode, Soul Calibur offers a variety of single player modes.

Our goal is to provide a much needed update to the survival horror formula, injecting it with the tension and fear of modern horror games while still retaining the strategy and survival elements of classic genre staples.

Mixing modern ideas with time - tested genre staples, World of Final Fantasy is a celebration of 30 years of epic quests.

We were wholly unfamiliar with the source material but had no trouble following a plotline rich in genre staples.

Tweet Land out of Costa Rica blends the social and virtual worlds by augmenting genre staples with real time information from your social networks!

By abandoning what made the Dawn of War franchise a long - time genre staple and adding in mechanics no one asked for - we're left with a title that has a smaller player base than a Dawn of War 1 expansion chosen at random.

Lost's science fiction leanings have become more pronounced in its fourth season as storylines involving time travel amongst other genre staples are introduced.

Dead Man's Country will allow players to do many things in the game, genre staples like resource farming and base building.

The game boasts an open world, dozens of hours of story - driven quests, and a host of genre staples such as dungeons, world bosses, and several classes to choose from.

Murphy gracefully introduces supporting players to keep us guessing while layering the tale with horrors that go beyond the genre staples.

Fans of the genre will find plenty to love about this game as it keeps enough of the genre staples while still trying to keep you on your toes with some variations.

Knowing the quasi-sci-fi bent of Marling's «Another Earth» and «Sound Of My Voice,» this role would make the lovely Ms. Marling something of a genre staple, and it's uncertain whether she's ready to commit to such status.

CHICAGO — The dystopia — or negative future world — is a genre staple, from «Soylent Green» to «Max Max.»

As an exercise in subversion Deadpool 2 doesn't quite achieve the same level of success as the first film, opting too often to undermine its genre staples by prefacing them with glib one - liners.

Yeah, bad voice acting is a genre staple, but its continued presence when every other part of the experience has evolved and improved since the 90s strips it of any campy charm.

Another genre staple, Larry Fessenden (We Are Still Here), capitalizes on his screen time, managing to remain sympathetic enough to generate tension but distant enough to keep you open to whatever happens.

When coupled with a lack of rewind, which has become a genre staple at this point, and the expectation to race several laps (on tracks that can last for up to 10 minutes) clean it becomes crippling.

Genre staples of team deathmatch, capture the flag, and hing of the hill are bolstered by the adaptable arsenal, choice of Nanosuit upgrades and four predefined classes.

Although, I don't think NT could ever replace Street Fighter V or the other genre staples that I love spending time with as my usual go - tos; instead, it's the kind of game that you love knowing is there waiting for you, and that you go to when you want that escape from the norm.

This omission has been the biggest go - to for fans and critics since the game's release, as it's positively baffling why you wouldn't just have the standard three - round versus setup; one that's been a genre staple for 30 years now.

Fans of the genre will find plenty to love about this game as it keeps enough of the genre staples while still trying to keep you on your toes with some variations.

The genre staples like Nordschleife, Sonoma Raceway, Laguna Seca, Silverstone and Road America are joined by newcomers like Circuit Zolder, Oulton Park, and Brno Circuit.

Where Reverie Under the Moonlight differentiates itself from other genre staples is in its challenge.

Build options are fairly limited, with genre staples such as barracks, tank factories, sea and airship factories, as well as recruitment centers to increase the amount of population you convert into recruits, which acts as the match's currency.

Overall, Shovel Knight is a game that never seems to get old, and continues to stand out not only as one of the best indie platformers on the Switch, but among other genre staples.

The game's long runtime may be great for JRPG fans used to such a genre staple.

While many of the genre staples are represented here — dull corridors crammed with a litany of static enemies and bizarrely flat, open spaces that fail to play to the strengths of your manoeuvrability and momentum — there are certainly moments where Respawn's defiance and ingenuity as a developer shines through.