Sentences with phrase «of twitchy»

Feverish action games rarely fare well on mobile, where a touchscreen's lack of twitchy accuracy can be a real cause for frustration, but thankfully CounterSpy's pace falls on the right side of sedate — just.

With a new Quake joining recent installments of Wolfenstein, DOOM, and the upcoming Unreal Tournament reboot, we think a renaissance of twitchy, old - school shooters is afoot.

With a cast of crazed characters, simple but beautifully difficult gameplay, and a pulsing musical score, ATOMIK: RunGunJumpGun is a loud, trippy mess of twitchy platforming goodness.

Climb a tower, kill some bosses, shoot some guns, it's simple enough, but definitely appeals to fans of twitchy sidescrollers like Mega Man Zero.

«We're incredibly excited to be working closely with PlayStation over the next year, bringing our particular brand of twitchy fun to the PS Vita,» said FuturLab MD James Marsden.

Thrashing about in a ridiculous supercharged Le Mans prototype feels delightfully nervy as you wrestle to keep control of a twitchy thoroughbred powered by a nuclear reactor, whereas a friendly little Focus RS can be chucked about like nobody's business.

Unfortunately, the legions of twitchy video game fans in the U.S. are likely to ship Gallop Racer out to a glue farm after a few hours, if that.

We're incredibly excited to be working closely with PlayStation over the next year, bringing our particular brand of twitchy fun to the PS Vita.

I personally didn't find it made me better at FPS games (I'm kind of twitchy and button mashy) but I liked the feel and the controls were pretty tight.

Kotaku stated that «Slime - san is the type of twitchy, lighting - quick platformer I «m happy to spend hours dying in».

Ferrari has gone for a super quick steering rack ratio, which almost seems laser - guided at lower speeds but falls just the right side of twitchy, allowing you to slice through roundabouts with a startling economy of movement in your hands.

Less impressive is the only - too - obvious back - projection, but the smart idea of an admittedly arbitrary 60 - minute limit before the crew start growing back to normal size generates cumulatively effective tension as debut gal Raquel Welch provides the glam and ever - reliable Donald Pleasence offers more than a hint of twitchy menace.

This sort of twitchy, combo - laden action game is not really something anyone buys for comprehensive multiplayer.

In Andrew Scott's hands, Moriarty is a distinctly 21st - century villain, sort of a twitchy, (more) flamboyant version of Julian Assange.

Hot off the mighty mountain of our twitchy TumbleSeed challenge comes yet another ruthless run that's sure to result...

Unlike titles like Super Meat Boy and VVVVVV, I wasn't able to get the same sort of twitchy satisfaction from Flywrench mostly due to its emphasis on momentum.

The casting of twitchy Ethan Hawke as the burnt - out copper defending his snowbound station works effortlessly well.

For them, Levin thinks «there's a kind of twitchy program going on» in which photosensitive cells — the researchers aren't sure which ones — bypass the brain and directly spur the muscles into movement.

But, respectively, those seemingly basic joys are a cover for complex, physics - based puzzles, and some of the twitchiest jumps this side of Bit.Trip.Runner.

But, respectively, those seemingly basic joys are a cover for complex, physics - based puzzles, and some of the twitchiest jumps this side of Bit.Trip.Runner.

Not exact matches

Or, in a twist on this theme, others are retreating to the few remaining rural spots, such as much of Yellowstone or wilderness Alaska, that still have poor cell coverage to get away from their chiming notifications and twitchy fingers.

At Toronto's Eaton Centre on a busy Friday afternoon, outlets for Bell, Rogers (which owns Canadian Business) and Telus are bustling with twitchy - thumbed consumers eyeing the multitude of mobile options.

The rapid growth of UK auto finance has led to a glut of shiny new motors and twitchy regulators.

It'll stay with you, making you twitchier and twitchier, but with no real hope of actual satisfaction.

I'm not exactly sure if it'll be the one we've planned, or a new adventure altogether, which makes me twitchy and not unlike how I feel when my stash of butter dwindles to three pounds or my freezer feels empty.

There were reasons, of course, including City's twitchy loss to Wigan and the fact strange things happen in cup finals.

As possible harbingers of a new division order the Braves were upstaged by the Marlins in the postseason and outspent by the Phillies in the off - season, all of which makes everyone in Georgia twitchy except the Braves themselves.

Does close scrutiny of these ostensibly calm interviews reveal a unusually twitchy eyebrow, an inappropriately flared nostril?

The introduction of narrower cars and the horrible grooved slicks the year before made the cars pretty twitchy, but Ralf kept it on the road to finish third after both McLarens retired.

Not the twitchiest athlete, Payne pressures the quarterback thanks to his advanced technique and a variety of pass rushing moves.

The comment set off a brief panic in the twitchy halls of the Capitol on Wednesday afternoon, under scoring how fragile the deal is at this point.

Partly because of that, it makes old - style social democrats, and even some old - style liberals, twitchy.

Specifically, the researchers found that a peptide, called STAT6 - IP, when delivered to the lungs of neonatal mice at the time of first RSV exposure reduces the development of allergic - type lung inflammation and airway hyperresponsiveness («twitchy» airways) in mice when they are «re-challenged» with RSV as young adults.

William Gibson of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena and his colleagues exposed fruit flies to overhead shadows resembling aerial predators, such as birds, and found that the more shadows the flies saw, the more twitchy they got (Current Biology, doi.org/4nx).

In other words, if you've ever questioned whether that twitchy feeling you get every time you scroll Instagram is a sign of actual addiction, you can officially stop wondering.

The 12 year old male cat has had these «go crazy twitchy itchy run around like a lunatic, chew the base of his tail but not denude it» issues for years.

Infected, twitchy zombies frantically search out the living, even using their foreheads to beat against car windows, all with the aim of biting their victims into the same unsavory state.

Played by Jesse Eisenberg, this new version of Superman's archenemy is a twitchy fast - talker in a graphic tee and blazer, with shoulder - length hair (yes, they're some luxuriant locks), shooting hoops in LexCorp's in - office basketball court while plotting how to disrupt superheroics using the scraps of Kryptonite he's been buying up.

The concert achieves mixed success, lurching back and forth between earnest folk renditions of Cohen classics versus twitchy, indulgent freak shows and post-punk gravitas.

Skinny, bug - eyed Steve Buscemi, the twitchy actor du jour of American independent films, makes a striking directorial feature - film debut with «Trees Lounge,» in which he also stars as a twitchy, hyperkinetic loser.

Granny (Glenn Close) and the rest of the Hoodinked gang - including the ever - clueless Wolf (Patrick Warburton) and his over-caffeinated little partner, Twitchy (Cory Edwards), join Red to solve the forest's latest caper.

With a cast of crazed characters, challenging gameplay, and a pulsing musical score, it delivers twitchy platforming goodness.

Bloom is the kind of nervous, twitchy guy who wouldn't easily depart his comfort zone to jump headlong into something.

I am actually pleasantly surprised at how well Kunos has adapted the game's incredibly hard - core handling scheme to a controller (even at its default sensitivity settings it's less twitchy and unforgiving than I'd expected, and there's even an auto - throttle blip that will help keep the car composed as you downshift) but you really require a wheel to experience the best of what Assetto Corsa has to offer.

n intersibling death match reminiscent of Sam Shepard's «True West,» the independent feature «Solitude» details the tortured, possibly incestuous relationship between Hilary (Mary Thornton), a dark, hyperactive young woman with grand ambitions, and her brother, Louis (Patrick Belton), a twitchy, bipolar idler who lives in a cramped Phoenix apartment filled with the moldering remains of recent takeout meals.

If you can handle the twitchy racing style of the expert mode, the tuning options are numerous.

Over the past decade, Shannon has been increasingly typecast as either a twitchy weirdo on societal margins or an earnest simpleton, but Bahrani, in a stroke of casting gumption that makes one wonder why he's the first to make the move, has redirected the actor's distinctly coiled facial features and natural gift for commanding a room toward a character with genuinely threatening social and economic power.

Oddly humourless, one of the dullest Marvel adaps still manages to be frequently hilarious thanks to Cage's wide - eyed, twitchy masterclass in overacting.

Although the overarching plot involves the conquest of Thor's native Asgard by Hela, the goddess of death, Thor actually spends the bulk of the film in a comic subplot involving a gladiator planet ruled by an alien overlord played by Jeff Goldblum at his Goldblummiest: equal parts twitchy, smug, and louche.

Charlie's brother (a character with no correlative in real life) Donald (Cage again, in the finest twin performance since Jeremy Irons in Dead Ringers) is cocksure and woman-wise to Charlie's twitchy self - loathing in a way that reminds of the swinger / nebbish iteration of the Jekyll / Hyde interplay.