Sentences with phrase «series such a hit»

After several detours away from the tense survival horror that made the series such a hit in the first place, Resident Evil returned to its roots to many fans» delight.

While it's certainly more approachable than your typical Monster Hunter game, Stories fails to capture what has made the series such a hit over the years.

After several detours away from the tense survival horror that made the series such a hit in the first place, Resident Evil returned to its roots to many fans» delight.

Skipping ahead a little bit, it was just prior to the turn of the century when Nintendo had begun to expand the scope of their Mario brand titles, inserting the same zany brand of wackiness which made the Mario Kart series such a hit into other genres and games.

Not exact matches

Many indexes, including Germany's DAX and the Dow in the U.S., have struck a series of all - time highs in recent weeks, while others such as the Nikkei have hit multi-year peaks.

OJ Blaq became famous for his role in TV series Sun City and later teamed up with Richie Mensah to form Lynx Entertainment where he released hit tracks such as Chale Wote and Target.

The gameplay tries paying homage to the tony hawk series but the controls are very loose.Very often you will approach a Half pipe quarter pipe etc. and push forward to gain momentum you have to pull back on the stick quickly before hitting the ramp or you will go forward and crash instead of going straight up.map design is awful there are random half pipes and quarter pipes littered on maps while this makes sense in scenes such as the construction site level it makes no sense on maps like downtown Springfield you will be skating around and see a random display of ramps and pipes.

Such a great hit show since HBO's hit series Entourage.

Biography: His many television appearances span such hit series as «The Practice,» «Homicide: Life on the Street,» «Law and Order,» «The Jamie Foxx Show,» as well as a recurring role on the NBC drama «ER.»

Lionsgate currently has 30 television shows on 20 different networks spanning its primetime production, distribution and syndication businesses, including such critically - acclaimed hits as the multiple Emmy Award - winning Mad Men and Nurse Jackie, the comedy Anger Management, the network series Nashville, the syndication success The Wendy Williams Show and the critically - acclaimed new series Orange Is The New Black.

She made her television debut on the hit sitcom «Moesha,» before going on to guest - star on such series as «ER,» «Dave's World» and «The Steve Harvey Show.»

Some series that seem to have no end in sight also hit the marquee, such as: Transformers: The Last Knight, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales, Marvel's Spider - Man: Homecoming, and War for the Planet of the Apes.

Clearly, Atlus has gone out of its way to treat fans of Persona 4 with something that retains what made it such a hit with series follows but also finds a way to bolster mechanics and gameplay elements in such a way that is friendly towards the system and newcomers.

Lionsgate currently has 34 television shows on 22 networks spanning its primetime production, distribution and syndication businesses, including such critically - acclaimed hits as the multiple Emmy Award - winning Mad Men and Nurse Jackie, the comedy Anger Management, the network series Nashville, the syndication success The Wendy Williams Show and the critically - acclaimed series Orange is the New Black.

LittleBigPlanet 3 is a worthy successor to the LBP series and a solid continuation of what made the first and second games such a hit with critics and gamers alike.

Addictive, fast paced and absolutely chaotic at times, Trackmania Turbo is that rare beast indeed — A racing game that will appeal to mostly everyone without compromising one iota of what made the previously PC exclusive series such a big hit.

Needless to say, Gearbox's Borderlands series was a hit last generation with its unique take on first person shooters mixed with slight RPG elements such as obtaining loot, XP and character and enemy levels...

WHY: Robert Schwentke's «RED» was such a surprise hit at the box office that you can hardly blame Summit Entertainment for wanting to fast - track a sequel, and although it doesn't quite pack the same punch as its predecessor, «RED 2» is still a lot of fun thanks to its star - studded cast, including series newcomers Catherine Zeta - Jones and Anthony Hopkins.

Oscar - winning screenwriter Jim Rash («The Descendants») hosts Sundance Channel's series «The Writers» Room,» a chatfest with scripters of such hit TV shows as «Game of Thrones,» whose staff sits down with Rash on Monday.

As electrifying as the third - generation M3 was to drive, there was no way a mere upgrade would do for the fourth - gen model — not with heavy - hitting competition such as the Mercedes - Benz CLK63 Black Series and the Audi RS5 ready to join the party.

Takeshi Obata is the seminal artist / creator of smash hit manga (graphic novel) series such as DEATH NOTE, BAKUMAN ｡, HIKARU NO GO, RALΩGRAD and ALL YOU NEED IS KILL.

Today's magazine contains chapters of such hit ongoing manga series as One Piece, Bleach, Blue Exorcist, My Hero Academia, and Food Wars!

When a series hits double digits there's usually little left to explore about a protagonist's character, which is why reuniting Reacher with his old team of ex-army investigators is such an inspired move.

The selection includes fan favorites from Spider - Man to My Little Pony to X-O Manowar, and from Transformers to Archie, along with hit YA series such as Locke & Key and acclaimed graphic novels by creators Alan Moore, Matt Fraction, Gail Simone, George R.R. Martin and more.

With more titles than ever, including smash hits such as the 10th Muse, VSS and The Legend of Isis; Bluewater has worked with many best selling novelists in developing comic book series.

Bad credit, on the other hand, means that you have an established history of credit usage, but through a series of financial mistakes, such as errant or delinquent repayment activity, defaulted loans or other factors, your credit score's taken a major hit.

Beyond the challenges faced by the prestigious Sprint Cup Series, the lower - tier events, such as the NASCAR Nationwide Series and Camping World Truck Series were hit even harder.

Jon Provost, otherwise known as Timmy from the hit television series Lassie, talks about what it was like growing up on such an iconic piece of Americana television as well as the thrill of working with such a talented canine.

Tourgoers will visit key filming locations for HBO's hit series such as Strangford Lough's Forest Park and Audley's Castle.

Strong Bad is more point and click fun from Telltale and as such should hit the same delicious spot the previous two in the series did.

You could just use your shield to block an incoming attack and mitigate damage; or you could try timing your block right before the blow's about to hit you to initiate a «parry» allowing for a counterattack and (with sed points invested) open up many different devastating series of attacks specific to «the moment after a successful parry» & the weapon of choice; such as a flying spin attack with your faeblades.

I know, it's such a simple thing, but there's a great pleasure to be derived from magically hitting a series of critical hits, stacking success upon beautiful success.

The service is an especially good deal for those who skipped the PS3 era, as you can play such last - gen hits such as Red Dead Redemption, BioShock, The Last of Us and the entire Uncharted series, without having to buy each game individually.

As such, we'll delve into the series as a whole and examine what has made these games remain such a cult hit.

TOHO said in November 2014 that it aims to make Yo - kai Watch a long - running hit series in the vein of such beloved franchises as Doraemon, Crayon Shin - chan, Detective Conan, and Pokémon.

It was arguably the most inventive game in the series as well, with outrageous designs for stages; such as riding on missiles shot out of a helicopter, which are hitting the boss you're fighting, the top down perspectives in mode 7, and riding a futuristic motorcycle while shooting down enemies.

Few games hit me with such a forceful wave of nostalgia as Sega's sublime 16 - bit strategy RPG series.

- the game's shading mechanism has changed, which allows for increased gear texture quality - all graphical aspects and programming mechanisms have been built up from scratch for this sequel - maximum resolution is 1080p in TV mode - a bigger focus for Nintendo was the 60 frames per second - occasionally the resolution will be scaled down when there is too much ink displaying on the screen - Nintendo reduced the CPU load and refined the way to use CPU power effectively to maintain 60 fps in all matches - weapons were tweaked to let players be more creative by thinking about unique weapon characteristics and their best uses - weapons are designed to be effective when they are used during the right occasion - Special weapons are stronger than the original ones when used in the right situation, but weaker otherwise - the damage and effect of slowing down your movement when you step in the opponent's ink are reduced from original - you can jump up in rank if you're good enough, but only up until S - you can't jump up from C, B or A to S + - when you win battles in Ranked mode, the Ranked meter fills and your rank goes up when its fully filled - when you lose a battle, the gauge does not decrease, but the meter starts to crack - once the meter reaches its limit, it breaks - when the meter breaks, you have to start over again from the beginning or from a lower rank - highest rank is still S +, but if you fill up the Ranked meter, you get numbers after the alphabet such as «S +1», «S +2» and so on - maximum number is «S +50», but this number will not be displayed to your opponent - you are the only one to see it, and you can check it on your own status screen - Ranked Power is calculated by an algorithm to measure how strong each player is with minuteness - this will determine if a player's rank is worthy of receiving a big jump (like from «C» to «A»)- Ranked Power has no relation to your splat rate, and is more tied into to how well you lead your team to victory - you won't drop off more than one rank even if you play poorly - stage rotation time was changed to two hours - this was done because the devs expected people to play for an hour or so, but they found people play much longer - with Salmon Run, Nintendo considered how to implement a co-op oriented mode in a player - versus - player type of game - the devs will monitor how users are playing this mode to see if there's some tweaks they can throw in - more Salmon Run maps will be added in the future, but Nintendo wouldn't comment on adding more enemy types to the mode - rewards are changed each time Salmon Run is played - you can obtain rewards when playing locally, but not gear - originally Nintendo had an idea for this mode, but had no background setting, enemy designs, etc. - Inoue suggested that it should be salmon - themed - when Nintendo hosted the Splatfest that pit Callie against Marie, the development of Splatoon 2 had started - the devs had already decided to have the result reflected in the sequel - they even had an idea to announce the Splatfest with a phrase «Your choice will change the next Splatoon» - the timing to announce a sequel wasn't right, so they decided against this - they eventually released a series of short stories about the Squid Sisters to show how the Splatfest affected the sequel's story - Nintendo wouldn't say if Marina is an Octoling, and noted that Inklings are not paying attention to this too much - Inklings don't care about appearances, as long as everyone is doing something fresh - the Squid Sisters had composers who produced their songs, but Off the Hook are composing their music by themselves - Pearl is genius artist, but she couldn't find a right partner because she's a bit too edgy - she eventually found Marina as a partner though, and their chemistry is sparkling right now - Nintendo is planning a year of content updates for Splatoon 2 - when finished, the quantity of stages will be more than the original - some of the additional stages are totally new and some will be arranged stages from the first game - not all original stages will return and they are choosing stages based on the potential for them to be improved - Brella is shotgun-esque weapon, so the ink hits your opponent more if you are closer - it can shield damage when you open it, but the amount of damage has a limit and once it reaches it, it breaks - you can shoot ink, but you can't use the shield feature when it breaks - the shield won't prevent your allies ink - there are more new weapon categories which haven't been revealed yet - there are no other ranked modes outside of the three current options - the future holds any sort of possibility, but the devs didn't get specific about adding more content like that - for the modes, they adjusted the rule designs so that players will experience the more interesting aspects

Rather than the standard 5v5 matchup you would see in basketball sims such as 2K's NBA 2K series, NBA Playgrounds is an arcade, on - the - street hooper with a 2v2 notion — pick your very best few from your favourite teams of the West and East Conference, and hit the court in a friend versus foe standoff.

Needless to say, Gearbox's Borderlands series was a hit last generation with its unique take on first person shooters mixed with slight RPG elements such as obtaining loot, XP and character and enemy levels...

Clearly, Atlus has gone out of its way to treat fans of Persona 4 with something that retains what made it such a hit with series follows but also finds a way to bolster mechanics and gameplay elements in such a way that is friendly towards the system and newcomers.

It doesn't always hit the highs of the TV series, but should still offer a chuckle or two if you enjoy outright ridiculous fantasy humour and tasks such as delivering a fart in a bag to a talking cinnamon bun.

Addictive, fast paced and absolutely chaotic at times, Trackmania Turbo is that rare beast indeed — A racing game that will appeal to mostly everyone without compromising one iota of what made the previously PC exclusive series such a big hit.

Within the first 15 - minutes of gameplay it is easy to spot influences from a bunch of 8 - bit classics such as «Super Mario Brothers 3» with the level select via over world map and mini stages that appear after completing a level; the «Mega Man» series with its one - hit deaths from ceilings lined with spikes, smooth screen transitions, and inability to run; «Duck Tales» with its pogo mechanics; «Castlevania» with its item select / magic system, and that is just off the top of my head.

The State of Decay series hits the right notes with me as it not only allows you to maim hordes of zombies, but it also focuses a lot on some of the other sometime overlooked facets of a survival situation, such as resource management other than just ammo and first aid sprays.

The series moved forward and hit other consoles such as the Sega Dreamcast and PS2, but was never released outside of its home territory.

The console currently plays over 300 Xbox 360 games (with more being added every month), including such major hits as Red Dead Redemption, Grand Theft Auto IV, Dark Souls, BioShock and the entire Mass Effect series.

With such an iconic series hitting its thirties this month and the release of Twilight Princess HD next, I thought it was high time we had a run - down of all original canon games celebrating birthdays and anniversaries this year.

Last year's title saw Codemasters hit on a handling model that represented a high tide mark for the series, but with so many series mainstays removed from the game, and the resultant experience shipped in such a barebones state, it hardly felt like a victory.

The Challenge Mode offers tasks based on coins, 1 - ups, and specific objectives, such as stomping a series of enemies without hitting the ground.