He’s back. And he’s back with vengeance. At least, that’s the impres­sion I got when I watched the pre­miere footage of John Rambo over at Ain’t It Cool News. Friendly as they are, they posted the exclu­sive mate­r­ial over at YouTube so that users like me can embed the mate­r­ial wher­ever they want. So, for your view­ing plea­sure, here we go. Well, not quite yet. First off, I’ve got to issue a word of warn­ing: there’s plenty of gore to be seen later on. Don’t watch the stuff if you can’t stand it

Just in case you didn’t know: there’s a new trailer out there. There’s only one word I’d like to say write: Awe­some! Go ahead and watch it. Of course, it has been out for three days already but hey, don’t shoot the mes­sen­ger for being late.

If you’d like to go hi-def, pay a visit to Yahoo! Movies. Unfor­tu­nately, the site is kinda slow so you’d like to visit your site of choice. Have fun!

Now, that’s what I call a media cam­paign. But let’s cover some basics first. The Bel­gian NEE party is run­ning for sen­ate in the 10 June elec­tions 2007. Accord­ing to their page NEE “works around polit­i­cal aware­ness and offers vot­ers in Bel­gium the option to vote ‘NEE’ if they find that none of the par­ties deserve their vote”. To get more media atten­tion, the lead­ing NEE party sen­ate can­di­date, , once posed naked and promised – com­pletely unre­al­is­ti­cally – their vot­ers 400,000 new jobs.

Now, to get even more media atten­tion, Tania Derveaux is will­ing to give 40,000 blowjobs on a first come first serve basis.Well, if that isn’t what many male vot­ers have been wait­ing for? Miss Derveaux has planned that this endeavor will take her 500 days, giv­ing 80 blowjobs a day. Due to time lim­i­ta­tions “each per­for­mance can last no longer than five min­utes” and “no excep­tions will be made, under any cir­cum­stance”. I’m sure, this will get the media’s attention …

… if you would be all-powerful? I’m talk­ing of lim­it­less power like the one the Beyon­der wields. Real omnipo­tence. Cur­rently, I’m re-reading Secret Wars II and I couldn’t help but to think of what I’d do with that kinda power. And guess what! I couldn’t think of any­thing at all. Well, sure, there are some things I’d do but, ulti­mately, there’s noth­ing more to do. If you can do lit­er­ally every­thing in the blink of an eye, what do you get out of life? You’ll never expe­ri­ence ful­fill­ment again because you don’t have to strain to accom­plish what­ever task you set your­self to (yeah, in this con­text lim­it­ing your pow­ers is cheating).

Seri­ously, could any­one be happy wield­ing such imag­in­able pow­ers? Are we humans even able to under­stand the mag­ni­tude of omnipo­tence? Which leads us inevitably back to the ini­tial ques­tion: what would you do if you would wield omnipo­tent pow­ers? End wars? Stop death? Force oth­ers to embrace love and life? Hon­estly, I truly don’t know what I would do. Every action has con­se­quences and I would really feel like a child in a sand­box. You know, mess­ing around with stuff and unin­ten­tion­ally destroy­ing things in the process …

Well, here I am, after finally hav­ing beaten God of War 2: Divine Ret­ri­bu­tion. I played for roughly 20 hours until I finally came to the end. Speak­ing of the end, it left me with mixed feel­ings but first things first. The orig­i­nal God of War was a mas­ter­piece through and through. Inter­est­ing and believ­able sto­ry­line, inter­est­ing char­ac­ters, incred­i­bly intense action – in short, there’s every­thing to it an action game should have.

In the orig­i­nal game, Kratos wound up as God of War after hav­ing killed Ares, his pre­de­ces­sor. Now the sequel picks up right where the first install­ment left off. Again, the anti-hero fol­lows his path of revenge. This time around Kratos has to seek out the Sis­ters of Fate to change his own fate. Of course, it’s a long and dan­ger­ous jour­ney he has to embark on. There are lit­er­ally scores of ene­mies wait­ing to ambush him and a num­ber of puz­zles wait­ing to be solved.

What do I have to say about the game? It’s the best action game I have ever played on the PS2/3 but I ended up damn­ing it to hell from time to time. Some puz­zles seemed quite rough to me and suf­fered heav­ily from imper­fect imple­men­ta­tion. Fight­ing never posed a prob­lem, but some of these puz­zles made me think­ing really bad things of the devel­op­ers. For instance, one puz­zle involved putting a pedestal on a plat­form so that the plat­form couldn’t rise all the way up. In an instant I had the right idea. Real­iza­tion proved to be way more dif­fi­cult, though. In the end, I had do try it for some 20 times until I found the “sweet spot” where the pedestal wouldn’t slide off the plat­form. Hell, there were three or four of these imper­fectly imple­mented puz­zles which drove me nuts! Other than that, the game was fun and I really enjoyed play­ing it. Some­times I only stood there ador­ing the larger-than-life scale of some scener­ies. All in all, well done, guys.