Martin Gumucio

Ubisoft are a pack of bastards.

In the credits of their new exercise program My Fitness Coach, you can read that it is “Inspired by an idea from ResponDesign”. This is what could be called the understatement of the year, what Ubisoft means by “inspiration” is using the graphics, the music, the textures, the animation from the game Yourself! Fitness.  Yes its a port of an old PS2 game, and boy does it show. No anti-aliasing for you.

Also for some reason they decided to ugly up the model of maya by about 80%, so where she before looked completely natural, she now looks like a character from the zombie game House of the Dead. What I miss the most, and the feature I was really looking forward to was the simple change to metric units in the weight charts. But no, its as untouched as the rest of the game. A couple of the workouts are different, but in essence the same game that looked ok on the xbox 1 now comes to your Wii, blooming out into all-out ugly.

Of course the game is not about it looking good, but about making YOU look good. And in this area the game delivers big time. When you get tired of Wii Fit, this is the real deal. It is still a great product despite getting no love at all from Ubisoft.
So go buy it and get to work!

With just days left until the American election we have heard and seen more than enough of the candidates, and it is high time for reflection. For me at least it seems impossible how McCain / Palin can still be in the race at all.  The fenomenon Joe the plumber.. frequently adressed by McCain as a victim for Obamas tax tactics, depite not named Joe, not a plumber and in a tax range that would make him benefit from the Obama plans. Or what about Palin, After a bi-partisan investigation in her home state Alaska established that she was guilty of using questionable ethics, and abusing her powers of state in a personal affair, Palin starts to talk in her rallies “how great it is to have been cleared of all charges of wrong-doing”.

While we wait for outcome, why not sit back and relive one of last years greatest gaming memories: One of the best episodes of the great Sam n Max series sees the duo taking care of an out-of-control head of state. Grab and enjoy, these episodes are sold for 8 bucks, but the kind people from Telltale give you this one for free.

Telltale Games – Abe Lincoln Must Die!

Update

Another related thing,  7-11 have been polling the Americans during the month of October by letting them choose what cup they want with their morning coffee, the Obama cup or the McCain cup.  This way they have predicted the last two elections accurately, and the current result is pretty striking:

http://www.7-election.com/