The upcoming true crime flick The Iceman chronicles the life and crimes of Richard Kuklinski (Michael Shannon), who seems like a family man but is in fact a ruthless assassin for the mob. The stellar supporting cast includes Chris Evans, James Franco, Ray Liotta, Winona Ryder and David Schwimmer. Check out the new trailer:
The single-player game will be unchanged outside of the graphical switch. The DLC pack will also include some multiplayer content as well including the Hoboken Rooftops map and new multipliers for Score Attack mode.
Max Payne 3 launched back in May to commercial and critical success, however Rockstar has said that the game still didn't meet its expectations in sales. The Disorganized Crime Pack will be released for download on August 28, 2012.
Rockstar has again tantalised the Internet by releasing three new screenshots for the forthcoming fifth main instalment in its flagship open-world crime juggernaut: Grand Theft Auto V.
The images were posted on Rockstar's Newswire blog under the heading 'Transport' and likely showcase the various modes of transit that players will be able to use around Los Santos. The screenshots promise the return of bicycles, fighter jets and the Cheetah, which has historically been one of the series' fastest cars.
The most interesting detail to emerge from the screens is the man who can be seen sitting in the cockpit of the fighter jet. On close inspection, the character appears to be the same suited man seen at the end of the GTA V debut trailer. Could he be the game's protagonist?
The blog post was accompanied by the promise of more screenshots later this week. This corresponds with the GTA V portion of Rockstar’s official site, which collates the five screenshots released so far (the three most recent and two more, which were revealed back in July) and contains three blank image tiles – so it would seem safe to assume we'll have a total of eight to speculate over before the week is out.
There's still no word on a release date for GTA V, or even a release window, but you can bet we'll have the scoop as soon as any news comes to light.
So, what are your hopes for Grand Theft Auto V? How do you feel about Rockstar drip-feeding slightly abstract images that repeatedly cause the Internet to explode with conjecture? Let us know in the comments below!
This article was written by Jonathan Branney, who is currently completing an internship at Future Publishing.
Advance Review: From TV crime veteran Tom Fontana (Oz, Homicide: Life on the Street) comes BBC America's first ever original scripted series, Copper - a gritty, gloppy "Uptown/Downtown" look at law and order in 1864 New York City. And you don't have to look much further than the cinematic world of Five Points, Manhattan in Scorsese's The Gangs of New York to know that justice rarely reared its head in this time and area that we now consider to be a fascinating hotbed of socioeconomic strife.
Copper has the appealing grime and soot for a show dedicated to showing the corruption that permeates through an entire city system, but I never quite felt invested in any of the characters; especially (and most importantly) the hero of the tale, Irish immigrant Officer Kevin Corcoran (Tom Weston-Jones). Within this first episode, entitled "Surviving Death," we're loaded up with so much back-story that there's almost no way one leading man can live up to all the potential.
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Corcoran is a beloved Civil War hero and a former prized pugilist looking for his missing wife and a mysterious ship all while mourning the death of his six year old-daughter, Maggie. Sure, he's corrupt, but only enough to make him fit in with his historical surroundings, and nowhere near as corrupt as his higher-ups. As a man with - conveniently - no prejudices, Corcoran is able to utilize the entire city in order to solve a crime - from a black forensic expert named Matthew who's opinion no one will accept, to a posh city-aristocrat who Corcoran saved in the war. Copper never stops being interesting, but the predictable way that Corcoran is allowed to be, for example, the only one who cares about the death of a young prostitute sinks the show into the mire a little bit.
Business does pick up however when Corcoran starts running into bureaucratic walls after his investigation begins pointing to places and people whose reputations simply won't allow for sordid accusations. And so while a case might get solved in the pilot episode, it doesn't necessarily mean that things will play out the way we might expect them to on a contemporary cop show. And I'm not sure whether the loose ends from this premiere will get wrapped up as soon as the second episode, or if they'll play out in a Terriers/Luther-style through the rest of the season.
I will admit to enjoying watching how Matthew (Ato Essandoh) uses the science and lab techniques available at the time to run his CSI: Five Points experiments, even though anybody who's watched enough procedural autopsy TV could look at the dead girl's body and tell you the exact murder weapon.
As Copper moves forward, with several mysteries yet to play out, we'll watch issues of immigration, segregation and voter rights texturize the background, giving the series extra weight and significance. And like Scorsese showed us previously, any hero of this era is mostly likely marked by past tragedy as a way of helping us believe that he would want to see true justice served. A yearn for vengeance works well in that respect too. Unfortunately, any hero surrounded by so much interesting history can be easily overshadowed and made bland. Run Lola Run's Franka Potente is also on board as Eva, a hooker with a heart of silver - aka Corcoran's lust interest. As female characters go on this series, it'll probably be hard to find one that isn't a prostitute or a princess as such was the times.
Copper has some good seeds planted down in its muddy Mulberry Street and I'm hoping that the reason that some of it came off as bland to me is due to the fact that I've seen a lot of these characters before; in Westerns and other films and shows taking place post-Civil War. Still, a decent start.
Copper premieres Sunday, August 19th at 10/9c on BBC America.
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