Mass Effect rating: asin: B000OLXX86 binding: Video Game list price: $39.99 USD amazon price: $39.99 USD

Starship battles. Compelling characters. A timeless battle of good and evil. If you instantly think “Star Wars”, think again. Mass Effect has the potential to become the next big Sci-Fi element, rivaling the greatness of at the very least, the new “Star Wars” prequels, and even the classic trilogy. Mass Effect aspires to greatness, and succeeds in almost all areas.

The game starts out with several Human Alliance military personal talking about your future, specifically, your role as an intergalactic peace-keeper. Humanity has just been accepted among a huge galactic community, and so far, have been stonewalled as far as say over the future of the galaxy. You, playing as Commander Shepard, hold the key to humanity being more widely accepted as a sentient race in the interstellar community. But before all that, there’s creating your vision of Commander Shepard. Through a in-depth character creation, you can make Shepard exactly as you can imagine him, any race, any gender. You can even create Shepard’s past, from a Sole Survivor, to an off-world colonist. The opportunity to create your own unique hero is mind-numbing, but not just through character creation, but also through development.

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Resident Evil: Extinction [Blu-ray] rating: asin: B000YPUFA6 binding: Blu-ray list price: $38.96 USD amazon price: $26.95 USD

The first one was great, the second... not so much. Extinction redeems the series and has me anticipating the next one. Why does Milla looked photoshopped in every scene, though?
 

Appleseed Ex Machina [Blu-ray] rating: asin: B0010358CG binding: Blu-ray list price: $34.99 USD amazon price: $22.95 USD

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rating: asin: B000VWYJ5Y binding: Blu-ray list price: $38.96 USD amazon price: $26.95 USD

Based on a novel by the noted Japanese science fiction writer Yasutaka Tsutui, the brilliant and unsettling feature Paprika continues director Satoshi Kon's exploration of the disturbingly permeable boundaries between dreams and reality. Techno-geek Kosaku Tokita invented the DC Mini to allow therapists to enter a patient's dreams and explore his unconscious, but an evil cabal uses the Mini to create a mass nightmare that causes multiple suicides. Psychotherapist Atsuko Chiba uses her alter-identity, "dream detective" Paprika, to intervene. Entering the nightmare, she witness a bizarre parade of appliances, toys, and kitsch objects: All of her intelligence and imagination are needed to escape this nightmare and its perpetrators. As he did in Millennium Actress and Paranoia Agent, Kon effortlessly carries the audience between reality and fantasy, confirming his reputation as one of the most talented and interesting directors working in animation today.

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