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I recently went to the arolfini which has alot of difrent things going on i watched a short film called Bomb at Tea Time. Take a trip back in time to the 1940s with this special Silver Screen/Old Media event, open to all. Bombs at Teatime is a portrait of domestic life in Britain throughout one of the most extraordinary decades of our history. At times wry, affectionate and surprising, these rarely seen short films from the BFI National Archive document a time of great austerity as Britain sought to retain its sanity in the shadow of war. I have always been interested in the second world war and enjoyed watching it and it rily was like a window into the 1940’s.
Left 4 Dead is a game that venerates zombie movies throughout the ages; George A. Romero's Dawn of the Dead r was one of my favour films of recent days for me it had everything I like about zombie films. Danny Boyle's 28 Days Later is also one of my favourite zombie films allot more dramatic scenes and is much closer to home. In the game, you and up to three other survivors must battle a zombie apocalypse with a simple goal you aren't trying to eradicate the undead horde; you're just trying to survive.
The game by valve is in its self an amazing and intense and very poplar the online mode means you can play with friends or outer people around the world. The dreaded zombie apocalypse has finally come to pass, turning the vast majority of the population into mindless, ravenous unread hordes. A handful of humans remain immune to the zombie virus, and you play as a small group of them. There's Zoey, a young woman and Bill the grizzled veteran Louis, the middle-class office worker; and Francis, the biker. Armed with real and makeshift weapons, these survivors must battle their way to salvation. It’s the kind of game anyone can play my girlfriend who had never played a first person shooter got riley into left for dead. The amount of detail gone into the game is outstanding.
The zombie horde that you battle is based on the "fast" zombies seen in movies like 28 Weeks Later. These zombies don't shamble. Instead, they sprint at you with inhuman speed, scale fences, and bust down doors to get at you. Horde zombies aren't smart, but they are dangerous in large numbers. The real danger comes in the form of some special zombies. There's the hunter, which can leap across large distances to pin a survivor to the ground. Then there's the smoker, which has a frog-like tongue that can grab a survivor by the throat. The boomer is a corpulent zombie that vomits or explodes to spray survivors. Getting hit by the substance will not only temporarily blind survivors, but it drive the zombie horde into a feeding frenzy? The tank is just that; he's a brick of a zombie that can take an enormous amount of damage and dish out a fair amount. And finally, there's the witch; she's an enormously powerful zombie that can take down a survivor with a single swipe.
Now, if i had to say somthing bad about Left 4 dead, it's that the fact that there are only four scenarios, which is a small number to wrap your head around, and you can play through a scenario in 20 or 30 minutes on the normal difficulty setting. On higher difficulty settings, it'll take longer since you'll die a lot, requiring restarts at the beginning or the most recent safe house that you've reached. Granted, the four scenarios are highly replayable, you could play them over and over again and events unfold differently. There are two reasons for that. The first is the built-in "director" system that manages the action. If you're doing well, it will throw more zombies, like a sadistic dungeon master in a game of Dungeons & Dragons. If you're doing badly, it might decide to ease up on you a bit by providing health kits and ammunition. The second reason is simple human nature. It's a blast to play with others, but it can also be a hilarious experience, as well as a slightly frustrating one at times.
There's absolutely no doubt that Left 4 Dead is one of the most social and exciting multiplayer games that I’ve ever played. It's almost pitch perfect in how it captures the tension and the action of most zombie movies. This is an incredible and highly replayable multiplayer experience that's definitely worth checking out, especially if you're looking to prepare yourself for the inevitable zombie apocalypse.
Whilst at the arolfini i also checked out this cool looking Coal Fired Computer & Tantalum Memorial Media artists YoHa (Matsuko Yokokoji and Graham Harwood) present their Coal Fired Computer. This recent work responds to the displacement of coal production to emerging economic superpowers like India and China after the UK miners' strike in the 80s. Coal Fired Computer also reflects on the complexities of our global fossil fuel reliance as well as the histories of labour and industrialisation. Alongside this is Tantalum Memorial, produced by Harwood, Wright & Yokokoji. This work is a telephony-based memorial to the people who have died as a result of the coltan wars in the Congo.