MeekinOnMovies on....Splinter Cell: Blacklist

A part of me likes thinking that somewhere in the Middle East, an American like Sam Fisher is prowling. Clear and present danger abound, mind racing with a dozen different ways the next few seconds could play out. A guard wanders close to his hiding place. Does he take them out with a silenced bullet to the head? Show mercy and knock them out - or simply let him walk by?

America’s security rides on these so-called patriot games, this man’s ability to make the brutal choices correctly, and without remorse. For this man, at this moment, there is no geneva convention, and are politics as far away from his mind as Bradley Manning, a Quarterback for one of those NFL football teams he doesn’t have the time to care about. In a world of gray, his mission is as black and white as it gets. This is about us vs. them, and he wouldn’t have it any other way.

MeekinOnMovies on....Trials Fusion (Xbox One)

Trials Fusion is available on the PS3, Xbox 360, PS4, and was reviewed on an Xbox One

Trials Fusion

Trials Fusion is an unholy marriage of Sonic The Hedgehog and Tony Hawk's Pro Skater. While masquerading as an over-the-top motorcycle racing game, in reality it's a tough-as-nails platformer. 

Seriously. Between the flips, jumps, spikes, flame pits, loop-d-loops and bounce pads, I half expected Doctor Robotnic to swing a giant wrecking ball at me at the end of the first world.

It's also a game I'd never buy. When the kind folks at Ubisoft graciously gave me a review code thanks to this blog's surprisingly pungent demographic, I figured I'd see if the title was worth a go for people who wouldn't normally seek this kind of thing out. 

In a word? No.