With Heroes Season 3 coming to an end tonight in a climatic superpower smackdown and with Season 4's future still unclear, what better way to celebrate the telekinetic skull cutting and puppet mastery than with a pair of visual musical tributes. First, I give you a decently edited video made 10 times better by featuring the best song of 2009, Depeche Mode's Wrong:
And now for something completely different. Using the classical violently melodramatic theme to the video game Mercenaries 2, Oh No You Didn't:
As always you can check out Fair Use Law's live twitter Heroescast tonight at 9 PM eastern at the usual place.
Rapping/singing over video game music... it's the latest trend in internet trends. Sadly, many have tried, only few have succeeded in a way that won't make their parents cry in shame about their lack of their son's future. One of those success stories? Action Adventure World:
Every Saturday at the Fair Use-atorium, we like to get girl drink drunk, offend each others sensibilities with party games, and enjoy round after round of Burger King Pocketbike Racer. Of course, the soundtrack to said game of our lifetime is a little lacking, so we mute the Xbox and play some of the best music from our video game youth. In honor of Reverend Randy's birthday, I give to you Vectorman 2:
After the break up of long standing emotionally charged industrial band Stabbing Westward, there was a vacuum to be filled in the "overly depressing songs with electronics in the background" department. Many bands tried to fill this slot, and many bands have failed. One band that was closer than most to succeeding, however, was Vex Red. Coming out of nowhere with a CD of high grade tearjerking industrial/acoustic music and a slot performing on the Warped Tour, they just might have made it. Sadly, to this day they have only released one CD, the lead single of which being "Can't Smile."
Major movie companies overlooking one of your favorite sidescrolling co-op beat-em-up games of the early 90s? Why not attempt to make a movie version of it on your own? That's just what these fine folks are attempting to do with Final Fight with surprisingly well acted results in this teaser trailer:
Fair Use Law is back and 100% Pants On The Ground-free this week as “Reverend” Randall Lewis and “Danger” Dan Robinson set their sights on the Apple iPad, unintentionally being a douche bag to your best friend with popular girls in high school, saving failed live music performances with unmitigated violence against acoustic stringed instruments, how sausage throwing doesn’t always mean love, and the pratfalls of working at an amusement park with food poisoning.
I don't know if you heard about it, but I hear the new Apple iPad is pretty incredibly, beautiful, and amazing. Here's proof from their keynote address:
Now a little something for both the men and ladies. As we all know, Japanese RPGs are "Serious Business" as it were. And no Japanese RPG as serious when it comes to business-time as the recently released End of Eternity for the 360 in Japan:
In our never-ending quest to show you the best in awesome-ocity that hits the internet, here is the trailer for Hard Revenge Millie, which arrived on US DVD just last week. Yes, the music you hear in the trailer is former "Get Real, Japan" artist the Gazette, finally marking the mix of J-Rock and splattertastic gore:
Next Tuesday marks the debut of Bioshock 2 on the Xbox 360 gaming system. Want to grind away some multiplayer achievements by shooting us in the face? Drop me an Xbox Live friend request at Friggin Taser for Bioshock 2 party fun! In the meantime, here's the look at the Limited Edition of the game as well as a special announcement at the end!
And lastly, this week we discuss our prior history working for Lake Compounce, the oldest running amusement park in New England. To punctuate the pain, I managed to find the cheesiest promotional video ever made for the park itself:
While sadly this remake doesn't come with it's own music video, it does come with a serious of beautifully disturbing anime drawings, so everything works out in the end. Without further delay, here's the Sequence's cover of Rihanna's Disturbia, 100x better than the original:
