Looper: Joe Vs Joe Mission

In the run up to the release of the awesome sci-fi thriller Looper starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Bruce Willis on Friday September 28, the filmmakers are giving you the chance to become a real-life looper by joining a UK-wide online race.

There are ten online missions dotted around the internet, with exciting spot prizes up for grabs for completing each mission. Complete all ten missions and you'll be entered into a draw to win a iPhone 5 and the chance to interview director Rian Johnson!

To get involved all you need to do is sign up at JoeVsJoe.co.uk. Once your profile is created, players will receive updates on the official site, Facebook and Twitter, telling them where to go to unlock daily missions. Missions will be hidden on websites, Twitter, Facebook and in cinemas. By completing the missions and entering their answers in the Joe Vs Joe website, the trainee Loopers unlock and receive a fragment of a map that will eventually reveal the location of their other self.

IGN's Mission

When you're a young Looper like Joe (Joseph Gordon-Levitt), you get the girls, the cars and the money as standard - but you've got to keep your eye on the ball. Test your own smarts by watching the below trailer and tell us: What colour is the lampshade that levitates?

Visit www.JoeVsJoe.co.uk to input your answer now.

Entering this ninth mission today on IGN will give you the chance to win a Storm Blackout watch, but if you've entered every mission over the past nine days - and play the final task tomorrow, you could win an iPhone 5 PLUS the chance to interview Looper-director Rian Johnson. The Storm Blackout watch, which is water resistant to 50m, has super matte black links and lazer dial which changes colour under different lighting. This watch also has a 3D dial with edge to edge glass and STORM’S signature rotating disc date feature.

Full competition terms and conditions can be found at www.JoeVsJoe.co.uk 

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Bruce Willis Might Join the CIA in American Assassin

Action icon Bruce Willis is now in talks to star as a CIA agent in the CBS Films thriller American Assassin, based on the Vince Flynn novel. Mike Finch scripted the adaptation for producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura. Jeffrey Nachmanoff is attached to direct.

Variety details the film's story, which centers on Mitch Rapp, "a former Syracuse grad student who joins the CIA after his girlfriend his killed by a terrorist attack." Willis is in negotiations to play the mentor figure to Rapp.

Should he accept the role, this would mark a reunion for Willis and di Bonaventura, who worked together on Red and G.I. Joe: Retaliation.

The studio is currently eying a fall 2013 production start date.

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The Expendables 2 Videogame Review

When you and your bros go to watch The Expendables 2, the goofy Willis/Schwarzenegger/Van Damme trailers will have prepped you for what to expect: explosions, one-liners and cheese. When you go to play The Expendables 2 Videogame, the goofy title screen with its low-res text and lackluster animations will have prepped you for what to expect: explosions, a Stallone sound-a-like, and a four-player shooter that's just mediocre.

Through four chapters packing drop-in/drop-out online/offline co-op, The Expendables 2 casts you in the roles made famous by Sly Stallone, Jet Li, Terry Crews and Dolph Lundgren. Each character has a different armament (a pistol, SMG, shotgun and sniper rifle, respectively), and it's up to you to take them from Point A to Point B killing everything that moves (also known as enemies who are all dressed the same).

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The Expendables 2 just doesn't click as a package.

It's your standard top-down arcade shooter. Rather than picking up power-ups, you pick up AKs and rocket launchers. There are collectable Expendables icons that fill in a meter and let you pull off Signature Kills, where the camera zooms in and shows your character impressively slitting a throat or blowing a dude away from pointblank range. Sometimes, you climb in a helicopter and shoot at ground troops via an onscreen reticle.

And then, you repeat this. Over and over again. If you're just looking to blow stuff up, it isn't a bad time; it just isn't an impressive time. The voice acting will make you chuckle (though Crews and Lundren lend their pipes), the story is non-existent, and the action turns to chaos in huge fights. Whereas Dead Nation and other top-down shooters put a laser sight on every weapon, The Expendables 2 doesn't. Stallone's shots just fly off into the distance; they're helped towards enemies in that direction, but picking off enemies on top of train cars and in elevated towers can be troublesome when you're on the ground.

However, that's really only an issue if you're playing on the Hardcore difficulty. Casual difficulty is nerfed to the point that I'd just run into the middle of enemy groups and start meleeing without a care in the world. On Hardcore, you're taken down quickly if you don't use cover, but taking cover feels weird in a run and gun arcade shooter.

The carrot on the end of the stick is that The Expendables 2 gets easier as you play. You kill stuff and earn XP that you can spend on upgrades for your weapons and attributes; but even these are basic and unsexy. If you want to throw an additional $3 into the game, you can max out all the characters before you even fire your first shot.

In-game, The Expendables 2 looks fine -- it's a bit barren when it comes to environments and textures -- but the general package and ambiance feels so cheap. All the fonts used for text in this game are jaggy, and the menu system has no flair. This is the most rudimentary looking game in terms of presentation I've played in my 5 and a half years at IGN.

Source : ign[dot]com