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Red Alert 3 features celebrities "in person"
In an interview at a Red Alert 3 press event in London, model Gemma Atkinson described the process of accepting the role of a woman who delivers dull mission briefings while her blouse is unbuttoned.I assumed it would be like me as a character, like a computerized character, like on a blue screen. But when they told me it was me in person, as like you'd see me on telly, I was like, 'Oh my gosh that's amazing they've managed to combine kind of film as well as the game'.
Miss Atkinson obviously hasn't played Red Alert 3 if she thinks film and game have been combined. The Red Alert 3 box contains two separate products: a glib real time strategy game and a series of bad cut scenes. They have virtually nothing to do with each other.
Also, Miss Atkinson loses major points for listing the big names in the game and not mentioning Jonathan Pryce. Someone send that girl a copy of Brazil. What a terrible Brit. They can take away her citizenship for that, right?
Finally, she mentions that she keeps a Gameboy next to her toilet. TMI, Miss Atkinson, TMI. When it comes to celebrities talking about things they know nothing about, I'd much rather they stuck to, say, politics instead of attempting videogames.
By August at 11:29 AM ON 11/04/08
wow dude who cares if she knows nothing about the game? Its obviously a job her agent told her to pick up just to get her some exposure as a model and neither of them probobly care about the game. You sound so much like an angry computer nerd that its pathetic. Just cause your jealous of other people you try and talk bad about them? How old are you like 9? Makes me not even want to read anything from this site.
By ReeyferMadness at 11:34 AM ON 11/04/08
Yes, let's have them potentially sway the idiot masses into making terrible decisions which could potentially lead to catastrophe (**President Clint Eastwood and Prime Minister Sean Connery participate in badass two man raids on North Korea, Iran, and Russia. Nuclear war ensues.**) rather than making silly comments about video games that only annoy a few fanbois and attract a few more mindless zombies' dollars to the industry. What's the worst thing she did, contributed to the tragic yearly death toll of gameboys due to buildup of farticles on the circuitry?
Celebrities are by nature dumb. Their trainers raise them to be dumb, so that they can be easily handled. Let's point them at the least critical targets please :D
By neopythia at 11:52 AM ON 11/04/08
Tom, I think it's time to remove Tom Chick Editor title and simply go with Tom Chick: Angry Computer Nerd.
By Justin Fletcher at 11:57 AM ON 11/04/08
In-Chief.
By Some chick at 12:36 PM ON 11/04/08
Careful, this guy's one of these lazy writers who'd rather (try to) turn a witty phrase and a laugh and hide behind "tough critic" rhetoric than conjure up much that's genuinely original or insightful.
"A witty saying proves nothing" indeed.
By kentdog at 4:38 PM ON 11/04/08
LOL! She called the TV a "telly". Also, is "Some Chick" one of your relatives, Tom?
By Tom Chick at 5:40 PM ON 11/04/08
Mom, would you quit posting in the comments section already?!??
By Complete Prat at 5:47 PM ON 11/04/08
Firstly, I would like to say that we Brits often watch the telly. Probably just because telly is easier to say quickly than TV?
Secondly, she is more known for her former roll in Hollyoaks than for modelling. Personally I try to avoid that particular TV programme as the acting and story lines are pretty crap!
By Complete Prat at 5:49 PM ON 11/04/08
Firstly, I would like to say that we Brits often watch the telly. Probably just because telly is easier to say quickly than TV?
Secondly, she is more known for her former roll in Hollyoaks than for modelling. Personally I try to avoid that particular TV programme as the acting and story lines are pretty crap!
By Tim at 2:28 AM ON 11/05/08
Geez guys, he just wanted to make fun of a really stupid comment. Of course models shouldnt be required to know anything about a game before acting for it, but can't we at least mock them when they display their ignorance?
By Anonymous at 8:37 AM ON 11/05/08
@TIM
Not when they are as hot as she is.
Anonymous:
@TIM Not when they are as hot as she is....More »