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...beautifully as possible," says Paul Simmons, 37, one of Timorous Beasties' designers. From afar, Glasgow Toile is a lovely wash of red on white. But step closer and it's not so pretty. In one scene, a junkie uses drugs in a graveyard--"the moral tale being if you shoot up, you will literally end up in a graveyard," says Simmons...
...original Half-Life borrowed technology from hard-core shoot-'em-ups and used it to spin an absorbing tale about a scientist on the run from scary-gross interdimensional aliens. This had never been done before. Half-Life 2 (PC), which arrives Nov. 16, after six years of work, is one of the most frighteningly atmospheric games I've ever seen. Humanity came out of its interdimensional scrap holding the silver medal, and now we live in an alien-run police state enforced by collaborationist thugs and towering three-legged monstrosities. Long, ringing silences, too bright sunlight and empty streets...
...make the camera seem to zoom through blood vessels or the fiery barrel of a gun--render the forensic science more real than any dry technical explanation. The overexposed flashback images look like music videos, the lurid anatomical closeups like art film, the lab scenes like a lush photo shoot: cerulean blue trays, crystal glass, ruby chunks of human tissue laid out like a $300 sushi course...
...went down thinking he was going to shoot and he cut it back well,” Craig said. “And then he cut another one of our guys and laid it out to the middle of the box for an open shot...
Using digital video allows the crew to set up quickly and shoot more scenes. Some of the funniest moments are fleeting flashbacks that wouldn't be practical on a traditionally shot sitcom. When spoiled Bluth daughter Lindsay (Portia de Rossi) tries to start a business, we get a quick glimpse of her last such scheme--Lindsay chasing a terrified dog that has been dyed half green out of a storefront with the sign DIP-A-PET. Other times, the cameraman is a sort of character, scurrying to catch up with the action. Or trying not to. In an upcoming episode...