This project is quite significant in that it was my first ever attempt at fashioning some sort of video game critique in the form of a video. It didn’t really take long, just a few days – in my opinion the perfect length for such a review, anything longer and you start reading into things too much. Besides, this is a very simple game I played a lot when I was younger, so it wasn’t that hard to pick up and get into again.
The reason it wasn’t ever uploaded until this week is because I couldn’t quite get the audio right. In the end I decided to go with a take from 2008, one recorded with a horrible microphone. However, thanks to the wonders of modern technology, the hissy bits have been removed and it doesn’t sound quite as bad! Having said that, I still had to paste a bit of music over the top to plug the awkward silence left since the background noise departed.
This is a ten minute cut of a much longer review come commentary that started life as just another explosion compilation. In it, The Yak offers his opinions on Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas for the PS2. What’s in this version can be considered more of a review, with actual commentary on gameplay and fun things to do in the game… namely blowing stuff up.
Most of my recent creative output has gone into creating some more of these video game vlogs/reviews for Hindleyak’s Retro Yakking.
Whilst doing that, I’ve also been catching up with uploading some of these YouTube vids to blip.tv, which could be seen as a more finalised, sanitised and ‘professional’ channel containing the better pieces. Here’s the latest of these, a video review of the Mega Drive classic Premier Manager.
For your viewing delectation, here’s a recut version of a DIY-style video game review from last November. The babbling at the beginning is gone, replaced by some cheesy and suitably stereotypical title cards. Cool, eh?
