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Nikopol : La Foire aux Immortels. Faut-il y jouer ?

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- 3 hours and 40 minutes ago

Vous l’avez vu dans la presse, tout le monde s’est fendu d’un petit mot sur le jeu vidéo adapté de La Foire aux Immortels, premier tome de la trilogie Nikopol de Bilal. Signée White Birds, l’adaptation en jeu d’aventure est sortie sous le feu des projecteurs. Reste une question : est-ce réussi ?

C’est vrai quoi. Bilal par-ci, Bilal par-là, mais ce qui nous intéresse surtout c’est de savoir dans quelle mesure Nikopol : La Foire aux Immortels s’approche de la BD dont il est adapté, si les énigmes sont chouettes ou si pour 40 euros, on ne se fait pas blouser. Tout commence dans l’appartement parisien d’Alcide Nikopol â€“ déjà, on s’éloigne de la BD â€“, un endroit spacieux, bien que délabré. Là où le bouquin de Bilal raconte l’histoire de papa Nikopol et du facétieux Horus, le jeu nous met dans la peau du fiston, artiste tourmenté, contacté par Anubis, le taulier de la pyramide flottante au dessus de Paris. C’est contre Nikopol père que nous allons devoir Å“uvrer, dans un Paris futuriste glauque et décadent, en proie à l’ultra présence de la religion. Ici, Choublanc n’est plus le gouverneur corrompu que l’on connaît, mais une sorte de messie illuminé, candidat à l’élection présidentielle â€“ un changement scénaristique pour coller, paraît-il, aux enjeux religieux du monde actuel. [...]

Tu cliques ou tu pointes ?

Question mode de jeu, le système de navigation est semblable à L’Amerzone et aux derniers Myst. À la première personne, nous nous déplaçons de lieu en lieu, avec une vue à 360 degrés. Pas de vraie 3D, on nous ressert ici un mécanisme éculé qui a fait ses preuves. Sauf que graphiquement, Nikopol est daté. Les derniers Myst qui ont quelques années sont infiniment mieux réalisés que le nouveau jeu White Birds. Alors bien sûr, les décors sont honnêtes, mais ils n’impressionnent pas. Ã‡a se gâte avec les personnages plutôt moches et très mal incrustés aux décors. Pour être vilain, on va dire que ça ressemble au film Immortel Ad Vitam... en dix fois pire. Reste que l’ambiance est plutôt bien restituée et que les dialogues en français sont de bonne facture.

Côté gameplay, c’est enfantin. Le joueur stocke tout un tas d’objets dans son inventaire, qu’il pourra sélectionner pour interagir avec des éléments de décor. Indispensable pour résoudre les énigmes. On peut d’ailleurs reprocher le côté consolesque de l’interface, malgré la sortie unique sur PC. Impossible d’accéder à l’inventaire tout en jouant. Il faut passer par un écran spécial, sélectionner, cliquer… Rapide, mais quand même pénible, à l’image des minijeux qui ponctuent l’aventure. Trouver la bonne combinaison de coups de marteau pour faire tomber un mur, bien orienter des conducteurs d’énergie pour alimenter tous les éléments du métro. Sur le papier, c’est rigolo, mais à l’usage, il n’y a rien de vraiment fun, surtout quand après l’énigme bien compliquée du codage d’un passe magnétique, un puzzle sembable encore plus complexe fait son apparition. Un brin décourageant. Par contre, contrairement à la plupart des jeux d’aventure, on peut se faire tuer. Le temps est aussi très important, avec pas mal d’énigmes à résoudre rapidement si on ne veut pas finir six pieds sous terre. Un parti pris qui donne un petit côté survival sympa à certaines énigmes.

Un jeu à l’image des dieux : antique

Au bout du compte, Nikopol : La Foire aux Immortels est un jeu honnête, mais dispensable. Moins bien foutu que le déjà très moyen jeu d’aventure SF Perry Rhodan, le titre de White Birds n’est pas passionnant et ne donne pas envie de se casser la tête sur les énigmes pour savoir ce qui va se passer ensuite. Si le scénario remis au goût du jour convainc, ce n’est pas le cas des graphismes, en particulier du rendu des personnages, plutôt ratés, plus proche de L’Amerzone vieux de presque 10 ans que de la saga des Myst. La durée de vie est aussi incroyablement courte, avec tout juste 4 à 5 grands lieux à visiter, dont l’essentiel du temps passé vient de puzzles retors que seuls les bacs S spécialité math sauront apprécier. Reste que les inconditionnels de Bilal savoureront les références à la BD, mais à 40 euros, Nikopol : La Foire aux Immortels n’en donne pas pour son argent. Mieux vaut attendre la sortie en gamme budget, de ce jeu vraiment trop moyen.

Pour vous faire une idée, une démo jouable est à télécharger sur le site officiel du jeu.

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See Ben Kingsley in Prince of Persia movie

Joystiq

- 25 minutes ago

pFiled under: a href="http://www.joystiq.com/category/culture/" rel="tag"Culture/a/pdiv align="center"a href="http://defamer.com/5061954/ben-kingsley-loves-you-and-you"img hspace="0" border="1" vspace="4" alt="" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.joystiq.com/media/2008/10/princeofben.jpg" //abr //div You have to hand it to Ben Kingsley: For an Oscar winner, that guy will be in just about anything. It's a well-known fact in the industry that if you say aloud "I've got a bunch of money to make a movie, but where will I find an actor?" Ben Kingley will, within three to five minutes, appear to you as an astral projection to negotiate his share of the residuals.br /br /Now, he's joined the cast of a href="http://www.joystiq.com/tag/prince-of-persia-movie"emPrince of Persia: The Sands of Time/em/a, and you can see him in his garb for the film just above (get this: He plays the embad guy/em). Yeah, his belt looks stupid, but not as stupid as his hair in emBloodRayne/em, so at least he's making progress.br /br /[Via a href="http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=49649"CS/a]p style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"nbsp;/ppa href=http://defamer.com/5061954/ben-kingsley-loves-you-and-youRead/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.joystiq.com/2008/10/14/see-ben-kingsley-in-prince-of-persia-movie/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"Permalink/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.joystiq.com/forward/1341664/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email"Email this/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.technorati.com/cosmos/search.html?rank=amp;fc=1amp;url=http://www.joystiq.com/2008/10/14/see-ben-kingsley-in-prince-of-persia-movie/" title="Linking Blogs"Linkingnbsp;Blogs/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.joystiq.com/2008/10/14/see-ben-kingsley-in-prince-of-persia-movie/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"Comments/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.joystiq.com/~f/weblogsinc/joystiq?a=cvQMm"img src="http://feeds.joystiq.com/~f/weblogsinc/joystiq?i=cvQMm" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.joystiq.com/~f/weblogsinc/joystiq?a=qTIcm"img src="http://feeds.joystiq.com/~f/weblogsinc/joystiq?i=qTIcm" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.joystiq.com/~r/weblogsinc/joystiq/~4/420629033" height="1" width="1"/

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AP repeated McCain campaign's false claim that Obama "failed to tell the truth" about Ayers, ignored own reporting on Palin's "palling" claim

Media Matters for America

- 34 minutes ago

Despite numerous independent fact checks to the contrary, in an October 14 article, The Associated Press uncritically repeated the McCain campaign's false claim that Sen. Barack Obama "failed to tell the truth about his relationship with 1960s radical William Ayers." The suggestion that Obama wasn't truthful about his association with Ayers is false, and the attack echoes a McCain campaign ad that asserts: "When convenient, he worked with terrorist Bill Ayers. When discovered, he lied." However, independent fact checks of the McCain campaign's claim that Obama "lied" about his relationship with Ayers have found the claim to be false. In an October 10 "Fact Checker" article, The Washington Post asserted of the ad: "The McCain campaign is distorting the Obama-Ayers relationship, and exaggerating their closeness. There is no evidence that Obama has 'lied' about his dealings with Ayers." Additionally, a FactCheck.org article found "McCain's accusation that Obama 'lied' to be groundless."

Moreover, ignoring its own reporting, the AP uncritically reported that Gov. Sarah Palin "has accused Obama of 'palling around with terrorists,' meaning Ayers." However, on October 5, the AP reported that "there is no evidence that they [Obama and Ayers] ever palled around. And it's simply wrong to suggest that they were associated while Ayers was committing terrorist acts." As the AP noted on October 5, in accusing Obama of "pall[ing] around with terrorists," Palin cited a New York Times article that in the AP's words "detailed Obama's relationship with Ayers." But the Times article that Palin cited does not support her accusation; rather, as the AP noted in the October 5 article, the Times reported that "the two men do not appear to have been close."

From the AP article:

McCain and running mate Sarah Palin have said Obama failed to tell the truth about his relationship with 1960s radical William Ayers, and Palin has accused Obama of "palling around with terrorists," meaning Ayers.

Ayers was a founder of the Weather Underground, a radical, Vietnam War-era group that claimed responsibility for a series of bombings, including nonfatal explosions at the Pentagon and U.S. Capitol.

Ayers also hosted a reception for Obama in 1995, when Obama was beginning his political career. The two also have worked with the same nonprofit organizations in Chicago. McCain's campaign has tried to exploit those ties, even while saying it disagreed with Frederick.

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Motorola Krave ZN4 officially launches on Verizon for $149.99

Engadget

- 35 minutes ago

pFiled under: a href="http://www.engadget.com/category/cellphones/" rel="tag"Cellphones/a/pdiv align="center"a href="http://www.motorola.com/mediacenter/news/detail.jsp?globalObjectId=10290_10219_23"img hspace="4" border="0" vspace="4" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2008/10/motorola-zn4-ofc.jpg" alt="" //abr //div Color us as a href="http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/10/02/verizon-prices-motorola-zn4-krave-at-149-99/"unsurprised as ever/a, but Motorola's unique, if not fancy, a href="http://www.engadgetmobile.com/tag/Krave+ZN4/"Krave ZN4/a just got official. The touchscreen-based flip phone is launching today on Verizon Wireless, bringing with it two layers of touch -- one on the interactive clear flip outside and another with the full 2.8-inch touchscreen inside. You'll also find support for V CAST Mobile TV, V CAST Video, V CAST Music with Rhapsody and VZ Navigator, not to mention the 2-megapixel camera, Bluetooth, HTML browser and visual voicemail capabilities. It's in stores today for a buck fifty after signing away your cellular soul for two years and waiting ages for a $50 mail-in rebate to arrive in your mailbox.h6 style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"/h6a href=http://www.motorola.com/mediacenter/news/detail.jsp?globalObjectId=10290_10219_23Read/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/14/motorola-krave-zn4-officially-launches-on-verizon-for-149-99/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"Permalink/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.engadget.com/forward/1341771/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email"Email this/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/14/motorola-krave-zn4-officially-launches-on-verizon-for-149-99/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"Comments/a pa href="http://feeds.engadget.com/~a/weblogsinc/engadget?a=TtPbUW"img src="http://feeds.engadget.com/~a/weblogsinc/engadget?i=TtPbUW" border="0"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.engadget.com/~f/weblogsinc/engadget?a=PYtkm"img src="http://feeds.engadget.com/~f/weblogsinc/engadget?i=PYtkm" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.engadget.com/~f/weblogsinc/engadget?a=VC1zm"img src="http://feeds.engadget.com/~f/weblogsinc/engadget?i=VC1zm" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.engadget.com/~r/weblogsinc/engadget/~4/420615092" height="1" width="1"/

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Savage: "[N]ot all Muslims are terrorists, but all terrorists happen to be Muslim"

Media Matters for America

- 35 minutes ago

On the October 9 broadcast of his nationally syndicated radio show, Michael Savage said that "not all Muslims are terrorists," then falsely asserted that "all terrorists happen to be Muslim." Savage stated: "I am a believer in all five of the world's religions. As long as they're peace-loving and are pro-American, as far as I'm concerned, all religions are equal." He continued, "However, when you consider the fact that not all Muslims are terrorists, but all terrorists happen to be Muslim and that the 19 hijackers who destroyed the Twin Towers and the Pentagon were Muslim, mainly from Saudi Arabia, we have a very real obligation to remember that."

Media Matters for America has documented Savage's history of anti-Muslim and anti-Arab statements:

September 2008: Regarding Muslim immigrants to the United States, Savage asked, "Why would a nation that is as evolved as America, and as liberal as America is socially, want to bring in throwbacks who are living in the 15th century? Now you have to ask yourself, what's the benefit? What is the societal benefit of bringing in throwbacks, some of whom are no doubt terrorists, and some of whom are gonna produce children who will become terrorists?"
July 2007: Savage said that "when I see a woman walking around with a burqa, I see a Nazi," adding, "That's what I see -- how do you like that? -- a hateful Nazi who would like to cut your throat and kill your children." Savage later said that when a Muslim woman wears a burqa, "She's doing it to spit in your face. She's saying, 'You white moron, you, I'm going to kill you if I can.' "
October 2006: Discussing the Muslim holy month of Ramadan and the continued violence in Iraq, Savage suggested that Islam is "a bloodthirsty religion that's practiced over there by a bunch of throwbacks, and we're gonna to kill 'em." Savage called for the United States to say: "That's it, we're leaving them; we're killing them."
June 2006: Savage read from a June 4 New York Times article about the arrest of 17 Canadian residents on charges that they were planning a terrorist attack. Savage noted that according to the article, one of the suspects is a "well-known and fiery figure ... in the Toronto area's South Asian community" and the imam of a mosque. Savage then stated that "[w]henever you see the word 'South Asian,' substitute the word for 'terrorist,' or reference to 'terrorist.' " Savage then said of the word "imam," the title of the prayer leader in a mosque, "that's another code word for trouble-making bum who should have been thrown out of the country."
April 2006: During a discussion with a caller he later described as an "ordinary Muslim," Savage declared that based on the caller's views about the war in Iraq and fading phone signal, he must have been using a cell phone "made over there in a bomb factory in the Gaza strip."
June 2004: Savage asserted that only when he sees Muslim extremists "hanging from lampposts in the entire Middle East ... with their guts hanging out, then I'll believe that there's a difference between radical Islam and the rest of Islam over there."
May 2004: Savage called Arabs "non-humans" and "racist, fascist bigots"; asserted that Americans would like to "drop a nuclear weapon" on any Arab country; and that "these people" in the Middle East "need to be forcibly converted to Christianity" in order to "turn them into human beings."

Talk Radio Network, which syndicates Savage's show, claims that Savage is heard on more than 350 radio stations. The Savage Nation reaches at least 8.25 million listeners each week, according to Talkers Magazine, making it one of the most listened-to talk radio shows in the nation, behind only The Rush Limbaugh Show and The Sean Hannity Show.

From the October 9 broadcast of Talk Radio Network's The Savage Nation:

SAVAGE: How about his relatives in Kenya? Mr. [Jerome] Corsi went over to Kenya to investigate his relatives in Kenya, and he was arrested by the Muslim leader of Kenya because Mr. Corsi uncovered the true birthplace, I believe, of Hussein Obama and the connections that exist between Barack Hussein Obama and this Muslim leader and what this Muslim leader said he would do after this election. And yet McCain says why should I care about this?

Well, as you well know, Obama's first father left him and his mother. And he was a Muslim. And Obama's mother then remarried with her new husband who was again a Muslim. And yet we're not supposed to say the M word. Now, as I said to you, I am a believer in all five of the world's religions. As long as they're peace-loving and are pro-American, as far as I'm concerned, all religions are equal. However, when you consider the fact that not all Muslims are terrorists, but all terrorists happen to be Muslim and that the 19 hijackers who destroyed the Twin Towers and the Pentagon were Muslim, mainly from Saudi Arabia, we have a very real obligation to remember that. Never mind that we've been told not to remember it by the both party candidates. Never mind that PBS -- which should be defunded -- tries to embarrass you every time you remember reality. I remember reality.

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