Sorry to make the announcement, but the show will be on hiatus for the next couple of weeks. Sorry about any inconvenience. Hopefully after a couple of weeks we can resume the regular schedule. Thanks for you patience.

This week’s episode will be delayed until further notice. Joe and I are working on improvements for the show and we need some time to iron out some things. Thanks for your patience, and any suggestions would be greatly appreciated! If there’s anything you think could change or be added, please let us know. Email pnbfans(at)gmail(dot)com or just add a comment to this message. Thanks!

I would like to take this opportunity to vent my frustration and anger over the very popular Iron Man. But let me first clarify before you go crying to your mommas. While the movie was very awesome, its video game counterpart was not. I own a PS2 and while most everyone else owns the 360 or Wii, I prefer the game selection and controller of the PS2. This is not to say that I don’t like the other gaming systems, but rather I don’t have the money to buy one so I just use somebody else’s when I get the chance. Back to the game. Iron Man is quite possibly one of the worst experiences I have had on the PS2. You play the title character on his mission to make the world right. However, don’t expect to relive the movie through the game. The missions (at least the ones that I had the patience to play) don’t have anything to do with the movie. And the missions that you do play are very linear, meaning your path to victory is very obvious and easy. There are no tricks or hidden places to discover. No puzzles to solve or difficult baddies to beat. You don’t fly. You hover. It takes one shot to destroy a bad guy and you are virtually invincible. Your weapons are upgradeable – but the game chooses those for you. You have quite possibly one of the coolest superheroes who should translate well to a video game, but somewhere along the line the creators in all their wisdom dropped the ball. This game is everything that God of War is not: disappointing, to sum it up. I played about 3 levels of this game and finally slammed the controller down in frustration. “Thank God I only rented this game,” I told myself. The truth is, while Robert Downey Jr. is having fun being multidimensional, exciting and kick-ass, you get to be dull, invincible in a bad way, and totally not worth the money spent on this stupid game. Take my advice when I say this: stay as far away from Iron Man as you possibly can. If someone you know tells you that this game is cool, you have my permission to punch them in the kidneys. You might also need to take them to see the Iron Man on screen to remind them what a real superhero looks like.

Episode 42 of Pressed & Bound is online! In this week’s episode we review:

Books:

• The Ultimate Hitchhiker’s Guide: Five Complete Novels and One Story (Deluxe Edition)

Movies:

• The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Widescreen Edition)

Right click and download the forty-second episode here:

• MP4 280mb
• iPod 97mb
• MP3 24mb

Comments or questions? Email us at: pnbfans(at)gmail(dot)com

Just a heads up:

As I was working on the show tonight to get it all put out and taken care of, Final Cut decided to crash and then corrupt the project files for the show. It was a good two hours or so wasted, and now I’m going to have to start from scratch. This means the show most likely won’t go up until this weekend sometime when I get another chunk of time to mess with it. Sorry about any inconvenience. Direct all anger to Apple.