

Nevertheless, others have urged Iranians to rally and protest in city squares across the country Saturday to demonstrate the might of the movement which they say now is the prelude to a revolution to overthrow the system rather than merely protesting its repressive policies. Some people say this is a sign the regime’s repressive methods are working. The Little Mermaid, directed by Rob Marshall, opens in theaters nationwide on May 26, 2023.Small and isolated flashmob protests continued Wednesday evening in several places as well as rooftop chanting and car horn honking. She makes a deal with the evil sea witch, Ursula, which gives her a chance to experience life on land, but ultimately places her life – and her father’s crown – in jeopardy.

While mermaids are forbidden to interact with humans, Ariel must follow her heart. The youngest of King Triton’s daughters, and the most defiant, Ariel longs to find out more about the world beyond the sea, and while visiting the surface, falls for the dashing Prince Eric. The Little Mermaid is the beloved story of Ariel, a beautiful and spirited young mermaid with a thirst for adventure. The film stars Halle Bailey as Ariel, Daveed Diggs as the voice of Sebastian, Jacob Tremblay as the voice of Flounder, Awkwafina as the voice of Scuttle, Jonah Hauer-King as Prince Eric, Art Malik as Sir Grimsby, Noma Dumezweni as Queen Selina, Javier Bardem as King Triton, and Melissa McCarthy as Ursula. It felt and, in the non-literal, yes-I-know-it’s-running-in-4K sense, looked like an Xbox 360 game.Ĭheck out the teaser trailer for The Little Mermaid, the upcoming live-action reimagining of the animated musical classic. But that’s not to say it can’t or won’t be a fun experience. I played the first half an hour or so, and there’s nothing here that the Xbox faithful are likely to be boastfully thrusting into the faces of their Sony-fan friends. It’s aiming to be goofy and over-the-top (“We are making Sharknado,” Staten told me with a laugh), but how long the story can remain interesting is probably directly proportional to the amount of screen time the irresistibly charming Terry Crews gets. Staten suggested as much, telling me, “Already, even now, the work that Crackdown has done is work that’s being picked up by other studios and they’re making their own experiments and figuring out what they want to do with it.” As for the single-player campaign, I admit I didn’t get a chance to play much of it. But perhaps other first-party Xbox studios will come up with compelling uses for the tech down the road. It didn’t add anything to the experience. Yes, you can smash up the place, but buildings break apart like they’re made of cardboard or styrofoam. That’s all well and good, but my main issue after playing it was that Crackdown 3 doesn’t deliver any weight or impact behind its destruction. “Right now to run one match of Wrecking Zone it’s the equivalent of 12 Xbox Ones,” Staten said. “The hook, of course, is supposed to be that cloud-powered map destruction. But that moment-to-moment combat is rather standard fare: attacks are lock-on-based, so you don’t want to LT over your target until you know you can get clean shots off, otherwise the target-painting lock-on line will alert your foe to the fact that you’ve got them teed up. Success found me once I figured out I should collect the orange orbs scattered about the arena in order to power up my Overdrive ability before heading into battle. After an hour of multiplayer spent entirely on one of the three included maps – this one peppered with tall buildings and emphasizing the environmental destruction – my best answer is “kinda.” It’s very no-frills in just about every regard – neither great nor bad. “In the very beginning it was, ‘What can we do with cloud compute that’s fun?’” It’s an interesting backstory on Crackdown’s revival, but the litmus test was whether or not it helps make Crackdown 3 fun.

“In fact, the Terry Crews-ified single-player campaign (which can also be played in two-player co-op) “wasn’t the original plan,” Staten said.
