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"Looking forward..."

Another year of Shoot 'em ups and I for one can't wait!

I bought my N64 for the shoot 'em ups and I bought the Xbox for the same reason.

So looking forward we have:

Conflict Vietnam.

Using the Conflict: Desert Storm engine this looks to be nicely evolved over it's predecessors, for starters there are points to be earned and spent on your character (no more automatic skill upgrades!) allowing you to choose how you approach missions as the gmae progresses. NAPALM, deformable structures, the system has been updated and now further encourages players to assault troops from multiple angles.
There are missions set in rivers, jungle, towns and mountainous areas. The game now has ragdoll physics with detachable limbs and bloodspray. The AI has been improved with soldiers being able to peek round doors and slide along walls to make themselves harder targets.
A lot is being thrown into this game and it looks excellent.



Armed and Dangerous

This appears to be a cross between Serious Sam#s empahasis on shooting a lot of things and Conker's Bad Fur Day, except the games difficulty level will force you to strategise a lot.


Rogue Ops

Acually out now. This appears to be a hybrid of Splinter Cell and Perfect Dark, although it is supposedly worth playing it doesn't match up to either. Looks like what I was expecting PNo3 to be.


Bond: everything or nothing

More Bond third person, new stuff etc etc. You get the picture and hey it can't be as bad as the previous 3... can it? :S


Unreal 2

Should grasp Xbox Live gamers by the goolies and possibly ease off slightly whenever the hell bungie release Halo 2.


Dead Man's Hand

About bloody time we had a Wild West shoot 'em up, full of cliches and appearing on Live, start practicing your Clint Eastwood impressions.


Deus Ex 2

If you don't know, I'm not telling you. :P


Splinter Cell 2

See Deus Ex 2


Operation Flashpoint

Perhaps Ghost Recon is going to be taught a few lessons in warfare?


StarCraft Ghost

Yep another stealth 'em up. Should be good after the amount of development time thrown at it...


Thief 3 and Full Spectrum Warrior

See Deus Ex 2


So it looks like there's a great deal of Stealthy-blasty-snipey-napalming-greatness coming our way over the following months.

Excellent! :D

Maverick42 wrote:
> Hedfix wrote:
> Is it that Sky One thing?
>
> ...
>
> No.

Your date with Tilt went awry then?

I noticed Halo 2 wasn't mentioned, c'mon, whats your excuse?

Hedfix wrote:
> Is it that Sky One thing?

...

No.

o_O

Sky One?

Is it that Sky One thing?

Not a bad idea, but my current tag has an important message behind it.

*****
Half Life 2 shall rule.

I suggest you change your tag to "Half-Life 2" then. :P

Maverick42 wrote:
>
> Or I will deal out some beatings.

You'll be 'fapping' over Half-Life 2 whatever anyone says...

Hedfix wrote:
> Hardly, the idea of this post was to point out some of the smaller
> titles (smaller when compared to the big 3 anyway). The other ones
> are simpy obvious.
>
> Also it's looking like Half-life will be on Xbox 2/not released on
> Xbox this year, so why bother including it in a post looking forward
> to shooters due to be released this year?

UNFORGIVABLE.

Such is the greatness of Half Life 2 that it should be mentioned in EVERY post. Ever.

Or I will deal out some beatings.