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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

Well, for me;

PC:

Far Cry
Half Life 2

= enough

GC:

Conflict: Vietnam
Starcraft: Ghost
Splinter Cell 2

and any other GC shooty games I want.

And any others, except for FSW (I think) I can get on my PC. So woot!

I can get hold of the dodgy copy ripped from Valve but I'm really not interested. It would be pretty insulting to the developers who aim on creating something to damn near perfection only for them to know a build has been ripped from them. I also want the finished version and not a some pre-build with half of the Direc X 9.0 effects ripped from them.

I was interested in Thief 3 until I found out how much they had dumbed it down to work on the Xbox, the same goes for Deus Ex: Invisible War as the demo was anything but impressive. The latter though I will en up getting purely because the first one was so sweet.

Deus Ex 2 demo was pretty shoddy looking, compared to my expectations at least.

My mate said the Deus Ex 2 demo was really good.

Meh, I'm looking forward to it either way. I loved the first, and that was a crap PS2 conversion.

Well I say "crap", but I don't really mean it. I really meaned "dumbed down" PS2 version, and that had its own advantages.

Not to mention it running like sh*t with decent hardware. It looked and felt like a pre-build but the errors were s**till there in the US version, not to mention the dumbed down interface for the console version. I know it sounds harsh but they made the interface simple and almos**t retard like. When you buy PC games like this you expect complicated menus, especially for a game of this nature. Cutting down on the options and making it simple c*cks up the PC version as its got console port written all over it. That also explained why the game only ran well in the same resolution as what the TV resolution is.

I hones**tly think they worked with the Xbox and then ported it to the PC, thus spoiling how good it really could have been.

HALO?

HALO???

Look, I'd expect excitment over Halo 2, but not the first, still, after all the months of people realising it's not all that great. Hehe.

Well, some people.


Half Life 2 > Halo 2 by miles. Far far far away. Miles.

The most overlooked is Far Cry, mainly because its a PC game and people strangely overlook PC games.

I honestly believe this will be one of the finest and most polished titles of the year. The demo was awesome and all the previews have pointed towards it being a sneaky classic.