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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
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
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I'm still shocked Half Life 2 was forgotten from the original list.
Unforgivable.
Unforgivable.
Albino-Man wrote:
>
> Thief III
>
> This looks like a similar thing to Deus Ex. One FPS/RPG hybrid's
> enough for me, so Thief III shalt not enter my house.
No, it's purely FPS, but in the stealthiest sense possible.
>
> Full Spectrum Warrior
>
> I saw footage of this and wondered why anyone even wasted the time,
> effort and money in getting excited about it. From what I see, little
> or no shooting's involved. Plus it's based on software created for an
> actual army simulation. Muh? Who cares? Leave me alone.
I thought that too. A little too real methinks!
>
> Thief III
>
> This looks like a similar thing to Deus Ex. One FPS/RPG hybrid's
> enough for me, so Thief III shalt not enter my house.
No, it's purely FPS, but in the stealthiest sense possible.
>
> Full Spectrum Warrior
>
> I saw footage of this and wondered why anyone even wasted the time,
> effort and money in getting excited about it. From what I see, little
> or no shooting's involved. Plus it's based on software created for an
> actual army simulation. Muh? Who cares? Leave me alone.
I thought that too. A little too real methinks!
I think the list was meant for all the games that Hedfix is looking forward to apart from Halo 2, Half Life 2 and Doom 3. They are the big ones, everyone is going to get them.
There is a few I fancy, so time allowing, I'll pick them up at some point.
ÂLŠ†ÂÎR wrote:
> Well it only just abouts runs on a Pentium 3.2GHZ with 1GB RAM and a
> 9800 XT 256mb graphics card. That should tell you how it will look on
> the Xbox aand taking away the grapyhical elements like the enemy AI
> and awesome ragdoll physics coupled with a huge draw distance would
> just spoil it. The Xbox failed to replicate Max Payne 2 with any
> conviction so I highly doubt it will even look half as good as the PC
> version.
It won't look as nice admittedly, but Max Payne 2 was a shoddy port. The thing with console games is that it can be easily optimised to run on the hardware, with a PC you need more power to deal with the un expected, like signals to the PC that the printer got switched off, or Windows Update starting. If it is done properly, it should look pretty damn good.
There is a few I fancy, so time allowing, I'll pick them up at some point.
ÂLŠ†ÂÎR wrote:
> Well it only just abouts runs on a Pentium 3.2GHZ with 1GB RAM and a
> 9800 XT 256mb graphics card. That should tell you how it will look on
> the Xbox aand taking away the grapyhical elements like the enemy AI
> and awesome ragdoll physics coupled with a huge draw distance would
> just spoil it. The Xbox failed to replicate Max Payne 2 with any
> conviction so I highly doubt it will even look half as good as the PC
> version.
It won't look as nice admittedly, but Max Payne 2 was a shoddy port. The thing with console games is that it can be easily optimised to run on the hardware, with a PC you need more power to deal with the un expected, like signals to the PC that the printer got switched off, or Windows Update starting. If it is done properly, it should look pretty damn good.
Maverick42 wrote:
> I'm still shocked Half Life 2 was forgotten from the original list.
>
> Unforgivable.
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?
I'm surprised noone missed Hitman: Contracts, but there you go.
> I'm still shocked Half Life 2 was forgotten from the original list.
>
> Unforgivable.
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?
I'm surprised noone missed Hitman: Contracts, but there you go.
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.
> 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.
Maverick42 wrote:
>
> Or I will deal out some beatings.
You'll be 'fapping' over Half-Life 2 whatever anyone says...
>
> Or I will deal out some beatings.
You'll be 'fapping' over Half-Life 2 whatever anyone says...
I suggest you change your tag to "Half-Life 2" then. :P
Not a bad idea, but my current tag has an important message behind it.
*****
Half Life 2 shall rule.
*****
Half Life 2 shall rule.
Is it that Sky One thing?
Sky One?
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