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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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Deus Ex 2 demo was pretty shoddy looking, compared to my expectations at least.
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.
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.
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!
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!
Cyclone wrote:
> Half Life 2 > All
ÂLŠ†ÂÎR wrote:
> Half Life 2 of course which *should* turn out to be better than what
> else is on offer.
Cyclone and Ali have got the right idea.
> Half Life 2 > All
ÂLŠ†ÂÎR wrote:
> Half Life 2 of course which *should* turn out to be better than what
> else is on offer.
Cyclone and Ali have got the right idea.
Far Cry from what I have played and read about it will be up there with Doom 3 and and the rest, excludung Half Life 2 of course which *should* turn out to be better than what else is on offer.
Hedfix wrote:
> 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...
This looks terribly good. My GC will hum with this baby.
>
>
> 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
Hmm, glad I got my super fast PC. Hehe. :P
Half Life 2 > All
> 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...
This looks terribly good. My GC will hum with this baby.
>
>
> 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
Hmm, glad I got my super fast PC. Hehe. :P
Half Life 2 > All
*chokes*
You make a list of 2004's best looking shooters and you don't include what is most likely to be the pick of the bunch?
If you don't know the game I'm talking about then... then... I'll get you.
*narrows eyes*
You make a list of 2004's best looking shooters and you don't include what is most likely to be the pick of the bunch?
If you don't know the game I'm talking about then... then... I'll get you.
*narrows eyes*
Hedfix wrote:
> Conflict Vietnam.
Oh yes! I'm looking forward to this one indefinitely!
> Armed and Dangerous
Another I'll be watching. But if it's anything like the PC version, it didn't *really* blow me away. Good game though.
> Rogue Ops
Not too bothered about this one.
> Bond: everything or nothing
See above
> Unreal 2
Personally I'm not looking forward to this either. I wasn't impressed with the single player on PC. If it has Live, that's a whole different thang!
> Dead Man's Hand
Yee-Haw!! This game is a definite must-watch! It has the potential to rock muchly, let's just hope the developers do it justice. Live is going to be a blast on this!
> Deus Ex 2
Not really looking forward to this. Might pick it up on a special offer. Maybe.
> Splinter Cell 2
Buying this on launch, 'nuff said.
> Operation Flashpoint
Haven't been following the progress of this. If it is identical to the PC version, I may miss it out as I wasn't too keen on the original. Is it Live suported? If so, then...*drools*
> StarCraft Ghost
Not my thang.
> Thief 3 and Full Spectrum Warrior
Thief 3 - Oh yes!
FSW - Not sure I've heard of this.
> Conflict Vietnam.
Oh yes! I'm looking forward to this one indefinitely!
> Armed and Dangerous
Another I'll be watching. But if it's anything like the PC version, it didn't *really* blow me away. Good game though.
> Rogue Ops
Not too bothered about this one.
> Bond: everything or nothing
See above
> Unreal 2
Personally I'm not looking forward to this either. I wasn't impressed with the single player on PC. If it has Live, that's a whole different thang!
> Dead Man's Hand
Yee-Haw!! This game is a definite must-watch! It has the potential to rock muchly, let's just hope the developers do it justice. Live is going to be a blast on this!
> Deus Ex 2
Not really looking forward to this. Might pick it up on a special offer. Maybe.
> Splinter Cell 2
Buying this on launch, 'nuff said.
> Operation Flashpoint
Haven't been following the progress of this. If it is identical to the PC version, I may miss it out as I wasn't too keen on the original. Is it Live suported? If so, then...*drools*
> StarCraft Ghost
Not my thang.
> Thief 3 and Full Spectrum Warrior
Thief 3 - Oh yes!
FSW - Not sure I've heard of this.
Well Rogue Ops is utter crap, if you have Splinter Cell then you don't need it.
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