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I had to reformat my hard-drive last week (damn dirty viruses eating my .exe files), and went back to try and remember what games I had installed. Basically it meant to get anywhere decent, I had to reinstall and play old games to get them back to their former glory.
And the weirdest thing happened, I forgot just how many games out this year have rocked, and I forgot about in my crazed lust for new games.
So, with that in mind and with nothing on the idiot-box worth watching, I settle in with tea, a pack of smokes and Tool rocking the Win-amp to write:
2001: A review of PC gaming
Hundreds of games are released each year, competing for our money and time with promises of new styles, continuation of old, familiar faces and new precious things to get us to part with our money.
There are quality titles and there are shoddy titles that should never have seen the light of day, but get bought anyway by simple folk.
But this year, 2001, has seen one the most revolutionary and groundbreaking since…well…I started PC gaming over 2 years ago.
Titles that have pushed the envelope for what gaming is about, titles that have redefined a genre stale with the same old style and games that were just simply bloody good fun to play.
Obviously I cant go through all of them, but the ones I have rock, and not just because “I like them”, they have added something new to the gaming clichés and made me happy to own a PC.
These games are as follows:
GIANTS: CITIZEN KABUTO
Nobody bought this, and that’s a crying shame. This is one of the most fun, unusual games to blast onto the shelves, yet went ignored due to no flashy advertising promo.
You play one of three races: Human, Sea Reaper and Kabuto (A massive blue thing).
You spend time as each of them, following a story and trying to complete goals to progress.
It’s a RTS, an action FPS shooter, a monster sim all rolled into one. Be it the humour (adult tinged), the nods to popular movies or just the out and out fun of rescuing little aliens and then shooting them because they weren’t grateful enough to you afterwards.
Excellent, and when it comes out on budget, you owe it to yourself to check this game out.
NO-ONE LIVES FOREVER
Took the FPS to another level.
You play Cate Archer, a female James Bond trying to smash an international terror network. Quite simply one of the best FPS on any platform, of any time.
From the usual FPS thing of getting through a level, it had touches that set it apart.
Just when you’re getting used to running about shooting people, you switch to underwater and diving on a wreck of a tanker ship to recover things you screwed up on the previous level (which saw you escaping a sinking ship, water level rising steadily).
What about a sniping level, where you have to protect a drunken politician?
Or the level where you leap from a plane without a parachute and have to get down to the guy below you with one, all the while shooting insane sky-diving enemy agents.
And if different styles of levels isn’t enough, you can just hide next to enemies and listen to them having conversations with each other, a pure delight. Be it discussing the typical attitudes of super-villains towards the criminal henchman union holiday rules, to arguing about why one won’t buy a monkey from a street-vendor. (“I spit on your monkey!” “Why spit on my monkey? Can’t you just spank it?” “I am not spanking your monkey” “Oh go on, at least touch it”).
One of the best FPS ever, graphically, game play wise, gadget wise (robot dogs, bunny slippers to deaden footfalls), script-wise and any other wise you can think of.
MAX PAYNE
What can I say about this game?
Cinematic to the extreme, cool as hell and one of the most enjoyable 3rd person shooters ever to be thought up and sold.
I cannot stress how incredible this game is enough. Take the slo-mo bits from The Matrix, absurd gunfights from John Woo movies, plot from a Dashiel Hammett novel and wrap it up in stunning game play.
I defy anyone to not run into a room in torturously slo-mo, shooting 3 villains and seeing their bullets come towards you, miss you and then they bite the dust.
Certain shootings trigger even slower, revolving around them scenes that just make you strut like a pimp and feel so much cooler than when you started the game.
Max Payne takes the 3rd person shooter thing made popular with Lara Croft and blasts holes through the rotten, cliché corpse that used to be these types of games.
This. Game. Owns.
‘Nuff said.
And SR is selling it for £23? You mentalists, buy one now. Hell, buy two and keep one in your jacket, for you will be known as cool and laydees will want to touch you.
OPERATION FLASHPOINT
By a little-known Czech company called Bohemia Interactive.
At first, I hated this game. I kept getting shot by people I couldn’t see, the grass and bushes looked false and I couldn’t jump.
But then as I played, these reasons became the exact things that made me love this game.
It’s an FPS at its heart, but one with the most realism I’ve come across so far.
You play David Armstrong, a new recruit to the US Army and sent to the island of Everon for basic manoeuvres. Except something is happening here.
You start off as a bog-standard army grunt, you take orders on the battlefield and have to follow the platoon or you get penalised (get shouted at 3 times and you’re out the army. That’s it, game over. Start again.).
But as you progress, if you perform well enough, you progress up through the ranks until you are a lieutenant in charge of your own company.
It’s this continuation of a career that draws you in, you go from another bullet-catcher to being a leader, do you have what it takes to keep your men alive under fire?
And the playing arenas.
The biggest ever created for a game. You can literally fly for an hour in a straight line and not hit the edge of the area.
Oh yeah, fly.
Or drive. You see, any vehicle you see, you can take and use.
Be it a Trabant left in a village, to a tractor in a field. Or a tank. Even helicopters can be stolen and used.
Except you’re going to need to learn how to fly those things, they’re tough.
Realism. You run for long enough, you wont be able to aim properly, or get shot in the right spot and you’re dead. You can, and will, die from 1 shot kills. Which forces you to be careful, hitting the ground when bullets start to fly. You can’t see where they’re coming from, but you can hear them whistle past and you crawl to behind cover before trying to see who’s trying to kill you.
This game rocks, and multiplayer is the best I have seen so far, to the extent I created The UK Dentists.
A crack outfit of idiots and bozos, dedicated to heroic failures in battle.
And we’re one of the most renowned squads on the OFP community.
We have a couple of Codemaster staff members, and even 2 of the developers from Bohemia Interactive in our squad.
And we have managed, despite many tournament events, to register even one victory.
We own.
BLACK AND WHITE
Ok, it’s buggy as hell unless you download the massive patch, but it still is a new level in god games.
Take control of a creature and raise it from infancy. You can make it the most evil avatar to ever step foot in the land, or the cutest, fluffiest liddle thing ever (note to girlfriend, TIGERS DO NOT EAT GRAIN, THEY EAT MEAT.)
There are 5 levels to play and multiplayer, but the joy of this game is to watch your creature grow to a massive monster, with the personality you created for it.
I have a monkey called Bruce Willis that sets fire to cows, craps on kids and throws women into the sea.
Excellent.
----
So that’s just a few of the PC games that have broken new ground this year, there are others but my fingers hurt and I want a bath before I play through Max Payne again and blast stuff.
I haven’t done consoles, but I’m sure somebody will do one shortly, so if you’re a PC gamer and you don’t have any or all of the above games, what are you waiting for?
Go get them and realise just why PC games stand head and shoulders above consoles.
The End.
And the weirdest thing happened, I forgot just how many games out this year have rocked, and I forgot about in my crazed lust for new games.
So, with that in mind and with nothing on the idiot-box worth watching, I settle in with tea, a pack of smokes and Tool rocking the Win-amp to write:
2001: A review of PC gaming
Hundreds of games are released each year, competing for our money and time with promises of new styles, continuation of old, familiar faces and new precious things to get us to part with our money.
There are quality titles and there are shoddy titles that should never have seen the light of day, but get bought anyway by simple folk.
But this year, 2001, has seen one the most revolutionary and groundbreaking since…well…I started PC gaming over 2 years ago.
Titles that have pushed the envelope for what gaming is about, titles that have redefined a genre stale with the same old style and games that were just simply bloody good fun to play.
Obviously I cant go through all of them, but the ones I have rock, and not just because “I like them”, they have added something new to the gaming clichés and made me happy to own a PC.
These games are as follows:
GIANTS: CITIZEN KABUTO
Nobody bought this, and that’s a crying shame. This is one of the most fun, unusual games to blast onto the shelves, yet went ignored due to no flashy advertising promo.
You play one of three races: Human, Sea Reaper and Kabuto (A massive blue thing).
You spend time as each of them, following a story and trying to complete goals to progress.
It’s a RTS, an action FPS shooter, a monster sim all rolled into one. Be it the humour (adult tinged), the nods to popular movies or just the out and out fun of rescuing little aliens and then shooting them because they weren’t grateful enough to you afterwards.
Excellent, and when it comes out on budget, you owe it to yourself to check this game out.
NO-ONE LIVES FOREVER
Took the FPS to another level.
You play Cate Archer, a female James Bond trying to smash an international terror network. Quite simply one of the best FPS on any platform, of any time.
From the usual FPS thing of getting through a level, it had touches that set it apart.
Just when you’re getting used to running about shooting people, you switch to underwater and diving on a wreck of a tanker ship to recover things you screwed up on the previous level (which saw you escaping a sinking ship, water level rising steadily).
What about a sniping level, where you have to protect a drunken politician?
Or the level where you leap from a plane without a parachute and have to get down to the guy below you with one, all the while shooting insane sky-diving enemy agents.
And if different styles of levels isn’t enough, you can just hide next to enemies and listen to them having conversations with each other, a pure delight. Be it discussing the typical attitudes of super-villains towards the criminal henchman union holiday rules, to arguing about why one won’t buy a monkey from a street-vendor. (“I spit on your monkey!” “Why spit on my monkey? Can’t you just spank it?” “I am not spanking your monkey” “Oh go on, at least touch it”).
One of the best FPS ever, graphically, game play wise, gadget wise (robot dogs, bunny slippers to deaden footfalls), script-wise and any other wise you can think of.
MAX PAYNE
What can I say about this game?
Cinematic to the extreme, cool as hell and one of the most enjoyable 3rd person shooters ever to be thought up and sold.
I cannot stress how incredible this game is enough. Take the slo-mo bits from The Matrix, absurd gunfights from John Woo movies, plot from a Dashiel Hammett novel and wrap it up in stunning game play.
I defy anyone to not run into a room in torturously slo-mo, shooting 3 villains and seeing their bullets come towards you, miss you and then they bite the dust.
Certain shootings trigger even slower, revolving around them scenes that just make you strut like a pimp and feel so much cooler than when you started the game.
Max Payne takes the 3rd person shooter thing made popular with Lara Croft and blasts holes through the rotten, cliché corpse that used to be these types of games.
This. Game. Owns.
‘Nuff said.
And SR is selling it for £23? You mentalists, buy one now. Hell, buy two and keep one in your jacket, for you will be known as cool and laydees will want to touch you.
OPERATION FLASHPOINT
By a little-known Czech company called Bohemia Interactive.
At first, I hated this game. I kept getting shot by people I couldn’t see, the grass and bushes looked false and I couldn’t jump.
But then as I played, these reasons became the exact things that made me love this game.
It’s an FPS at its heart, but one with the most realism I’ve come across so far.
You play David Armstrong, a new recruit to the US Army and sent to the island of Everon for basic manoeuvres. Except something is happening here.
You start off as a bog-standard army grunt, you take orders on the battlefield and have to follow the platoon or you get penalised (get shouted at 3 times and you’re out the army. That’s it, game over. Start again.).
But as you progress, if you perform well enough, you progress up through the ranks until you are a lieutenant in charge of your own company.
It’s this continuation of a career that draws you in, you go from another bullet-catcher to being a leader, do you have what it takes to keep your men alive under fire?
And the playing arenas.
The biggest ever created for a game. You can literally fly for an hour in a straight line and not hit the edge of the area.
Oh yeah, fly.
Or drive. You see, any vehicle you see, you can take and use.
Be it a Trabant left in a village, to a tractor in a field. Or a tank. Even helicopters can be stolen and used.
Except you’re going to need to learn how to fly those things, they’re tough.
Realism. You run for long enough, you wont be able to aim properly, or get shot in the right spot and you’re dead. You can, and will, die from 1 shot kills. Which forces you to be careful, hitting the ground when bullets start to fly. You can’t see where they’re coming from, but you can hear them whistle past and you crawl to behind cover before trying to see who’s trying to kill you.
This game rocks, and multiplayer is the best I have seen so far, to the extent I created The UK Dentists.
A crack outfit of idiots and bozos, dedicated to heroic failures in battle.
And we’re one of the most renowned squads on the OFP community.
We have a couple of Codemaster staff members, and even 2 of the developers from Bohemia Interactive in our squad.
And we have managed, despite many tournament events, to register even one victory.
We own.
BLACK AND WHITE
Ok, it’s buggy as hell unless you download the massive patch, but it still is a new level in god games.
Take control of a creature and raise it from infancy. You can make it the most evil avatar to ever step foot in the land, or the cutest, fluffiest liddle thing ever (note to girlfriend, TIGERS DO NOT EAT GRAIN, THEY EAT MEAT.)
There are 5 levels to play and multiplayer, but the joy of this game is to watch your creature grow to a massive monster, with the personality you created for it.
I have a monkey called Bruce Willis that sets fire to cows, craps on kids and throws women into the sea.
Excellent.
----
So that’s just a few of the PC games that have broken new ground this year, there are others but my fingers hurt and I want a bath before I play through Max Payne again and blast stuff.
I haven’t done consoles, but I’m sure somebody will do one shortly, so if you’re a PC gamer and you don’t have any or all of the above games, what are you waiting for?
Go get them and realise just why PC games stand head and shoulders above consoles.
The End.
I had to reboot my hard drive as well. Problem is the game memory is normally where the virus is. BUt my fav game over the last year was RA2 Yuri's revenge.
=B0p
=B0p
Jesus that was way above what I usually write.
Sorry.
I'll put more dumb stuff in the next post.
er..smash fase wiv dog bowl
Sorry.
I'll put more dumb stuff in the next post.
er..smash fase wiv dog bowl
I had to reformat my hard-drive last week (damn dirty viruses eating my .exe files), and went back to try and remember what games I had installed. Basically it meant to get anywhere decent, I had to reinstall and play old games to get them back to their former glory.
And the weirdest thing happened, I forgot just how many games out this year have rocked, and I forgot about in my crazed lust for new games.
So, with that in mind and with nothing on the idiot-box worth watching, I settle in with tea, a pack of smokes and Tool rocking the Win-amp to write:
2001: A review of PC gaming
Hundreds of games are released each year, competing for our money and time with promises of new styles, continuation of old, familiar faces and new precious things to get us to part with our money.
There are quality titles and there are shoddy titles that should never have seen the light of day, but get bought anyway by simple folk.
But this year, 2001, has seen one the most revolutionary and groundbreaking since…well…I started PC gaming over 2 years ago.
Titles that have pushed the envelope for what gaming is about, titles that have redefined a genre stale with the same old style and games that were just simply bloody good fun to play.
Obviously I cant go through all of them, but the ones I have rock, and not just because “I like them”, they have added something new to the gaming clichés and made me happy to own a PC.
These games are as follows:
GIANTS: CITIZEN KABUTO
Nobody bought this, and that’s a crying shame. This is one of the most fun, unusual games to blast onto the shelves, yet went ignored due to no flashy advertising promo.
You play one of three races: Human, Sea Reaper and Kabuto (A massive blue thing).
You spend time as each of them, following a story and trying to complete goals to progress.
It’s a RTS, an action FPS shooter, a monster sim all rolled into one. Be it the humour (adult tinged), the nods to popular movies or just the out and out fun of rescuing little aliens and then shooting them because they weren’t grateful enough to you afterwards.
Excellent, and when it comes out on budget, you owe it to yourself to check this game out.
NO-ONE LIVES FOREVER
Took the FPS to another level.
You play Cate Archer, a female James Bond trying to smash an international terror network. Quite simply one of the best FPS on any platform, of any time.
From the usual FPS thing of getting through a level, it had touches that set it apart.
Just when you’re getting used to running about shooting people, you switch to underwater and diving on a wreck of a tanker ship to recover things you screwed up on the previous level (which saw you escaping a sinking ship, water level rising steadily).
What about a sniping level, where you have to protect a drunken politician?
Or the level where you leap from a plane without a parachute and have to get down to the guy below you with one, all the while shooting insane sky-diving enemy agents.
And if different styles of levels isn’t enough, you can just hide next to enemies and listen to them having conversations with each other, a pure delight. Be it discussing the typical attitudes of super-villains towards the criminal henchman union holiday rules, to arguing about why one won’t buy a monkey from a street-vendor. (“I spit on your monkey!” “Why spit on my monkey? Can’t you just spank it?” “I am not spanking your monkey” “Oh go on, at least touch it”).
One of the best FPS ever, graphically, game play wise, gadget wise (robot dogs, bunny slippers to deaden footfalls), script-wise and any other wise you can think of.
MAX PAYNE
What can I say about this game?
Cinematic to the extreme, cool as hell and one of the most enjoyable 3rd person shooters ever to be thought up and sold.
I cannot stress how incredible this game is enough. Take the slo-mo bits from The Matrix, absurd gunfights from John Woo movies, plot from a Dashiel Hammett novel and wrap it up in stunning game play.
I defy anyone to not run into a room in torturously slo-mo, shooting 3 villains and seeing their bullets come towards you, miss you and then they bite the dust.
Certain shootings trigger even slower, revolving around them scenes that just make you strut like a pimp and feel so much cooler than when you started the game.
Max Payne takes the 3rd person shooter thing made popular with Lara Croft and blasts holes through the rotten, cliché corpse that used to be these types of games.
This. Game. Owns.
‘Nuff said.
And SR is selling it for £23? You mentalists, buy one now. Hell, buy two and keep one in your jacket, for you will be known as cool and laydees will want to touch you.
OPERATION FLASHPOINT
By a little-known Czech company called Bohemia Interactive.
At first, I hated this game. I kept getting shot by people I couldn’t see, the grass and bushes looked false and I couldn’t jump.
But then as I played, these reasons became the exact things that made me love this game.
It’s an FPS at its heart, but one with the most realism I’ve come across so far.
You play David Armstrong, a new recruit to the US Army and sent to the island of Everon for basic manoeuvres. Except something is happening here.
You start off as a bog-standard army grunt, you take orders on the battlefield and have to follow the platoon or you get penalised (get shouted at 3 times and you’re out the army. That’s it, game over. Start again.).
But as you progress, if you perform well enough, you progress up through the ranks until you are a lieutenant in charge of your own company.
It’s this continuation of a career that draws you in, you go from another bullet-catcher to being a leader, do you have what it takes to keep your men alive under fire?
And the playing arenas.
The biggest ever created for a game. You can literally fly for an hour in a straight line and not hit the edge of the area.
Oh yeah, fly.
Or drive. You see, any vehicle you see, you can take and use.
Be it a Trabant left in a village, to a tractor in a field. Or a tank. Even helicopters can be stolen and used.
Except you’re going to need to learn how to fly those things, they’re tough.
Realism. You run for long enough, you wont be able to aim properly, or get shot in the right spot and you’re dead. You can, and will, die from 1 shot kills. Which forces you to be careful, hitting the ground when bullets start to fly. You can’t see where they’re coming from, but you can hear them whistle past and you crawl to behind cover before trying to see who’s trying to kill you.
This game rocks, and multiplayer is the best I have seen so far, to the extent I created The UK Dentists.
A crack outfit of idiots and bozos, dedicated to heroic failures in battle.
And we’re one of the most renowned squads on the OFP community.
We have a couple of Codemaster staff members, and even 2 of the developers from Bohemia Interactive in our squad.
And we have managed, despite many tournament events, to register even one victory.
We own.
BLACK AND WHITE
Ok, it’s buggy as hell unless you download the massive patch, but it still is a new level in god games.
Take control of a creature and raise it from infancy. You can make it the most evil avatar to ever step foot in the land, or the cutest, fluffiest liddle thing ever (note to girlfriend, TIGERS DO NOT EAT GRAIN, THEY EAT MEAT.)
There are 5 levels to play and multiplayer, but the joy of this game is to watch your creature grow to a massive monster, with the personality you created for it.
I have a monkey called Bruce Willis that sets fire to cows, craps on kids and throws women into the sea.
Excellent.
----
So that’s just a few of the PC games that have broken new ground this year, there are others but my fingers hurt and I want a bath before I play through Max Payne again and blast stuff.
I haven’t done consoles, but I’m sure somebody will do one shortly, so if you’re a PC gamer and you don’t have any or all of the above games, what are you waiting for?
Go get them and realise just why PC games stand head and shoulders above consoles.
The End.
And the weirdest thing happened, I forgot just how many games out this year have rocked, and I forgot about in my crazed lust for new games.
So, with that in mind and with nothing on the idiot-box worth watching, I settle in with tea, a pack of smokes and Tool rocking the Win-amp to write:
2001: A review of PC gaming
Hundreds of games are released each year, competing for our money and time with promises of new styles, continuation of old, familiar faces and new precious things to get us to part with our money.
There are quality titles and there are shoddy titles that should never have seen the light of day, but get bought anyway by simple folk.
But this year, 2001, has seen one the most revolutionary and groundbreaking since…well…I started PC gaming over 2 years ago.
Titles that have pushed the envelope for what gaming is about, titles that have redefined a genre stale with the same old style and games that were just simply bloody good fun to play.
Obviously I cant go through all of them, but the ones I have rock, and not just because “I like them”, they have added something new to the gaming clichés and made me happy to own a PC.
These games are as follows:
GIANTS: CITIZEN KABUTO
Nobody bought this, and that’s a crying shame. This is one of the most fun, unusual games to blast onto the shelves, yet went ignored due to no flashy advertising promo.
You play one of three races: Human, Sea Reaper and Kabuto (A massive blue thing).
You spend time as each of them, following a story and trying to complete goals to progress.
It’s a RTS, an action FPS shooter, a monster sim all rolled into one. Be it the humour (adult tinged), the nods to popular movies or just the out and out fun of rescuing little aliens and then shooting them because they weren’t grateful enough to you afterwards.
Excellent, and when it comes out on budget, you owe it to yourself to check this game out.
NO-ONE LIVES FOREVER
Took the FPS to another level.
You play Cate Archer, a female James Bond trying to smash an international terror network. Quite simply one of the best FPS on any platform, of any time.
From the usual FPS thing of getting through a level, it had touches that set it apart.
Just when you’re getting used to running about shooting people, you switch to underwater and diving on a wreck of a tanker ship to recover things you screwed up on the previous level (which saw you escaping a sinking ship, water level rising steadily).
What about a sniping level, where you have to protect a drunken politician?
Or the level where you leap from a plane without a parachute and have to get down to the guy below you with one, all the while shooting insane sky-diving enemy agents.
And if different styles of levels isn’t enough, you can just hide next to enemies and listen to them having conversations with each other, a pure delight. Be it discussing the typical attitudes of super-villains towards the criminal henchman union holiday rules, to arguing about why one won’t buy a monkey from a street-vendor. (“I spit on your monkey!” “Why spit on my monkey? Can’t you just spank it?” “I am not spanking your monkey” “Oh go on, at least touch it”).
One of the best FPS ever, graphically, game play wise, gadget wise (robot dogs, bunny slippers to deaden footfalls), script-wise and any other wise you can think of.
MAX PAYNE
What can I say about this game?
Cinematic to the extreme, cool as hell and one of the most enjoyable 3rd person shooters ever to be thought up and sold.
I cannot stress how incredible this game is enough. Take the slo-mo bits from The Matrix, absurd gunfights from John Woo movies, plot from a Dashiel Hammett novel and wrap it up in stunning game play.
I defy anyone to not run into a room in torturously slo-mo, shooting 3 villains and seeing their bullets come towards you, miss you and then they bite the dust.
Certain shootings trigger even slower, revolving around them scenes that just make you strut like a pimp and feel so much cooler than when you started the game.
Max Payne takes the 3rd person shooter thing made popular with Lara Croft and blasts holes through the rotten, cliché corpse that used to be these types of games.
This. Game. Owns.
‘Nuff said.
And SR is selling it for £23? You mentalists, buy one now. Hell, buy two and keep one in your jacket, for you will be known as cool and laydees will want to touch you.
OPERATION FLASHPOINT
By a little-known Czech company called Bohemia Interactive.
At first, I hated this game. I kept getting shot by people I couldn’t see, the grass and bushes looked false and I couldn’t jump.
But then as I played, these reasons became the exact things that made me love this game.
It’s an FPS at its heart, but one with the most realism I’ve come across so far.
You play David Armstrong, a new recruit to the US Army and sent to the island of Everon for basic manoeuvres. Except something is happening here.
You start off as a bog-standard army grunt, you take orders on the battlefield and have to follow the platoon or you get penalised (get shouted at 3 times and you’re out the army. That’s it, game over. Start again.).
But as you progress, if you perform well enough, you progress up through the ranks until you are a lieutenant in charge of your own company.
It’s this continuation of a career that draws you in, you go from another bullet-catcher to being a leader, do you have what it takes to keep your men alive under fire?
And the playing arenas.
The biggest ever created for a game. You can literally fly for an hour in a straight line and not hit the edge of the area.
Oh yeah, fly.
Or drive. You see, any vehicle you see, you can take and use.
Be it a Trabant left in a village, to a tractor in a field. Or a tank. Even helicopters can be stolen and used.
Except you’re going to need to learn how to fly those things, they’re tough.
Realism. You run for long enough, you wont be able to aim properly, or get shot in the right spot and you’re dead. You can, and will, die from 1 shot kills. Which forces you to be careful, hitting the ground when bullets start to fly. You can’t see where they’re coming from, but you can hear them whistle past and you crawl to behind cover before trying to see who’s trying to kill you.
This game rocks, and multiplayer is the best I have seen so far, to the extent I created The UK Dentists.
A crack outfit of idiots and bozos, dedicated to heroic failures in battle.
And we’re one of the most renowned squads on the OFP community.
We have a couple of Codemaster staff members, and even 2 of the developers from Bohemia Interactive in our squad.
And we have managed, despite many tournament events, to register even one victory.
We own.
BLACK AND WHITE
Ok, it’s buggy as hell unless you download the massive patch, but it still is a new level in god games.
Take control of a creature and raise it from infancy. You can make it the most evil avatar to ever step foot in the land, or the cutest, fluffiest liddle thing ever (note to girlfriend, TIGERS DO NOT EAT GRAIN, THEY EAT MEAT.)
There are 5 levels to play and multiplayer, but the joy of this game is to watch your creature grow to a massive monster, with the personality you created for it.
I have a monkey called Bruce Willis that sets fire to cows, craps on kids and throws women into the sea.
Excellent.
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So that’s just a few of the PC games that have broken new ground this year, there are others but my fingers hurt and I want a bath before I play through Max Payne again and blast stuff.
I haven’t done consoles, but I’m sure somebody will do one shortly, so if you’re a PC gamer and you don’t have any or all of the above games, what are you waiting for?
Go get them and realise just why PC games stand head and shoulders above consoles.
The End.