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"New OXM Demo disk....."

A good one this month.......


Conflict Global Storm
Burnout Revenge
Heroes of the Pacific
Far Cry Instincts
Marvel Nemesis
Evil Dead Regeneration


Havent played them all yet, just Burnout Revenge which to me was not that much different to the last one. Marvel Nemesis which I thought was really good (not being a beat-em up fan), and then Far Cry.......wow they really squezed(?) every last drop out of the old box for this. I carnt wait for this come out now!

That's what I thought at first, but the more I played it the more I began to appreciate all the little touches and things. While not completly non linear, there's certainly a lot more paths available to you than say in a game like Halo or Rainbow Six 3.

I was quite shocked at the amount of different ways of taking on the main camp when you're told to steal a hummer. At first I thought there was only a frontal assault through the gates, then I realised there's a whole network of pathways that lead around to the back of the base. Oh and the way you can get a boat early on and take most of the enemies out with the machine gun is very cool too.

Definetly more variety than most shooty games. I personally prefer trying to take everyone down with knife and trap kills. I managed to get up to the main base without firing a single shot last night, took a fricking age though.

Yeah I'd have been more stealthy if I was being forced to (ie if the enemy were actually a challenge) but I started running through half-way through because I realised the AI was set to uber-freaking easy.

It was much better when I stopped hiding and it all kicked off. :)

Yeah, I can't understand why Ubi set the AI on such a low level. They take about 4 health off you with every shot, it takes an absoloute age for them to kill you.

The only time I died was when I drove my Humvee/ATV into 2ft of water.

2FT of water!!!111

The only time I've died is when I set up 2 traps and then proceeded to walk into one, which pinballed me into the other and killed me instantly.

Heh.

Just remembered Burnout's new 'detonate after you've crashed' addition.

Imagine trying to catch up 1st place only to be blown up by 2nd place who's managed to crash and has then waited for you to drive up: Evil and quite possibly incredibly annoying.

Far Cry isn't really my thing as I've never really liked the Stealth around type games, admittedly it isn't as hardcore as the Sam Fisher series.

The traps were good and graphics nigh on superb but there were a few little niggles I had with the games. Why is the enemy AI so low? Why do the bushees look worse than those of Pulse Racer?

I enjoyed some of the innovative touches, like luring a guard over with a stone, for him to meet his organic death-by-whipping. The guns were pretty classy, with things like the machine gun effects being a little above the usual.

As per usual I haven't found the time to play the disc much and so haven't even viewed this months Playmore. I have watched some of the movies though and the intro to the war simulation (I forget the name) was mightily impressive.

In answer to your question; "squeezed"

tnc wrote:
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> In answer to your question; "squeezed"


Thanks, spelling is not really my thing.