Posts Tagged ‘fps’

Looking forward to E3 2011

Tuesday, May 31st, 2011

It’s almost time for E3, where the Gaming studios release lots of new info, screenshots and videos from the games they are working on.

This year I only got a few games I’m following:

X-Com (2K Games/Take-Two):
Huge fan of the original X-Com games, but so far I’ve been unimpressed by the video (the black blob being chased around). But hopefully some more interesting gameplay footage will be released.

Battlefield 3 (Electronic Arts):
Not really a huge FPS gamer, but I enjoyed Bad Company 2 alot, and Battlefield 3 looks awesome.

The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (Bethesda):
Never finished Oblivion (was not a huge fan of the combat system), but if time permits I might play Skyrim.

Dead Island (Deep Silver):
Got noticed for their really awesome trailer, but not so sure about the game itself. Seems like Left 4 Dead with minor RPG elements added. And it seems to focus very much on melee combat, and afraid it will be to much of a hack and slash game (not a fan).

Star Wars: The Old Republic (Electronic Arts):
Saved the best piece for last.. I hope they will provide LOTS of new information, and gameplay from the latest builds. This is the game I’m looking the most forward to as of 2011, and I’m definitely going to play it when it’s released.

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The best game yet: Fallout 3

Tuesday, November 11th, 2008

I’ve been playing lots of Fallout 3 lately (sorry Far Cry 2), and it’s one of the best goddamn games I’ve ever laid my greasy little fingers on.

fallout 3

The graphics are great, the locations and atmosphere are brilliant, the stories are excellent, humor and gameplay are both godly, and the music is the best video game music ever (right up there with eve online).

The game itself takes place in a post apocalyptic Washington DC, where you survived in a underground vault before finally going outside on a epic quest with your pockets full of weapons and ant meat.

Troubles in paradise
I had some problems with the game crashing to desktop quite often, and it grew worse the more I played. I tried a suggested remedy in making some codecs (fddshow I think it was) ignore the game. This only made it worse as it turned the “crash to desktop” into “crash the graphics driver and require a hard reboot”.

I turned off AA (Antialiasing) and HDR (cant say I noticed much difference really:)) and now it seems to be working fine.. Hope there will be a patch to fix it soon, as the 1.0.15 patch did not do much about this problem.

Rating: 10 / 10

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Big FPS shoot-out

Sunday, January 6th, 2008

Some while ago I got my new computer, and I bought some FPS (First Person Shooter) games, and now I’ve finally played enough to make up an opinion about them:

Crysis
Well, first of all I had very high expectations to this game, as Far Cry was my favorite FPS game ever, and all the graphics hype also rose the expectations. I bought this game together with COD4 and HL2, and played it first right up until you go from fighting Koreans to aliens. Then I tried out some HL2, and then I forgot all about Crysis.

I still have not completed the game, as I kind of lost interest after getting to the part with the aliens. The graphics is superb, and the first part when you are on the Island fighting Koreans is great (basically just Far Cry with a fancy suit on), but after this the levels get boring. Will probably play the first part again, while I wait for Far Cry 2 :)

Rating: 7.5 / 10

Call of duty 4
I played this for a night when I thought there was something wrong with my Crysis disc (but it installed fine with antivirus disabled). However HL2 completely dominated my game time pretty long, then I got back to this game.. It is by far the most enjoyable Call of Duty game so far even tough it does not let you attack Normandy :( The game is very short, but has several enjoying missions like shooting at people miles away from the gunship only Thermal video, the sniper mission, shooting at people from a moving car, etc.. The graphics and sound is great and the missions are fun, but the game is to short :|

I don’t care much for the endless waves of enemies popping up, forcing you to constantly push forward, but it actually worked pretty well in this game.

Rating: 8 / 10

The orange box

  • Half-Life 2
    I played trough this game in 17 hours, and was not even tempted to start up crysis once ;) The story is very good and the game is way better than the original Half-Life ever was. It might have been a bit short, but defiantly one of the best FPS games I’ve ever played, up there with Far Cry.
  • Half-Life 2: The Lost Coast
    Well, this was 20 minutes of moderate fun, nothing special, but it was “free” so I cant really complain. Not worth playing
  • Half-Life 2: Episode one
    This starts up right after Half-Life 2 end. I’m really glad there is a episode 1 and 2, as both the original Half-Life 2 and episode 1 ends rather abruptly. The episode was a bit short, and only lasted around 5 hours.
  • Half-Life 2: Episode two
    Again, this picks up where Episode one left off, But I think the maps of episode2 are better, and the story is great.. It does not end as suddenly as episode 1 or HL2, but I will be buying episode 3 as soon as it is available on steam or in the store. This episode took 6 and a half hour to play trough.
  • Portal
    This was the first game from the Orange box that I tried, and the gameplay is pure genius, I’ve already written a whole post dedicated to portal, but to sum it up: Extremely fun, really refreshing and cool gameplay, funny humor, but much to short :(
  • Team Fortress 2
    Pure multiplayer, but pretty fun.. Very cartoony and a bit silly.. I think the playable classes are very well balanced and fun to play, the maps and game modes are also very entertaining.

rating: 10/10

Conclusions
Now the original Far Cry is the second best FPS game I’ve ever played :|

Half Life 2 completely blows Crysis out of the water, sure Crysis looks fantastic, but when it comes to the story Crysis basically has “special ops kill Koreans, stop aliens” while the Half Life universe has a brilliant story and lovable characters. I am really looking forward to Episode 3 which is said to end the HL2 story arc. Also Since a cargo/research ship owned by Aperture Science will be the main focus, one can only hope for a Portal gun :D

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Chapter 2

Tuesday, October 16th, 2007

I probably wont play World of Warcraft for at least 6 months now, so tonight I picked up on my Neverwinter Nights 1 campaign and finished chapter 1.. I must say the story so far and quests are extremely well design and much more fun than what I have played of NWN 2.

NVN screenshot

I bought the box with both expansions, so I figure I have LOTS of playtime left :)

I really like the graphics, nothing fancy still they look very nice (and NWN is one of the few games I can run at 100% graphics with this old computer), I tried some NWN2 Roleplaying, but most scenarios are for NWN1 which I did not have at the time. I might try some more Roleplaying when I’m done with the main campaign (With my Orcish barbarian).

I also played some Resident Evil 4 (on the Wii) tonight, I almost got used to the controls even tough  I hate FPS games on consoles..

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Halo..

Saturday, February 17th, 2007

Being done with Far Cry I thought I might try out another FPS, and I found Halo for PC, and figured I might give it a go just to see what all the fuzz is about.

I only played the game for 3 hours or so, and I must say I’m pretty disappointed.

  • Can only carry 2 weapons at a time.
  • The main weapon is (even at close range) extremely imprecise
  • The enemies are totally ridiculous
  • The AI sucks
  • The levels sucks (well, the fact that it takes place on a Ring World is pretty cool), but the levels are very fixed.
  • And the worst problem (which is probably enhanced by the fact I’ve been playing a lot of Far Cry lately), the game itself is very Arcade-FPS, and I HATE that..

FPS should be like Far Cry or Operation Flashpoint.. not running around in a game made by the level designers of Pac-Man, firing the worlds most imprecise weapon at enemies that seems like they come from a low quality cartoon for 8-year olds..

Rating: 3 / 10

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Far Cry

Saturday, February 17th, 2007

Just completed the last level (Volcano) of Far cry. Taking down Krieger was pretty hard, and took like 20 tries.

After that, I got to the center of the volcano (Big open space with double doors and 4-5 of those big nasty Trigens with rocket launchers.

Farcry screenshot
After trying to do this part for like 30 times, I kinda cheated (that is I found a little tip), where you push a chair under a big door to prevent it from closing.. I could then kill the Trigens that came waiting outside the door, and still had access to a fully stocked armory :)

Getting past the 6 guards with grenade launchers was pretty easy using a few grenades, and then.. Cutscene and relax =)

I only played the game on Normal and had no problems until the end.. Damn the last level of the game is hard.. I don’t believe for a second it is possible to do the last level on the hardest difficulty and not using the “chair trick”.

The game itself is without a doubt the best FPS I’ve ever played, great story, great sound/music, and the graphics is legendary. The actual shooting part, weapons, AI, physics, are all GREAT.

Gamespot rated this game with only 9.2, but I’m going to be generous and give it a

Rating: 10 / 10

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