04-28-2004, 09:00 AM
Recent games:
Far cry
A FPS set in a tropical setting with mercenaries and evil mutants trying to bring you to the *real* paradise. The game was enjoyable. It had an indescribable feeling to it. The atmosphere, the graphics and the sounds were all very good. The AI of the soldiers was also quite impressive. The monsters were difficult and the game was quite challenging. The game lacked a solid storyline. The concept of the game is human experimentation and mutants, and that's pretty much it. You play a guy, who meet up with a girl, and you go and kill another guy. That's pretty much it. The story's as stretched thin as it gets. I completed this game twice. (Watch out for corrupted save games!)
PS: Far Cry requires a monster of a machine to play, so unless you have at least 2.2GB, 512MB of RAM and a solid graphics card, you won't be able to enjoy this.
Manhunt
Gran theft auto with a more sinister perspective. You play a convict sentenced to death, but survives the execution at the mercy of what appears to be the warden who wants you to run around and kill people as violently as possible. Quite fun the first 3 minutes, then terrible repetative and tedious. Avoid!
Hitman 3
Stealthy goodness. Not much on story this game either, but the linearlessness (?) of it makes it a great game. As in Deus Ex, there are always at least 3-4 different ways you can accomplish your goals. There's not only the "run in rambo-style vs sneak in the backdoor" but also the "run in disguised style vs sneak in the side entrance", meaning there are more possibilities than what you ordinarily find in a game. I haven't finished this yet, but I plan to.
Far cry
A FPS set in a tropical setting with mercenaries and evil mutants trying to bring you to the *real* paradise. The game was enjoyable. It had an indescribable feeling to it. The atmosphere, the graphics and the sounds were all very good. The AI of the soldiers was also quite impressive. The monsters were difficult and the game was quite challenging. The game lacked a solid storyline. The concept of the game is human experimentation and mutants, and that's pretty much it. You play a guy, who meet up with a girl, and you go and kill another guy. That's pretty much it. The story's as stretched thin as it gets. I completed this game twice. (Watch out for corrupted save games!)
PS: Far Cry requires a monster of a machine to play, so unless you have at least 2.2GB, 512MB of RAM and a solid graphics card, you won't be able to enjoy this.
Manhunt
Gran theft auto with a more sinister perspective. You play a convict sentenced to death, but survives the execution at the mercy of what appears to be the warden who wants you to run around and kill people as violently as possible. Quite fun the first 3 minutes, then terrible repetative and tedious. Avoid!
Hitman 3
Stealthy goodness. Not much on story this game either, but the linearlessness (?) of it makes it a great game. As in Deus Ex, there are always at least 3-4 different ways you can accomplish your goals. There's not only the "run in rambo-style vs sneak in the backdoor" but also the "run in disguised style vs sneak in the side entrance", meaning there are more possibilities than what you ordinarily find in a game. I haven't finished this yet, but I plan to.
