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Life is like a box of chocolates...    Registered Member #14 Joined: Sat Dec 20 2003Location: Ontario, Canada Posts: 2646 | Game just out on the Steam platform - yes, you need a Steam account to get it and play. Was on sale but now its about $15US or 10UK. Based on the Half-Life Source engine, so the graphics aren't cutting edge, but its the game play that makes up for it. This is no spray and pray or shoot and scoot game - you REALLY need to take your time and plan your moves. You can host your own servers using the downloadable dedicated server files, but it takes some messing about to get it to work. Trev has one he pops up when we're around. There are different modes, but so far we've really only played to Coop mode - Player v. AI - and its DAMN tough. These bots aren't your totally stupid kind, they can flank you if you're not watching, and can be damn good shots. There's still a few glitches once in a while, like bots shooting you through a smoke screen, but the devs are constantly tweaking the game to sort the issues out. And they will be putting out the code to make your own user made maps - Shad and Trev could have a field day. We haven't really played it a lot, so I can't give a long review, but its very promising. Some odd controls to access weapons, but once you figure it out its no problem. A number of classes to play, but most classes allow an overlap of the primary weapons. Snipers are the only ones with a sniper weapon, but the other guns can be modified with scopes to make them almost as effective as the sniper rifle. There are about 8 slots for players, so its a mix of different classes, some only one of (like sniper and support) but others like rifleman are multiple. No medics in this one, if you're shot and not killed you back off and you slower recover. Once you're dead, you have to wait till your team takes the next objective - usually only a couple minutes of waiting. So far only Trev, Wedge and I have this, and we haven't all been in at the same time. More players would make it even more interesting as the more you have the more bots and the more intelligent they are. Its definitely worth a look. Its like we felt back in the days of JO, but with smarter bots that can seem to think a bit more rather than just follow a prescribed path. | ||
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I am root. If you see me laughing, you‘d better have a backup! Registered Member #1489 Joined: Sat Nov 11 2006Location: Münster (Westphalia), Germany Posts: 1216 | sounds interesting enough to get me thinking about a steam account.... | ||
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| Life is like a box of chocolates... Registered Member #14 Joined: Sat Dec 20 2003Location: Ontario, Canada Posts: 2646 | You know that feeling when you played Shad's Blue Tag, and you don't know if you got that last guy, or if there's one extra just around the corner, so you get all tensed up, and you're shoulders cramp? That's what you get playing this - you never know if there's a guy around the next corner, because he wasn't there last time. Or that one guy you saw run fast past the building, he might just sneak up behind you. Or you might get a molotov or grenade or even an rpg to the face. Haven't had that tense feeling in a while. Pretty cool. | ||
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| Captain Slow Registered Member #3 Joined: Fri Dec 19 2003Location: Scotland Posts: 4651 |
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| Captain Slow Registered Member #3 Joined: Fri Dec 19 2003Location: Scotland Posts: 4651 | OOOPS! Updated my post so its now coop. | ||
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| Registered Member #35 Joined: Tue Dec 30 2003Location: Lincolnshire England Posts: 2080 | For those that have been here a while... its like the old campaign maps, point hunters will not like it, its all about the team winning. Butcher and Longbow will love it. | ||
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| Life is like a box of chocolates... Registered Member #14 Joined: Sat Dec 20 2003Location: Ontario, Canada Posts: 2646 | LB's gonna really love this part. I was in a ccop map by myself, and the silencer (which we thought didn't matter in coop) really DOES make a difference. I had the bots running around in circles trying to find me. Of course once one sees you, watch out. | ||
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Some say, that if You see me, it is probably too late.. Registered Member #66 Joined: Mon Jan 19 2004Location: Oslo, Norway Posts: 769 | What can I say, I LOVE IT!!!  It is just like the the stealth required maps in LW/TFD. | ||
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| I am root. If you see me laughing, you‘d better have a backup! Registered Member #1489 Joined: Sat Nov 11 2006Location: Münster (Westphalia), Germany Posts: 1216 | I finally got me a steam account, and this game is awesome! | ||
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*hms*non Registered Member #85 Joined: Tue Feb 03 2004Location: Netherlands Posts: 1087 | played it today, looks pretty good! Too bad I was playing alone... harder then I thought  | ||
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