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Diablo III

Al3xandr0s — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 04:14:38 -0400

Well, everyone's heard the big news by now. Diablo III then.

It sure looks good. Blizzard have always been great at movies and they seem to deliver here also. Their website design is also top notch and this new one offers quite a few goodies for fans, the best of which is, I think, the journal area. So kudos for that also. There's a certain WoW vibe evident in the screenshots but during actual gameplay it's not so noticable and it maintains a nice, dark and gritty look even though these ...

Cortex Command Review

erathoniel — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 17:21:15 -0400

Cortex Command is an awesome game. I'll say it straight out. It's a platform action-strategy game with mod support and resource management. I'll let some screenshots speak more about it's style, and I'll just give a general description. It's fast, frenetic, and strategic, with resource gathering and management (gold), and a lot of action. It's a fun game, and it recieves a Teen rating for Medium Violence on the VCGW rating system. It's fun like all heck, though, and physics based. It cost...

Night Raid

MagicwillNZ — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 13:39:06 -0400

Found In: Abandonia.com

Genre: Action.

Cost: $0

Worth It?: Yes.

Ah, Night Raid. This is one of those shareware game you used to play as a kid, where you'd only do the first few levels but you'd do them over and over again. Frankly, even back then, the game was too dumb to consider shelling out $10 or so for. The premise is simple: you are out in the middle of desert inside an adobe hut with a rapid-fire cannon mounted on top of it. Planes and helicopters would fly over...

Half Life 2 glitch...finally, a way to kill those pesky turrets

Keilworth — Fri, 16 May 2008 20:28:26 -0400

For those of us who have played the original episode of half-life 2, we know of a single item that can be picked up with the gravity gun that is vastly superior to the radiators in nova prospekt, the saw blades in Ravenholm, and the cinderblocks that are scattered all over the place. This item appears in the conclusion of the level "sandtraps" as you are working your way up the cliff face towards Nova Prospekt: two boating spars, along with a boat, a charred carcass, and a couple of zombies.

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SplinterCell Pandora Tomorrow

ozo — Sun, 16 Dec 2007 16:41:36 -0500

Hello. I just installed this game again, as i never played it through. I remember that the multiplayer was fun. But now i'm asking, does anyone play SCPT's MP anymore or can it even played anymore?
And if it's possible, is there anyone willing to play it?

True Crime - Streets of L.A.

warreni — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 11:49:17 -0500

I finished True Crime recently, and I found it to be a pretty enjoyable experience. The game was criticized and not wholly unjustly for having a pretty simplistic combat system. It also drew a lot of inevitable and unflattering comparisons to the GTA series. However, it has one saving grace that I think actually makes it superior to the two GTA games I've played (Vice City and III): a branching storyline that doesn't grind to a halt every single time you fail to complete a story mission succ...

Painkiller - Review

mittens_ — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 08:59:53 -0400

FileFront.com finally got around to posting my Painkiller review. More reviews are sure to follow, as I have at least 2 or 3 more submitted. Anyyyyhoo, here's a snippet from the review:If you’re looking for a deep shooter, with lots of strategic depth (like Deus Ex) or realism (like the Rainbow Six series), then you’ll definitely want to steer clear of Painkiller; this game is all about pulse-pounding action, and Painkiller has it in spades. From the moment you start this game up, until the mome...

Demon Stone

warreni — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 18:15:09 -0400

I just finished Demon Stone from Atari a few days ago. The unusual thing about that being that I "finished" and didn't abandon it as tedious and pointless, which I have a tendency to do with action-oriented games. While I'm still not entirely convinced that "winnable" is actually a word, I did apply it in this instance. I generally play shooters on the easiest setting, because I lack the console- and really good PC-player's ability to repeatedly press buttons in various awkward configurations ...

Fear Extraction Point

Hawawaa — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 13:03:41 -0500

Wow this expansion is great. Love the new weapons and deployable turrets. The new enemies. They actually have big environments from time to time. Also you have a partner help you out too for a little bit. I hate what they did to Holiday. That was the biggest OMFG sceen in Fear. I wanted to help but I couldnt. I will Have revenge on those invisible demons. I am still playing it but man I dont know whats going on anymore. Alma is attacking you then defending you...wtf...?!? Your brothers alive ag...

Battlefield 2142

Hawawaa — Sat, 25 Nov 2006 22:31:17 -0500

I am getting BF2142 tomorrow morning. I am a BF2 veteran add to BF2142 with free weapon unlock and rank, and at Babbages I get another rank and free weapon unlock! Just tell me what ya think. Also I just got my mod Star Wars Warlords downloaded and running again. Also Xbox Box Live is updated tonight too! This is a great week! Only problem was Crackdown for 360 comes out in feb not on oct 17.

Alan Wake demo using Kentsfield-core CPU

teh blake — Thu, 28 Sep 2006 15:18:15 -0400

If you have not seen the Alan Wake demo that is going around on YouTube yet, I suggest you check it out. It is essentially a demo of what they are doing with quad-core support with the game. One of the coolest things is that they are using one Kentsfield core on the new Core 2 Extreme processors as a dedicted physics processor. Uhm, what's the point of a PPU, again?

Anyway, it makes me excited to see that games are *still* getting more and more realistic and giving me some justification for s...

halo

halofreak231 — Wed, 06 Sep 2006 00:26:00 -0400

hi this is my first blog . any one free for comment. this is halo world come and save this world

Far Cry - The Review

mittens_ — Tue, 05 Sep 2006 01:53:21 -0400

I was one of the guys that gave into the game's hype and figured it was going to be the best thing since marshmellow peeps. I just figured the game was going to revolutionize FPS-gameplay. That was, of course, until I played the demos released by CryTek/Ubisoft. The Farcry demo(s) were so bad that they made me vow that I'd never play the game again. Ever. The demo was just so bug-ridden, sluggish (the graphics were FAR from optimized), the difficulty had obviously not been play-balanced at that ...

Unreal Tournament 2004 Strategy Guide, Part 1

mittens_ — Mon, 11 Jul 2005 08:07:24 -0400

I just did a strategy guide for Unreal Tournament 2004 yesterday; this guide covers all the game's weapons and vehicles, along with general gameplay tips, Onslaught tips and Deathmatch tips. This is just part 1 of the strategy guide; part 2 will cover my favorite UT2k4 mod: Frag.Ops, and should be done by Thursday.Anyway, go check out the strategy guide at http://articles.filefront.com/98

Doom 3 (Xbox) Preview

mittens_ — Sun, 20 Mar 2005 17:34:15 -0400

Another one of my previews has been posted over at FileFront, this time it's on the Xbox version of Doom 3. Here's a snippet:

Another thing that’s quickly apparent in the Xbox version is that this game looks amazing for an Xbox game. It features a lot of the same graphical features of the PC, though, as you’d expect, it’s not nearly as pretty as the PC version. The levels aren’t quite as big, and the model and texture qualities aren’t quite as good; but still, for an Xbox game, it looks damn ...

Where the Mod Takes You

GH33DA — Thu, 27 Jan 2005 05:15:28 -0500

The mod has certainly grown in popularity and talent in its relatively short life span. I still remember playing Threewave CTF for Quake. Heck, I remember playing Team Fortress for GLQuake and thinking mods won't ever get any better than this. Of course, they did. Especially after the explosion of the worldwide phenomenon known as Counter-Strike, the mod community now gains almost as much notice as their original games. This trend also includes the talent behind the titles. Mod team members have...

Rainbow Six Four..

instant — Wed, 01 Dec 2004 05:55:54 -0500

If Tom Clancy was dead, he would be rolling in his grave about now. For one of the worlds best selling authors in the 'techno-thriller/action' genre it must be infuriating to see his Rainbow Six [book & PC game] title be reduce to this: http://www.3dgamers.com/dlselect/games/rainbowsix4/rainbowsix4_teaser_us.zip.html

I will let the video speak for itself.

Half-Life 2 Impressions

Draginol — Sun, 21 Nov 2004 20:13:35 -0500

When I was PC Gamer give Half-Life 2 a 98% my hype alert meter went off.

But now that I have it and have played it for a couple of days, I have to agree, it's pretty fantastic. The graphics are really good but more to the point, the physics of the game really lend themselves to making the game more enjoyable.

My only pet peeve are the # of puzzles that have to be solved. But it's forgiveable since if you have an engine like they have, it makes sense to use it.

I also have DOOM 3 and in...

I suck at Quake 3 Arena.

d3adz0mbie — Thu, 28 Oct 2004 13:30:59 -0400

Well, it's true. I loaded up Quake 3 Arena today to see how it runs on this powerhouse of a computer I've built myself and discovered I suck. Not just suck, but I'm really bad at the game now, and I might be scarred for life because of it.
I used to be a Quake3 GOD. Deathmatch was nothing to me, usually a 50 fraglimit match meant I gave everyone else a good 15-20min headstart of play time so they'd have a chance against me. Platform rail gunning, twisting and turning through the air without eve...

Battlefield: Vietnam - Review

mittens_ — Thu, 03 Jun 2004 14:58:52 -0400

My review of Battlefield: Vietnam has been posted over at FileFront, go take a look at it or die. As per the usual, here's the snippet:A couple of years ago I stumbled onto a game called Battlefield 1942 at a LAN party. At first, I just wandered around the huge maps in awe of the amazing landscape, and how big the maps were. Then, as I got more people in the LAN to join me in a few rounds, the fun really picked up. We played BF1942 for about 8 straight hours, and had an absolute blast. The game’...

Call of Duty: United Offensive Preview

mittens_ — Thu, 13 May 2004 08:26:56 -0400

Another one of my previews has been posted over at FileFront, this time it covers the expansion pack to Call of Duty called Call of Duty: United Offensive. Here's a snippet:

A year later, and it seems that Grey Matter Studios (developers of Return to Castle Wolfenstein and the rather violent Kingpin) wants to bring players back to the battlegrounds of Europe in an expansion pack for Call of Duty entitled Call of Duty: United Offensive. In UO, you’ll once again be a soldier in the 101st Airbor...

Bet On Soldier Preview

mittens_ — Thu, 13 May 2004 08:20:33 -0400

Being that it's E3, I'm writing all sorts of articles on games over the course of this week for FileFront. This preview is on a game that, seemingly, came out of nowhere and looks mildly impressive. The game is Bet On Soldier, here's a snippet from the rather short preview:

[...] you can choose from eight different types of soldier classes, and choose your weapons from an armory of over 40 different weapons. Games will consist of up to 32 players, consisting of more than 40 different soldiers...

Painkiller Screenshots

mittens_ — Mon, 12 Apr 2004 23:46:14 -0400

I just finished a solid weekend filled with Painkiller, and beat it moments ago. Let me just say this: if you consider yourself a gamer, you're going to fucking love this game. Pure action from the moment you start it up, until the moment you make Lucifer wet his panties at the end. I'm going to write-up a review of the game over the next couple days for FileFront, so you'll have to wait for that for my full review, but here are some choice screenshots from my Painkiller Gallery.

Perhaps the Coolest Game Ever! And Controversial To Boot!

mikimouse — Mon, 05 Apr 2004 23:46:50 -0400

This game will undoubtably be controversial. Gaming is really going off the deep end these days. Don't you all agree? The level of violence is staggering. I love ghost Recon, but this one will be a step further, and it's tasteless and crass to boot!

Unreal Tournament 2004

Brackard — Tue, 23 Mar 2004 16:46:50 -0400

Unreal Tournament 2004
The Single Player Experience

Ok, so over the weekend, I went out and purchased the newly released Unreal Tournament 2004. I really enjoyed the demo and have been a good fan of the series. I was expecting good things out of Unreal Tournament 2004. While, UT2k4 is generally a multi-player game, there are many people who play the game single player. Along those lines, there was a single player game included. It included a ‘ladder’ type game where you move up from one...