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The atmosphere in Jericho is very unique because you get to play through some very unique settings such a Sumeria and the Tower of Babel, Rome 38AD, The Crusaders 1213AD. The other two episodes that start the game are Al-Khali, which appears to be some old middle eastern setting and WWII. And it's these first two episodes that let the game down slightly as they' look nowhere near as good as the last three episodes. The engine itself is standard 2007 with all the bells and whistles you'd expect. Playing on a 2011 spec gaming PC, everything was happy to be on full without any framerate drop. Now the problem with the level design is that it's very, very linear. You're on a tight path throughout the entire game, with no deviation, and this path itself just feels like one open outdoor corridor scattered with rocks and barricades after another. The outdoor areas get repetitive very quickly. The game also suffers a similar fate as Gears Of War; there's just not enough colour. Everything is very desaturated and drab. However there are some good set pieces every now and again, and despite the extreme linearity and drab colour palette, their is always plenty of detail on screen. You won't find bland cube rooms here like F.E.A.R. had. With the engines lighting abilities, the game does look quite good.
The difficulty level is the main issue. Too often you're madly running to each team-mate reviving them after they died for whatever stupid reason. Their AI is abysmal. In some situations you need to shoot enemies, usually mini-bosses, in certain places to kill them. Your team-mates just don't understand this concept, nor do they try to retreat to avoid explosions. I eventually threw on the 'fast health regeneration' cheat, which made the game much easier (too easy in fact as I only died 4-5 times after that), but replaying from checkpoints over and over again because of useless team-mates is not my idea of fun. Furthermore, there's no easy way to reconfigure the mouse buttons without hacking the config file. Which in turn, for me, broke my movement keys in relation to these little mini-games, where you have to press one of the movement keys in a certain order to proceed. Without any keys responding, I had to skip past each and everyone of those mini-games. And most of them were terrible anyway. So overall we have a memorable storyline and setting, great set of different characters you can play with and a decent looking game. The linearity is extreme, but the difficulty level and having to replay from checkpoints ruins the game. It's only saving grace is putting a cheat on, pumping up the difficulty slightly and we've got a much better game. But I never did, mainly cause of the reviews being so mediocre.
Drew: Cool, I'll try to be there. Though we'll have to see if it works - my internet speed is limited to 7k/s until Saturday. :(
Ricky: There's a demo. Gave it a try back then and it totally put me off. I think it was there that I really became aware (and got to hate) forced quicktime events.
Some of the better flash games I've played in the last couple months:
Realm of the Mad God -- a stripped-down MMO roguelike where you pretty much just shoot monsters and collect loot. Unlock player classes as you play. Free except you can spend real money to buy perks (I never have, and never will.) Soul Brother -- a nice puzzle-platformer where your ghost can inhabit different bodies (each with different capabilities) to get past obstacles. Lesbian Spider Queens of Mars -- a pitch-perfect retro arcade game. Also has a sort of Flesh Gordon/Barbarella vibe. Upbot Goes Up -- a solid puzzle game with some challenging levels. I have beaten them all except #31. did any of you guys ever play this game back in the 90s?
it had like no graphics beyond a few little icons and ran as a windowed application in win3.1 very deep and complex 4x game. had hours of fun on that thing. Need for speed : the run
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-a4X90w7YT0&feature=feedu I have such fond memories of the original need for speed underground, to see the series reduced to that is just..well... :( soooo... quicktime event driven completely linear gta ripoff? wut?
what happened to racing for money and upgrading your car and such. i loved that in nfs underground. This sounds absolutely astounding. WHY NO PC???
http://massively.joystiq.com/2011/06/09/e3-2011-dust-514s-realtime-integration-with-eve-online/ Lets do this dance!
What impressed you from the show this year? My top picks would have to be battlefield 3 and Skyrim, with an honourable mention of Dust 514, ccp are batshit crazy to try something like that but it sounds very, very interesting! "WHY NO PC" qft zwiffle, I was sad :( can't say I was so impressed by the single player portion they showed. After seeing New York beautifully realised in Crysis 2, mw3 looks absolutely terrible in comparison.
Waiting for some multiplayer details too I guess! Yeah, the sp footage was less than thrilling. Although, I'd be willing to conjecture that 90% of the people who play duty could not care less about it's sp. :p
Looks pretty promising http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLHtqI8CEDo
Being down on the battlefield in warhammer 40k universe sounds right up my alley. Graphics look so-so.
Coloured lighting effects look like ass. 3rd person perspective looks awful and pointlessly detrimental. Gameplay looks quite decent tho. Good:
Arkham City. Battlefield 3. Bioshock Infinite. From Dust. Prey 2. Bad: Tomb Raider (I really hope that that was just the intro/tutorial level and not entirely indicative of the overall game. I want this to be good). Mass Effect 3. NFS: The Run. MW3. Stuff I liked the trailer for but not sure how much I'll like the game (or 'Ugly' for sake of consistency): Farcry 3 (have I ever told you the definition of insanity?). Brothers in Arms 4. Special award for 'wtf is the point and how/why is it even being made': Halo 4. I also really liked that game with original IP. You know. That one.
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