The official website in English that I’m looking at hasn’t been updated since June, and only has yet another release date being posted. It also claimed in January this year that beta had started, only to say in March that playtesting hadn’t begun. Where’s the March 2007 release date been posted?
Anyway, in the category of shooters that haven’t happened yet but actually will, Bioshock is going to own. Ken Levine & the Irrational team, successor to System Shock, Randite dystopia gone horribly wrong, etc. Schwing.
The official trailers end with “March 2007.” Also, both of the game stores I went to told me had March listed as the release date. An interview with one of the lead programmers I read (can’t remember where) had him claiming this as well.
The official website, as well as some other sites and interviews, give the release date as simply being “Q1 2007.” I’m assuming that this is referring to the Russian fiscal year, which is the same as a regular calendar year (unlike America’s which begins in October.) Going by that, March would make sense.
Soldier of Fortune is a great suggestion. And you can probably get it dirt cheap, if you can find it. I’d go with this one if you want bang for your buck.
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I’m assuming that this is referring to the Russian fiscal year, which is the same as a regular calendar year (unlike America’s which begins in October.)
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American fiscal years are usually up to the company.
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I’m assuming that this is referring to the Russian fiscal year, which is the same as a regular calendar year (unlike America’s which begins in October.)
I love Far Cry. Not so much the Trigen missions though. But for sheer fun I keep harking back to Doom because you can get the enemies to fight each other, something to which all later games only pay lip service at best. For multi-player, Duke Nukem 3D was ever so much fun - zooming around on the jetpack dropping pipebombs is a real laugh. And then there’s the rocket-launcher in Unreal Tournament. Rack up a full salvo and let rip!
The above post is in reference to the fiscal year thing.
About Far Cry, I agree that the trigen missions suck. Overall I am not a big fan of mutants in games, especially not really annoying ones like the Trigens. The best part of Far Cry is fighting the cocky alpha-male mercenaries that are all 6’3 and 250 pounds of solid muscle and yell “I’m comin’ for ya!!!” and “SUCK THIS!!!”
For story-mode type stuff, I tend to think Half-Life and HL2 win almost by default - because they are “good” at that sort of stuff where the vast majority of FPS’s are “mediocre at best”.
For the most fun just blowing things up, it’s Unreal Tournament, definitely (UT2004 is my version of choice). Very, very easy to throw on some loud music, start a game, blow stuff up for half an hour at whatever bot difficulty level you desire, and have a great time. Best of all, it’s not especially system-demanding compared to the stuff released in the last year or two. Highly recommended if you’re just looking for simple fun.
Oh, yeah, I feel like Painkiller also deserves a mention. This game is just non-stop killing, with lots of gore. It’s a lot of fun if you don’t care at all about the story. You don’t even have to deal with mission objectives, you basically just kill everyone in every level. The bosses are really creative, also.
Personally, I like Soldier of Fortune II—a tad more realistic than the original (just a touch), and available for the Mac. F’in gory, too.
Speaking of gore, another honorable mention to Postal 2. Think “Grand Theft Auto” as made by the South Park guys. Gory, violent, crude, fun. Dozens of different ways to kill, maim, and torment people. Good way to vent frustrations. I give it four skulls!
I’m several years behind the times, but for classic playability I would go back as far as Ubi Soft’s Rainbow Six series; the first, to Rogue Spear through Raven Shield, Athena Sword, and Ghost Recon.
There was one FPS I also played around '98, probably around the release of Windows '98. It was great for lan-ablility. We played game after game of this game on lan nights-- drinking, some Magic The Gathering card games, and Networked FPS (Good times). I can’t remembr the name, but it was a “Desert storm” themed military game…probably Marine action. Full array of American and “enemy” coventonal weaponry, the grenade laucncher built into the M16 and devastating claymores were notable. We were humbled by the claymores, one minute we thought we had the upper hand and booom… the well placed claymore would take us out. Very realistic.