Half Life: Source is not REALLY the original Half Life using the Source engine. You can expect nicer textures (the water in particular looks much better) but it’s not the complete makeover you would expect.
Ehhh…quickie two-day fix. How about Call of Duty? The original is a few years old now and should run fine on almost any machine. It’s very well done with some amazing set-pieces and you can be done in about 12-15 hours if you want.
You could also try No One Lives Forever 2 (also known as NOLF 2). If you haven’t played it or the original you are missing out on some of the most original and entertaining shooters ever made.
And of course as soon as I hit “Submit Reply” I notice that you are looking at buying something online.
I don’t know where you were looking to buy Half-Life, but if it was through Steam (Valve’s online distribution client) you can get Call of Duty for $19.95. Yeah it’s ten bucks more but it’s something you haven’t played through already!
I have no idea where to get NOLF 2 online. I know I wasn’t the first person to mention it in this thread, so maybe someone else has some ideas.
Don’t get me wrong, I would love to be able to explore the Reactor and the city of Pripyat if they are faithful to reality. The Exclusion Zone makes an excellent setting for a video game, I agree on the cliche levels in most FPS games these days. I wonder if the diurnal cycle will affect the enemies behavior? The level of polish that people expect on a game that’s been not only developed for so long, but also been heavily hyped it’s hard to meet most expectations. Itmagine what people will say when Duke Nukem Forever finally releases.
I will still be buying this game, and most likely be finally upgrading from this laptop I have(it can run Oblivion acceptably so I gave it a reprieve), but I was a little let down seeing S.T.A.L.K.E.R. in action.
Before this thread enters the realm of the zombies, I wanted to thank everyone for their very, very helpful input.
Eventually, I opted to get Call of Duty 2 and Half Life 2. WOW! What great advice I got. Both are amazing games (their only drawback is that I’m afraid I’m now spoiled - my expectations have been raised, dramatically).
I hope it’s ok if I do a slight hi-jack rather than open my own thread, but I’m also in search of a first-person shooter - with a preference for options that don’t always show up on the back of a PC-game box.
I am looking for a game with multi-player, but specifically co-op mode; also, the ability to host a co-op game without going thru a company server (i.e., I would host a game and give my IP address to my friends, who could connect to my game directly).
The best success my friends and I had with this was the original Ghost Recon + the expansions + player-created mods. Does anyone know if GR-AW allows for this? Do Far Cry or Half-Life 2 have co-op?
No One Lives Forever 2
Far Cry
Unreal Tournament (I actually think the original was better than 2004)
Fear and Doom3 are worth playing, but I can’t really put them in the same category as the above.
What about Multiplayer-only games or Multiplayer mode of FPS games? I’ve been looking for a new one that would make use of the pair of Nvidia 7900gtx’s I installed to make Oblivion run. Has anyone tried Prey?
I’ve been pining for Half Life: Episode 2 since … well, since I completed Episode 1. My only hope is that it’s longer than Episode 1, which I started and finished in one weekend. I realize it’s episodic and therefore each episode is shorter than a full game, but I kind of expected a bit more out of the first. If it wasn’t such an awesome game I’d probably not have cared so much.
F.E.A.R. is indeed repetative after a while. It starts off good, but eventually they seem to drop the supernatural pretense and it just devolves into a common FPS. The Insertion Point expansion was actually better; there’s a lot more of the freaky supernatural stuff and not quite so much repetition.
You, my friend, are looking for exactly the same thing I am. I still occasionally fire up the original Ghost Recon with some friends for just this type of gaming fix.
Supposedly GR:AW has co-op but the game is such a system hog that none of my friends have it. I’ve been downloading Far Cry Co-op mods the past couple of days but they seem to be more co-op in random maps vs bots, and not co-op missions or campaigns.
I see lots of ambitious mods in the works for Half life 2 regarding co-op, but so far they are all “in progress”.
The latest Rainbow Six game (Vegas) has co-op, but raises the definition of system hog to an entirely new level.
Why couldn’t they have just made a proper Ghost Recon 2?
Brothers In Arms has amazing Co-op abilities. Each of you play as a soldier, and can command a squad of ~3 other soldiers, and you work through the levels together. The game actually requires strategy too. For example, one player and his squad will give covering fire (yes, this actually works in this game) to get the enemy to keep their heads down, while the other player flanks and strikes.
I’m a little late, since I see you already made your purchases, but you’ll want to stay away from Unreal Tournament. It’s strictly multi-player. You can play it solo, but you’re just running the maps and game modes that you’d play in MP, with AI bots for enemies instead of real people.
Great game, no doubt about it, but not at all what you’re looking for.
