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Cartoon Corpse
09-Oct-2008, 14:10
link: http://www.gamershell.com/news_61608.html
(geez aren't web pages getting obnoxiously animated these days or what?)

Well i thought i had purchased/played this title and hated it. Apparently i passed on it because of all the hating from the media/gamers (i remember that much). still though there's something vaguely familiar about it as i play. maybe i just can't find my disks...

i downloaded it (when you play it, you have to be connected to interweb at first for some lame excuse about online advertising...air force is the ad i got, but you can disconnect once you're playing...im still gonna scan for spyware later)

anyway this game is a decent quality ride. destructable knick knacks...ducts to crawl through. explore for top secret stuff to scan, and ammo, an extra weapons (i got shotgun early) (via door passcards you can find) if i had 1 complaint it would be that the 'zombie' attacks are kinda too much (unlike half life 1). no quick save.

nice game IMO. i played a few levels last night. hopefuly it hasn't installed something nasty on my pc.

probably the best game on the planet with david duchovny in it. as far as i know.

digitalwanderer
09-Oct-2008, 14:38
probably the best game on the planet with david duchovny in it. as far as i know.
No, that would be "XIII". :razz:

Richard
09-Oct-2008, 16:47
No, that would be "XIII". :razz:

Agreed! XIII was quite a good game.

BTW, make sure you guys check out our sticky (http://forum.beyond3d.com/showthread.php?t=49979) for commercial games that are now FREE or ad-supported.

Cartoon Corpse
09-Oct-2008, 18:59
thanks for the tip about the sticky.

Psychonauts is FREE now? man a LOT of titles in there that i've bought over the years...hitman...deus ex? dang that should still be sold as a classic to new gamers (i only first played it 3 or so years ago)

Cartoon Corpse
18-Oct-2008, 22:35
i just finished this. not bad, GOOD in many places, but they get lax in the end (boss fights). and infinite spawns. guess the devs get tired or desperate to add 'challenge' (artificially), fewer knick knacks to destroy. still it had it's good points.