Monday, November 03, 2008

First Person Shooters

I love first person shooters. They're really good fun. You run around and jump on things and shoot things with a rocket launcher.

Lately I've been playing Far Cry 2 which allows you to set fire to things. I need to get back to it.

Bye.

2 comments:

Melissa said...

I do not understand the attraction. But then, I don't even like guns in movies.

Stu said...

There's a group of us at work playing co-op ArmA (Armed Assault). On a typical night we get around 6 people playing, co-op vs some of the best AI in the business. Read this feature list:

Domination features:



- 21 main targets (you can select 2 up to 21 targets, 10 is default). Each time the mission starts target order gets picked randomly.
- 22 side missions. Resolving a side mission brings your team extra vehicles like A10, M1, Cobra, etc. (randomly picked)
- Small main target missions (destroy something, free some hostages, etc. Your team can get a Stryker or Humvee)
- 2 Mobile Respawns (medic MTW)
- Mobile respawns and the support trucks can be transported by by your blackhawks (essential feature, fly over it and select Lift Vehicle in the action menu)
- 2 engineers who can repair and refuel the blackhawks and the mobile respawns
- Artillery operator who can call artillery strikes every six minutes
- Rescue operator who can rescue hostages and bring them to your base)
- The driver of a mobile respawn MTW or the pilot of a blackhawk can create/drop ammocrates
- Blackhawks, mobile respawn MTWs and the support trucks respawn
- You can teleport to the mobile respawns or the flag at base if you choose "Teleport" in the action menu if you're near them
- Sometimes if a main target is cleared the enemy starts a counterattack
- Enemy KA50 and Mi17 sometimes appears. The Mi17 drops paratroopers
- A status dialog is available at the mobile respawns and the blackhawks that shows some information about the current target and sidemission
- Some small AI features like dropping smoke if they get attacked and more

Loads of fun.