Once again it's been a fair while since I posted, although I have a good excuse: I've been playing computer games. Yes, those timewasters.
The most-played game recently has to be Far Cry 2 on the PC. I saw it on Play.com for a tenner with the DLC included (that's downloadable content for those who probably didn't need to know). The first Far Cry didn't really click with me, at least on the PC. Here though for some reason it has grabbed me, albeit in a non-aggressive fashion.
Essentially you're a mercenary in some war-torn African country doing various tasks, although they all involve you driving somewhere (which takes bloody ages) then killing people. The landscape looks amazing, maybe not quite on Oblivion levels of gorgeousness but close. The day/night cycle is particularly impressive, nothing can beat driving along some dusty road into the sunset, except maybe the hugely-irritating roadblocks
They keep remanning these checkpoints with mouthy South Africans who drive straight at you shouting abuse. It really does hamper progress, having to keep stopping every 2 minutes to clean up these fools.
It's strange that at times I feel useless, I'll die and try again, yet if I push on it gets more enjoyable, like each death makes me think how I could approach that mission differently. It does a great job of letting you approach objectives in whatever way you like, although sniping is pretty much mandatory, which suits me down to the ground.
So yes, a tenner well spent there.
What else have I been playing? Let's see: more QuakeLive and Battlefield Heroes, more Halo 3 online - I'm still utterly useless. I even managed to get in a bit of Left 4 Dead seeing as theer is the new Survival Pack DLC just out. It's not bad although it didn't pull me back to that game as much as I thought it would, sadly.
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I couldn't really find the time for Far Cry 2 sadly; the missions took a while for me to get through and I was quite rubbish at firefights generally. Oh, and it's a nuisance trying to get anywhere without another bloody jeep coming out of nowhere and having a go. I really like the effort put into the environment though, especially the day/night cycle.
ReplyDeleteYes, the checkpoints and jeeps really get on my nerves. You don't get anything for defeating them either, they're just a pain. Add that to the really long tedious drives you have to make to get anywhere and it could be what stops me playing it.
ReplyDeleteI also am finding if you take the buddy option on missions it significantly lengthens them. I do it to keep a good stock of buddies.
Thank goodness for quicksaves, although on the PC it doesn't delete them - someone on rllmuk found he had 2.5gb of saves!