kingcomrade
Kingcomrade
I borrowed this from a friend and it's one of the best shooters I've played in a very long time. It does have one thing that pisses me off, though. Infinitely respawning enemies. A single big ugly pus cunt blight on an otherwise excellent game. It also suffers from poor weapon selection, as the gun you start with will be better than anything else you find due to low recoil and a red dot sight (rather than iron sights), but in a game like this that doesn't matter terribly much as the guns are all basically the same. The first level especially was a lot of fun, even though it was mostly scripted. The sniper mission was also pretty intense, though it strained suspension of disbelief a bit.
Right now I'm stuck on a British mission at the part where you have to run back down to the bottom of the hill in less than three minutes while fighting through a horde of infinitely respawning enemies with little to no cover. It's ridiculous. It doesn't help that if you get shot the screen spazzes out and turns red to where it's impossible to see anyone.
That has always been my problem in games like this, I have trouble picking out enemies from the background. This game isn't as bad as some, but I had to re-do the AC-130 gunship mission several times (you are a gunner on a flying gunship and it's done entirely through a kinda fuzzy black/white infrared camera and the friendlies you aren't supposed to shoot are distinguished only by a very subtle pulsing). Of course, maybe I just screwed up my video settings, but I've got everything on max and high widescreen resolution.
Anyways, despite my complaining it's one of the best games I've played in a long time, certainly one of the best FPSes, and if they got rid of infinite respawning (or at least toned it the fuck down) it would be in my top 5 instead of my top 10. It's fairly freeform, too, there's a lot of scripting but at the same time the areas are fairly wide open and you can go around different streets and whatnot. It does present a problem because usually you are getting shot at from several directions at once and all your allies have taken all the cover so it seems like there's no place to stand, but eh. It is a difficult game, something I haven't seen in an FPS for a while, but how much of that difficulty is just due to the infinite respawning I'm not sure.
edit- I thought of another thing that made me mad: exploding cars. If anyone shoots cars too much they explode and instagib you. It's silly.
Right now I'm stuck on a British mission at the part where you have to run back down to the bottom of the hill in less than three minutes while fighting through a horde of infinitely respawning enemies with little to no cover. It's ridiculous. It doesn't help that if you get shot the screen spazzes out and turns red to where it's impossible to see anyone.
That has always been my problem in games like this, I have trouble picking out enemies from the background. This game isn't as bad as some, but I had to re-do the AC-130 gunship mission several times (you are a gunner on a flying gunship and it's done entirely through a kinda fuzzy black/white infrared camera and the friendlies you aren't supposed to shoot are distinguished only by a very subtle pulsing). Of course, maybe I just screwed up my video settings, but I've got everything on max and high widescreen resolution.
Anyways, despite my complaining it's one of the best games I've played in a long time, certainly one of the best FPSes, and if they got rid of infinite respawning (or at least toned it the fuck down) it would be in my top 5 instead of my top 10. It's fairly freeform, too, there's a lot of scripting but at the same time the areas are fairly wide open and you can go around different streets and whatnot. It does present a problem because usually you are getting shot at from several directions at once and all your allies have taken all the cover so it seems like there's no place to stand, but eh. It is a difficult game, something I haven't seen in an FPS for a while, but how much of that difficulty is just due to the infinite respawning I'm not sure.
edit- I thought of another thing that made me mad: exploding cars. If anyone shoots cars too much they explode and instagib you. It's silly.
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