over here. I may be some time.
time passes…….
That was rather excellent. I’m glad to see that the UT franchise isn’t being too slapdash about coming up with some new angles with the game. First thoughts – I like it, I like it a lot. The onslaught mode is very, very entertaining, the kind of game that would take a good few hours of the evening to enjoy properly. After playing a few practice games locally, then going online to see what’s happening it’s clear that this is the most popular gametype on the public servers. Can’t say I blame them, it’s great fun but sometimes an old bloke like me just can’t keep up with what’s going on.
The vehicles are varied – planes, tanks, little cars with cannon and the hellbender that takes three people to drive properly – they’re all a challenge. Trying to find two or three people that can put their egos aside on a public server for 5 minutes just to drive a tank or something is half the problem. Everyone wants to drive, to be the one that shoots down the planes, destroys the nodes, attackes the base. No one wants to do the boring stuff like defending the power nodes after they’re taken, which leads to it’s own problems. We’ll see how it goes on the servers after it ships next week, but I think Far Cry will have to be very, very good to get a look in.
