good racing game, but feels very consoly :/ which is a really really bad thing.

1) stupid minigames aka 'testing' that unlock stuff. Bah, really really hard compared to the racing and i don't really fucking care for this shit.
2) menus
3) Sometimes the copilot voice feels like it isn't accurate - often it's too long before the curve or almost into it, often DOESN'T tell you to 'Don't cut!', etc.

:/ with a bit of polish this could be SUCH a nice game, this way it's only nice. 

is awesome and you all suck for not playing it. 

you should send me a copy or get sony to release it in Japan NOW then.

Christ, it's not like I (and a bunch of my colleagues) don't want to play it. 

Are you kidding me? We already had to wait over a month after the US release, and it's still not out in Japan? There's something very wrong here if obscure Yurop with no real gaming market sees a release before Nihon.

Well, at least I can read the manual in what I guess tries to be Finnish. 

http://indygamer.blogspot.com

pretty good site covering interesting small free/shareware games

if you like platformers/shootemups its worth checking 

 

Remake of the original game using the Legends engine.

Fucking huge, seamlessly loading levels, you can in theory walk from the end of the first "episode" back to the start of the game if you want to.

Very faithful remake of the general layout, puzzles, atmosphere and setpieces of the original, but all the actual gameplay is brand new.

They thankfully resisted putting in lots of new stupid combat, making this game is very atmospheric, it's just you in a cave and the howling wind. Maybe a bat or a wolf here and there.

The game is fucking HARD. Some of the jumping puzzles are just insane. In the last episode you have to pull off multiple crazy combos while on a time limit while being attacked by Atlantean creatures.

Usually I hate egyptian levels, but the egyptian episode in this one isn't half bad, though it gets a bit bland in places.

First game in a loong time where the bosses are awesome. All of them rely on the concept of enemies getting 'enraged' when you shoot at them. An enraged enemy will charge at you until melee range, at which point there is a slowdown effect and you have a split second to perform a dodge. If you pull off the dodge, you enter an even slower slowdown state, where you can aim and pull off a headshot on the enemy, which usually kills normal enemies. For bosses they will instead do something stupid to get themselves injured or vulnerable, which you have to act on quickly.

Best game I've played since Okami.

It's like 20 bucks on Steam. Cheap! 

BETHESDA IS IN FACT MAKING A FALLOUT TITLE 

http://www.thatvideogamesite.com/play.php?id=1009 

That's pretty cool, could do with some more features but is nicely done. 

TR Anniversary is something I will probably get. The first TR game is superb.

Did they include the levels from TR Gold (Temple of the Cat, and Unfinished Business?)

Those were even better. 

Got as far as arrow storm then was slaughtered. 265 measly points :| 

No, they didn't. 

Just finished Half Life 2: Episode One. Although this seemed more linear than I remember HL2 to have been, it was still an enjoyable couple of ours over several evenings play. And well worth the $9.95.

I'm looking for some other games to play. Is Dark Messiah a safe bet for my Radeon 9700? I like plain fps style without too much thinking and no spells or side missions.

I want something like Q1, Doom3, HL2.

I don't want to pay top whack so I wont play HL2: Episode 2 until the first price drop (2008?). It also cuts out any 'latest' release.

Any suggestions? 

I've just read that it's Action-RPG with spells and stuff, so I guess it's not for me. 

prey sounds good from what everyone else said. 

Prey is killer, although it does feature some thinking puzzles with the spiritwalking, but these are really cool and imaginative rather than dull filler puzzles. I would recommend it Mike. 

Prey FTW definately.
did you play Q4? its a good shooter

try Alpha Prime (demo, pics http://www.gamespot.com/pc/action/alphaprime/index.html 

Q4 isn't really worth your time unless you must play every FPS. It's pretty bland and gets a bit tedious at times. The vehicle sections also suck, whilst the ship sections in Prey are pretty damn cool. 

has a lot of high quality fan-made episodes, that you might like. 

I really liked it! It's a good game and well worth the time in my opinion. I played it three times now. 

Is pretty cool. Good solid FPSer, apart from the crap vehicle parts. The team-mates and stuff give it a good vibe, and some of the updates to Q2 monsters are great - Gladiator railgun...

Sure it's simple but it does what's needed.

Prey is good too though. Probably better and definitely more creative.

Dark Messiah has a demo, it convinced me straight away. But I still haven't got around to buying it.

Far Cry is always recommended. 

I haven't played a lot of new FPS recently because very few games seem to hold my attention these days, but Prey sounds like exactly what you're after. It reeks of plain simple FPS and it's got no side missions or any fucking about, just extremely solid gameplay with some awesome new twists. 

Xcom. Many of you loved it back in the 90's.
Many of you still love it. well UFO2000 is xcom, minus the geoscape but with a real live opponent (either online or hotseat). If you haven't played this game, you do owe it to yourself. IGN even rated it number 1 game of all time. The soundtrack alone is killer.

if so far you're still interested - can get it here - http://ufo2000.sourceforge.net/

Bambuz and I for the past 2 or 3 months have been working semi diligently on our own map tiles to be used in the game. If anyone actually takes interest and would like to have a look, please do here.

http://www.jesselawrence.com/terrain-burbs.rar

simply throw the 'terrain-burbs' folder into your ufo2000/extensions/ directory and it should be available (as long as both players have it, but you can take a look in hotseat to)

also we have a little irc channel on quaknet at #ufo2000 where mostly I sit and idle, but it would be cool if we managed to get a couple more players in the circle. 

http://www.pixeljam.com/ratmaze2/