He works in a bar collecting glasses. 

http://www.shacknews.com/article/68470/dead-island-preview-1

Can't really complain can you?? Will be interesting to see how they make it scary given it mostly looks fairly bright. 

if you buy a game like Quake or Half Life on steam, I take it you lost the cd tracks. Or do the steam versions still allow for that somehow? 

Wow, this trailer is purely awesome ! 

I think you just lose them... 

I can at least confirm that Quake via Steam does not include the soundtrack. 

as the soundtracks for both games are a huge part of the experience. 

I should probably listen to them then. 

re-installed and am enjoying very much so far - but really surprised by the occaisonally clunky framerates on my computer, which runs other, newer games just fine.

Any good levels/mods etc to download, besides duct tape? There is that quake one, right? That looks pretty awesome. 

http://www.gametrailers.com/video/to-kill-dead-island/714103

So, Left 4 Far Crysis 2 really. Sold! Don't like the look of the wobbly movement tho. 

Resurrection of Evil is about the best set of addon levels for D3. Try these also:

http://www.bja-design.de/lostfacility.htm

http://www.bja-design.de/genetic.htm

http://doom3.filefront.com/file/Omega_Research_Facility;80168

There's more good stuff in the Filefront D3 section. 

don't call it gameplay trailer if there's a cut every five seconds. That way you can't get a good impression of the gameplay at all. 

http://www.gametrailers.com/video/debut-trailer-call-of/714155

Looks a bit subtle and understated. 

There are numerous nice amateur P6C adventures based on AGS. Well worth checking out - there's a list on adventuregamestudio.co.uk.

Apart from Yahtzee's John DeFoe series I posted about some time ago, I can for instance recommend The Infinity String (medium length, scifi setting), The Apprentice 1 and 2 (short, medieval/fantasy), and A Tale Of Two Kingdoms (medium, medieval/fantasy). ATOTK is especially cool because there are optional side quests, many puzzles have multiple solutions and there are several endings depending on how you solved them, all of which fairly unusual for an adventure game. 

Love this kind of stuff, thanks for the reccomendaiton negke 

 

...that is definitely not a sequel to Far Cry in any shape nor form especially not developers, engine, spirit, characters, protagonist, enemies, weapons, settings, theme or goddamn anything.

Anyway, I like the following things about it:

+ Looks great in almost all ways.
+ Setting (including characters and scenery) is refreshing.
+ Atmosphere is strong and holistic and enhances setting (including music and weather).
+ Gameplay works adequately well.
+ Plentiful gameplay touches (vehicles, collisions, buddy rescues, wound healing, diamond finding, weapon degradation) enhance the gameplay rather than detract.
+ Blowing things up is very cool.

Things I don't like:
- Too many Caucasians.
- Can't take multiple missions at once.
- Takes a while to get places.
- Too much jungle not enough desert.
- Fighting enemies in foliage is annoying.
- Despite being Africa it's not bloody bright enough.
- I keep forgetting to save.

Overall I'm really rather liking it. The pros are all stronger than the cons. 

"Can't take multiple missions at once."

This is one of my main gripes (85% done), apart from the missions being repetitive as well.

As for saving, same here, althought he buddy rescues address that issue most of the time. 

I wish it had better graphics, but this looks pretty bad ass

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jJrUY27O0Y&feature=youtu.be 

Yeh, does look really nice zwiff. 2for1 price deal atm too... 

that's a tempting purchase 

Frozen Synapse

Spent an instructive hour or 3 playing it last night having gone halves on it with a friend (ingenius sales scheme they've got going, means it's a very reasonable price but they sell 2 at a time. Although, it does mean you always have someone to play your first few multiplayer games with, generally useful for learning the game).

Thoroughly enjoying it. The multiplayer is highly strategic, both in light and dark modes (light = always see your opponent's men, dark = gotta have LoS), in light mode is surprisingly chess like, in that you're having to plan your moves several turns in advance as well as predict all your opponents since it lacks the element of surprise. Dark mode is tense, action packed and surprisingly fast for a turn based game (each game generally only lasting half a dozen turns before everyone is dead) and has some beautifully gripping moments (my personal favourite being when both my opponent and I had a shotgunner crouched either side of a box without line of sight of the other, leading to a game of guess work as to which way (if at all) they were moving to try and get the drop without being blasted in order to win the match).

Singleplayer, I'm only a handful of missions in (5th or 6th iirc), but so far there's a good variety of different mission types (I've only played elimination multiplayer, but I believe a lot of these are variantions of the other multiplayer modes, which bodes well) and the procedurally generated levels means that replays of the same mission continue to require planning and thought, rather than just memorising patrol patterns. Oh, and the plot is very nicely done, little cheesey at times, but mostly well written and with lots of detail to immerse yourself in.

Yeh, it's good. If you like strategy, especially smaller, squad sized strategy then I thoroughly reccommend it. Just make sure you have a friend to split the two copies with (all giftable on steam, so I'm sure y'all can work something out if needed). 

It looks very interesting will pick it up for sure. Also, the soundtrack is fantastic! Reminds me of Deus Ex and UT'99! 

Email notifcations mean the game can effectively be "played by email"
Nice!
Shame they do not have a proper Linux version. 

UT'99!

It reminded me much more of UT2004, personally. Especially the "The Plan" track sounds like taken straight from some ut2004 typical snow-themed bombing run map.

(Now to play the game itself...)