...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...) 

Played Apprentice 1 (deluxe)

Very well made, nice characters and humour, too bad I was only able to solve about half the puzzles myself. They're very far fetched, albeit logical. And of course there's one of those fucking door timing tricks in there... and it's even harder to guess / react properly than usually. I had to look twice in the guide: first for skimming over it to see that there's a door trick needed and then again after failing to get it right even with knowing the basic trick :(

Was a fun little game nonetheless, and very nice graphics/sound/voice 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNumNLsf1kI&feature=player_embedded

fuuuuuuuuuuuu! Today is a good day :) 

try not to feint. Still no gameplay footage though? 

But my mind is imagining something akin to AvP 1999 crossed with l4d and is having nerdgasm's :) 

Hmmm that's possibly the worst trailer i've ever seen. It's a video of msdos and a logo.

That being said, i'm sure it's going to be an awesome game!!! 

Tried to play Clive Barker's Jericho. Only got a little over 1/4 in before it came to a game stopping halt, with no way of skipping levels. So that's the end of that.

Gameplay was repetitive, switching characters was awkward to do a a lottery on the who the hell you select and when you selected them you've got no idea which of the FIVE attack keys works for them. Running around reviving cunts because their AI is shit is boring.

Design and engine looked decent, as did the story, but very linear and no wow-factor set pieces, as usual.

Oh and poor checkpoints and no ability to set mouse buttons is a console joke. I did it anyway through the config file (and it worked) but then screwed up some of the other keys and mini-games (which themselves were beyond stupid).

Clive Barker should have actually played this fucking game, because it's arse compared to Undying. 

yeah, i didn't really enjoy that game much either. it looks really cool but plays poorly.

ai is poor and, as you said, you spend most of the time reviving team mates. there are a fair amount of monsters that require you to shoot 'weak spots'. and the ai is basically incapable of doing so, so it's basically you alone vs a group of monsters. very frustrating.

you pass through some areas that might look cool, but they are nowhere near as impressive as painkiller, a game that was released 3 years earlier and used only dx8 (iirc??). the mapping is just very dull. 

http://www.gametrailers.com/video/design-goals-hawken/714432

....will be a multiplayer game only.

Cool, thanks for saving me �20 and plenty of time (including time I'd have spent watching the rest of the trailer). 

With a team of what, nine guys I think, doing SP would be a very bad idea given the standard they've set themselves. 

So... perfectly timed for my getting a new machine. The definitely not leaked by the producers, not in anyway an extended demo that has increased demand for the game. Terrible piracy, not amazing viral publicisity/massive pre-order booster that's going to get someone a bonus.

OH MY GOD IT'S AMAZING! I admit nothing. But oh my god it's amazing. Proper successor. All the MSD stuff people were worried about works really well (the augemented reality style outlines, the health regen) and avoids falling into the CoD action movie style. So much choice is bewildering and much save/load/replay inducing. Beautifully involving, intriquing characters, well done dialogue system, brilliantly in depth upgrade/experience system, jaw dropping and varied animator's demo reel, slick and non-cumbersome cover system, incredibly well implemented non-linearity. I could go on, but I want to explore every nook and corner of the first hub. Again. This time with different abilities.

Definitely don't suggest you play it. Or pre-order it today (I did do that). 

Negke, you don't have the link to the newer Doom map you did on your quaddicted site, do you? 

Worth it? 

Drew: If you're refering to the one I posted screenshots of a long time ago - that one never got finished.

Zwiffle: I'd say wait until it drops to 6-8. 

Easily worth it zwiff. 

what game were you talking about in #4706? Hawken? I am probably out of the loop. 

Bal determined nntt was talking about the Deus Ex leak. That's the only thing that makes sense in the context.