any good? 

But buggy as fuck. It's a rushed console port.

The game itself is very good, lots of atmosphere and generally cool stuff going on, for a fan of Lovecraft.

One particular bug is when you're running away from (something) and depending on your graphics settings, you running speed may be 50% of the normal - resulting in death on every attempt.

Over bugs come in the form of AI glitches when sneaking through innsmouth - even though that sequence in itself is great.

Not quite better than Amnesia or Eternal Darkness, but worth a look. 

http://www.moddb.com/mods/the-stanley-parable/

A HL2 mod, interesting experiment, worth giving a try. Not reading anything about it before playing helps appreciate it I'm sure, so don't. 

will check out the hl2 mod later!

in the meanwhile.. it only took about 6x as much ram as the minimum requirements ask for and many many community patch interations, but gothic3 runs perfectly at highest settings on 6gb ram + nvidia gts250 1gb.
maybe i can finally beat this damn game. i've had it lying around collecting dust for years, because i've never been able to actually run the damn thing. -_- 

at 1920*1080 with 16xAA and 16xFSAA. Bloody hell this looks amazing!!

And so far its tremendous fun too. Could easily be one of the best games ever if it keeps up. 

Yeah I've been playing a lot of Crysis mods and maps lately, working my way through them all, and there's some really good ones. In some ways a lot of them have better gameplay that the actual game. Either that or I'm just getting used to it more.

Re Call of Cthulhu - read my review drew. On my website or in the archives of this thread. 

Any recommendations for maps? 

Is badass. The way the suit allows you to play is totally cool. 

the way it lets you switch between stealth and action modes, without forcing it on you and leaving it completely in your hands, is very very cool. 

Crysis is cool, the warhead standalone expansion is pretty badass also. Though it doe's feature some annoying turret sections. Worth sticking with it though.

Crysis 2 did the suit powers much better imo, so much easier to use and you can do things like use stealth and speed at the same time, though it drains your energy much faster as a trade-off. I never really understood the complaint that C2 dumbed down the suit powers, if anything they are better than ever and each mode is always useful in every situation. 

http://i.imgur.com/0qEN4.jpg 

no crap included. 

 

i'm only about 1/3 through the ones i downloaded (about 4gb worth).

try these ones, the brackets are rating out of 5. 4 and above is definitely worth playing, 3.5 is so-so. you'll have to look on filefront or moddb for them though.

theharbour [4]
fcfort [4.5] (can't destroy AAA guns at end?)
crysissingleplayerpanama [3.5] (no ending)
coldmountain [4]
2011_04_29_Oasis [3.5-4]
CallOfTheFireflies_v2 [4]
2011_05_21_Uncharted_SC [3.5] (got majorly lost)
vulcanassaultv2 [3.5] 

3.5 should be very good IMHO. 

i guess it depends on if you define 1 as utter crap or 1 as average. :P 

1 should be crap, 2 below average, 3 good, 4 excellent and 5 amazing. 0.5 increments to add further adjectives :) 

I quite like reviews that don't bother with some score at all but just give it in words. It's not hard to say 'crap'. :p

A rating is good to get an overall average opinion, but anything more than the five star system is pretty meaningless. 

I rate 2.5 as average. So anything below that is deleted.

5 = amazing
4 and 4.5 = great, definitely worth keeping.
3.5 = just good. playable just the once unless you're really bored, or at had a flaw which prevented it from getting a 4 (ie no ending or getting lost).
2.5 to 3 = average so it's debatable whether you'd play a level on that score. not worth keeping.
2 = crap. not worth finishing.
1 = utter crap. rare, i've never rated anything that low because i'm not silly enough to download it in the first place, let alone keep it. 

agree but if you have ratings, they should mean something. Part of the problem with most commercial game reviews, I dont think I've seen anything scored less than 80!

kona, yeah I thought thats what you meant but describing 3.5 as so-so gives the impression that its not really worth bothering with.

anyway, enough semantics from me. 

The new Deux Ex will have in-game advertising. Deux Ex. In-game advertising. Oh dear. 

how do u become a moderator im desptrate for the colours thx:) 

http://store.steampowered.com/app/98200/

I'm totally hooked :D Will definitely pick this up! 

Gift me your 2nd copy? :) 

http://eseanews.com/index.php?s=news&d=comments&id=9969

Valve's CoD? Based on this report, it sounds like it will give CoD/BF3 a run for their money.