first game I played on my new computer, no real reason but already had it lying around since my brother bought it for his laptop a while back.

Pros :

- cel shading is nice, although it does admittedly wear off after a while.

- some of the outdoor levels are very nice

Cons :

- most of the level design ranges from average to poor. Out of 30 or so levels, 5-6 are good.

- poor gameplay. Some of it is compounded due to the next point but although the makers have tried to keep it varied, it's fairly mediroce in its execution.

- Fucking lame checkpoint system. This pissed me off no end, especially since the checkpoints became scarcer as the game went on and because you were forced to sit through entire cut scenes upon each reload.

- Plot. a C grade attempt at redoing the Bourne Identity storyline in a noir like fashion. It's terrible and takes up too much gameplay time too.

I'd rate this 5/10. 

...is effectively a bitch !! 

.. is even worst !! 

... completlty stucked at lvl 21... 

I mean 23 ... ;P 

Try Fallout. 

It was kind of weird...level 16 slowed me down for over 20 minutes, but once I got it, none of the following levels ever slowed me down for more than a short time.

The guy needs to make more levels and use various shapes of primitives... 

.. there are 30 levels... adn then it's over.. 

such a bitch! solved after 2 hours :( 

But it has Starfarce. 

it's an older version of starforce though, not starforce 4, which is the one causing problems (Splinter Cell 3 and the new Prince of Persia have it). 

played both fallouts ofcourse. and its rpg, not action really

XIII kept me interested till 2nd winter level, then I gave it up. rather average game 

didnt miss much, 1 or 2 decent levels after that but not much more. 

Sure they're RPG - I thought the action within would satisfy your needs. Anyway, glad you've played them. 

so does this game have real time combat ?

never played morrowind so have no idea what to expect from this. 

And it's actually much better than Morrowinds combat (which was also real time, but actually hitting your enemy was an electronic roll of the dice based on offense/defense combination, and (especially at low levels) you'ld just stand in front of an enemy and flail at air quite a bit sometimes.

If you hit something in Oblivion, you'll actually make contact based on positioning, and then the offense/defense only comes into play to determine damage.

Oblivion is enormously better than Morrowind when it comes to graphical beauty, combat, and many basic game mechanics, while Morrowind excels at making general world exploration a joy, and provides much more asset variety (e.g. architecture, races, factions) and random hidden fun to discover.

Both games are on my personal "best-ever" list. 

XIII isn't too average to me, I'm really enjoying it.

Here is my SWAT 4 Gold review
http://phaitplays.blogspot.com 3/5 

has anyone here played eve? is it actually any good? 

See Lun's 06.01.2006 post on his site.

http://lunaran.com/ 

 

q4 textures! ^_^ 

http://phaitplays.blogspot.com/ 

but it seems the lack of a proper save system and the shitely implemented quicksave system, didnt bother you as much.

which is probably fair enough, I'm not the best FPS player, but I shouldnt be penalised for that IMHO. 

nitin I felt the same as you, hell annoying to rewatch the same cinematics for 5th time ffs
and I don like sneaking games (die sam fisher!) 

June 22nd, the demo will be released. I will be waiting in line to download it. This game gets me tingly.