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Sounds great :(

How does it work in SP? Like, facing Necrons? 

consensus is that going up against them as IG is great if you can survive the first few minutes, which you pretty much can't unless you're playing a sheep. With other races, on a difficulty level where most things don't give you much trouble, against Necrons it's extremely pitched the whole way. 

Played PoP 2thrones quite a lot.
Hardcore. No manual save, savepoints are rather rare and there are no health pickups. Instadeath all the way. And you dont even get 'rewind' ability for the first 5 or so levels.
Speedkills are bleh (just a matter of timing/reaction) fights are kinda same as in PoP WW - cool when u figure the combos and tactics.
Dark prince is very strong, but his health reduces every second (gets restored with sand). So he's very ez to fight with, but 'trick' sections turn into bloody speedrunning - if you're not fast enough, you die even w/o failing a jump. Retry-retry...
Its pretty, good art, seamless maps, nice layouts etc etc (see screenshots somewhere)

played WH40k Dark Crusade demo
I still love the style, but SP mission there is not much... duno if I should bother with the full game. I wish there was WH40k rpg or tactics

FEAR expansion demo - very unimpressive. Its only 1 map with 5 rooms and nothing special in it, takes like 5 minutes to play thru.

Flatout 2 - very good and fun racing game. If you like arcad-ish racing, very worth checking. 

Shambler: Just started Prey. Rather good really. Nice to see an FPS that is unashamedly about FUN and ENTERTAINMENT

Kinn: lol, you need to play it some more i think :}

Ummm, was it supposed to stop being fun at some point??

Well it's stopped being fun now, I guess, because I've finished it...

Okay so the AI was a bit crap and there was the usual bad boss combat and too much arena bollox, but aside from that it continued well all the way to the end. Some spectacular scenes, fair variety of situations, some good monsters (I like the spider creatures), pretty well balanced and sometimes intense gameplay, good use of it's gimmicks....did I miss something?? 

I enjoyed the game quite a lot, other than perhaps the guy being sort of annoying and stupid.

I especially enjoyed the flying bits and the gravity tricks, and thought the entire game was pretty solid, polished, and enjoyable.

It wasn't like it revolutionized the genre or anything, but I certainly got my money's worth. 

I enjoy saying enjoyed. 

Prey is good. Some ppl couldnt get over the fact that you dont actually die there. Lesser punishment for the lower skill - nothing wrong in my book. Good shooter, maybe the most playable/fun fps in last 2 yrs.

Going for the Call oh Juares (its FPS and not WW2 and should be somewhat new) and Just`cause... 

stay away, I warn you =)

And about Prey, yeah I really enjoyed that game, the whole immortal thing never really bothered me, in fact I would say it removed some frustration from the game in that there were never areas that were too hard and descend into load,die, repeat syndrome that plague some shooters.

The art as well was fantastic imo, the whole living ship idea was pulled off very well and the weapons while conventional in effects were very original in terms of design and feel.

I thought the areas where you fly around in the ship could have been polished up a little more, they were one of the weaker parts of the game but were not crap, though I think if they had pulled the flying maps and expanded the gravity gameplay it might have been worthwhile. 

Space Marine`s landspeeders make a quick job of Necrons
just need to tech to them asap 

I never built Landspeeders! Thanks for the tip. :o 

http://www.autofish.net/clysm/art/video_games/seiklus/ 

imperial guard don't get access to space marine landspeeders but ok 

Registered with Direct2Drive and downloaded Deus Ex, and Rainbow Six Raven Shield.

Well, I bought Raven Shield on disc, but apparently from the forums I've browsed, it's copy protection does not like some RW drives - like mine. So I cannot install it without a CRC error cropping up. Apparently it will install well over a regular ROM drive. Another culprit I read, was bad RAM.

I can't return the retail RS but hey only $10... also $10 from Direct2Drive.

Also got Flight Simulator 2004. Runs generally well on the 6200 LE actually. 

well Lun, you didn't say you only play IG... I guess anything FAST and anti-infantry would work ... hellhounds? or just turret-rush :)


Iv almost beated campaign as marines, only the eldars left alive 

It seems pretty fun even though I haven't passed the first mission.

The reason is I'm playing Lone Wolf, I don't really like tactical/team shooters. So the problem is playing alone is much, much harder. I think this is made even worse with the health system - there are 3 stages: healthy, injured, and dead. Can you guess how many times you're allowed to be shot?

So you're almost forced to play with a team, blah to that. 

iirc my brother bought me this version of Rainbow 6 for my birthday a few years ago, and yeah I just used to play lonewolf all the time :) Dunno why but it was really satisfying for a terrorist to empty an entire clip of Uzi at me and hit nothing, then for me to take him down with 1 shot from my pistol :) Didn't happen often but very nice when it does :) 

I've been playing this for a few weekends now and I am just blown away at the quality of this game. It's really one of the best games I've ever played and I'm about an hour into a level called "Shalebridge" which is without a doubt, the most scared I've ever been while playing a game. This is simply brilliant level design, executed flawlessly. Whoever is responsible for this level should be teaching a class on level design. 

worked on Deadly Shadows. It is a shame it was released around the time Doom 3 sucked all the oxygen out of the publicity mills with its own release. 

Totally overrated.

DS is a good, game though, most immersive I've played in awhile - love the music. 

...so i gave silent hill 3 a shot. i like the idea of it, and it's very wierd and funky. but good lord, i can't stand the controls... a lot of the time i'm fighting monsters and the camera isn't even pointed in a remotely helpful way, so i'm resigned to swinging haphazardly waiting to hear whatever it is yelp. :\

are there other games like Silent Hill series but with good movement controls and camera ai? 

i think all SH games suffer from bad camera positions in some places. SH2 seems to be fairly alright in this respect - at least i can't remember any extraordinary infuriation because of this... also, pyramid head ftw. 

I think I might have to try Thief - DS. Someone recommended it to me as having a really scary level in. And I haven't got much action stuff to play. 

yeah, hellhounds seemed to work but you've gotta tech to them fast, which eats resources you could be spending on a wall of (ineffective) men.

IG buildings should autoheal if techpriests are holed up inside.