Essentially, the FEAR AI uses an implementation of Jeff Orkin's GOAP architecture. I'm not an AI programmer, but those that I work with never get tired of telling me how good GOAP (Goal-Oriented Action Planning) is at producing emergent looking behaviour in AI with no scripting, far superior to more traditional systems such as finite state machines. FEAR probably doesn't show off the potential of GOAP as well at is should because the enemies have a pretty simplistic set of goals and actions (get to cover, kill player etc.)

The reason they run stupidly into your fire is because the designers chose to make them exposed all the time, so you can see all the cool animations of them running around, jumping through windows and vaulting over boxes.

In this case, sophisticated AI does not amount to "intelligent" looking soldiers, but it does give the illusion of fun dynamic combat, with enemies running around all over the place and flanking you etc.

This is why unless you're making some kind of neckbeardy realistic tactical shooter, where the enemies stay in one place most of the time behind cover and occasionally pop out and headshot you, enemies will seem dumb. After all, you've got to give the player a chance to shoot them sometimes. 

gril 

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That's the oddest spam ever, Nintendo trying to do advertising or something? 

I can't find the original Imageshack links so I uploaded them to my server. There are 1600x1200 wallpapers of Blood, Duke Nukem 3D, Half-Life and Doom 3:

http://www.phaitaccompli.com/gamewalls/ 

It sounds good.. Anybody already played it, or a demo ? In anyway here is the website:

http://lostplanet-thegame.com/flash_index.php 

but it's 360-only. Bzzt! wrong thread! :) 

I hear it's quite cool, but you can get into an infinite loop of falling down after damage and taking another hit that floors you the instant you recover and so on until you die.

Other than that it sounds quite cool. 

lengthy pain anims on bad guys = yes
lengthy pain anims on the player = nooooo 

I knew that, but as the game looked very good, I decided to post anyway...
BTW a friend of mine played it on X-360, and it reminded him "StartShip Troopers" movie.. It told me that is it really frantic: many exploding stuff everywhere, a lot of hordes of monsters, etc.. etc.. Very intense gameplay it seems... Well, I'll try to test it ASAP :) 

Currently playing the PC version of R6:Vegas at work and the 360 version at home - yeah I don't know why either :/ I find the game really pisses me off constantly, but there's something about it that keeps me coming back for more.

The games are identical in terms of content on both platforms, although the 360 wins imo due to the controls working out better.

Not far past the Vegas Strip, so I won't post a proper review yet. 

I watched a few minutes of someone playing it at work last night, plot seems a little weird (from what I gathered you kill the creatures to harness their "precious thermal energy") but from the few minutes of gameplay I saw it looked like it could be fun, if a little clumsy at parts. Apart from nice graphics in the into cutscene (which I'm assuming was being rendered ingame) there wasn't much to make me want the game though. 

funny thing is, I knew it was japanese as soon as I saw the subtitle "Extreme Condition."

And it is apparently a Capcom game, and has lots of console-y designs and stuff (the look of the alien creatures is very metroid prime-y, for example.) 

metroid prime-y bugs and aliens that move in wierd ways and you don't know what to expect. Generally more interesting than shooting the same old bloody terrorists/nazis/other blokes-with-guns etc. 

Generally more interesting than shooting the same old bloody terrorists/nazis/other blokes-with-guns etc.

Oh, I get it; so you're one of those bleeding heart liberals, eh? Next you're going to want a game where you get to bomb American infrastructure.

I can see the terrorists have already won. 

 

is used merely for deer hunting and bass fishing, oh, and the occassional revenuer who gets too curious about what's growing in the back lot for his own good, but beyond that it's pretty much for show. 

I dunno about everyone else, but I usually just use dynamite for fishing. 

Actually, I'm named after my dad.

Now don't ask me why my mom was getting it on with unexploded ordinance. 

Incredible game. I suggest everyone who has a Wii gets it. Though it may not sound like much to have tons of short minigames to play, the style, humour, and sheer madness of having to so many differant things in the span of a couple minutes is an experiance not to miss. 

I'm going to play it tonight. Imported it from England so I have it a few days before it's released here, a fact which irritated many people at work today. :D 

Lately I`v been playing (trying) games made by the company Im working at. And it all made me rather upset... 

http://img152.imageshack.us/img152/3570/crusadevv0.gif 

but atm its loads of fun :) Leveling is quick and easy and there are tons of quests with great rewards. The new zones are gorgeous and some of the new items are just silly...

Gah my wow addiction knows no bounds!