What games wouldn't you pay £1.76 for?

K1LLSW1TCH said:
If you enjoy traversing a huge jungle/desert environment of nothingess, all the while being constantly shot and chased for doing nothing more than possibly breathing some of the other NPC's virtual air then you'll love it. That wouldn't even be that bad on it's own if the gunplay was good but it really isn't, every weapon feels like it's made out of fudge and Ubisoft thought it would be a good idea to add an animation for EVERYTHING.

Open a door? animation of your hand reaching down, while your head tilts down to look at the doorknob. Want to fix up your jeep after it got wrecked by driving into what looked like a small rock in the road? Animation of your player turning a wrench. Want to heal yourself in the middle of a fudge gun battle? no problem, as long as you can find somewhere to hide while the ridiculously long healing animation occurs, especially if you've taken critical damage and are down to your last health.

Which brings me to another point. Despite you being hidden in deep vegetation, not moving at all your enemies still manage to spot you, even in the dark they still manage to be able to see you as if it was in broad daylight and you were doing bloody starjumps in a bright pink outfit or something. In fact, if you hid in an Asda superstore on a Saturday afternoon they would probably find you within 5 seconds. The story? well, you have to kill an arms dealer known as 'the jackal' it doesn't actually tell you why, you just HAVE to do it, despite him having the chance to kill you at the very beginning of the game but he spares you.

The voice acting is terrible, the story is nonexistent, and the devs thought it would be good to give your character virtual malaria. Which basically means every now and then you have to do an incredibly frustrating mission for a random man who can supply you with malaria tablets. If you don't do the mission then you'll die, so much for free will and sandbox gaming huh?

The graphics are pretty, that's about it, the enemies look rubbish though and you'll ask yourself time and time again how they can survive being hit in the chest with 50 cal machine guns even though they are clearly wearing nothing more than a bunch of oily rags.
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I Bought far cry2 on the steam deal two days ago but i no played or even loaded it yet..
 
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Reviewed 8.9 overall :confused::confused:

http://uk.pc.ign.com/articles/922/922038p3.html

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Yeah saying no to MW2 either means you don't like FPS's at all or your jumping on the "**** IW" bandwagon... For £1.76 i'm sure i could get my moneys worth out of the singleplayer and despite the fact multiplayer is dumbed down to the point of console gamers i'm sure i could get my moneys worth.

I guess i'd probably say any football, golf, cricket, etc, game. They just don't interest me... unless they're on the Wii at a friends house :p

Lets be honest, what did you expect about FC2 reviews? Reviewers are for the most part, unimaginative ****ers. If FC2 had been renamed something else and created absolutely identical in every way, shape or form, but was released by a different, unknown studio, you can guarantee it would've been slammed hard. The same would be done with MW2.
 
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It's not really a secret that large review companies are paid to give favourable reviews. And even if it was, games like FC2 and many others prove it.
 
Another vote for Far Cry 2

Got it from steam for $10 AUD - total waste of money.

Loved Far Cry 1 & Crysis was almost as good, FC2 is just terrible.
 
The Warhammer Dawn of War games wouldn't get my money again. I actually paid £1 for the first installment and didn't feel it was worth it.

I think I'm just not a fan of the whole RTS thing in general, bores me to death. I keep going back to try the odd RTS as I think I must be missing something but always end up reinstalling after 20 mins or so.
 
Apparently Ubisoft payed some companies to give it good reviews.

Every single mission is almost identical, your objectives will ALWAYS be right on the edges of the map, and that map is pretty big, not to mention the vehicles are very slow, and you are even slower. You know when you have a bad dream about trying to run away from someone or something and you can never run quite fast enough? that's what this game is like.

Also it plays out like this: You go to the HQ of one of two factions, I use the term HQ very loosely because it is in fact a crappy run down shed or a ramshackle building with a few blokes in the dodgy backroom. The faction leader gives you a job and tells you on every single freaking mission not to expect any help from the faction you are doing the job for, why? WHY? Oh wait I know why, so you can make us drive the bloody 20 minute journey which actually takes about an hour because of the constant stop at a checkpoint, kill people, keep driving, less than 30 seconds later stop at another checkpoint, kill people, repeat.

It's not as if you can actually just make a choice to drive through the checkpoints without stopping because the enemies will get in a jeep that 99% of the time has an MG on the back of it. This is annoying because they will catch up with you in a heartbeat even if you are driving flat-out, ( 15mph) and they will continually gun at your jeep until it breaks down or blows up, which means you HAVE to stop to kill them.

Of course, once you have done this you have to keep going through the other bazillion checkpoints that are on the way to wherever you're going, probably the edge of the map. This is what every single mission is like. They also made a big thing about the weapon degradation, the idea is that you can't use the same weapons forever and that they will actually break eventually, blowing up in your hands or constantly jamming after every shot (another animation for both of those by the way).

If this worked it would be great! But it doesn't, and why? because you can just go to the armory (in the middle of African wilderness) and pick up a brand new gun in top condition any time that you want, also, almost all of the guns that the enemies drop are purposely in absolutely rubbish condition even though if you left the guns in their very capable (too capable) hands then they would have no worries about using their infinite supply of bullets with no risk of their own weapons jamming or falling apart.

If you have the game but have not yet played it then I suggest you do play it. You'll probably be impressed at how the game's first 15 minutes or so go. But then it all goes very, very downhill. This game is a classic example of great graphics do not equal a great game.
 
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