Sunday, October 14, 2007
Preview-Butter. Great on Toast.
I've got a truckload of new demos on Saturday and I've spent quite some time trying em out. Lazy to study so, oh well.
Firstly: Call of Duty 4: Modern Combat Demo.
This demo mission plays out in the level known as, The Bog. An M1 Abrahms tank is stuck in, well, a bog, and it's the job of the player's squad from the 1st Recon to go secure the tank for repair and extraction. You'll fight through a caved in building, CQC and finally, out into the bog (more like a marsh) itself, to defend the tank, last stand style.
My thoughts: The action is fast, furious and in your face. It'll make BHD look like a fight between kittens in a cardboard box filled with downy pillows. Even in the lowest difficulty, if you lose concentration, rest assured, you will get shot down. The weapons are the type you'd see now, M4, M203 Nade Launcher, Nightvision, Flashbang etc, even a shotgun. And finally, no more shooting Nazis. It's fun and all, but it's getting old. I think people all over the world, in games killed more Nazis than the entire population of Europe put together. TWICE.
Secondly: Time Shift Demo
My Thoughts: This. Game. Is. Kick Ass. Seriously. FPS, you control time with your suit, can Stop it, Slow it or Reverse it. And you can do pretty nifty stuff with it, like, blow up a canister, stop time, jump on it, then release time and ride the canister up somewhere. Or, like I did, stop time, run up to a fella, take his weapon and then bash/shoot the guy with his own weapon. It's fun, very gory, so small kids stay away, and surprisingly, less taxing on the texture capability of the card compared to COD4, yet delivers MUCH more higher quality textures and physics and content. Great stuff man.
Thirdly: Age Of Empires: The Asian Dynasties Demo
My Thoughts: You know, if you played one of em, you've played em all. I'm not all that into RTS like certain people are in this guild, but I'm still okay with em. AoE is pretty much...normal. Build, attack, battle-cry a bit, win, yay. Rinse, repeat. Maybe it has some stuff you'd not see in another RTS, but...nothing that makes me go WHOA. Fine, I like action games better. But I don't see much potential in this. I could be wrong, maybe the actual gameplay would rock, but for now, it's just...ho hum.
- Leo
