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Thought I was going to have a free weekend to load and try a couple games but that didn't happen.

I will load Starcraft first and Alpha Centauri (which I've never even looked at).

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Alpha Centauri is turn-based, not real-time, of course :)

I agree that Rise of Nations is a great game.

I've also heard that Rome: Total War is the dog's danglies too. 😱) It's on my shopping list.
 
FPS, Serious Sam Second Encounter, I still love that game and online have really had a blast with it, its probably the funnest FPS I've played.

Breed is really good but its so full of copy protection you can't run it virtually from your HDD.

Now if you're one really bad dude at the FPS gaming you can always pick yourself up a copy of Aliens vs Predator 2, play it at night in the dark, and try to keep your heart out of your throat, when you're attacked by 4 Aliens at once, 2 running on the floor, 1 on the wall, and 1 on the ceiling, you beat Aliens vs Predator 2, and you've done something, very few have.

Far Cry was great, but I enjoyed the beginning of it, a lot more until the mutants got involved, personally I think the game was on perfect track until it became another monster mash, don't get me wrong it still was a fantastic game graphics wise, but it just seemed to start out being a completely different game than it ended up. Actually when the monsters started showing up I felt like we'd been ripped off.

One game I started and stopped to play Far Cry was Tron 2.0, and I was really enjoying that game, as a matter of fact, I think I'll dig it out and finish it.
 
I can't believe nobody mentioned Spellforce!?! That's a great RTS/RPG game. The original game is kinda hard to come by here in the U.S., and the 2 expansions have to be ordered from over seas (I'm still waiting for the second one). Regardless, they're great games...probably the most addicting ones I've played in a long time. Also, I suppose I should mention Morrowind, too. It's a first person RPG. I know you asked for a shooter, but it's another great game that deserves credit.

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Going to show my age now but my best historic game has to be Elite on the BBC Micro. The graphics were groundbreaking at the time and the control system was innovative, I would spend hours and hours playing and not get bored.

Clones of this have never seemed to fair well, I can remember the horrible technicolour version on the Atari ST. More recent attempts on the PC like Privateer and Freelancer have faired slightly better. The original is still the best though.....

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Painkiller and the expansion pak BoOH (battle out of hell) are great fun. Many varied levels. Good gfx etc.

I think its pretty much Bargin bin now.

I hear good stuff about Chronicles of Riddick, but haven't gotten to try it yet.

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Anyone playing Chronicles of Riddick? I just bought it for $15 from Gogamer.com. Firingsquad was pretty gung ho about the game. Probably be a few days before I install it, just curious if anyone is playing it.


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I have played it and i liked it. Graphics are great but game seemed pretty short. I finished it in a few hours.
The Call of Duty expansion pack was alot longer than riddick.

I will say that The game was fun and kept me interested the whole game. At no time did i ever get the feeling of being bored or getting discouraged like some games.

Kill.Switch Was also an awesome game. Its a 3rd person shooter but only thing is theres no quick saves. So if you get killed you have to start from last checkpoint

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Kill.Switch Was also an awesome game. Its a 3rd person shooter but only thing is theres no quick saves. So if you get killed you have to start from last checkpoint
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I can't believe people are still praising Star Craft. That's like going off about how awesome Floppy Disks are.

That game would have been great if you could stop the annoying and repetative voices. It was fun but got old because I couldn't stand hearing the same retards make the same sound over and over again.

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Depends on what type of shooters you like. I prefer the squad/Co-op games like joint ops, CoD, etc. I like working with a squad on ventrilo or teamspeak and kicking butt.

Ok I really have to do some fillings!

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Starcraft was just the bomb back in its day. I still keep checking Blizzard's website to see if a new Starcraft is coming out anytime soon. While Warcraft 3 was really a great game. Starcraft back in its day was just better referencing that type of game. The units were very complex considering what you could do with them. I loved the ghosts referencing the ability to nuke people. Won a ton of games nuking the other forces with a nuke or two.
 
Nukes were fun, but so was lockdown on a fleet of Battlecruisers followed by sending in the Valkyries to finish them off. Let the praises go on. :smile:


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I still haven't installed RiddicK yet. It was a busy weekend and my brief gaming moments went to playing the retail version of FLATOUT (racing), which I bought together with Riddick. Flatout is fun.





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How are the races in Flatout? I tried the demo and it seemed hard as hell.
You gotta love smashin the guy out the windshield

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Nukes were fun, but so was lockdown on a fleet of Battlecruisers followed by sending in the Valkyries to finish them off. Let the praises go on.

Also loved playing zerg with multiple players and building up my hatcheries. Then sending a 200 zergling force down the pipe for a quick win. If the first wave did not succeed then the second or third did it's damage. If air defense forces were needed then Hydrias could quickly be hatched.

YOU MUST FEAR THE ZERGLINGS! SMALL AND BASIC BUT DAMN EFFECTIVE!
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Are you using a wheel, gamepad or keyboard? I'd imagine the KB would be rough.

I found the demo challenging; took a long time to start finishing first. The retail career mode starts off fairly easy and I can typically finish first on all the bronze raises. Moving up to the silver level races, I am stuggling to hit first, typically find 2nd or 3rd to be pretty good. Not sure what the Gold races will be like. 😱 . I like the game alot and think the cars handle about how I'd like them to drive. That's something I could never say about pro race driver, which I thought never felt like you were behind the wheel. I guess, Sports Car GT, F12002, GTR, and nascar 2003 sims have me a bit picky though. but I'd say for more arcade racers, I like the feel of NFSHP2, Flatout, and Insane.

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