anyone play the demos? buy the game? heard its sweet compared to quake 4 (doom ripoff).

10/17/2005 4:41:19 PM

nobodys played it?

10/17/2005 9:41:07 PM

i don't even know what you're talking about.

10/17/2005 9:56:59 PM

I've read the reviews, sounds interesting

10/17/2005 11:14:12 PM

Think Half-life meets ghostbusters

10/18/2005 10:01:37 AM

Played the demo. Not bad I guess. Still prefer HL2.

10/18/2005 12:02:23 PM

i thought this was about the band

10/18/2005 1:35:19 PM

shits hot as fuck

dudes'll knock over shelves and shit for cover

jump over/slide under tables

hide behind shit


When your character gets scared (tryna avoid spoilers), his breathing gets heavy and becomes harder to aim

And it has bullet-time (been overdone but first i remember in an FPS) where you can throw a grenade, slow it down, then shoot it and make it explode

First game in a minute to actually make me jump

10/18/2005 2:21:28 PM

^you buy it or borrow it from bit torrent?

10/18/2005 2:27:14 PM

I just bought it, installing now

let you guys know

10/18/2005 2:40:44 PM

ahaha oh fuck this game has some good scares

10/18/2005 4:23:12 PM

good?

10/24/2005 10:01:54 PM

yeah i picked it up. its graphics heavy but its good. its scary as shit though. i wasnt expecting stuff like this in the game. its like the ring shit man. doom 3 wasnt scary, this is (if you turn all the lights off and turn the sound up). the AI is good i think.

10/24/2005 10:06:47 PM

I just beat it.

Its a decent run and gun with an above par story.

Though it could have done much much better with the presentation of the story.

GFX wise, the game is probably better suited to newer computers. On my p4 2.4 w/ 512MB of ram and a 9800pro i had to tune it down a bit to get decent frames. Comparitively HL2, FarCry and even Doom3 ran at higher settings on this machine and looked better.

There are some very nice effects in the engine, bouncing particles are pretty cool to name one. Not a bad looking game by any means, but it just seemed not to look as good as HL2 , FarCry, or Doom3 on the same hardware.

The animation is very good which always helps. Characters look good as well.

But if i had to pick something that sets it apart, its the AI.

Far and away this is the BEST AI in a first person shooter to date. Better than HL2, better than far cry, much better than Doom3.

Let me give you an example.

So i bust into this room filled with baddies. They all scatter and hide behind shit. The first thing you notice is that this isn't the dumb zerg into a choke point AI from past games.

So i back out the door of the room trying to get them to poor thru the choke point to eat automatic fire so i can save some bullets. They start to come, but they fucking hide just out of range behind the door.

And then the fuckers start to lean around the corner and throw nades at me.

This is shit that humans do.

They want to flush me out into the chokepoint so they can hose me down.

So i end up backing up more.

And then they start shooting supressive fire.

All of a sudden i start to get shot from behind.

The motherfuckers had been destracting me so that their buddy could get behind and flank me.


Its a fantastic experience that has been missing from the genre.

As far as combat goes, you have this Max Payne-esque SloMo deal that slows shit down so you can take on alot of baddies.

Although not very original, it works very well. Combined with the fact that there are a few melee combos that you can do, the slomo can be quite fun.

Many times i have run into a room, hit slomo, jumped off a balcony of some sort, nailed someone with the shotgun while coming down, and then slide kicking some other dude all in one swift move.



The game does have a few shortfalls. The previously mention steep gfx requirements. The poor development of what seems to have been a well thought out plot. And the fact that parts of the game do get a bit repetitive.

Howver overall the game is good. The ending is pretty good even though the game is a bit short.

I would also recomend that when you beat it, wait through the credits till the end.

[Edited on October 24, 2005 at 10:56 PM. Reason : heh. Beat it just in time to pick up Civ 4 tomorrow]

10/24/2005 10:52:25 PM

the best thing about this game is the music, it always fits the mood pretty much
and the little changes in it when scary shit happens

10/24/2005 11:02:44 PM

ugh dont even bother with quake 4....what a waste of money.

10/25/2005 12:20:58 AM

EDITAR"S NOTE: THIS GAME HAS EXPLODEING BARRELS IN IT (EVARY GAME MADE AFTER 1995 HAS EXPLOADING BARRALS IN IT APPARANTLY)

10/25/2005 12:55:36 PM

10/25/2005 7:33:04 PM

I have a question for anyone that has played this game.

Does the game allow you to sneak around a la Far Cry or do enimies just automatically know that you are nearby even without seeing/hearing you?

That is one thing I liked about Far Cry. You could just play stealth if you wanted. In other games like Halo the enemies just became active when you got within a certain distance of them - even if they had their backs turned.

10/26/2005 9:27:29 AM

ive played it, me and my roomates dled it the other day. multiplayer is really fucking fun because the melee attacks are so rad. single player is really neat too. the damage to the environment is really cool, and when the nades explode they shoot this shockwave out and it disturbs the air. and the quicked reflexes mode thing is rad too just like a awesome looking versoin of bullet-time from max payne.

10/26/2005 10:23:42 AM

i like how you can pierce things with bullets and it actually makes a hole and light can shine through it and the hole smokes. cool effects.

10/26/2005 11:10:56 AM

the game is cool. maybe im not used to scary ass games...but im kinda losing interest becuase there isnt much payoff, i just keep getting spooked by shit

after my first 3 hrs of play, i was content to blow the shit out of myself. i chucked a gernade and ran into it. i am quite certain my character is better off dead then playing this game.

[Edited on December 7, 2005 at 3:20 AM. Reason : -]

12/7/2005 3:20:39 AM

Quote :

"In other games like Halo the enemies just became active when you got within a certain distance of them - even if they had their backs turned."

what do you mean? there are many times where i walked behind someone sleeping and melee'd the back of their head, killing them.

12/7/2005 3:31:08 PM

You could sneak but it would be very hard.... most the encounters happen in areas where they are gonna see you pretty much regardless of what you do.. but you can use stealth to get close and melee one or two out before all hell breaks loose.

12/7/2005 4:41:10 PM

its pretty freakin good
and somewhat creepy overall

i got friends who got scared by the game

id recommend

12/7/2005 6:43:50 PM

^^^ most FPS games are like that. There just ins't any level of stealth. Congrats on sneaking up on one of those things sleeping on Halo The 4 guys they put there for you to do that (on purpose) doesn't mean that the general AI behaves that way. Most of the time they can see out of the eyes in the backs of their heads when you are hiding behind a rock at the far end of a field (ok I exagerate).

Go play FarCry. That is the best FPS I've played when it comes to sneaking around, avoiding, and playing on your terms. Most FPS games make sure that sneaking and avoiding aren't possible because they confine you to narrow paths in a forrest or a hallway. The enemy AI in FarCry won't magically do things because they know you are near. They have to rely on actually seeing or hearing you. The magic GPS to your location does not turn on after you fire the first shot, it just puts them on alert. You are still free to stay and hope they don't smoke you out, or move and hide someplace else.

[Edited on December 8, 2005 at 9:29 AM. Reason : -]

12/8/2005 9:26:24 AM