This has been my current LoveFilm game for the past few weeks, since I sent Rage back. I'd had half an eye on it for a while but it was a friend from work who finally gave me the nudge to actually get it and I have to say, it is SO hard!
This is not a AAA top flight game, but it is in the mainstream and has received reviews on XBLA and is quite highly regarded. You get the sense that the game designers have concentrated on making sure the player gets told nothing except for a bit of story to keep them sort of going the right way. There are no hints or tips, no tutorial, you're just thrown in at the deep end and have to figure it out for yourself.
My friend at work warned me about these points so I went in with my eyes open, but I can imagine a lot of people who bought this game must have thought it was broken or bugged, because within 5 minutes of the beginning of the game you're confronted by an epic monster!
I've probably only played this for about 5 hours now, and a lot of that time is highly frustrating as I've died over and over trying to achieve the smallest thing, but after a while I get into the flow, settle my nerves and all of a sudden it comes together and you realise how wonderfully the game has been put together. I love the fact that it is so hard, I love how you don't really know exactly where to go, I love how you have to figure out how to kill that boss monster by yourself through trial and error, it's so refreshing to not have your hand held through a game.
This game gives me the feeling of Advanced Heroquest, an old dungeon crawling boardgame from the late 80s. Everyone thought it was going to be a slightly suped up Heroquest, but the reality was that it was a ruthlessly brutal dungeon crawler where the Adventurer's lives were so fragile and could be ended with one brutal stab of a ratman's sword.
So if you like a challenging, gritty RPG and have very good coordination and twitch reflexes, this is the game for you.
Friday, 30 March 2012
Thursday, 29 March 2012
A boardgame, a cardgame and an old game.
I am a relatively recent convert to boardgames and card-based games. I just never really considered them to be in the same league as tabletop wargames and computer games, but how wrong I was!
Over the past few years I've seen my brothers and our group of friends increasingly play more boardgames when we meet up and less wargames.
Anyway, I'm not going to ramble about this now, I want to talk about some games I've been keeping my eye on for a while.
Firstly, Lords of Waterdeep. This is a game of intrigued, set in the Forgotten Realms city of Waterdeep, which is mostly famously associated with Dungeons and Dragons. I'm not a huge fan of D&D, but this game in no way seems to reflect this association at all and is more akin to a classic resource management/allocation game such as Age of Empires 3: the board game. There are no dice to be thrown and appear to be no dragons. This is all good though, because from reading reviews and watching introductory videos it looks great and the mechanics look engrossing and full of strategy. I do also very much like the setting, as it reminds me of when I played Baldur's Gate on the PC and I had to help the Harpers; which are one of the factions in Lords of Waterdeep.
Now I wish to further endulge my love of card-based games. A Game of Thrones: the card game, looks like another deeply strategic game involving politics and warfare to fight for power. I love how each player plays as a house, with distinct differences in play style and how there seem to be so many different ways to go about winning. I also like how it can be played with 2 to 4 players and how in larger games there are extra treats to fight for. The card design and richness of the setting make it very appealing, although I should point out I know nothing about A Game of Thrones! I might have to get the DVDs and learn a bit more about it.
Lastly, while I'm on a rant about boardgames and cardgames I thought I'd bring up an old classic, which I'd love to own (again). Talisman! In contrast to the 2 games listed above this has very little depth and no intrigue, but what made this game so great was the epic sense of adventure you felt as you travelled around the board. I owned a second hand copy of this when I was about 11, but I've no idea what happened to it. I would love to get one of the shiny looking newer copies from Fantasy Flight. Such an easy game to play, with a wonderfully elegant theme, I think this is a great game to pull out when you just want to have a laugh with a few mates when there's nothing much else going on.
Over the past few years I've seen my brothers and our group of friends increasingly play more boardgames when we meet up and less wargames.
Anyway, I'm not going to ramble about this now, I want to talk about some games I've been keeping my eye on for a while.
Firstly, Lords of Waterdeep. This is a game of intrigued, set in the Forgotten Realms city of Waterdeep, which is mostly famously associated with Dungeons and Dragons. I'm not a huge fan of D&D, but this game in no way seems to reflect this association at all and is more akin to a classic resource management/allocation game such as Age of Empires 3: the board game. There are no dice to be thrown and appear to be no dragons. This is all good though, because from reading reviews and watching introductory videos it looks great and the mechanics look engrossing and full of strategy. I do also very much like the setting, as it reminds me of when I played Baldur's Gate on the PC and I had to help the Harpers; which are one of the factions in Lords of Waterdeep.
Now I wish to further endulge my love of card-based games. A Game of Thrones: the card game, looks like another deeply strategic game involving politics and warfare to fight for power. I love how each player plays as a house, with distinct differences in play style and how there seem to be so many different ways to go about winning. I also like how it can be played with 2 to 4 players and how in larger games there are extra treats to fight for. The card design and richness of the setting make it very appealing, although I should point out I know nothing about A Game of Thrones! I might have to get the DVDs and learn a bit more about it.
Lastly, while I'm on a rant about boardgames and cardgames I thought I'd bring up an old classic, which I'd love to own (again). Talisman! In contrast to the 2 games listed above this has very little depth and no intrigue, but what made this game so great was the epic sense of adventure you felt as you travelled around the board. I owned a second hand copy of this when I was about 11, but I've no idea what happened to it. I would love to get one of the shiny looking newer copies from Fantasy Flight. Such an easy game to play, with a wonderfully elegant theme, I think this is a great game to pull out when you just want to have a laugh with a few mates when there's nothing much else going on.
Thursday, 8 March 2012
Ganglands - My latest creation!
I've recently written a set of rules for a card based game, which I'm currently calling Ganglands, and last night my girlfriend and I played the very first game of it, using some make-shift cards I put together just for testing the mechanics. I'm really pleased to say that it worked surprisingly well! There are a couple of areas the game need improvement and I hope to put more detailed news of it on here in the future, but for now I have to work on it further and don't want to give away too much.
Needless to say it is based aroudn gangs, where each player starts with a few gangers and they have to explore the wasteland, in which the game is based, for scrap or locations or other gang members to hire.
My inspiration has come from Necromunda (classic GW tabletop game) and Rage (my latest gaming love affair), but I hope to incorporate a bit of Mad Max post apocalyptic-ness. And there maybe a flavour of Fall Out (one of my Girlfriend's favourite xbox games ever!) in there too.
Needless to say it is based aroudn gangs, where each player starts with a few gangers and they have to explore the wasteland, in which the game is based, for scrap or locations or other gang members to hire.
My inspiration has come from Necromunda (classic GW tabletop game) and Rage (my latest gaming love affair), but I hope to incorporate a bit of Mad Max post apocalyptic-ness. And there maybe a flavour of Fall Out (one of my Girlfriend's favourite xbox games ever!) in there too.
XBLA genius
There have been periods, since I purchased my Xbox 360, when I've probably spent more time playing downloadable arcade games, than playing full-fledged xbox 360 titles. A few of these have been:
- Bomberman Live: a true classic from the good old days of the SNES! My old flat mate absolutely loved this game and we played it for hours! If I managed to coax enough people into the flat we'd even play 4 player, which is when the game is truly brilliant. It is a true classic with excellent gameplay and a simple lay out, which is hard not to enjoy!
- Arcade Ice Hockey: Another fantastic multiplayer experience. Really brought the livingroom gaming back into perspective. No referees to stop play, quirky powerups to annihilate your opposition, all mixed with the wonderfully physical and skillful game of ice hockey. The only thing games like this and it's American Football counterpart missed out on was a tournament mode! Such a small detail would have made this instant party game genius!
- Castle Crashers: this is actually a very highly rated game and has been ever since it was released. Infact it still surprises me to still see it up right near the top of the top rated arcade games! I only played this single player, but the multiplayer looked fantastic and the great cartoony graphics with the simple RPG elements made it so easy to play and utterly absorbing.
With the standard of arcade games getting higher all the time there have been some stunning looking games that have come out, but I've not been grabbed in the same way that I was with the above, which I would still happily play today!
What irritates me though is there is still no decent dungeon crawling arcade game. There are many which aspire to fill thi void, but they're either stupidly quirky, in a way I can't get into, or just level based loot-fests, which has become the norm in this area over the past decade.
I'd love to see a solid, easy to play dungeon crawler, with a basic experience system, random dungeon generator and an engrossing setting. Something you can play with mates in the same room dropping in and out.
- Bomberman Live: a true classic from the good old days of the SNES! My old flat mate absolutely loved this game and we played it for hours! If I managed to coax enough people into the flat we'd even play 4 player, which is when the game is truly brilliant. It is a true classic with excellent gameplay and a simple lay out, which is hard not to enjoy!
- Arcade Ice Hockey: Another fantastic multiplayer experience. Really brought the livingroom gaming back into perspective. No referees to stop play, quirky powerups to annihilate your opposition, all mixed with the wonderfully physical and skillful game of ice hockey. The only thing games like this and it's American Football counterpart missed out on was a tournament mode! Such a small detail would have made this instant party game genius!
- Castle Crashers: this is actually a very highly rated game and has been ever since it was released. Infact it still surprises me to still see it up right near the top of the top rated arcade games! I only played this single player, but the multiplayer looked fantastic and the great cartoony graphics with the simple RPG elements made it so easy to play and utterly absorbing.
With the standard of arcade games getting higher all the time there have been some stunning looking games that have come out, but I've not been grabbed in the same way that I was with the above, which I would still happily play today!
What irritates me though is there is still no decent dungeon crawling arcade game. There are many which aspire to fill thi void, but they're either stupidly quirky, in a way I can't get into, or just level based loot-fests, which has become the norm in this area over the past decade.
I'd love to see a solid, easy to play dungeon crawler, with a basic experience system, random dungeon generator and an engrossing setting. Something you can play with mates in the same room dropping in and out.
Thursday, 1 March 2012
An old favourite I missed: Battlefield 2142
A few days back I wrote a post about my original gaming addictions and I don't intend to contradict or amend anything I said in that post, but as I'm on a roll with posts today and I've just comment on how great Battlefield 3 is I thought I'd give an honourable mention to my favourite Battlefield game of all time, to date: Battlefield 2142.
I played this game on the PC, back when I considered I'd never give in to the dirty, low down consoles, which I now have - completely.
I owned the game and the expansion and this is why it was my favourite Battlefield game:
- Chain of command: in every game one player on each team could become the overall commander, this gave them access to ammunition drops, air strikes, EMP strikes, as well as being the only player with a complete overview of the battlefield and able to give orders to the squad leaders. The squad leaders could be given simple way point orders or told to attack or defend, or a mixture of all of these in one go! The squad leader would then set his objective or waypoint for his team. The squad leaders didn't have to follow the orders, no-one had to be a commander, but when you had a good command with several good squads willing to do as they were told it was remarkable how effectively a team could be and so enjoyable to be part of!
- No all dominating vehicles: I have felt that in recent Battlefield games there has been one or two vehicles that can potentially completely dominate the game. I feel this has become lessened in Battlefield 3, but engineers able to repair helos in flight you do get some ridiculous situations!
- Great variation of game modes: I loved Titan games, where each team had a giant floating space ship thing hovering around the map about 100 metres up. Each team had to activate SAMs to take down the oppossing team's titan's shields. They could use these to then destroy the titan but that was extraordinarily difficult or they could board them! These games moved around so much and fighting on the ground to fighting in the corridors of your titan made for such epic games.
Overall, I wasn't a huge fan of the setting of the game and the graphics and animation wasn't anything special, I just loved the wonderful depth and most of all the chain of command. So wonderful and yet not popular enough to see it return to future Battlefield titles.
I played this game on the PC, back when I considered I'd never give in to the dirty, low down consoles, which I now have - completely.
I owned the game and the expansion and this is why it was my favourite Battlefield game:
- Chain of command: in every game one player on each team could become the overall commander, this gave them access to ammunition drops, air strikes, EMP strikes, as well as being the only player with a complete overview of the battlefield and able to give orders to the squad leaders. The squad leaders could be given simple way point orders or told to attack or defend, or a mixture of all of these in one go! The squad leader would then set his objective or waypoint for his team. The squad leaders didn't have to follow the orders, no-one had to be a commander, but when you had a good command with several good squads willing to do as they were told it was remarkable how effectively a team could be and so enjoyable to be part of!
- No all dominating vehicles: I have felt that in recent Battlefield games there has been one or two vehicles that can potentially completely dominate the game. I feel this has become lessened in Battlefield 3, but engineers able to repair helos in flight you do get some ridiculous situations!
- Great variation of game modes: I loved Titan games, where each team had a giant floating space ship thing hovering around the map about 100 metres up. Each team had to activate SAMs to take down the oppossing team's titan's shields. They could use these to then destroy the titan but that was extraordinarily difficult or they could board them! These games moved around so much and fighting on the ground to fighting in the corridors of your titan made for such epic games.
Overall, I wasn't a huge fan of the setting of the game and the graphics and animation wasn't anything special, I just loved the wonderful depth and most of all the chain of command. So wonderful and yet not popular enough to see it return to future Battlefield titles.
Battlefield 3. My "go to" game.
I think every gamer has one game which they know they will enjoy playing. For me and my gaming mates it's the Battlefield franchise. We've all been fans of it since the original, but since we got xbox 360s it really came together.
The engine with which they build their games with is truly great, the lighting, building destruction and character models are exquisite. The other reason we all love Battlefield so much is because Call of Duty sold out and became an epic piece of arcady rubbish. Again, we were all big fans of the original and Call of Duty 2, but then we lost track of it and ever since Modern Warfare took over the brand they've been rubbish. I, honestly, don't understand how CoD is the top selling game, it doesn't say much for the consumer. I do have complaints about Battlefield games, how they've become a little toned down, but CoD took that too far and any realistic appearances to the game are just a vaneer. This is not to say that I haven't enjoyed playing CoD games (this is where I start contradicting myself). I have spent whole evenings playing split screen online games of CoD with mates and that is a lot of fun, but I get a similar level of enjoyment from Xbox live arcade games! The graphics are rubbish, it's completely unrealistic, but it's a laugh to run around shooting people in a simple, unthinking, sort of way. Nice, quick easy fun, which leaves almost no lasting impression on you once you turn the game off.
Anyway, back to Battlefield! Now, I did just say above that Battlefield games seemed to be becoming more arcading, but I have felt that in it's latest incarnation, Battlefield 3, they have brought back an element of trying to be realistic - the sound, movement and weaponry all feels heightened and more difficult. When you look down the barrel of your gun your sight now wobbles, as it would in reality, and the sound of explosions and nearby gunfire can leave you stunned and disorientated. It's very impressive and makes the game very immersive and tactically challenging.
There are unrealistic elements, obviously, but most I feel are designed to encourage team play. The various different player roles (assault, engineer, support, recon) all have significantly different kit, some of which can compliment bits of kit taken by other roles, so you have to form squads and communicate to get the best out of them - our favourite at the moment is combining the recon classes SOFLAM (don't know what it stands for) with the engineers Javelin missile launcher. When you do this the Javelin can target aircraft, only once the SOFLAM has acquired it, and the missiles it fires are more effective (not realistic, but encourages team work).
The game as a whole feels like a good mix of realism with bits of unrealism to encourage team play and make the game a bit easier and enjoyable.
Now, it's not all roses, I have some serious complaints about the game. Firstly, forming a squad and trying to get into a game is an absolute nightmare! This was easy and worked every time in Battlefield: Bad Company 2, but they seem to have forgotten how to do it in Battlefield 3... Highly irritating and means if 4 of us are on we can't just have a quick blast on one game, it takes at least 10-15 minutes just to be able to get onto the same team and then form a squad in the game! Then sometimes the game crashes as you try to enter a game; this is particularly annoying when you have 4 people as you all need to start from scratch and restart the game. And finally, how can an engineer repair a helicopter when he's sat in the back, while the helo is in flight?! This is one bit of unrealism which is ludicrous and drives me and my friends up the wall!
Overall though, Battlefield 3 is the best multiplayer wargame out there at the moment, and before that it was Battlefield: Bad Company 2, and before that Bad Company 1... etc. You get the picture.
The engine with which they build their games with is truly great, the lighting, building destruction and character models are exquisite. The other reason we all love Battlefield so much is because Call of Duty sold out and became an epic piece of arcady rubbish. Again, we were all big fans of the original and Call of Duty 2, but then we lost track of it and ever since Modern Warfare took over the brand they've been rubbish. I, honestly, don't understand how CoD is the top selling game, it doesn't say much for the consumer. I do have complaints about Battlefield games, how they've become a little toned down, but CoD took that too far and any realistic appearances to the game are just a vaneer. This is not to say that I haven't enjoyed playing CoD games (this is where I start contradicting myself). I have spent whole evenings playing split screen online games of CoD with mates and that is a lot of fun, but I get a similar level of enjoyment from Xbox live arcade games! The graphics are rubbish, it's completely unrealistic, but it's a laugh to run around shooting people in a simple, unthinking, sort of way. Nice, quick easy fun, which leaves almost no lasting impression on you once you turn the game off.
Anyway, back to Battlefield! Now, I did just say above that Battlefield games seemed to be becoming more arcading, but I have felt that in it's latest incarnation, Battlefield 3, they have brought back an element of trying to be realistic - the sound, movement and weaponry all feels heightened and more difficult. When you look down the barrel of your gun your sight now wobbles, as it would in reality, and the sound of explosions and nearby gunfire can leave you stunned and disorientated. It's very impressive and makes the game very immersive and tactically challenging.
There are unrealistic elements, obviously, but most I feel are designed to encourage team play. The various different player roles (assault, engineer, support, recon) all have significantly different kit, some of which can compliment bits of kit taken by other roles, so you have to form squads and communicate to get the best out of them - our favourite at the moment is combining the recon classes SOFLAM (don't know what it stands for) with the engineers Javelin missile launcher. When you do this the Javelin can target aircraft, only once the SOFLAM has acquired it, and the missiles it fires are more effective (not realistic, but encourages team work).
The game as a whole feels like a good mix of realism with bits of unrealism to encourage team play and make the game a bit easier and enjoyable.
Now, it's not all roses, I have some serious complaints about the game. Firstly, forming a squad and trying to get into a game is an absolute nightmare! This was easy and worked every time in Battlefield: Bad Company 2, but they seem to have forgotten how to do it in Battlefield 3... Highly irritating and means if 4 of us are on we can't just have a quick blast on one game, it takes at least 10-15 minutes just to be able to get onto the same team and then form a squad in the game! Then sometimes the game crashes as you try to enter a game; this is particularly annoying when you have 4 people as you all need to start from scratch and restart the game. And finally, how can an engineer repair a helicopter when he's sat in the back, while the helo is in flight?! This is one bit of unrealism which is ludicrous and drives me and my friends up the wall!
Overall though, Battlefield 3 is the best multiplayer wargame out there at the moment, and before that it was Battlefield: Bad Company 2, and before that Bad Company 1... etc. You get the picture.
GTA IV, an observers opinion.
I bought this game, along with Dragon Age: Origins, a few weeks back; £30 for the both, which I thought was a good price for 2 xbox 360 classics.
Since buying the games I have started playing a little Dragon Age and I am enjoying it, but have been hooked on Rage! as you all well know. As for GTA 4, I have been resisting playing this so that I can concentrate on Rage! and will definitly play it in a future sometime when I want some singleplayer open world genius, because from what I have seen of my girlfriend's campaign on it, it is brilliant!
Classic GTA easy gameplay, funny dialogue, great car chases and gun fights. BUT, the thing that has deeply struck me about this game is the depth of detail put into the environment. It is absolutly staggering!
The graphics are now 4 years old, but still look fantastic. You can really get a sense of where Red Dead Redemption came from after Rockstar made GTA 4. Red Dead has some of the best open world graphics I've seen to date. Also, in Liberty City you can get a cab, but only if one is available, you can take the tube, when you walk through a park you'll see people working in it's grounds, as you walk around the city you'll see other criminals stealing cars and cops chasing them. All of this with a logical, real world feel to it. Awe-inspiring.
The story line, as much as I know from my observations, I won't give away, but it has gripped my girlfriend and she's played hours and it seems to get better as it goes, she meets new people, makes new friends, new enemies, moves to different parts of the city. I'm not sure it has the same depth and emotion as Red Dead, but as it's predecessor it's nice to see that their games only seem to get better.
I should state that I have played a little of GTA IV. My girlfriend has kindly let me take part in some races and do a few missions and the controls are wonderful, but suffer from the same irritating turning problem as seen in Red Dead also. Please note this is the ONLY thing I have found bad about the game to date. I don't understand why these games have this problem - when you move around with a weapon you can't seem to turn on the spot?! Once you get used to it you almost completely forget about it though.
When you look back through Rockstars list of games, I am not aware that they've slipped up at all! The original GTA was an instant hit, GTA 2 was wonderful and one of my favourites, a friend of mine was hooked on GTA 3 and vice city for a long time, but I didn't know those games so well, GTA San Andreas was, I believe, Rockstar's best selling game ever. It's staggering that they've not slipped up. Even the games on the side, LA Noir and Red Dead Redemption, are phenomenal - Red Dead being one of my favourite games of all time.
I'm writing this "review" so many years too late, but if anyone reading this hasn't played this game it's an absolute steal at between £10-£15 now. It is essential gaming for anyone who is vaguely serious about their games.
However, and this is a big one for me, Rockstar are moving into territory I hold quite sacred with Max Payne. I'm not sure their style suits the Max Payne title and I'll be intrigued to see if this is the first Rockstar game that goes tits up. I'll be keeping an eye out to see if they can make another gem.
Since buying the games I have started playing a little Dragon Age and I am enjoying it, but have been hooked on Rage! as you all well know. As for GTA 4, I have been resisting playing this so that I can concentrate on Rage! and will definitly play it in a future sometime when I want some singleplayer open world genius, because from what I have seen of my girlfriend's campaign on it, it is brilliant!
Classic GTA easy gameplay, funny dialogue, great car chases and gun fights. BUT, the thing that has deeply struck me about this game is the depth of detail put into the environment. It is absolutly staggering!
The graphics are now 4 years old, but still look fantastic. You can really get a sense of where Red Dead Redemption came from after Rockstar made GTA 4. Red Dead has some of the best open world graphics I've seen to date. Also, in Liberty City you can get a cab, but only if one is available, you can take the tube, when you walk through a park you'll see people working in it's grounds, as you walk around the city you'll see other criminals stealing cars and cops chasing them. All of this with a logical, real world feel to it. Awe-inspiring.
The story line, as much as I know from my observations, I won't give away, but it has gripped my girlfriend and she's played hours and it seems to get better as it goes, she meets new people, makes new friends, new enemies, moves to different parts of the city. I'm not sure it has the same depth and emotion as Red Dead, but as it's predecessor it's nice to see that their games only seem to get better.
I should state that I have played a little of GTA IV. My girlfriend has kindly let me take part in some races and do a few missions and the controls are wonderful, but suffer from the same irritating turning problem as seen in Red Dead also. Please note this is the ONLY thing I have found bad about the game to date. I don't understand why these games have this problem - when you move around with a weapon you can't seem to turn on the spot?! Once you get used to it you almost completely forget about it though.
When you look back through Rockstars list of games, I am not aware that they've slipped up at all! The original GTA was an instant hit, GTA 2 was wonderful and one of my favourites, a friend of mine was hooked on GTA 3 and vice city for a long time, but I didn't know those games so well, GTA San Andreas was, I believe, Rockstar's best selling game ever. It's staggering that they've not slipped up. Even the games on the side, LA Noir and Red Dead Redemption, are phenomenal - Red Dead being one of my favourite games of all time.
I'm writing this "review" so many years too late, but if anyone reading this hasn't played this game it's an absolute steal at between £10-£15 now. It is essential gaming for anyone who is vaguely serious about their games.
However, and this is a big one for me, Rockstar are moving into territory I hold quite sacred with Max Payne. I'm not sure their style suits the Max Payne title and I'll be intrigued to see if this is the first Rockstar game that goes tits up. I'll be keeping an eye out to see if they can make another gem.
I buyed Rage!
That's right. I love this game and felt I had to own it, so I bought it from Amazon for £12.99, free postage. I feel chuffed as it's the Anarchy Edition, so when it arrives I'll have a few extra gadgets to use too.
Considering I've almost completed my copy from LoveFilm I still feel that I want to keep playing this game. I know that in the future I'll want to replay the campaign. This is actually very rare for me, I am ultra stingy when it comes to buying games and generally have a policy that if it's only really a single player game then I just don't bother. This is an exception though and for £13 I couldn't say no!
The other reason is because I do enjoy the co-op multiplayer. It's not extensive, but the missions are well designed and fun to play. I've been doing some of the online racing too and it's not great, but a bit of a laugh and a nice added extra. But really, I bought it because I just LOVE the single player! It is a perfect example of how an FPS should work. The end.
Considering I've almost completed my copy from LoveFilm I still feel that I want to keep playing this game. I know that in the future I'll want to replay the campaign. This is actually very rare for me, I am ultra stingy when it comes to buying games and generally have a policy that if it's only really a single player game then I just don't bother. This is an exception though and for £13 I couldn't say no!
The other reason is because I do enjoy the co-op multiplayer. It's not extensive, but the missions are well designed and fun to play. I've been doing some of the online racing too and it's not great, but a bit of a laugh and a nice added extra. But really, I bought it because I just LOVE the single player! It is a perfect example of how an FPS should work. The end.
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