Return to Castle Wolfenstein Review

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In any case, I can comment (objectively) on the game because I have played it and I can say without a doubt that it's worth buying.Some of us can remember back to the Wolfenstein 3D which later led to Doom which revolutionized the shareware concept and finally brought the PC to a viable gaming platform.Of course, some of us can remember all the way back to the original Castle Wolfenstein of the Apple IIc days, but lets not go there...
Anyways, gamers have waited long and hard for the chance to battle nazis once again and this game delivers.Castles are rendered in very nice detail on my Geforce, it almost starts to smell cold and musty in here (maybe that's me).The cutscenes are also well done and provide a nice prologue to each mission.The game's intro you'll probably only watch once or twice but it's one of the coolest ever!The music is very atmospheric and spooky, reminiscent of Quake.Whoever said the game crashes all the time must have a bad system or be using XP.Anyone who has "downgraded" to XP should've realized that nothing's gonna run on XP for a year (you think people would've learned after Windows 95.)In any case, I run the game on my non-XP system without problems.
Who cares about all that, right?It's the gameplay you want to hear about.Again, this game delivers.You start off as expected battling those evil nazi's as you escape Wolfenstein.From there the game gets progressively creepier as you dive deep into the catacombs and discover both you and the nazis are fighting off terrors even more disturbing.(...)Without spoiling too much, you find out the dead start coming to life and lemme tell ya, these buggers are tough to beat.Ammo starts becoming a serious issue.Not to mention some of the demons have shields that reflect the bullets back at you.Once you meet the fire demon - that alone is worth the price of admission.
Many of the zombies are just thick-skinned clods that are tough to kill, but don't think the enemies have bad AI.One of the head nazi's, Helga, is protected by an elite corp of women who can dodge, roll and even double team against you.Toss a grenade at em?They'll just kick it back at you (and they'll usually wait until just before it's ready to blow up too.)Very quick and very tough.Not to mention, the first time I snuck up behind one of Helga's elite guards, I had to stop and admire the "artwork".
Last but not least, the game borrows a page from the success of No One Lives Forever (another great game) by allowing the player to sneak up on the enemy and listen to their conversations.It's also interesting to run into the occasions the nazis are too busy battling demons to worry about attacking you.This is probably the first game that has made me jump since Doom came out.The surprise factor is used a little excessively in my opinion, but you'll definitely get a few scares.
Multiplayer is quick and responsive on a cable modem.I, of course, get pounded on mercilessly by the thousands of kids who are much better than I.The new interesting addition is the formation of team assaults where each member has a special ability (Lieutenants can call in airstrikes, medics can heal players, engineers can set dynamite, etc...).I find this difficult when joining existing games where I don't know any of the other members, but I figure people will soon be forming clans, similar to Mechwarrior, to exploit the advantages team based assaults can provide.No idea yet on invincibility hacks or other cheats, I get beat so bad it seems like they're all invincible to me.
So there you go.I was worried the emphasis would be on multiplayer and the single player game would be lacking, but that is not the case.If you are into multiplayer battles, then you probably already have a copy of this game by now.
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Aliens Versus Predator 2 Review

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(More customer reviews)This game is a vast improvement over the flawed original.For one, the graphics are much better, though not as good as some of the newer games out there.Still, they aren't bad and the atmosphere in the game is wonderful.Where the original felt more like a run-of-the mill shooter wherein the player mowed down hordes of Aliens (or humans, if you played as the Alien or Predator), this one still has you facing hordes of enemies but does a much better job of emulating the movies' creepy feel.As an example, the first level in the marine campaign has absolutely no enemies in it but it is, IMO, one of the best levels in the single player game.Though there are no foes, scripted events abound as you, cut off from your team, try to make your way back to them.As you go along you'll bump into a few survivors and, before you can do anything, see them slain by the Predator (with suitably tantalizing glimpses of the cloaked predator).You'll find evidence of the Aliens' and Predators' handiwork all around, 'something' will rattle through a duct nearby, things will break or otherwise go haywire in such a way as to make you jump.The atmosphere is pulled off quite well in the Predator and Alien campaigns as well, though they are not as creepy as the Marine campaign.
Beyond that, the encounters for each race seem fitting and all of the races are fairly well balanced.The Alien can't take a great deal of punishment but its fast and lethal if it gets in close quarters (and it can climb virtually any surface), the Marine isn't terribly durable either, but with his motion tracker and a devastating arsenal he can be a match for either of the other two races, the Predator is fairly tough and has some good weapons but not anything as purely destructive as some of the Marine weapons.The Alien campaign also has one particularly cool feature in that you start it as a facehugger, your goal then is to avoid the humans until you can find a suitably isolated host.Once thats done, you become the chestburster, the 'child' stage of the Alien, again you have to sneak around until you grow larger.Once that has happened you become a full grown Alien and the flesh-rending fun begins :-).
If I have any complaints its that the 'minimum requirements' for this game are a joke.As with most graphically intensive games, your RAM and the quality of your 3d card are more important.If you have a decent 3D card and 256 or more megs of RAM you should be okay, however, if you have only the 128 megs the box calls for, the game will stutter a lot even in the lower detail ranges. (...) That and you'll want to do a full install for maximum performance.The nearly one and a half gigs that the full install eats up can be painful if you have a small hard drive :-(.Though its a fun game at any detail level, being able to max the graphics out certainly helps :-).
To sum it up, this game is definitely worth the money and a good follow up to the original, though you'll want to have a fairly beefy computer to run it well.

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