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    I’ve been playing this and after being completely unimpressed to begin with it actually turns into a pretty good game once you get into it. Mainly because the setting is great and it’s actually ridiculously difficult in parts which creates tension far more effectively than throwing dead zombie girls at you (FEAR), sticking you in grey corridors fighting grey monsters (Doom), having fat birds chatting you up by saying “Is your cock bigger than my belly?” (My mate Gibby). Actually, that last one was pretty frightening, even just to watch – so that doesn’t count.

    There’s a nice effect as well when you get attacked by this brain attacking mutant which makes your characters head swim which is exactly like being drunk, which is good.

    So I give this an 8 out of 10. It’s set in Hull and it captures perfectly the atmosphere of a Saturday night out there. Yes, it’s not fun – but it’s not supposed to be.

    in reply to: Red Ocean #49544
    sickofitall
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    Downloaded this demo the other day (Gamershell have got it – free and quick). Was okay, no lean buttons though which didn’t seem right for the game since you can’t dodge incoming fire by sidestrafing. Oh, and the enemy AI staggered into fire and used cover about effectively as me playing paintball after 15 pints.

    in reply to: stay alive #49509
    sickofitall
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    I don’t see what was wrong with the Leprechaun films. They weren’t as good as “Killer Clowns from Outer Space” I’ll grant you. But they do have the advantage that if you ever meet a bloke from Ireland whilst pissed you can absolutely insist that their favouritist film ever just has to be “Leprechaun” and then cause much amusement by shouting “Where’s me gold! Where’s me gold!” at him every 5 minutes until kicking out time. (Or until he finds it too amusing to hear anymore and buggers off, whichever is the soonest).

    in reply to: ps3 #49329
    sickofitall
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    I bought a 360 and the fucking rip off conning bastards actually charge you to change your online name.

    Now I’ve said that let me just say, for the benefit of everyone who thinks I’m taking the piss:

    **The following sentence is not a joke**

    I bought a 360 and the fucking rip off conning bastards actually charge you to change your online name.

    **The above sentence is not a joke**

    That’s right, you have to pay to change your online name. Not that they got a penny from me of course, but still. What this means is if you want to change your online name you have to pay money so that you can change your online name! Unbelievable. Fucking wankers.

    So anyway Turks, Gears of War is decent but there’s not much else out just yet. There is a game coming out called “The Darkness” though which has to be the single most ill conceived game of all time on account of the fact that:
    • It’s named after a terrible joke rock band
    • The lead character that you play is some kind of fucking goth!
    • It’s based on a comic but can’t be taken seriously because it doesn’t feature luminous yellow goblins or men whose families have been killed so to exact revenge they dress up like a giant bat because they had some bats fly in their face when they were a kid and you know, that’s what you’d do if your parents got blatted in front of you – you’d dress up like a giant bat. Course you would. Right.

    in reply to: Great new game! #49319
    sickofitall
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    You’d have to say that San Andreas is probably better than Vice City because it’s bigger, more features, more minigames, more of everything really. But I’m with Legit all the way, Vice City for me. The cheesy 80’s setting and radio channels beats the frankly fucking annoying “black gangsta” rap shit that is the basis of San Andreas. I’m afraid that I missed the appeal of the whole MTV yo yo yo rap bollocks since 1) I’m not black 2) I didn’t grow up in da projects on Manhatten Island and 3) I try to avoid MTV. I’m sorry, but I can only sit through so many cut scenes of homies shouting “Sheeet, nigger I’m gonna pop a cap in dat muthafucka” at each other before I just shake my head and turn it off.

    I’ve got an idea Doc – why don’t you download ‘em both for free then you can see for yourself!

    (If you own a PS2 then you should probably just buy Canis Canem Edit instead, it’s a better laugh than any of em).

    in reply to: What are you playing? #48664
    sickofitall
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    @xdc the doc wrote:

    the ending aint bad in FEAR – but the slow mo thing is shite – much better playing max payne 2 if you aint checked it out yet.

    God damn it, I got the alternate completely naff “TURNS OUT IT WAS YOU!” ending (didn’t see that one coming from halfway through level 1)with the “but here’s yet another completely annoying and not at all frightening dead 8 year old girl with black hair covering her face”.

    In fairness though it was a decent enough game, they should really have tried to vary the levels a bit though and just removed all that here’s-a-corridor-filled-with-blood-BLEURGH-a-skeleton! stuff which at best was just so bad it was hilariously funny.

    So it would have got a 6 out of 10 from me but I’ll give it a 7 because I got to shoot the annoying little zombified girl in the face 15 times right at the end. Since I’d wanted to do this since level 1 it was worth playing through just to do that. Got to be worth an extra point.

    in reply to: Top 10 Movie Fights #49231
    sickofitall
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    @=XDC=iNSANE wrote:

    lol @ Mortal Kombat.. WTF!! Shite film

    Okay Insane – I’m sorry to say that you couldn’t be more wrong. The only film that deserves to be in that top 10 is Moooooooortaaaaaal Kombaaaaaaaaat! Unfortunately he just named the wrong fight. Right at the start of the Mortal Kombat film this Kung Fu master gets annoyed and proceeds to beat up of this 13 year old kid. Now I actually ended up watching this film in some cinema in Sheffield (long story, involved a bird, don’t ask) and was actually told that if I didn’t stop crying with laughter I would have to leave the cinema. For some strange reason I’ll never understand, everyone else in the place failed to see the hilarity of some fully grown bloke kicking 7 shades of stringy shit out some little scrote. In fact, some people seemed quite put out by the fact that I found it funny in the first place. Fuck ‘em anyway.

    So my top 10 in no particular order would be (and I think these probably are my actual top 10 because I like a good laugh and I did actually laugh out loud at all these):

    • Mortal Kombat – the “we all hate kids, beating them up is fun” scene.
    • Torque – the kung fu fighting on bikes scene. Genius and didn’t look at all shite.
    • Alexander – that bit where he charges that elephant on his horse and it all goes slo-mo. So, a horse v elephant face off in slo-mo. Totally brilliant and not at all completely shite.
    • The fight scene at the start of Star Wars, Revenge of the Sith. Just for that one line where the ship breaks in half and falls towards the planet and is suddenly enveloped in searing heat at which point (this is great, I loved this), Ewan McGregors character checked his dials, flicked some switches and helpfully announced to everyone aboard “We’re entering the atmosphere!” Brilliant. Absolute corker – no shit Sherlock, I wouldn’t have guessed it – what with all the ship melting and searing heat everywhere. Fucking hell, there’s no flies on you is there son, no wonder you’re a Jedi. (This film deserves mention as well for constantly making references to “The Outer Rim” which again, I thought was brilliant but just made the missus shake her head at me and mutter “schoolboy humour” whilst I laughed my arse off)
    • Under Siege – “Don’t mind me, I’m just a chef in a crap jacket with pretend kung fu.” All Stephen Seagals fight scenes are great.
    • MI2 – that bit where Tom Cruise is stood in the middle of nowhere and 2 blokes appear on bikes with machine guns. After weighing up the pros and cons they decide that rather than just shoot the dwarf in the bollocks they’ll ride towards him at a speed which allows him to karate kick them both off their bikes, nick their guns and make good his escape. Top stuff.
    • The fighting in trees scene from Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. Totally convincing. Didn’t look at all crap despite that fact that 1) It looked like they were on wires and 2) You could see the wires and 3) They were on wires.
    • That scene in Saving Private Ryan where that wall falls down and Tom Hanks and his mates are confronted with a room full of germans who manage to have a free for all shoot out at a distance of 2 yards with a bunch of Americans and impressively miss with every single shot until Tom and his mates kill them all.
    • That bit in Braveheart where 12 scottish blokes with sharpened bits of wood destroyed the entire english cavalry. Comedy gold.
    • The last fight in Sin City. I admit that this one might not be a great fight scene but it has to go in simply because despite the fact that the preceeding 90 minutes had been such utterly laughable toss the film makers managed to excel themselves at the end. It was almost as if they said “look, this is just shite, how can we end this?” “I know, we’ll make Bruce Willis have a fight with a luminous yellow goblin”. It also needs to go in because my uproarious laughter in the cinema nearly got me into a real fight with a few blokes who seemed to think that comics are a serious business and luminous yellow goblins are not a laughing matter.

    in reply to: ‘Brain Games’ #49210
    sickofitall
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    Sounds good in theory but could lead to some terribly awkward moments in online PC games when your avatar mimes your thought process, “I’m bored shitless of this Battlefield 5124 lark, think I’ll go on the internet and have a massive wank instead.”

    Probably safer with a mouse and keyboard.

    in reply to: Map Screen #48828
    sickofitall
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    Ah, it wasn’t as good as the Planetside map where you could actually draw on it to show your squad battle plans. A feature I used to regularly use when running squads to show everyone my subtle wit by drawing a massive nob on the map, much to everyone’s amusement (except for those that called me names and left of course).

    in reply to: router question #48592
    sickofitall
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    @xdc the doc wrote:

    Now… this is why I hate PC’s. Its taken tech savvy me 3 days to unearth this very important nugget of information. How the heck does your average man on the street work his home PC? They are so fucking unreliable and un user friendly. Grrrrr.

    I can field this one if I may. What us normals do is generally spend a couple of hours shouting “FOR FUCKS SAKE!” at the PC, the cat, the missus before punching the nearest object until you hurt your hand quite badly and then snapping the offending part into 200 bits and throwing the shrapnel all over the house in a blind rage.

    Then you put your old parts back in your PC and make do.

    Hope this has been of some help.

    in reply to: modded Xbox 360 #48315
    sickofitall
    Participant

    Ah I see, lot’s of great Xbox 360 exclusive games then – about as many as you could count on the fingers of a lepers hand by the sounds of it!

    in reply to: modded Xbox 360 #48312
    sickofitall
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    Thanks for the advice – I found 3 bundles. 1 for 200 quid which was basic. 1 for 265-285 quid which was premium and I also found one for 380 which came with some kind of HD DVD drive or something. By the sound of it I should go for the middle one.

    What games do yuo reckon I should get then?

    “Mass Effect” appears in May and I thought “Gears of War” was good when I played it for 10 minutes at my mates. Which others are decent or should I just stick with those 2?

    in reply to: What are you playing? #48657
    sickofitall
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    Be fair WET, the japanese might be perverts who fill their games with half woman half cat slappers but even they’re not sick enough to populate their hardcore sex games with fat hothwompers from Bradford.

    Really though, I’m currently playing FEAR because I got it for 7 quid and I thought it might pass 10 days or so until Stalker comes out next Friday. Even at 7 quid though it’s hard to recommend. The shooting side is a good laugh but it is all (a lot) samey and the “horror” part of the game is the most piss poor and laughable attempt at building up tension I’ve ever seen.

    Still playing ArmA as well of course.

    in reply to: Dumped….Ouch #48631
    sickofitall
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    Just on the off chance that the girl who was in that clip ever reads this I’d just like to tell her that if she ever needs a job she can come and work for me, no problem whatsoever.

    in reply to: ArmA Forum Request #47878
    sickofitall
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    Rather than create a new section just have an RO/ArmA section. The 2 are pretty much in the “realism” type genre and the same people seem to like them both.

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