Just saw this and thought I'd post it. Ric Flair / Command & Conquer Red Alert video. Made Gavinox chuckle.
Flair Vs Bear
And Part two
Friday 13 February 2009
Saturday 7 February 2009
Love Screen shots?
I am pleased to say that I now write for www.gamerlimit.com, an excellent site dedicated to console gaming and bringing fresh news and interesting articles. I hope to see you all over there sometime (but i'll still be posting on my blog so don't touch that mouse).
Here's a screen shot I took a while ago whilst having a blast on the brilliant Battlefield 2. Thought I'd share it.
Get two childish gamers, one "attack here" instruction and smoke, lay down, look like you're leaking brown gas out of your backside. Also there's a TRIPLE TEAMKILL being reported. I loved the Blue on Blue element of BF2, artillery was so destructive, to both sides!
This got me thinking about other screenshots I might have hidden away somewhere and I quickly came across these:
My buddy in arms, the mighty Machinet took offence to the comments of one particular flyboy and staged a brilliant "protest".
The very essence of BF2, a convoy roles out of base. It's worth noting that this convoy would have been completely spur of the moment and completely unforced by the gameplay.
"Honey, where did we park the chopper?"
Ever the masters of disguise and camouflage, this particular soldier adopts the "Scarecrow Camo" approach. Actually this was a rare glitch in the game that made him run around with his arms straight out like a child pretending to be an aeroplane.
Speaking of planes, (and helicopters for that matter) pilots would sometimes eject without letting the passengers know, dooming the less observant (i.e gunners) to a brief encounter with the ground. This led to this excellent poster from the Ministry of Defence...
Finally, just for variety... have you ever felt like you weren't alone? Like someone was watching you? My Sims did.... and they were right.
That's all for now. Thanks for reading, I'll see you all on the Battlefield soldier!
Gavinox
UNOFFICIAL RULES OF GAMING #3: Secret Doors and destructible walls are a slightly different colour to their surroundings....
Here's a screen shot I took a while ago whilst having a blast on the brilliant Battlefield 2. Thought I'd share it.
Get two childish gamers, one "attack here" instruction and smoke, lay down, look like you're leaking brown gas out of your backside. Also there's a TRIPLE TEAMKILL being reported. I loved the Blue on Blue element of BF2, artillery was so destructive, to both sides!
This got me thinking about other screenshots I might have hidden away somewhere and I quickly came across these:
My buddy in arms, the mighty Machinet took offence to the comments of one particular flyboy and staged a brilliant "protest".
The very essence of BF2, a convoy roles out of base. It's worth noting that this convoy would have been completely spur of the moment and completely unforced by the gameplay.
"Honey, where did we park the chopper?"
Ever the masters of disguise and camouflage, this particular soldier adopts the "Scarecrow Camo" approach. Actually this was a rare glitch in the game that made him run around with his arms straight out like a child pretending to be an aeroplane.
Speaking of planes, (and helicopters for that matter) pilots would sometimes eject without letting the passengers know, dooming the less observant (i.e gunners) to a brief encounter with the ground. This led to this excellent poster from the Ministry of Defence...
Finally, just for variety... have you ever felt like you weren't alone? Like someone was watching you? My Sims did.... and they were right.
That's all for now. Thanks for reading, I'll see you all on the Battlefield soldier!
Gavinox
UNOFFICIAL RULES OF GAMING #3: Secret Doors and destructible walls are a slightly different colour to their surroundings....
Tuesday 3 February 2009
Little Gems
Some games just don't get the success they deserve...
I've played a few games over the years, as I'm sure you have, but what are those games that truly are... special? Titles that just seem to arrive at a certain time, like a newly discovered diamond in the rough?
I'm talking about games that you think should get a little more press than they did, games that might have been released a long time ago but you'd like the world to play. The planet seems to be going game crazy, but they've missed so much. It's our responsibility as gaming dinosaurs to show them what they've missed.
Here's a few examples of games I think no true gamer should miss (in no particular order).
For the FIFA/PES generation:
Check out Sensible World of Soccer (on XboxLIVE). A true classic of substance over style. Guide your super slick little sprites around a nicely cartoonish environment with rewarding and subtle gameplay. Not graphically immense (it was orginally an Amiga game) but the gameplay is so fastpaced and subtle that it rewards persistance and excellence. Amazingly for the time it was released it featured pretty much EVERY team from EVERY league in the world. (You wanna play as a team from New Zealand? Sure go ahead no problem!).
For the modern strategist:
X-Com Enemy Unknown / UFO Earth Defense
Atmospheric and nicely presented this strategy game broke new ground for the genre. A truly memorable game that had you swimming upstream from the start. With poor weapons and terrible troops you'd be scraping enemy artifacts off the dead and legging it back to your ship before you were wiped out, but as the game progressed you'd start to research better technology and the tide would begin to turn. Eventually you'd be in a position to comfortably defend the Earth from it's invaders and launch an assault against their Mars HQ itself. Phenomenal.
For the FPS professionals:
Perfect Dark: A brilliant follow up (ish) of Rare's classic GoldenEye. How much fun can you have with shooting henchmen in the backside and watching them jump into the air rubbing away the pain? LOTS. The way that the enemy reacted to being shot was absolutely unique at the time (and still not really bettered imho). Soldiers would take a shot to the arm and run off around a courner, shouting something to there cohorts you'd next see him holding his wounded arm, or limping with leg wound.
You could also shoot weapons out of the enemy's hands. Awesome fun was to be had making a soldier chase his rifle around the floor (until he pulled his side-arm on you). Some soldiers would actually SURRENDER to you and beg you not to hurt them. I've not seen that since!
There was a fantastic weapon in the game that would turn the enemy against his own side, especially fun when you'd disarmed him! I could talk about Perfect Dark for a long time, and I'm sure I'd have no shortage of people to join me.
For the adrenalin junkie:
Afterburner. If you've not played this, or heard of it, let me fill you in. Picture this... TopGun and Tom Cruise had made the F-14 Tomcat the sexiest fighter plane in the world. You've just wandered into an arcade, a large cabinet takes your eye. It has a fighter jet joystick, a throttle and flashing warning "Lock On" lights. It's like nothing else around.
In goes your 20p...
Your F-14 sits on a carrier... "Get READY" wow! Speech! What do I need to be ready for? You take off and cruise for a bit as the LEVEL ONE indicator comes and goes... then suddenly, dots appear against the sky in the distance... incoming head-on enemy jets!? Awesome!
Before you know it wave after wave of enemy jets are hurtling straight at you as you fire missile after missile one after another and barrel roll through heatseaking missiles and close calls with the jets themselves. A real adrenalin rush. Then POW! and you're suddenly plummeting into the ground and ploughing a long firey grave.
In goes another 20p...
Well, that's it for now. I hope you enjoyed it. Have a think and let me know what I've missed. There's so much... Rampage, Rock and Roll Racing, Wings, Elite, Desert Strike, Dizzy...
This post is interactive, please leave your comments on the games you'd like the gaming world to (re)discover.
Thanks for reading,
Keep nade-ing
UNOFFICIAL RULES OF GAMING # 2:
You can carry as much money around as you want, it doesn't actually weigh anything.
I've played a few games over the years, as I'm sure you have, but what are those games that truly are... special? Titles that just seem to arrive at a certain time, like a newly discovered diamond in the rough?
I'm talking about games that you think should get a little more press than they did, games that might have been released a long time ago but you'd like the world to play. The planet seems to be going game crazy, but they've missed so much. It's our responsibility as gaming dinosaurs to show them what they've missed.
Here's a few examples of games I think no true gamer should miss (in no particular order).
For the FIFA/PES generation:
Check out Sensible World of Soccer (on XboxLIVE). A true classic of substance over style. Guide your super slick little sprites around a nicely cartoonish environment with rewarding and subtle gameplay. Not graphically immense (it was orginally an Amiga game) but the gameplay is so fastpaced and subtle that it rewards persistance and excellence. Amazingly for the time it was released it featured pretty much EVERY team from EVERY league in the world. (You wanna play as a team from New Zealand? Sure go ahead no problem!).
For the modern strategist:
X-Com Enemy Unknown / UFO Earth Defense
Atmospheric and nicely presented this strategy game broke new ground for the genre. A truly memorable game that had you swimming upstream from the start. With poor weapons and terrible troops you'd be scraping enemy artifacts off the dead and legging it back to your ship before you were wiped out, but as the game progressed you'd start to research better technology and the tide would begin to turn. Eventually you'd be in a position to comfortably defend the Earth from it's invaders and launch an assault against their Mars HQ itself. Phenomenal.
For the FPS professionals:
Perfect Dark: A brilliant follow up (ish) of Rare's classic GoldenEye. How much fun can you have with shooting henchmen in the backside and watching them jump into the air rubbing away the pain? LOTS. The way that the enemy reacted to being shot was absolutely unique at the time (and still not really bettered imho). Soldiers would take a shot to the arm and run off around a courner, shouting something to there cohorts you'd next see him holding his wounded arm, or limping with leg wound.
You could also shoot weapons out of the enemy's hands. Awesome fun was to be had making a soldier chase his rifle around the floor (until he pulled his side-arm on you). Some soldiers would actually SURRENDER to you and beg you not to hurt them. I've not seen that since!
There was a fantastic weapon in the game that would turn the enemy against his own side, especially fun when you'd disarmed him! I could talk about Perfect Dark for a long time, and I'm sure I'd have no shortage of people to join me.
For the adrenalin junkie:
Afterburner. If you've not played this, or heard of it, let me fill you in. Picture this... TopGun and Tom Cruise had made the F-14 Tomcat the sexiest fighter plane in the world. You've just wandered into an arcade, a large cabinet takes your eye. It has a fighter jet joystick, a throttle and flashing warning "Lock On" lights. It's like nothing else around.
In goes your 20p...
Your F-14 sits on a carrier... "Get READY" wow! Speech! What do I need to be ready for? You take off and cruise for a bit as the LEVEL ONE indicator comes and goes... then suddenly, dots appear against the sky in the distance... incoming head-on enemy jets!? Awesome!
Before you know it wave after wave of enemy jets are hurtling straight at you as you fire missile after missile one after another and barrel roll through heatseaking missiles and close calls with the jets themselves. A real adrenalin rush. Then POW! and you're suddenly plummeting into the ground and ploughing a long firey grave.
In goes another 20p...
Well, that's it for now. I hope you enjoyed it. Have a think and let me know what I've missed. There's so much... Rampage, Rock and Roll Racing, Wings, Elite, Desert Strike, Dizzy...
This post is interactive, please leave your comments on the games you'd like the gaming world to (re)discover.
Thanks for reading,
Keep nade-ing
UNOFFICIAL RULES OF GAMING # 2:
You can carry as much money around as you want, it doesn't actually weigh anything.
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