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Raven
UO Staff
Joined: 19 May 2003
Posts: 2235
Location: Clyde, Ohio
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Fri Feb 27, 2004 10:11 am |
Firing Squad has released a list of the Top Ten Games of all time. They broke it down into 2 categories, 5 SP games, and 5 MP games. Unfortunately none of the Unreal, or Unreal Tournament series games are on the list, but it will suprise you on what they DID come up with for the Number 1 SP game. Go check it out! |
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Gandalf
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Fri Feb 27, 2004 11:07 am |
That Allegiance game looks pretty cool, and it's free, over at http://www.freeallegiance.org/... It's a microsoft game and they released the source code for it!!! That's amazing, coming from M$.
I'm gonna give the game a try & maybe report back... |
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Raven
UO Staff
Joined: 19 May 2003
Posts: 2235
Location: Clyde, Ohio
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Fri Feb 27, 2004 5:02 pm |
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Plumb_Drumb
Ultimate Fanboy
Joined: 08 Jun 2003
Posts: 856
Location: Denver, CO
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Fri Feb 27, 2004 5:14 pm |
Hmm, that's an odd list of games  |
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Raven
UO Staff
Joined: 19 May 2003
Posts: 2235
Location: Clyde, Ohio
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Fri Feb 27, 2004 5:17 pm |
that's what i thought.
they coulda picked better games IMO
there was maby 3 FPS's in there... all others were RTS's |
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Gandalf
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Fri Feb 27, 2004 6:53 pm |
Having played it, I found it quite fun despite the fact I'm not 100% sure what I'm doing, lol...
It was a game that Microsoft released in 2000, a multiplayer only game, but the world wasn't quite ready for that back then, and Microsoft made people pay a monthly subscription charge to play it online, so the game flopped. However, the people who did get it saw the potential it had, and now 4 years on, it is available free, (and 3 weeks ago Microsoft released the source code for it!) a few downloads are needed but they're all at the link I posted above, and are less than 100MB total, and because the game was made so long ago, it works fine on 56k connections I'm told.
It's a spaceships-flying-around type game, but with RTS elements too, each team has a "commander" in charge of spending resources, whilst CPU controlled miners go out and mine asteroids. Resources can be spent upgrading existing space ports, and researching new ships/weapons/shields etc. So defending the automated miners is pretty important...
however the most fun times I've had playing this so far is when our team builds a bomber to take out the main enemy base (and hence win the game, I think), I fly around it in a support ship trying to keep its armour at full and taking out (or at least trying!) enemy ships trying to attack the bomber. It's insane - most of the enemy fleet comes to attack you, there were like 30 ships on my sensors...! (Did I mention that games tend to be between 30-50 people total???)
Anyway, in conclusion, why don't you try it out too, it's a free game, works fine on anything that's a P2 or better and works fine on 56k apparently... what have you got to lose except time you could be playing UT2004 demo? Oh heck, now I've said that, no-one's gonna try it out...! |
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Plumb_Drumb
Ultimate Fanboy
Joined: 08 Jun 2003
Posts: 856
Location: Denver, CO
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Sat Feb 28, 2004 3:38 pm |
Hey, thanks for the info
I wish it wasn't MP only... |
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Gandalf
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Sun Feb 29, 2004 1:10 pm |
Why?? AI always has its limitations, and there's always 25+ people on the newbie server, and it works fine on a 56k connection... |
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SirYawnalot
Rabid Poster
Joined: 23 Oct 2003
Posts: 233
Location: England
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Sun Feb 29, 2004 3:39 pm |
Because people suck, hasn't The Matrix taught you anything? ;P |
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