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Title: Other Games?
Post by: Gixer on April 18, 2004, 12:31:59 AM

While having a long break from AH and passing time till AH2 what other games have you been playing lately? For me it's been a welcome break from games in general in last 6 months or so, but getting my attention recently are:

Silent Hunter 2 with the excellent Pacific Aces mod

Civilization 3 Conquests

X2 The Threat




...-Gixer

Title: Other Games?
Post by: Arlo on April 18, 2004, 12:38:44 AM

Hidden and Dangerous II.
(http://jollyrogers.info/HD2/HD0057screens.jpg)

Title: Other Games?
Post by: Nilsen on April 18, 2004, 03:35:38 AM

SH2, Harpoon3, railroad tycoon and tetris... about 5 hours og gaming a week

Title: Other Games?
Post by: Nilsen on April 18, 2004, 03:46:17 AM

HD?

yup harpoon3

http://www.harpoon3.com/

Title: Other Games?
Post by: Nilsen on April 18, 2004, 03:59:21 AM

harpoon3 is basicly the same game but it has had all the databases redone and some additional "goodies". If you liked the old one you will love the "new" one. If you found the old booring because it lacked eye-candy you will also find this one booring.

Title: Other Games?
Post by: Nilsen on April 18, 2004, 04:17:12 AM

Tried a demo once but IMO the focus was more on eye-candy than real simulation. maybe the demo just gave that impression...dunno

Title: Other Games?
Post by: Nilsen on April 18, 2004, 04:47:52 AM

what are the sys reqs?

Title: Other Games?
Post by: Nilsen on April 18, 2004, 04:58:40 AM

thx, ill take a look..... i seem to remember that fc needs 32mb vid card and i could not get the demo to work very well

this laptop gives great fps in AH but not much good for anything newer

Title: Other Games?
Post by: FOGOLD on April 18, 2004, 05:26:02 AM

Halo, COD, Age Of Empres with my 9 yr old son (Yawno!:rolleyes: )

FB of course

Title: Other Games?
Post by: Nilsen on April 18, 2004, 05:30:30 AM

Yeah, i forgot age of empires and Halo when my xbox has collected enough dust and i have to clean it i press power and do a few "laps"!

Title: Other Games?
Post by: SKurj on April 18, 2004, 09:14:12 AM

Farcry
CoD
Tried H&D2 it gets tiresome dieing and having to repeat the same thing over and over though... I found it hard

X2 the threat... got booring
Star Wars Knights of The Old Republic


SKurj

Title: Other Games?
Post by: pugg666 on April 18, 2004, 09:19:50 AM

Close Combat 2 and 5, Star Wars KotoR and I'm thinking of re-installing falcon 4 and getting all the mods for it.

Title: Other Games?
Post by: Nilsen on April 18, 2004, 09:38:08 AM

falcon?

Title: Other Games?
Post by: FOGOLD on April 18, 2004, 09:44:45 AM

Yes Skurj, Halo is like that. It's a console thing I think, but I get real bored having to go way back every time I die. I like Halo though, it's a good game though hard on a PC for such dated graphics.

Title: Other Games?
Post by: CavemanJ on April 18, 2004, 09:45:01 AM

Star Wars Galaxies, EverQuest, Morrowind, KoToR.
Been thinking on checking out the superpak4 for falcon4 too.

Title: Other Games?
Post by: Arlo on April 18, 2004, 09:53:13 AM

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Originally posted by GScholz
Nilsen, can you play HD2 in cooperative multiplayer like in HD1?

Harpoon3???

Unfortunately no. You can play team online (capture the flag), ffa online and "scenario goal" team online. Players have been clamoring for two things in that game's forum - coop mode and an editor. I think if it gets both of those it'd be a serious contender with just about any WWII era FPS out there. As is, it's a rather entertaining (and engrossing) offline game that's somewhat amusing online (for awhile). And once you finish a career offline it leaves you hungry for mods (which players cant produce and the company hasn't ... so far).

Title: Other Games?
Post by: DREDIOCK on April 18, 2004, 10:06:00 AM

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Originally posted by Arlo
Hidden and Dangerous II.

How is H&DII? I have the original and loved it (specially the blood spray from head shots)
havent gotten the new one yet

Title: Other Games?
Post by: -tronski- on April 18, 2004, 10:25:51 AM

COD
Championship Manager 03/04
Farcry
Tiger '04 (XBox)
V8 Supercars 2 (XBox)
Blitzkreig
BF1942 Desert Combat
CivIII Conquests

 Tronsky

Title: Other Games?
Post by: Arlo on April 18, 2004, 10:33:22 AM

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Originally posted by DREDIOCK
How is H&DII? I have the original and loved it (specially the blood spray from head shots)
havent gotten the new one yet

It's not bad. I picked it up for $20 and I think it was worth it. It's probably cheaper now. The graphics look good to me. Most of the "kill effects" in the game look very realistic ... occasionally a body will "lay funny" or a head may stick in a wall or such. And you'll get guns that "fall upright and stay there teetering" but .. over all ... very nice. Well executed scripting and music makes it seem very cinematic.

The plot and missions are fairly intricate. Offline you'll have mission elements such as photographing an underground lab then blowing it up, meeting with resistance members, rescuing pilots, disguising yourself in a German uniform and infiltrating a castle, scuba diving into a stronghold and destroying the naval artillery there (a variation on "Guns of Navaronne") or putting magnetic mines on the keel of the Tirpitz then swimming over to a nearby minelayer and stealthily boarding it to steal an enigma device.

There's lots of weapons to select from stealthy ones like the Delisle carbine or silenced sten to heavy autos like the BAR. I was a bit disappointed that the only "HTH" option is using the dagger apparently.

Settings run the gamut from snow covered Norway to the deserts of North Africa to Burma to Urban fighting in Normandy ... even a Czech village later.

It's got a good engine and it has potential for more.

Like I said earlier ... not bad for the price.