What a weekend.

Call of Duty 4 - about 1.4gb demo download.

Briefly you follow an objective which is to secure an abraham tank stuck in a bog.

You fight you way down a street, through a building, across a courtyard. take out 4 tanks, climb thru a fence, run through everyone back yard , get to the tank, hold off the RPJ waving MEC, call in an airstrike, take out an AA battery, eventually the Cobra's nerf the last strong hold and you meet back at the tank for a barby.

running a 6.1 Creative sound system - this game rocks!.

easy controls to master, simple plot - kill them. realism level  - very high. getting hit is weak - you can take several hits and really - some invisible medic seems to fix you up. This kinda leaves me a bit worried about MP - but it might just be the demo.

the hit detection - was great but it was sp mode. 2 tap head shots..meh.

the could be a serious team based game offering the realist's a bf2 infantry replacement with sizzle.


Unreal tournament 3

There is something great about simple games that are loads of fun. UT3 is fast, loads of BFG's, loads of eye candy and a couple of modes.

Deathmatch - pure kill.
CTF - with vehicles - the surfboards are a great option. Actually my favorite - team work not essential but well worth it. - I think this is where UT3 will beat ETQW's.

ETQW's the game doesn't advance until to achieve the objective. at least in UT3 the two teams are balanced right from the start and if no one is actually going for the flag - its just becomes a frag fest.

Top game.


Crysis - wow, completely different to COD4 and UT3.

a big download at about 1.7gb's but worth it for the gander.  Graphic's and environment interaction - great

swimming - up to the surface and then dolphin diving. cutting trees in half with mounted 50 cals.

The game again follows a senario - your part of a team of spec ops - parachuting onto an island that been secured by Thai trroops. Some wierd arse alien is also loose on the island and your there to find out whats going on.


The game centres around the fact that you wear this super suit. it hold a charge which can be used to give you one of about 6 skills, super speed, armor, strenght, invisbility etc.

basically it means your bloody hard to kill - and you can think up any number of crazy was to kill the bad guys. One of my friends favortes is throwing sea turtles whiles being invisible.

Im not sure how this game is going to work in a multiplay sense but certainly in sp mode its reminiscent of Sam Fisher - Splinter Cell