I just felt like explaining that because my eyes hurt and I want to feel smart.

http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=20901

@ Bret – I shall. Half-life 2 is a fairly accurate simulator of what do do with a zombie attack, traps are useful, as zombies are dumb, a few controlled bursts to the head is the best way to eliminate them and fire can be effective but it is slow and has no loyalty.

Your right about the flamethrowers vs Aliens tatic. Its probably the best possible weapon to use against them as it keeps them back and might reduce the possibility of acid reaching you. The Ripley et al paper shortly to be published may confirm or refute this idea.

And, to fulfill Pentadact’s apparent demand for zombie debate: Fire solves the zombie problem, given enough time, and replaces it with fun, fire-based problems.

Also aliens. I can’t speak to the zombie debate Peter and Bret are doubtless about to launch into, but the flamethrower in Aliens Vs Predator primarily caused aliens to claw your face off with red-hot razor-sharp claws rather than just regular razor-sharp claws.

I was totally infected by Tim’s enthusiasm for it at the Showdown, and it is really beautiful, and with a stellar 90+% review behind it I’m willing to splash some cash.

Tim reckons it’s got a great, deep story, but I’m worried I’ll have to fight my way to every single installment of it.

Funnily enough while I have a 101 one nasty things to say about Oblivion, variety is one of the things it manages to do well.

And the last time I played a mostly-outdoorsy shooter (which may have been all the way back to Delta Force or Outcast, showing my age) I longed, longed to go indoors for a spell.

Tom’s probably given up requesting anything else in the hopes of getting L4D.

Would you have anything you’d like to call out in Tim E’s review then Tom? He was fairly ecstatic about it.

Don’t tell Tim I said this, but when I saw it was he who was reviewing Far Cry and not you, I was sad. After your Bioshock review, your Oblivion review, I am hoping for another of the like this Christmas.

(Couldn’t care less what your actual verdict was, but you’ve provided a well-argued case for it rather than the usual semi-emotional blurb of many sites, so that’ll do me.)

Mods could also help with the faction differentiation and the jamming guns. Although that would still leave the blurted voice acting, nonsense plot, and grass-coloured enemies.

Of course, now they are on Source.

Mmmm, I expeted FC2 to have flaws the moment I heard it might be good. See also: Crysis, Lego Indiana Jones, any other videogame you’d care to mention. And I play Dwarf Fortress! I don’t need your shiny fire effects and realistic undergrowth, all I need is ASCII that resembles a fort of dwarves burning to satiate my desire for burning dwarves!

Meh, I ight buy FC2 once the prices fall in two years, that’s my general tactics. I got Q4 and Prey for £5 a year ago, so I know that this tactic works.

Yes, it was very pretty, and yes I only played it for 5 minutes, but those 5 minutes didn’t really leave me with a burning desire to play it for longer (compared to, say, 5 minutes with Left4Dead).

I imagine, a few months down the line I’ll get a craving for a solid FPS, and pick this up. But until then, there are more pressing games to play.

My computer probably won’t be able to run it and I don’t have the HD space on my steam partition. Which makes me sad.