First, I would like to take this opportunity to salute Google. Thank you, Google, for proving that you can take a featureless thing that works well, add a bunch of needless bells and whistles to it, and make it suck. Thank you for proving to me that you are not, in fact, God.
Because really, Google Groups Beta sucks the good suck. Really, really sucks the goodest suck there is available to suck.
On the other hand, there is Medal of Honor: Pacific Assault, which I recieved for my birthday, amongst a whole host of completely awesome gifts including more GGK books, a hardcover BMR, and a Tom Friedman book which promises to be interesting.
But anyway. This game is cool. It almost destroys my computer, but it is cool. As the guys at Penny Arcade once said, it evokes it's cinematic heritage with precision. Meaning that, with this much linearness going on and with as much plot as it has for being a shooter, it's sort of like playing Thin Red Line the game, or something. For sheer running-through-the-jungle-war-is-hell chaos, this is like no other game I've seen. There's shooting and shouting and an AI so good I forget they're computers most of the time. It's seriously amazing. It even tracks morale for folks, and if the Japanese morale gets low enough, they do stuff like banzai charge, screaming and all. And that's very cool.
Although the level I am currently on where half the Japanese air force attacks me is not so cool, but in general small forest animals are in approval.
On another note, I have acquired the Even Better Than the Real Thing remixes CD. This is good, insofar as the Perfecto Mix is awesome, the V16 Exit Wound and Apollo 440 vs U2 mixes are pretty cool, and the other two are shruggable. But we're a fan of remixes, especially of Achtung Baby stuff, so this is all good.
Also, BF42 needs more Pacific maps.
Posted by Dwip at December 14, 2004 12:38 AMI don't think I've ever heard a bad Perfecto mix.
Posted by: Whir at December 14, 2004 5:33 AMHats off to Medal of Honor. Rather like how Marius described it. It puts you right in the thick of squad-tactical level battles with some good AI and great story in addition to its very pretty graphix. I haven't played Pacific Assault yet, but imagining it to be done along the same lines as the previous MoH titles, I look forward to that said opportunity.
Posted by: Marechal at December 15, 2004 2:15 PMI'm a couple missions in now and it's very, very leet. However, I'm too much of a loner and often disregard my squad entirely in order to be the Hero. Lucky for them, I am l33t.
Posted by: Whir at December 15, 2004 10:00 PMThe rest of the squad is just targets anyways, they rarely, if ever, hit and kill anyone.
Posted by: Clyos at December 18, 2004 3:29 PM