I am 35, The hair has stopped growing, but the belly hasn't.
I have just returned from a 6 year ab...
I am 35, The hair has stopped growing, but the belly hasn't.
I have just returned from a 6 year absence from going on reviewing sites, I just had lots of things to do - I wasn't in prison or anything. Good to see some familiar faces here.
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I can hear the enemy approaching, they are close. A tiny bead of sweat begins to trickle down my temple and in the back of mind, I hope that gravity takes it away from my eye. I can't afford to be distracted, not now, not when I have come this far.
"Wait!!" was that movement in the bushes ahead or just leaves falling from the trees? I am already frozen in place but now even my eyes turn to stone and I hold my breath. I see the muzzle of a gun poking through the bushes and the curve of a helmet. I raise my sights slowly and take aim, I only have one shot before I give my position away, gotta make it count.
I'm ready for the shot, I am calm. I begin to squeeze the trigger and then....
....the wife walks her big butt right in front of the TV and I get peppered from five different directions as my shot goes harmlessly wide whilst revealing my position to every damn player on the map.
The Game ************ Never before in the field of human conflict have so many......gamers owed so much to so few programmers.
This is basically a superb online first person shoot em
up and it rocks.
As you walk around the corners to come face to face with someone, I defy you not to jump and shout an expletive as hurried fingers try and fire a couple of rounds into their smug or sometimes equally astonished faces (or so I like to imagine).
The one player game is good enough and the difficulty levels are accurately described but that's not why we bought the game is it?....we bought it for the online action and zombie stomping and "boy oh boy" it delivers so much that it has made me bring "boy oh boy" right out of the fifties where it died on the lips of the vest top wearing buck tooth moron that last said it.
Yes ok, everyone in the world seems to be quicker and more accurate than me but that just makes it all that much sweeter when I take someone down with a well earned but sometimes just plain lucky shot.
If I actually manage to end someone a few times on the run because they seem to have some kind of personal vendetta and keep coming back for a tonking, I actually start to think I might be getting better and then a well aimed grenade hits me smack in the nose and I remember I am just plain lucky.....well apart from those times I get hit in the face with a grenade as that is usually not lucky....not very lucky at all.
The controls are easy to manage for even the older gamer such as myself, the hands can find them quickly even if the mind forgets in a panic which button is "return grenade"...is it LB? RB?.....Boom!
There are multiple types of battle available in live mode, capture the flag, domination, free for all, Team Deathmatch, etc. Whatever mode you choose you earn experience to level up to unlock new weapons and attachments.
There are challenges to kill 25, 75, 100, 150 times with each weapon, get headshots with each weapon, kill players in new and inventive ways and when you level up to a new rank new challenges await.
The game is like an onion, no, not the layers thing.....I mean sometimes it makes you want to cry because you are just getting nailed by people left right and centre....think Officer Murphy before he becomes Robocop..... but then just as quickly you suddenly get a few good/lucky shots in and you are like sniper sniperson kicking ass and chewing gum.
The only down is that sometimes mid-game you will get kicked out for no reason and it always seems to be when you are winning but as big a frustration as that can be, 30 seconds later you have forgotten all about it as once more into the breach you find yourself hitting the floor with the air filled with bullets zinging by with superbly atmospheric sound.
There is also co-op mode, but unfortunately only a few hundred people are ever on-line for that which is a shame because playing through the one player levels in an arcade mode to out shoot your fellow teammates is a stroke of genius and hugely enjoyable, with its own challenges to boot.
Last but not least, there are now three zombie maps (downloads needed at a cost of 800 points for each map pack). These are hugely fun, atmospheric and "jumping jehosepha" they don't half make you nearly load up the old trousers on occassion. Basically, you start with a little pistol and score points for killing wave after wave of ambling zombie. You use the points to buy guns off the wall. Ok maybe not realistic to buy a gun off a wall but do we really need to labour the point of suspending reality whilst we fight off the hordes of zombies dressed in military uniform?
This is hours of fun and if you are thinking you might wait until the "new one is released in november", why deny yourself this one now, it's exciting, hugely playable and extraordinary good value for money.
Highly recommended and only drops the fifth star until they sort out the infrequent but annoying server issues.
JP (I have also posted this on dooyoo).
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In fact come to think of it I have pre-ordered COD 6 for him!
paulpry118 18.08.2009 13:23
My husband flits between cod 4 and 5 on his PS3 but ends up getting far too angry for my liking with the problems with the server. Sometimes the air is absolutely blue in the house, I have no idea what the neighbours think.
Advantages: Famaliar and fun gameplay with nice visuals and audio to boot Disadvantages: Doesn't bring too much new stuff and the people look like plastic
Advantages: Awesome graphics and sound, cool gameplay modes, zombies! Disadvantages: lacks development from COD4, multiple glitches and mutiplayer issues.
Advantages: Famaliar and fun gameplay with nice visuals and audio to boot Disadvantages: Doesn't bring too much new stuff and the people look like plastic
Aug 8th, 2009
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