First person adventure with potentially some the best gfx ever seen in a computer game. When running at the highest resolutions, I had to crank things down to medium/high from 'very high' which is something i've not done on any game for my rig. Depending on what kind of fps u find acceptable this may or may not be necessary but I tend to like at least 40-60fps in my games, but even on these moderate gfx settings things dropped to 15/20 in fire fights.

The setting of the game is a tropical island where u follow mission based objectives across its beaches. The physics in terms of object geometry and player models is very impressive. Once you have killed one of the many mercenaries trying stop you in your quest, you can bash their dead bodies up with your blade, knocking their head side ways and things. This all looks incredibly realistic. There's also vehicles you can use such as cars and boats, so far all seem to handly wonderfully and interact seemlessly with the environment; you can knock mercenaires flying when you run em over, drive through bushes and crash into solid trees for instance. Seems a top game to me, potential game of the year if some of the upcoming bigger 2004 titles fail to deliver.

Having spent several months being a bit of a BF1942 addict I was really looking forward to this game. I didn't buy it straight away as ut2004 was obviously more important ;p nor did i fully read any reviews, assuming it being a Battlefield game, that itd be amazingly fun! Shame. If you've played BF1942 and the popular DC mod then you'll probably be disappointed.

There are a few nice additions like the helicopters and the music soundtrack but the included maps are flat, repetitive and a little stale in compaprison the varied BF1942 ones. It's not a particularly bad game at all.. it just feels like an average BF1942 mod you'd play for half an hour before going back to DC :/ For those who didnt play BF1942 originally its worth getting however, if for nothing else than to enjoy the inevitable fruits of the BF mod making community.

[ munkZ | 27.03.2004 ]

Having enjoyed the first Max Payne recently again, I was eager to play the sequel to the game that patented bullet time. Like the original, the general story is told with flashbacks and cartoon style storyboards between scenes. I haven't finished it yet but thankfully the weird dream sequences walking on veins type things aren't there! but are replaced with less vivid dreamy-type ones which are pretty good if not a little pointless from what I can make out. The game is basically as linear as before but in a less 'in your face' manner; although often only one direction in which to go, finding that hidden route is sometimes rewarding and you feel you're making progress or perhaps being a bit sneaky.. you're not obviously but the illusion is there. Quite a few gimmicky improvements; some nice moves in bullet time for instance which make you feel hard as fook.. spinning around with guns pointed either way etc. The level interactivity is touching on stuff seen in hl2, like knocking barrels, buckets around and such like which is nice I think.. all the taps and toilets work too ;) The visuals are excellent, I'm running on all highest settings @ 1280x and there's no slowdown, I'd say the character models are as good to the untrained eye in this game as they are in hl2. The environments are beautifully detailed as well, a typical example being MP's Police station; every room and floor is accessible in full detailed glory including the parking lot, within these rooms there are cops everywhere, and you can interact with virtually everything from pulling the paper out of the paper machine in the toilet, to changing the channel over in the recreation room to which the other police offers will react and turn it back over whilst mumbling an insult to you. It's a game definitely worth playing, there are some hard-ish areas throughout but easily passable thanks to the quicksave function, just remember to check lots of places for pills and you'll be fine :) It's not the longest game either, a m8 of lenny's completed it in 8hrs.. I completed it in about the same time, maybe an hour or two longer. It's been the best game I've played all year, only downside is the ending, which was sad :(

Although it's been out a good while now, it's still one of the best games ever made and if you haven’t played it you're missing out on a lot. With the voices of famous actors including Ray Liotta, a supreme cinematic storyline and unique game play which is expanded and improved from GTA 3. The missions are all fun as hell and well thought out, the soundtrack amazingly good and the radio station clips hilarious, especially Fernando! I advise actually playing the game properly instead of just driving about having fun; it's a lot more fulfilling, especially when you start to build up your empire and keep a nice garage going with Ferarris and Superbikes.

The original CFD owned like nothing before. You control a team of SAS or Navy Seal operatives through a series of missions, most of which involve getting through a map and completing certain objectives such as blowing up a series of satellites. Each of the team members are a specialist in a particular area, for instance an explosives guy, a sniper, heavy weapons man etc. The missions all tie in nicely and the story is told in stages with small movie introductions before each level, there's a good one about half way through where you are being tortured then the prison you're held in gets bombed and you go into 'great escape' mode and sneak your way out whilst rescuing the other members. Great game!

Halo has been out since the Xbox launch a couple of years ago. The visuals and game play were somewhat groundbreaking at the time, crisp graphics, varying vehicle game play and solid multiplayer action including the rare option of playing co-operatively on a console. Halo's port to the PC is too little too late, no real worthwhile extras and they've even cut out of co-op mode. If you missed out playing it on the Xbox then it's still worth the play, the story is quite good for a game, although some of the missions do tend to be repetitive as most of the time you're basically fighting the same enemies. Being able to drive and fly makes up for it, and if you do make it to the end, the final level is just great!