barely fatal

So I tried the Bad Day LA demo. Graphics are poor, gameplay is stupid, the idiotic main character is even worse. Keep your hands off.

The Paraworld demo comes with a $ 5000 multiplayer contest. It’s gonna be the next e-sports game and it’s not even out yet. It looks pretty and it’s balanced well. The two available ‘tribes’ play differently, in short: the game makes (almost) everything right. However, the game feels like I have seen it before. All in all they took all the best from the “Age of …” and the “…craft” games. The new ‘army controller’ feature is nice but nothing too fancy or revolutionary and I miss a few comfort features. So, for me it’s only another RTS, although a rather good one – at least up to now.

So I also played a few rounds of FEAR Combat. It’s great! The different game modes allow tactical team play. You choose a gun – there are no weapon spawns – so you have ‘classes’. The intense battles known from FEAR make every single fight a challenge – you die easily, so you are cautious. I’ll definetely play more.