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Whats allied assult like?
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07-04-2002 10:34pm#1
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Well, I think it's safe to say that Blitz is on CRACK (umm, HotD3 = cel-shaded lightgun console game with zombies; MOHAA = realistic World War 2 PC first person shooter game... YES, THE SIMILARITIES THEY ARE AMAZING!) and well, kaids is just kaids, nobody listens to him anyway
MOHAA is downright brilliant as a single-player first person shooter. It's let down in a few minor technical areas - and frankly they're stretching the Q3 engine, and it shows in a lot of places - but it's probably the most atmospheric, entertaining first-person shooter you'll play in a very long time. No, it's not mad skillz and fast responses; in fact they've very deliberately slowed down the action and put a dampner on the "bouncy" Quake 3 physics in order to simulate the movement of a real soldier. The weapons also err on the side of realism rather than flick-style gameplay, which frankly is a very, very good thing in a game like this which relies so heavily on atmosphere.
Multiplayer is weak, admittedly - barely worth the bother of trying out. But when you've stopped gawping at the carnage of the D-Day level or chewing your own leg off at the frustration and tension of the sniper levels, I very much doubt you'll care.0 -
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Originally posted by theCzar
on the other hand it could be an attempt to repreasent the fact that theres more troops in a german garrison than the quake3 engine can handle at once so it adds them as you go, There's only one 2 places i know where they keep coming, near the end when you trash the StG44 factory and you have to escape (which makes for a fantastic and fast-paced level) and when your trying to arty the enemy tanks at the bridge
And an infinite supply of attack dogs too?
Not sure what level it was, i had escaped from some building, killed a few soldiers and an attack dog. Continued down a narrow road, got pinned down by a load of soldiers and a mounted gun at the end of the road and got attacked from behind by another attack dog. Killed the dog, turned back to look at the mounted guns, only to hear another dog coming up behind me (the INSTANT i had turned away from where the dog came from). Repeat about 10 times until i got pissed off and ignored the dog chasing me and just rushed at the enemies at the other end of the road.
ah yes, and Omaha beach landing, what a wonderfully boring and repetitive mission. die, Dodge fire, die, make way to shingle, die, go to commander, die, pick up explosive yokes, die, go to same tower yoke thru 1 gap in the fence, die, yadda, die, yadda, die, yadda0 -
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MOHaa is the best example of a fps to date. Every level plays differently. The enemy respawning is there to force you to move forward and clear out the area. If you advance forward the respawning stops. It's a very clever idea and pretty realistic. Go buy it now and avoid the disappointing jedi knight 2
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first off the only fps games ive played in the past three years are quake, quake3 and two games of counterstrike.
i loved this game.. multiplayer its bloody brilliant, just starting the single player at the mo... cant wait to get stuck in, if you do buy it play it on hard.. otherwise ive found it piss easy (although it is the early stages).
playable enough on a p3-600/128mb/tnt2.. ranges from 20-65fps.. 35 average, more than enough cos its hella slow compared to quake 0 -
**** me! that's the second time I've lost that text
Originally posted by Retr0gamer
MOHaa is the best example of a fps to date. Every level plays differently.
odsg no!
every level is the same!
First of all - it's a game on rails. This is true of pretty much all FPS games, but in games like Deus Ex and Operation Flashpoint the constraints of the game are much less apparent. Some levels seem quite big and open, but in reality there's only one path through them all. Even the game's most famous level, set on a D-Day landing beach suffers because of this.
The gameplay is more like House of the Dead, or a million other arcade shooters that all went into the west along with the Dreamcast, than Half Life. You do have some freedom of movement but you often find yourself standing still, often in a fixed machine gun position, just shooting at hordes of oncoming Germans. Even when you do find yourself in a vehicle, the vehicle follows a set path, while you….just shoot at hordes of oncoming Germans.
The AI also leaves a lot to be desired. Opponents rush blindly at you, or stand in the middle of a corridor waiting for you, while you reload in a side-room. Guards in watch towers always behave the same way, and you're even told how to beat them.
Others have praised the AI your squad-mates have; either rushing a machine gun position while you're pinned down, staying in cover while you blunder into no man's land, or even throwing themselves on a live grenade to save you, but I saw none of this. For the most part my squad mates followed limply along. The only person who threw themselves on a grenade was a German, who had plenty of time to take cover instead of protecting his mate who threw the grenade in the first place, and was clever enough to find cover himself.
Any good points the game had, were more down to Stephen Speilberg, Saving Private Ryan and other war movies, than the developer's themselves. And even these are skin deep. Go anywhere on the D-Day landing beach and you'll find captains and troops having exactly the same shouted conversation. Hang around a while longer and you'll see the scripted soldiers get blown up in the same spot, time and time again, while the script loops. It seems like a big open level where you can go anywhere and do anything, but in reality there is only one way off the
beach.
I dare you to play this and HOTD back to back and not notice how similar they are. Compare a squad of Half Life's special forces to 2 million respawning germans and see which is harder.
For €15 - this would be a good game. For €60? Play the demo again instead, before you go out and buy Operation Flashpoint : Gold Edition.0 -
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Blitzkrieger You dirty looking sap I said every level plays differently. I didn't say that you had complete freedom over what you do because you don't. But can't honestly say that the tank level played the same as the beach landing or the stealth missions or the on the rails jeep level or the bridge level or.... I hope you get my point. What i'm trying to say is that there is variety in the game which i haven't seen in a fps since half life. Look at RTCW it's just shoot the same nazi's over and over again.
Also MoHaa is a completely different game to Operation Flashpoint. OF is a soldier sim. MoHaa is meant to be fun and playing MoHaa was the most fun i've had in a game in a long time. So MoHaa achieves what it set out to achieve and it may have it's faults but it being fun is not a fault unless you enough playing the dire Unreal.
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I'm playing the game on the hard skill atm, (as I do with all new single player games I get these days), and finding it very rewarding. Taking my time at it, I'm off blowing up guns preventing allies from progressing through France. Omaha Beach was great, a nice change of pace, I had to stop playing for a while to get over the atmosphere it generated! I did see the scripted soldiers etc after a few tries, but that's only to be expected in a single player game of any type and complexity, remember you are all gamers, you got good at gaming because you could see through the 'surface' to the underlying code instructions beneath, you've beaten countless games because you're intelligent enough to see the patterns and solve the problems posed by the coders. This game is no different.
Also, anyone here who's played it, (or any game), on easy or medium has wasted their money.
Next time you buy a game to try out, play it on hard from word go, it's where the fun is at.
Luc0
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