by kozak6 » Sat Aug 23, 2008 12:16 pm
I tried it.
It was mildly entertaining. It's a bit like the retarded bastard child of vanilla Cube and True Combat Elite, not that there's anything wrong with that. You have some urban environments, the basic rifle/smg/shotgun/sniper rifle (and knife and pistol and grenade), new playermodels, and gameplay similar to cube but slower, and with jumping deemphasized,
There are two very interesting leftovers from Cube. Straferunning is very fast, and the way weapon recoil pushes you around. It's possible to jump and fire the assault rifle straight down, and get a significant boost upwards and slow your descent, or fire it an an angle and float off, or use it for precision jumping. I thought it was fun.
It runs well on my PC, which is really saying something.
It's a bit buggy, though. It seems as though the correct map isn't always loaded for you, so you run around doing your own thing, and everyone else appears to be running through walls. It's very trippy. This happens A LOT. I wonder if it has any potential for abuse.
Speaking of abuse, it seems as though cheating is a problem with this game, although I didn't notice anything overt. Their wiki makes a big deal about it, and it seems that things that should be server side, aren't.
There was also a good amount of French players.
So, in conclusion. it's kind of fun. There's not really much there, but there's a hell of a lot of potential.
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