Crysis BETA!

Ugh, I keep freaking missing it!!!

 

YAY!!! Got my key, woot.

 

Have to play some more tonight and learn a little more of the gameplay. Wasn't overly impressed though. Felt very inaccurate at times. Combat is pretty much sniper and face to face. Also seems whoever got the drop first wins. Mutliple times I was able to take out 2+ guys with machine guns when I just had a pistol. And every single time someone got drop on me they beat me.

Also playing TF2 beta, and wow. Loving it. One of the most polished and best put together games I've seen in a long time.

 

It's pretty much, capture and keep the prototype factory until you have nukes, build a singularity tank, and fire it into whichever base. The game is pretty as hell, fun in that battlefieldish sort of way, but lacks the re-playability of TF2, which is definitely one of the better team based FPS released since, forever.

 

If you pre-order the Orange Box, you get to play TF2 now instead of whenever in October. I was originally going to buy just TF2 and Portal but apparently TF2 is going to cost $30, portal will cost $20, but the bundle costs $45.

So, what to say about TF2. Here, I'll make a new thread, since this is probably going to be kind of long.

 

Yeah, it was a shitty tactic but I was going to buy it all anyway.

As for Crysis, there is a learning curve that most people have not figured out yet that makes the gameplay somewhat lackluster right now. The main objective is to hold the prototype factory as well as power plants that slowly charge the prototype factory until it is capable of producing nuclear devices. The singularity tank is just one of multiple options. Generally you can take your tank and just drive it over to the enemy base and blow it up. This is because 90% of the people playing don't even understand that the object is to prevent the enemy from nuking your base. They see the giant nuclear icon over the person wherever they are on the map but never seem too interested in intercepting them.

When more people get a hang of the game, I'd imagine some awesome gameplay is going to happen. You'll find out pretty quickly that a singularity tank wandering off on its own will be vaporized before it gets half way to the enemy base. They aren't cheap either. It will take a coordinated team effort to escort the tank and protect it while it charges and fires. Anybody with a rocket launcher (easy to get) and a vantage point on the tank can take it out with minimal difficulty. Meaning it is more about escorting the tank. You need to capture all of the spawn points around the path the tank will be going to avoid players spawning and owning it with rockets.

Suffice to say, when people start to figure out how to play and what they are supposed to do, the game will get much better.