Silverfall; Diablo 3?

I had the opportunity to try its demo version yesterday and my verdict is; it's a Diablo-like game without the Diablo and this is no typical DnD-like game, here you can use Troll and goblin as your character. Well, that's something new. Though not intriguing enough for me but who knows, eh?

If you love Diablo, you'll probably want to try this one. Gameplay and the key bindings are almost the same. Just download the demo first, if you like then buy it.

Minimum Required System Configuration

• Operating System: Windows XP
• Processor: Intel Pentium 4 2.8 Ghz or AMD Athlon XP +2800 higher (Intel Pentium 4 3 Ghz or AMD Athlon XP +3000 recommended)
• Memory: 512 MB RAM (1GB recommended)
• Hard Disk Space: 10 GB free
• DVD-ROM Drive: 8X speed or faster
• Video: ATI Radeon 9500 128 MB VRAM or NVIDIA 6600 GT with 128 MB of VRAM or better (256MB ATI Radeon X850 or NVIDIA GeForce 6800GT recommended)
• Sound: DirectX version 9.0c-compatible sound card
• DirectX: DirectX version 9.0c (included) or higher
• Multiplayer: Internet (TCP/IP) play supported 128 Kbps DSL/Cable Broadband Internet connection required for online play
• Input: Keyboard, Mouse

*To tell you th truth, even with 1 GiB of RAM I'm still experiencing low frame-rate.

Enemy Territory; We're Goin' Old Skool!

I've been playing this game for a while and boy, it's fun! Before this I tried Quake Wars (its sequel) demo and this game; Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory is like the granddad of Quake Wars. Same style but old skool. And the graphics too. But hey, it's free to download and play!

See the helmet, cross, spanner, bullet and crosshair icons? They resembles classes which you can choose; soldier, medic, engineer, field ops, and covert ops respectively. Each has its own set of weapons.



There's also experience points that can increase your abilities and ranks giving it a bit of RPG feel (shown on the helmet).

Here's the spec:

* Windows® 98/ME/2000/XP OS (Windows NT 4.0 not recommended for clients)
* 100% Windows® 98/ME/2000/XP compatible system (including all 32bit drivers)
* Intel® Pentium® III 600Mhz processor or AMD equivalent
* 128 MB RAM
* 32 MB 100% fully OpenGL® compliant 3-D video card
* Microsoft® Direct X® 8.1 or higher (not included)
* 271 MB total disk space for game files
* 500 MB free disk space for swap file
* 100% Microsoft® Windows® compatible keyboard
* 100% Microsoft® Windows® compatible mouse
* 100% Microsoft® Windows® compatible sound card
* For internet play, 100% Windows® 98/ME/2000/XP compatible 56.6k modem or better internet connection. 56.6k modem play is not recommended for games with more than 8 players total; broadband players should be able to handle up to 32 depending on their connection with the server on which they're playing.

You'd definitely want to try this, trust me!

BTW, noticed the player's name "t_tree" (on the 1st screenshot)? That's me. I always play at server 87.117.203.94 but if you want to challenge me, you'd be disappointed since I'm a lousy player. Capische!?

Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare - Not Gandpa's War Anymore!

One of the memorable moment when I'm playing CoD4: MW, is when I got to be a sniper, crawling opposite direction of marching armies. I died gazillion times. Guess I never cut to be sniper am I?

The A.I.? They're great, moving like a team with their cool C.Q.B. techniques.

The cinematic, they are almost life-like and it's fast paced so no time to take a piss! And Captain Price, you're suppose to be really, really, really old!

Wait a minute, there's a few unlockables I'd like to mention, as far as I got (I only finished playing with Recruit difficulty setting, geez!), There's Arcade and Epilogue. Go figure it out yourself. Buy it or play at your friends house or cyber cafe.


Spoiler, it's the Epilogue!

Here's the spec:

2.4 GHz dual core or better is recommended
1024MB RAM (2048MB for Vista)
3.0 Shader Support recommended. Nvidia Geforce 7800 or better or ATI Radeon X1800 or better

Checkout it's website.

PC Gaming, Linux Or Windows?

Which one will you prefer, playing PC games with your Windows or Linux box? Let me give you a few non-bias fact.

• Most games run on Windows. Yes, there are many games for Linux too, but there isn't many newer ones built specifically for Linux, except Enemy Territory: Quake Wars(at the moment I'm typing this post)
• To play PC Games which currently not available in Linux, you have to use ''compatibility layer" program such as Wine to enable you to have a chance on playing them.

Actually, it totally depends to you, the user. If you wanted something free, including the OS itself, Linux is for you. But if you willing to pay and you don't want to miss the new PC Games that heavy on Windows side and I'm expecting the scene to continue for.. like, forever, why not Windows? And I recommend Windows XP Pro. Wait 1 or 2 years until Vista stable enough, then you can have it a go. Just a recommendation.

Free FPS

..and I'm taking you to 'em!
Even though am listing only my favorite ones.

World of Padman



Guess what? This game was made using Quake 3 engine. Just Imagine Quake 3 without terrifying looking monsters and the game support bots too, BTW the weapon isn't so scary looking but consider a toy-ish version of Quake 3's.


So if you don't want your friends to laugh at you just because they fragged you the entire hour, so this is your escape and if you practice harder, might have a chance on a come back if you've been trough that. :) Now, don't waste your time, go here: http://www.worldofpadman.com/ and download it now!

If you want more, there's a list of free FPS at Wikipedia you might want to check out. Happy fragging!

Gamespy Comrade

GameSpy said; GameSpy Comrade is next-generation gameplay software designed to connect you to your gameplaying buddies across games and gaming platforms.

Once installed, Comrade will enable you to ...

• Join the perfect game in seconds with GameSpy Comrade’s SmartMatch technology
• Launch and play over 640 PC games and game demos
• Send instant messages to comrades playing games on the PC, PS2 and more!
• One-click follow friends onto dedicated game servers
• Dynamically track your gameplay stats in Battlefield 2, Battlefield 2142 and more!
• Organize your clans and guilds
• Auto-patch your games
• Integrate with in-game buddy lists and GameSpy Arcade

And I said; it's neat! It's like YM, but you can launch your PC games right from it.



See the picture above, under 'installed', there's an option for each games. The first button for UT 3 will launch SmartMatch which will pop-up a window with lists of available server and let you jump in for a fragfest! Total neat stuff I said.

Try it.

Battle Realms

Requirements:

PIII 750 or equivalent
Windows 98/2000/ME/XP
128 MB of RAM
DirectX 8 compliant 32MB VRAM 3D AGP accelerated video card
DirectX 8 compliant sound card
DirectX 8 or higher (included)
600MB of hard drive space
4x CD-ROM
ISDN, DSL, Cable Modem or T1+ for online play



Now that you know the requirements, I'll let you in for a brief explaination.

As of now, its graphics isn't much to be desired. But the gameplay, on the other hand, is quite unique. What I'm saying is, how many games that incorporate martial art style in RTS? Not many and Battle Realms is at it's best. Even now they're dudes out there playing Battle Realms. I just installed Comrade. It detects my Battle Realms files on hard drive, a few clicks here and there and online!



In Battle Realms, there's 3 clans at your expense which are The Dragon, Serpent and Lotus clan readily at your disposal. The coolest thing is, you got to make peasant hut in order to produce more peasants from time to time until population limit exceeded. From then, you had to build training facilities to train the peasant to your heartfelt. Each peasant can perform 3 non linear training at 3 different facility to become Samurai(Dragon clan), Ronin(Serpent clan), and Warlock(Lotus clan).

Now Battle Realms only cost you less than 10 USD. I bought it for RM 9.90 from pcgame.com.my
* 1 USD = around RM 3.50, that's no more than 3 USD pal!