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

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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.