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Enemy Territory:
 Enemy Territory: Quake Wars $19.99 Ok so first things first, the overall review. It is a good game but is not worth the $60 dollars i paid. I would pay $20-$30 dollars for it. It is surely not compareable with cod4 or 5. PROS >Online is great. It is fun for sniping or just shotguns. > There are so many vehichle you can use which is very fun. There are 1,2,3, and 4 person vehicles. There is Atv's, Buggies, hummers, Armadilos, different sorts of tanks and different sorts of helicopters and boats. > Lots of different sorts of maps. > Choice to be two different speciseach with it own perks and disadvantages. There is the Strogg and the humans. For the strogg there is also lots of different futuristic guns and vehicles. > You can choose to be different classes like medics, mechanics, snipers, field soldiers and others. > You can build stuff like anti personel turrets or build bridges across ditches for tanks to get by. Cons > AI turn straight away and start shooting you even if you are 700 feet away. > You can't customize guns. > Can't switch controls around so there is always set controls > Not the great of graphics > Not as great as other gams like cod4 and 5 If you like online First person shooters you should get this. There are many different sort of gameplay.  Enemy Territory: Quake Wars $49.99 I don't play a lot of games and I am a new Mac user as well. This plays great on my new MacBook Pro, 2.6 GHz, 4 Gb RAM, 512 video RAM, 200 Gb 7200 rpm drive, 17 -inch glossy screen Hi-Res. Smooth video and action. No problems what so ever. I'm very pleased.  Enemy Territory: Quake Wars $9.99 This games quite old, so it's no surprise that there aren't as many people that play it as there used to be. However, I thought this was pretty popular and I figured there would still be some people that played it. I was quite wrong. This is a multiplayer game that very few people play regularly. There's a lot of servers, but most of them are filled with bots. The few servers that don't have bots might have 10 people in it and I only found 3 - 4 servers that weren't filled with bots. So if you're going to buy this be aware that not many people play it. If I had known that, I wouldn't have purchased this before. The multiplayer itself is... Alright. The gameplay is decent, just imagine quake 3 in a sort of battlefield 2 environment with more objective based gameplay and you basically have this. In fact this is VERY much like battlefield 2. The audio in this game is very quake like (Which you would probably expect with a game with the words "quake" in it). But don't expect to be blown away by the sounds or music, it's nothing extraordinary, most of the guns sound like some sort of cheesy laser weapons from bad 80's sci-fi shows. The visuals aren't that great, I remember when this game first came out and they looked pretty good but it's really showing it's age now. But the great thing is you don't need a very fast computer to play this, so if your computer is a few years old and you don't have hundreds of dollars to spend on a new video card, proc, etc you don't really have to worry about running this (Unless your computers absolutely ancient). There are options you can change, thankfully. You can change the details, effects and what not so if you're computer is having problems running it, then you can tone things down to make it a little faster. A big gripe with me about this game, for me, is the animations. The animations aren't smooth at all, like for instance if you select a weapon, like your pistol, and your character pulls it out it's very choppy and it's like that for everything. Every weapon and action you do basically, even if you go to aim down the sights of your rifle, or pistol, still very choppy. It doesn't really effect gameplay it's just slightly annoying to me. There is no single player to speak of. There's an award system and ranking system and it is very much like battlefield 2. If you kill a certain amount of enemies, do a certain task, etc. You can get awards for it however they're not all very easy. Some of them want you to get something like 10,000 kills, you get the idea. You can rank up in this game and it stays with your account, it's not reset per game like Crysis. So if you level up to a corporal, sergeant, etc. It stays with you. It's also quite hard to tell whos friend from foe, at least... When you first start playing. I was teamkilling quite a bit but that's because from a distance most of the units look VERY similar. So that might become a problem especially if you're playing online and you accidentally tk a few times, if you're playing with bots, it's not a problem. But if you're playing on one of the few servers that have people and you get kicked or banned because of it, then that can prove to be quite a problem. There's different classes in the game like battlefield 2. With the assault class you can pick more specialized classes, like whether or not you have a rocket launcher, a rifle, etc. All the classes have at least 2 different variants. It's basically just different loadouts. Like with the sniper class, you can have a sniper rifle or a scoped assault rifle. With a medic, you can have a shotgun, or a smg. There's 2 different sides in this game, theres the Strogg and then there's the GDF (humans). The two sides are kind of similar but there are differences. For instance, the strogg don't really have ammo. It's just kind of this energy for their weapons. The medics on the strogg side can turn a GDF's body into a spawn point, etc etc. They do play differently but it's not exactly apples and oranges. Which can be a good thing, to have some continuity in the game. All in all, if you're looking for a game to play to kill some times, maybe play with some friends on lan and dont have $2,000 computers to play the latest games and just want a cheap game that maybe you can play with bots and have basically, a quake version of battlefield 2 then this is kind of what you might want to check out. However, that being said.. There are better games out there that are around the same price. |
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