rocketpig on 25 April 2008
Tell me why Killzone 2 is ambitious or revolutionary. I don't know enough about Resistance 2 yet, and I do know it will have some massive battles, but Killzone 2? Just looks like an average shooter to me...please prove me wrong, because I honestly would like to know more about the game.
Just because Valve is not on the bleeding edge of graphics doesn't mean they're not ambitious. Crytek's engine work is impressive...but who cares if no computer can reasonably play it? I think they did a sh*t job on that part.
TF2 is freaking amazing in my opinion...the amount of work put into the balance of the game is extraordinary...just watch one of the videos about why they worked with each kind of shader, lighting, etc...I don't see that attention to detail in most other developers.
Left 4 Dead is very revolutionary to me. A 4 player co-op shooter might not sound that revolutionary to you, but how many games have done it? Successfully? I think Left 4 Dead is going to do it better than Halo 3 or Haze or anybody else, due to the balance work that Valve does, and because the game is COMPLETELY tailored for co-op, it's not just an option. Plus, it has zombies. Zombies. A co-op game against an actual horde of zombies, controlled by a smart AI director that will work on ANY custom map, headed by a team of player-controlled super zombies? Seriously, this should be game of the year.
Just because Valve is not on the bleeding edge of graphics doesn't mean they're not ambitious. Crytek's engine work is impressive...but who cares if no computer can reasonably play it? I think they did a sh*t job on that part.
TF2 is freaking amazing in my opinion...the amount of work put into the balance of the game is extraordinary...just watch one of the videos about why they worked with each kind of shader, lighting, etc...I don't see that attention to detail in most other developers.
Left 4 Dead is very revolutionary to me. A 4 player co-op shooter might not sound that revolutionary to you, but how many games have done it? Successfully? I think Left 4 Dead is going to do it better than Halo 3 or Haze or anybody else, due to the balance work that Valve does, and because the game is COMPLETELY tailored for co-op, it's not just an option. Plus, it has zombies. Zombies. A co-op game against an actual horde of zombies, controlled by a smart AI director that will work on ANY custom map, headed by a team of player-controlled super zombies? Seriously, this should be game of the year.
Massive battles are so Tribes. Been there, done that. Neither R2 nor KZ2 look to bring anything new to the table. Not to say that they'll be bad games, they just won't have that Valve je ne sais quoi.
Left4Dead, on the other hand, brings competitive play versus two drastically different teams and requires utmost cooperation to accomplish a goal. Kinda like Counter-Strike minus campers and if the terrorists were friggin' zombies.
Don't even get me going on TF2... It's a great game with amazing balance. It was the most fun I had playing competitively online in 2007. The first time you call for a medic as the flamethrower dude is enough to convince even the biggest skeptic that it's a great game.
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