What single player FPS campaign are you playing?

[ExedExes]

I noticed that too. The friendly AI make much better point sentries than assault teams.

I still need to go back and play the original Ghost Recon. I've got it on Xbox and PC (GOG). PC's probably best.

Yeah, really! They're far more accurate from a distance. I also found that giving myself a support weapon like the machine gun is also better, but for Mission 4 I see that it's more of a sneak/stealth type mission, and since it's at night I'm also giving myself the sniper rifle.

The original is best on PC, if only because you can assign members to 3 teams instead of just 2, and it also seems that issuing movement commands is easier with a mouse.

I installed the 2 expansion packs (Desert Siege & Island Thunder). First mission on Desert Siege was a piece of cake. I like to unlock the Specialists for each mission, they have better stats and sometimes better weapons. Just remember when assigning skill points, try to have someone on each team with 3-6 Leadership points, for that gives each player in the team an extra skill point in all 4 of their abilities.

Thought Shellschok Nam 67 was a FPS but it's actually TPS . Played around 2 hours and it's pretty janky so I'm going to move onto 2 which is a FPS.

I played that years ago. I completed it too. I must have been terribly bored, because not only is it unforgiving in spots, it's also full of movement and collision bugs! I also ran across some unclear mission objectives, and those that I did complete, I felt as if it didn't credit them to me unless I was standing in the right place or something. It was a mess. But the sequel is FPS? Maybe then I'll try it.

[Fragems]

Thought Shellschok Nam 67 was a FPS but it's actually TPS . Played around 2 hours and it's pretty janky so I'm going to move onto 2 which is a FPS.

I played that years ago. I completed it too. I must have been terribly bored, because not only is it unforgiving in spots, it's also full of movement and collision bugs! I also ran across some unclear mission objectives, and those that I did complete, I felt as if it didn't credit them to me unless I was standing in the right place or something. It was a mess. But the sequel is FPS? Maybe then I'll try it.

Yeah Shellshock 2 Blood Trails is a FPS it's got alot of horror elements tossed into it though. Trailer makes it look like a F.E.A.R. knock off set in Vietnam.

[MrPopo]

Why would you want to run old sprite-based FPS's at high resolution?

[TSTR]

Why would you want to run old sprite-based FPS's at high resolution?

Why wouldn't you?

[Jagosaurus]

Beat Moon Chronicles on 3DS & instantly jumped in the PSX port of Doom.

It's obvious Moon was inspired by Quake & early "ambient atmospheric" FPS titles. While it was fun, it had me wanting to play Doom & Quake!

The PSX port of Ultimate Doom & Doom II is damn good for a console.

[ExedExes]

Yeah Shellshock 2 Blood Trails is a FPS it's got alot of horror elements tossed into it though. Trailer makes it look like a F.E.A.R. knock off set in Vietnam.

That's a radical departure from the first one. Also not developed by Guerrilla (famous for Killzone), but by Rebellion (known for the Judge Dredd FPS Dredd vs. Death)

Have you played Vietcong? Now that was a FPS. The first one I played where you controlled a team and drove vehicles. The only issues I had with that were getting lost in the many, many, many, did I mention many, tunnels you're forced to go in, and a mission where you had to watch your step or the enemy would shoot the prisoner from your side they had. Plus, I was at a part where you had to radio in a position or airstrike or something, and I thought to go to the radioman who was on my team (and who you used for all other communications up to that point), only to find out you had a radio in your inventory. That took me a few hours to figure out Otherwise, the story unfolds really well. Not bad for an older FPS.

[Fragems]

Thought I had Vietcong, but it's not in my RFgeneration collection list. I noticed a couple other Vietnam games while going through my Xbox boxes last night but sadly Men of Valor and I think First to Fight are not 360 compatible don't feel like dragging out the Xbox to play them right now.

About 3 hours into Shellshock 2 and I have to say it's pretty horrible for a variety of reasons.

1. The AI is about on par with the first game. The enemy just charges forwards until it dies only occasionally will soldiers decide to stand behind knee high cover. Maybe that's why they decided to go the zombie route less work when you don't have to consider putting any effort into the AI. The zombies are normally programed to hobble slowly towards you until shot at which point they bolt towards you which is really useful since they are insanely fast and the game likes to throw a stream of 15-30 at you sometimes.
2. It's really dark and the lighting system blows. You have a flashlight but it doesn't seem to do much many textures aren't even illuminated by it for some odd reason . Even at the brightest settings it's hard to see in some areas. Makes me wonder if they made it extra dark to hide how ugly and linear each level is.
3. Traps are much worse then in the original as opposed to being able to disable them you know just have to avoid them all together or there is a instantaneous QTE(which I have yet to manage to pass even once I mean literally 1/10th of a second reaction time needed) when the trap is triggered that will let you escape.
4. The spawns to keep you on your tows they like to spawn enemies in behind you pretty frequently which gets to be a pain when your already being swarmed from the front.
5. Auto reload is utter shit I really need to remember to turn this off in the options menu next time I play. Auto reload literally reloads a single shell into the majority of the weapons which isn't very useful when you are fighting multiple enemies. The annoying thing is though once the animation starts you are stuck waiting 2-3 seconds while it finishes before you can start up the animation again fully reload your weapon .
6. Weapon balance. Since there is such a heavy emphasis on head shots it doesn't really matter which weapon you use however they really capped the ammo weird for instance an assault rifle with 30 round clips can only carry 90 rounds total, but a shotgun which is capable of only holding 7 rounds at a time can have an inventory of 90 shells . They also strip your weapons between missions so you always start out in a shity situations since you usually have either low ammo, or only a pistol or knife.
7. They went really heavy on the zombies yet It's not really that scary and the story isn't to impressive it's just a slog plowing through hordes and hordes of brainless enemies.
8. You are a bullet sponge it probably takes around 100 bullets or 10+ zombie hits before you go down and health regenerates pretty quickly. Guess it was their way of making the game semi playable as opposed to balancing/polishing it.


Only upside I can see to this game is it's cheap and it's just under 4 hours long according to howlongtobeat.com.

[Forlorn Drifter]

I got excited before your mini-review there. I thought I was getting the videogame version of '68.

...'68 is a comic about zombies in Vietnam, and also has stories about the soldiers bringing the disease home. Its supposedly a metaphor for how soldiers were treated after the war. Or else I'm reading too much into it.

[Fragems]

Yeah pretty much the game blew big time. The final stage involved them locking you in a room then spawning about 3-4 waves of 20 zombies. It was a real pain thanks to the aim sensitivity and piss poor aim assist took me about 10 tries since I ended up getting swarmed repeatedly and anything but a head shot does diddly squat against them. Was still using the recommended brightness settings and I couldn't see 10 feet in front of me in that area so I ended up having to turn brightness all the way up to finish it.

Only good thing about the game is it has a lot of easy achievements if your into that think I raked in around 400-500 points worth in the 4-5 hours I played it.

[ExedExes]

So it's a trainwreck? Noted.