Had my first go on this tonight and although I enjoyed the demo I wasn't sure what to expect.
Having had a couple of hours I can definitely say it's an enjoyable brainless bash, the necris vehicles are absurd and all the better for it! I've had a very tense game of vehicle capture the flag which involves the regular rules but with plenty of vehicles thrown into the map. There's nothing quite like hitching a lift with the hoverboard on some super turbo charged jeep while you fly through the legs of some war of the worlds style machine!
Speaking of which, the hoverboard is an inspired design choice, all those times on the onslaught maps stuck in the middle of nowhere are all taken care of with the little Q key! It looks cool, is perfectly weighted handling and speed wise and one hit will knock you off! I managed to ring in the overtime golden goal flag capture by flying into their base and then zipping out on the hoverboard, flag in hand
The risk and reward of flying away on the hoverboard is such a rush as one hit basically means you'll get knocked off, killed and the flag inevitably returned!
It's got a very gears of war look to it but at the same time there's certainly plenty of variety in the environments on offer. There's no loss in scale and big tentacle alien like structures stretch off into the distance while the game oozes atmosphere in some of the map's architecture. It runs at a fair old lick (didn't check for exact frame rate but my estimate was that it only dropped below 60 when there was lots of action)
Not much in the way of teamplay on the online servers but there was plenty of friendly w00ting when I captured the last flag which was nice.
Anyway £20 well spent and i'm looking forward to getting to grips with the rest of the maps!
Specs:
Mobo: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd.
Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU 6300 @ 1.86GHz (2 CPUs)
Memory: 2046MB RAM
Hard Drive: 245 GB Total
Video Card: NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GTX
Having had a couple of hours I can definitely say it's an enjoyable brainless bash, the necris vehicles are absurd and all the better for it! I've had a very tense game of vehicle capture the flag which involves the regular rules but with plenty of vehicles thrown into the map. There's nothing quite like hitching a lift with the hoverboard on some super turbo charged jeep while you fly through the legs of some war of the worlds style machine!
Speaking of which, the hoverboard is an inspired design choice, all those times on the onslaught maps stuck in the middle of nowhere are all taken care of with the little Q key! It looks cool, is perfectly weighted handling and speed wise and one hit will knock you off! I managed to ring in the overtime golden goal flag capture by flying into their base and then zipping out on the hoverboard, flag in hand
The risk and reward of flying away on the hoverboard is such a rush as one hit basically means you'll get knocked off, killed and the flag inevitably returned! It's got a very gears of war look to it but at the same time there's certainly plenty of variety in the environments on offer. There's no loss in scale and big tentacle alien like structures stretch off into the distance while the game oozes atmosphere in some of the map's architecture. It runs at a fair old lick (didn't check for exact frame rate but my estimate was that it only dropped below 60 when there was lots of action)
Not much in the way of teamplay on the online servers but there was plenty of friendly w00ting when I captured the last flag which was nice.
Anyway £20 well spent and i'm looking forward to getting to grips with the rest of the maps!
Specs:
Mobo: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd.
Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU 6300 @ 1.86GHz (2 CPUs)
Memory: 2046MB RAM
Hard Drive: 245 GB Total
Video Card: NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GTX
Yeah me and MM were playing the campaign mode in co-op, was brilliant!
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