If you like the RTS genre then this game is a must have! I have owned this game for years on Steam and purchased it again here on GOG so that I can actually download the game install files. The other reason for my post given it is now 2024 and the world has moved on from the version of Windows when this game was first released I noticed that there are still a coupe of reviews still showing up on the first page of reviews one from 2016 an another from 2014 simply stating that this game is not compatible on Win 10 and another on Win 8. This unfortunately many have been true when they posted but today it is not the case. I am currently writing this review on an Acer Aspire 3 laptop that is defiantly not a gaming power house. AMD Ryzen 5 7520U with Radeon Graphics running at 2.80 GHz with I think 16GBs of DDR5 ram, may be DDR 4? Regardless this is not a gaming laptop. It is running the latest Windows 11 and I just launched a game to see if it would actually run on this latest version of Windows. It launched and played flawlessly, however since it has been years since I have played this title and have forgotten a lot about the game I quickly got my ass kicked is short order. Since the RTS games have always been one of my favorite Genera"s this title has just moved up to the top of my play list. If I remember correctly this game if played on high difficulty mode is more than challenging to successfully complete. In my book this is a must have title.
At first I really liked this game, my favorite kind of game are the RPG's. I greatly enjoy RPG's that tell a good story and up to a point this one was great, another new game I really liked is The Outer Worlds. I am an older gamer who began playing computer games probably before many of you were even born. I started out on my first computer, a Commodore Amiga 1000 back in 1986. As you can guess I am now retired and I am in my mid 60's. There is one thing that I absolutely cannot STAND AND THAT ARE ANY DAMN GAMES THAT PUT BOSS BATTLES IN THEIR GAMES ESPECIALLY RPG'S. Had I known this game had these fucking boss battles I would never have purchased the game. As far as I am concerned boss battles that you cannot opt out of only do one thing and that is to detract from the story of what could have been a great RPG! I admit that my reflexes are not as good as someone who is far younger and who thoroughly enjoys the challenge of a boss battle however for me even on the easiest setting it is nothing but an exercise in frustration and futility that has turned into anger at the damn devs for even putting them into this game. Even after at least a dozen attempts I have not been able to get past the first one when you were going to board the ship to go to the island. So for me this game is just taking up space in my games library and is one that I will not be able to play. I personally rate this game as a negative 10 and in contrast The Outer Worlds is a solid 10. I do not care if devs put boss battles in their games as long as they also put a setting for those like myself to opt out of having to do the damn things in order to progress in the game.
I have owned Far Cry 2 since its release and it is a part of my Steam collection. It is one of my favorite FPS, I have found it very enjoyable and have replayed it through several times. My favorite way of playing is sneaking around with a sniper rifle and picking off the bad guys from a bunch of weeds or from the rocks. I especially liked the .50 caliber rifle because you can pick off guys from such a long ways off. I have had a good gaming rig and so have been able to play the game at max graphic settings. They really did a great job of representing fire and smoke, it is great fun shooting a fuel barrel or a propane tank. The fuel barrels explode and shoot quite a way up in the air streaming a stream of fire and the propane tanks wiz around like a balloon before exploding. My son has the game on his PS3 and one of the difference we found with the PC version are some unexpected graphic elements. I was very surprised to discover while sneaking through the grass or trees and coming upon some of the bad guys that occasionally one of them would be taking a leak on the side of a tree or into a bunch of bushes, of finding a guy on a dock with a fishing pole fishing. I asked my son if he had ever seen this in when he was playing and he thought I was making it up. Then the next time I found a guy taking a leak I paused the game and went and got him, he could hardly believe it but immediately burst out laughing. Even though I already own this game I will be buying it again here to support the whole idea that we gamers do not mind buying our games but also like them with out any DRM. DRM has never worked, I can find any of the newest games on bit torrent the day they are released so the only thing that DRM does is piss off the game developers real customers. The people who get them via bit torrent would never had been a paying customer any way. So UBSoft stop with your draconian DRM like the bull shit you currently have that started with Splinter Cell Conviction and subsequent titles. I have gotten over the issue of having to have Steam to play a lot of the games but don't you think that having to use Steam is enough DRM? Obviously not because after launching the game I some times have to wait too long a tome for your new UPlay client to load before I can even play the silly game. Because of this I will not be purchasing any of your new titles, the same goes for the new crap that EA has started.
I pre-purchased this new version of the Witcher with great anticipation and boy what a disappointment! And that is an big understatement. The graphics are very good, however the developers saw fit to completely change the game mechanics from the first Witcher that for me has made this game unplayable because of a disability I have. I also thought I was purchasing a PC game but I suppose that today this is a fallacy. All PC games today are just very poor ports of the crappy PS3 and XBox 360 shit!. This was the first game I ever pre purchased and it will be the last! I also am very upset with the gaming industry as 99% of games are over hyped crap! I will never purchase any game ever from anyone that does not release a playable demo of the game. If they do not I will just download the game from Bit Torrent and then if it is worth it I may seriously consider buying it but not before, unfortunately my entertainment dollars are very limited since being on a medical retirement and I hat the feeling that some big fat cat has stolen my limited resources. Perhaps the changes that will be made in the upcoming Witcher 2 v 2 update will make the game playable for me, however I am not holding my breath. A very upset gamer
Hello all, I have never been much of a fan of racing games, however after having TOCA 3 for a while now I find it a lot of fun (even though I can't drive worth a damn). Since I this is my first game of this type I can't speak directly to how it compares to other games of this type, however my son has played it quite a bit and he says it is as good as any of the other racing games he currently has. He has several for both the PC as well as the PS 3. I have recently been using my Logitech wireless rumble pad and my driving success has greatly improved. Oh one of the things I like about this game is that it has about all the different types of racing in one game, Classic racing (old cars), GT, open wheel, oval from dirt to indi cars, rally, offroad, etc. There are more but I can't think of them at the moment. It also supports multi player modes, my son is thinking about buying a copy so we can race over our local network. On a side note for those who dual boot Windows with Linux, I am using Cross Gaming by Code Weavers (which is a commercial front end for WINE) and TOCA 3 installed and runs as good as it does with Windows. Oh if you install it on Linux make sure that the boxes are unchecked for putting icons on the desktop. If you try to have the installer do that your install will fail because X Windows is not the same as Windows XP or Vista, if you want to have an icon on the desktop just follow the method for what ever desktop you happen to be using, most use either Gnome or KDE. My system is as follows, EVGA X58 mother board Intel i7 920 processor 6 GB Corsair ram EVGA Geforce 260 GT graphic card Windows Vista Ultimate 64 Mepis 8 64 bit
