Get this. Now.

Pros: Excellent, excellent game. variety of weapons without flipping unrealistically through eight or nine of them allows changeable arsenal. your teammates (and opponents) have more i. than a. in a.i., shoutting out usefule information on objectives and enemy positions. Graphics look wonderful on even mid-to-low-end cards. Most importantly, fun!

Cons: a little linear, and the checkpoint saves get annoying.

bottom line: if you like wwii shooters (or even shooters in general), you will love CoD 2.

Posted: 05-Jul-2006 03:13:58 PM

/worship. Easily the best RTS available today.

Pros: This game has finally brought the Warhammer 40K universe to the PC after several big flops *cough*Fire Warrior*cough*. While it eliminates the need to harves resources, it pacifies "dirt farmers" bay forcing the player to watch his/her resources. More tactically-minded gamers enjoy the ability to gain resources by holding strategic objectives. The game also caters to tabletop fans (like me) by including an "Army painter" to customize your Space Marines.

This game has and excellent squad-based mechanic, and though you cannot micromanage your units, it isn't really necessary. The squad-damage system is odd, but realistic and forces battles to be fought on a scale similar to that of the tabletop game. An impressive show of "ragdoll physics" is present, but units conduct their fights realistically rather than enacting generic "hack and slash" anims. beautiful graphics, though a wee bit (read: very) gory.

Cons: capturing a strategic point (control and resource node) takes an entire squad out of the game for too long. the game forces the player to work with small forces in different areas rather than hordes of low-level units. pulling an entire, ranked-up squad out of the action to capture a location is a pain in the *****. The game also lacks the capacity to use drop pods to deploy units anywhere on the battlefield, so that you are effectively constructing from a building, with drop pods and dropships nothing but pretty stuff. but oh, wht pretty pretty stuff!

bottom line: Get this game. You won't be disappointed. "Inquisitor=][=woolymarmot" is watching.

Posted: 28-Jun-2006 06:37:48 PM

Maybe i'm the only one, but I'm not really into this...

Pros: simple, quick, and mildly interesting. It sports shiny graphics that don't require processor power, and the controls are simple and easy to pick up.

Cons: This game includes nothing to differentiate it from all the other games out there. In trying to evoke the feeling of classic "arcade-y" games, it becomes too much like one of those games. It is only interesting for a while, and the large bosses take too long to reach and beat.

Bottom line: the game is worth dowloading and playing casually, but don't spend too many hours of your life playing it.

Posted: 28-Jun-2006 06:06:03 PM