AndrewSaysHello.com » fps http://www.andrewsayshello.com Andrew's Website for Lots-o-Fun and Junk! Thu, 29 Jul 2010 13:07:29 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Top 10 FREE to Play Shooter Games! http://www.andrewsayshello.com/gaming/top-10-free-to-play-shooter-games/ http://www.andrewsayshello.com/gaming/top-10-free-to-play-shooter-games/#comments Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:33:49 +0000 Andrew http://www.andrewsayshello.com/?p=881 Ok, so recently a majority of the posts I have had dealt with the subject of malware and viruses. So I figured that it was time to change up the pace a bit and talk about some gaming a bit. Everyone loves games… from the little simple games such as checkers or bubble breaker all the way up to the highly intense games such as Call of Duty or Left 4 Dead. But no everyone has the cash to pay for some of these games that while being very fun, just aren’t worth the money in some people’s eyes.

So that led me to look around and actually stumble upon an article over at pc.ign.com which talks about the top 10 FREE to play Shooter games. Shooter games have been very popular as of late and more and more of the “Free to Play” games have been popping up left and right with some being worth it and some… well just don’t have any appeal and only make the others look that much better. Without wasting anymore time, lets go straight into the list!

So I won’t go into any details other than the fact that I personally have played a few of these games and can confirm that the list is indeed a good one. If you would like to check out these games or read up on what IGN has to say about them in the article, you can do so here.

The next time you are bored out of your mind, and do not feel like dropping $50.00 or more on a new game, check out one of these games from the list, you should be very pleased and entertained by any of the games on this list. So check them out and get to shooting!

]]> http://www.andrewsayshello.com/gaming/top-10-free-to-play-shooter-games/feed/ 0 Activision Hints at a Possible Call of Duty MMO! http://www.andrewsayshello.com/gaming/activision-hints-at-a-possible-call-of-duty-mmo/ http://www.andrewsayshello.com/gaming/activision-hints-at-a-possible-call-of-duty-mmo/#comments Tue, 16 Jun 2009 00:13:11 +0000 Andrew http://www.andrewsayshello.com/?p=567 When Modern Warfare 2, the successor to Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare was announced and demoed at E3, the focus was primarily on the single player game. There’s nothing inherently wrong with that, as CoD 4 sported one of the most engrossing and well-written storylines to ever grace an FPS game. However, to discount the sizable multiplayer audience of the game, who were no doubt salivating for some new info, seems like a bad idea. There may be a method behind the madness, however, as it appears that Activision may have some new ideas for Call of Duty multiplayer.

The good news? There’ll probably be more features. The bad news? You may have to pay for them. Apparently, a survey has been floating around the gaming community with Activision gathering data on how best to proceed. Would you be willing to pay a small fee to have early or exclusive access to game maps, special modes, and advanced tracking tools? That seems to be what they are banking on. According to the survey, this would be optional content added as a paid service to those interested – you wouldn’t have to pay to just play Call of Duty multiplayer.

The question is, does that mean that if you don’t pay, you don’t get supported? Will there be no new downloadable content for those who don’t buy in?

But more surprisingly, is the rumor of a MMO element that is going to be added into COD4. This might be reality soon since Activision’s Bobby Kotick hinted at the possibility of a Call of Duty MMO awhile back with this quote from Morgan Stanley Technical Conference.

“What would be the natural evolution of a property like Call of Duty into a massively-multiplayer environment and how do you monetize that?”

“While a Call of Duty MMO may be a long way off, if it ever gets off the ground, it’s starting to sound like Activision execs may be giving it serious thought and we’d expect it to be a big focus for the publisher’s ad revenue model.”

Also, Kotick pointed out that he is very interested in implementing in-game advertising, which the model of it will most likely resemble Starcraft ladder tournament style. It could be a risky move on Activision’s part to put in this so called “online shell”, but let’s be real… we all saw this sort of move coming. Who wouldn’t enjoy a MMOFPS anyway huh? What do you guys think?

I personally think this could go either very well for the CoD series if it is done correctly. After recently participating in the Huxley Closed Beta I feel that a MMOFPS can be done, there is just a very fine line that has to be walked to either do it right or have it become a huge failure. We shall have to wait and see!

]]> http://www.andrewsayshello.com/gaming/activision-hints-at-a-possible-call-of-duty-mmo/feed/ 0 Quake Live Enters Open Beta! http://www.andrewsayshello.com/gaming/quake-live-enters-open-beta/ http://www.andrewsayshello.com/gaming/quake-live-enters-open-beta/#comments Sun, 01 Mar 2009 07:53:44 +0000 Andrew http://www.andrewsayshello.com/?p=367 This week on Tuesday (February 24th) the beta for Quake Live opened up for all to try and test it out completely free of charge! Quake Live has been in closed beta for a long time now (almost a year I think) with the only way new people were getting in was if someone they knew had access and was able to invite them or they got lucky enough to get an invite to the beta through the website. At the beginning of February I was lucky enough to finally get invited to play in the closed beta and I can say that the game so far feels just like Quake 3 Arena.

For those of you who might not be familiar with what Quake 3 was exactly let me take a minute to explain it a bit. Quake 3 was probably and still is the most popular 1 vs 1 first person shooter (fps) game to ever be released and played competitively. It was orginially released in December of 1999 and is actually still being used in compeititions today for gaming tournaments around the world. Quake Live is a project that ID Software (the creators of the Quake series) started in 2007 to make Quake 3 playable from inside an internet browser and be completely free to play against other people or bots on the internet. The game is going to be completely free to everyone and in the website you have a profile which tracks ALL of your stats from when you are playing (everything from how many kills with each weapon to how many times you kill a certain person). It is giong to be funded from in-game advertising which will be used on a few billboards placed in spots around the maps.

At the current moment there are around 30 different maps in the beta, along with 4 different game types ranging from Free For Alls to Capture the Flag. Within the first 24 hours of the beta being open to the public, they reported having over 100,000 accounts registered and have and to place a queue on the site to keep it from being overloaded and un-usable. Overall with my experience so far in the beta I have been nothing but extremely impressed with everything as it feels like I am playing Quake 3 Arena all over again on my PC. It is shaping up to be an awesome game so I encourage everyone to check this out. Only downside right now I have found is that it only works in IE and Firefox running in Windows, but they have already announced they are working around the clock to get it up and running in more browser and as well as Linux and the Mac OS. So finally I will leave you with a video of some footage from in-game! Enjoy!

www.quakelive.com

]]> http://www.andrewsayshello.com/gaming/quake-live-enters-open-beta/feed/ 0 The 28 Best FPS Games! http://www.andrewsayshello.com/gaming/the-28-best-fps-games/ http://www.andrewsayshello.com/gaming/the-28-best-fps-games/#comments Fri, 24 Oct 2008 13:34:57 +0000 Andrew http://www.andrewsayshello.com/?p=151 Being an avid FPS (First Person Shooter) gamer myself it seems that this list is only necessary. There have been tons of FPS games released in both the console and PC world of gaming, but there is only an elite small group of those games that are played time and time again despite how old they get. With myself playing many of these games over and over, I can for sure agree that this is is almost dead on when it comes to the 28 best FPS games of all time. So without wasting anymore time…. here is the list:

28. Return to Castle Wolfenstein
27. Blood
26. Tribes 2
25. Turok 2: Seeds of Evil
24. The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay
23. No One Lives Forever 2: A Spy in H.A.R.M.’s Way
22. Alien vs. Predator 2
21. TimeSplitters: Future Perfect
20. Counter-Strike: Source
19. Thief: The Dark Project
18. Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Vegas
17. Battlefield 1942
16. Far Cry
15. Unreal Tournament
14. Metroid Prime
13. Perfect Dark
12. Crysis
11. Deus Ex
10. F.E.A.R.
9. System Shock II
8. Halo 3
7. Duke Nukem 3D
6. Quake II
5. Doom II
4. GoldenEye 007
3. BioShock
2. Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare
1. Half-Life 2

So there it is, the games that are in bold are the ones I either own myself and/or have played a good bit of. (which happens to be quite a few of them) For anyone who wants to read up on the full article from GamePro.com which has little summaries for each game and why it was picked, just follow this link to read it from their website.

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