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175500 on Playing with fire, you're only getting 70kish BHJ? ~Doom

A Forest Of Stars - God Self Proclaimed Victorian Occult Psychedelic Black Metal Different from your average black metal, especially as their one of their main instruments is a violin ~Doom

World In Conflict Genre: Real Time Tactics PC Story: 4.75/5 The basic premise in World In Conflict is a fairly implausible one, that the Soviet Union has begun an all out (non-nuclear) world war, starting with an invasion of Europe and then an invasion of America's west coast and Seattle. Although this seems unlikely the excellent voice acting helps you forget that, and makes it seem much more believable. Along with the main story, in between each battle you will see the stories of individuals caught up in the war, from one front-line soldier's battle with the bureaucracy, to the family problems of one of your fellow officers. There is one weird occurrence of gospel music, which is a out of place, and somewhat spoils the mood at that moment. Gameplay: 4.75/5 The gameplay in World In Conflict is by and large beautifully balanced, and challenging, even on normal difficulty, you are placed in command of a section of American armed forces, and given a certain amount of points to spend on units each battle, which are regained (but over time) when a unit is destroyed, which means if you force is wiped out you will most probably lose before you can call in reinforcements. You are given control over a mixed force of infantry, vehicles, and helicopters, along with "tactical aids" which you can call in periodically. The beauty of the gameplay in World In Conflict is that any force too specialized to one area (helicopters, infantry or armour) will be quickly cut to pieces by a balanced force. It is a carefully made rock, paper, scissors. Infantry will triumph over heavy armour and helicopters, while they in turn will be beaten by light armour and helicopters, while the same light armour and helicopters will be beaten by heavy armour. As I mentioned above this necessitates a good mix. The tactical aid system is a method for calling in air strikes, paratroopers, tactical nukes, precision bombing, artillery, basically any long range support you can think of. This system is controlled by "Tactical Aid Points" which are accrued either over time, from securing objectives, or destroying enemies, usually a mix of the three. My only complaint in terms of gameplay is that helicopters are slightly too vulnerable and that light helicopters and basic infantry seem rather pointless compared to, either other helicopters, or anti-tank infantry and snipers. Also the AI pathfinding when attacking is sometimes poor as a unit does not always attempt to go around something that blocks its line of sight to the unit you wish to attack. However this is fixed in a patch, so no worries there Sound: 4.5/5 There's not a lot to say about the sound in the game. It features some excellent voice acting, and well done battle effects, although some of the unit voicing is irritating, namely the infantry who sound like your local IT administrator who spends no time outdoors Graphics: 4.9/5 The graphics are beautiful. That just about sums it up, blowing stuff up has rarely been as beautiful as it is in World In Conflict, and the battlefields are well detailed and the units so good that they use the in game graphics for the movies, which is fairly unheard of in strategies. In fact the individual troops look better than people in some shooters I can think of Explosions are pretty, its official! However that picture includes my one quibble with the graphics, the fact that the sky looks considerably better in DX10 (as in that photo) than in DX9 where its rather dull and lacking in clouds, I'm sure there must be some way it could have looked nicer in DX9, but you won't be looking at the sky all that much so its not very important Conclusion All in all I think this game is easily the best strategy/tactics game I have ever played that is based around modern weaponry, it is most certainly worth buying and even more so if you can run it in DX10 where the visuals will be even better. 18.9/20 A must buy

This thread is a place to write up a review of a game you're playing now, be it an old one you've picked up again dating from 1989 to a new one released last week. This is the preferred format: Look forward to seeing the reviews ~Doom

lol, Timo, that's exactly the layout I had in mind ~Doom EDIT: Put the thread up with a review of World In Conflict

which murdered Valor!

I'll put the thread up later today and review something then Hopefully others will join in ~Doom

The Clash - London Calling Which one did you buy Telari? ~Doom

I meant that you can review a game you're playing now, even if its from 1989 and you're playing it on a commodore Because, like you said even if its not new to you, it'll be new to someone ~Doom

These, very kvlt I demand The Cookies Ov Lucifer! ~Doom

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Therion - Son Of The Sun ~Doom

True, but it doesn't hurt to try ~Doom

Well guys what do you think? ~Doom

My AA Gun will tear your fliers to pieces ~Doom

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Satyricon - Fuel For Hatred Yeah, I'm like that too Telari ~Doom

Bing Crosby and David Bowie - Little Drummer Boy David Bowie - Life On Mars? ~Doom

Support For Now - Learn To Smile Gosh, haven't listened to this in years, my brothers band I forgot that they're actually good ~Doom

Congratulations you two Hey I was right with my guess about what the upcoming anniversary you mentioned was Genenut ~Tim

Happy Birthday Stubbs, all the best! ~Tim

They should keep it true to the books, especially the scene with Darken Rahl + The young boy, it'd teach them young ones a lesson! But yeah, I doubt anything good or true to the books is gonna come out of this... ~Doom They are definitely not going to include that scene Tim unless they want an R or maybe even an X rating Well to be honest its surprising its being made at all, especially by disney, the books includes, rape, pedophilia, ritual murder, various perversions, torture, sexual torture, insanity, mass murder... Probably some other stuff that I can't think of as well You know that brings up a sort of duplicity in our culture, films are rated while books, which can create far worse images in or imaginations than films have, are not... Because I'm sure any film that included all the above would simply be banned from most places Odd isn't it ~Doom

They should keep it true to the books, especially the scene with Darken Rahl + The young boy, it'd teach them young ones a lesson! But yeah, I doubt anything good or true to the books is gonna come out of this... ~Doom

Awww you guys are all boring... Go on you know you want to... ~Doom

The Open Beta for the new redesign begins Thursday, anyone else going to join it? I'm going to at least try to get in. Hoping for some company ~Doom