Well I just got done playing MoH:A and I have to say I found it to be boring. Even with the whole paradrop thing. I mean...how many times has the Normandy invasion been done? It just gets boring after a while.
What blew Bioshock for me was the crash in the ocean, and that entrance just happening to be right there, but out in the middle of no where.. And you just happen to crash next to it. And why is it there advertising anyway. Its suppose to be a secret underwater city. That entrance would be spotted on radar..You can pick up row boats with radar. And then, it just so happens to have a sphere to take you down! Like its been sitting there waiting for a plane crash and one survivor....Sorry its just too much of a leap. I cant help it, stuff that doesnt make sense like that, drives me nuts.
That plane crash isn't all it seems, which you find out later. Don't want to ruin anything... but that plane crashed where it did for a reason.
The game has its shortcomings, but its story and atmosphere more then make up for where it's lacking, if you're willing to let the game pull you into it.
Please share. It's nice.
Last edited by Oldschool; August 27th, 2007 at 01:01 PM.
as to the MOH:AB, i don't get one thing. How many of You heard about 82nd guys paradroping with K98 or MP40?? because that's what EA is telling us through this game ;p Ageia physix won't save it.This game is just TDM with bots.
Baptised in fire 40 to 1
Spirit of spartans death and glory
Soldiers of Poland seckond to none
Wrath of the wehrmacht brought to a halt
The expansion is called Opposing Fronts, and there are two campaigns- One for each side. The British battle for Caen and the German Panzer elite in Holland. So those are the two new armies, Britain and Panzer Elite. (The current German army in the game is more along the lines of the Wemacht while Panzer Elite is more like SS. I look forward to lanning with the new armies cause my friend will love Britain, because they are defensive/mobility focused. The Panzer Elite is about vehicles, they get units like Jagdpanther.
The developers also said they would like to make an all-encompasing WW2 game, so you will soon see most theaters converted to their game. I am looking forward to the Expansion for the new armies and lanning, and at the opportunity of playing the Germans in campaign. (lol I got a bit carried away about explaining the xpack)
well its not an xpack but a standalone game. Got that from an interview on gamespot.
as to the MOH:AB, i don't get one thing. How many of You heard about 82nd guys paradroping with K98 or MP40?? because that's what EA is telling us through this game ;p
? I played the demo, but i didn't notice any 82nd airborne guys carrying mp40s or k98s, you can switch your thompson for an mp40 on the ground though...
as to the MOH:AB, i don't get one thing. How many of You heard about 82nd guys paradroping with K98 or MP40?? because that's what EA is telling us through this game ;p Ageia physix won't save it.This game is just TDM with bots.
Are you sure these weren't 'Greaseguns' and Springfields?
It's been about a week since BioShock's launch, and the digital rights management controversy surrounding the game shows little signs of abating. BioShock had received considerable hype and overwhelming positive reviews (including my own), but the game has been mired in an uproar regarding the game's installation policy, which initially limited each customer to two installations only through SecuROM's copy protection software.
The trouble started almost immediately after BioShock release on Aug. 21. Word began circulating through various forums about technical issues with the game's installation; specifically, many users who had run into issues with playing the game, whether it was Window Vista related issues or graphics drivers, un-installed BioShock and then re-installed it on other machines. They were then greeted with an unfortunate message that read: "Too many activations on different PCs have been performed with the entered SERIAL NUMBER. No further activations are allowed." The message also included an e-mail address for SecuROM support (support@securom.com). Here's what PC gamers got when they tried to install BioShock more than twice last week.
Unfortunately, the message didn't say exactly how many installations each user was supposed to get (which, again, was two installs initially). Furthermore, the game's software license agreement that said nothing about an installation limit for the game; in fact, the license agreement grants users the "limited right and license to use one copy of the Software for your personal use on a single console," which have led some people to contend that the SecuROM copy protection is violating BioShock's own software license (since it says nothing about installing the game and says you can run it on one system at a time). Whatever the case, it's a statement of fact that customers were given little to no warning about a DRM-controlled limit regarding the number of installations allowed for BioShock.
Soon, posts were popping up on 2K Games' forums in a thread title "How many installs do we get? Transfer of ownership?" inquiring about the SecuROM DRM and installation limit. The next morning on Wednesday, Aug. 22, Elizabeth Tobey, community manager at 2K Games, responded to the queries on the forums with the following message: "Hey guys, first, let me say this. You DO NOT NEED TO USE THE INTERNET EVERY TIME YOU PLAY THIS GAME. It is only the first time. Second, you can uninstall and reinstall this game, and if, by chance, you have 2 computers you want to simultaneously play this game on, you also can do that. If by some chance you are reinstalling this game without uninstalling it first, a lot, there is a chance you may have to call SecuROM and get a key, or deactivate some older installations. But if you upgrade your hardware next week, you'll still be able to play the game. If you revamp your system and need to reinstall Bioshock, just uninstall it before you go through the overhaul, and then do your reinstall. Calling it "hardware fingerprinting" is a bit alarmist. We do not transmit any of your data to any companies. Really, the only people who will be concerned about any of these security measures are those who are rapidly putting Bioshock on many PCs... if you use the game as you normally do, you won't notice this at all."
Sadly, the information in Tobey's post was not entirely accurate. As many gamers found out, simply uninstalling the game on a machine did not solve the SecuROM problem. We put the theory to the test here at the THG lab and discovered that, in fact, once you installed the game on two separate machines (computer A and computer B), regardless of the reason, the activation key became useless. If you uninstalled the game on computer A and wanted to install on computer C, the activation would be terminated by SecuROM (which is owned by Sony) and the above error message would pop up. As a result, BioShock customers were misinformed, which made matters worse. And as 2K Games discovered, the problem would get significantly worse. Compounding the DRM controversy even more was the fact that the support numbers for 2K Games listed in BioShock's packaging were incorrectly printed (we called the support lines ourselves here at the Tom's Hardware Guide office several times before finally giving up).
Man how lame is this, i knew this game sucked. I just had a bad feeling about it from the very first. Anyway hope you guys dont ever need to reinstall or anything...
And this company 2K Games goes on my no buyfrom them, list.. I wont ever support lame ass crap like this, they've permanently lost a customer. Hope they enjoy getting flamed from here on in, morons.
That's quite silly indeed, they should have made it apparent that you have to uninstall Bioshock before formating an HDD. Same about number of allowed active registerations.
Other than that though, it's quite tiresome to read about it missinterpreted on number of forums over and over again, as people find it more convinient to assume the absurd version where each key has only two life-time activations.
Oh, and I have no problems with running Bioshock on Vista.
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