This weekend only, pick up Egosoft's X3: Terran Conflict for 50% off, Velvet Assassin for 50% off, and Men of War for 75% off.
Join Amras89 and Hardlydan for game talk and fun! This time, The Gamesmen talk about Steam trolling Call of Duty, the new Unreal Tournament, more crazy Oculus Rift stuff, hackers attacking Operation Supply Drop, Halo 5: Guardians, PC games looking better with age, and the removal of kinect from the Xbox One. Games discussed are Yoshi’s New Island, Rusty’s Real Deal Baseball, Mario’s Golf World Tour, Dr. Luigi, Super Smash Bros. Brawl, Mario Kart Wii, Super Mario World, Back to the Future, Putt Putt Goes to the Moon, Poker Night 2, The Walking Dead Season Two, Dark Souls 2, X3: Terran Conflict, and Jurassic Park.
Hardcore Gamer: Yesterday's Humble Daily Bundle revived the Deep Silver bundle so it made sense to think that they would all be re-releases. Day two proved that to be a faulty train of thought as a brand-new bundle was crafted. This outer space-themed bundle lets you pay what you want for X3: Terran Conflict, while paying more than the average of about $3.50 presently gets you Universe Sandbox.
Gamesta is back with more news about both the Humble bundle people and 1C Company. The two have come together to make this week's Humble sale, which sets up 6 Steam games from the notable publisher, for not even $4.
Might bite on X3, Velvet Assassin not so much.
Men of War is worth it.
VA should be free.
What the hay is Men at War? Has anyone played it?
Was kindof interested in VA but all the negative reviews made me think twice. With the Weekend deal i decided to give it a go and i must say i am really enjoying it. It is not 90-100 game but i really think it didnt deserve the 60 metacritic. Personally id probably go with 75ish. Gameplay feels a little bit like the older Splinter Cells with a little Hitman in the mix. Both games i really like myself.
The game plays best when you try to move silently and stealth kill the enemies. As soon as you need to go into direct combat the awkward shooting/melee controlls kick in and you are dead in seconds. In most cases you can prevent this by observing the surroundings and carefull planning. For example there is a guard that is patroling a line in daylight resting at one end. If you try to take the direct approach you will be spottet because there is glass on the ground that will give you away. The solution is to wait till he is away sneak over the glass and hide in a toilet on the opposite side. When the guard comes back you have a clear path to him. Still you will die alot but with every iteration you can refine your tactic until you can clear all enemies inside a room facing each other without being spotted.
Savepoints are distributed somewhat sparsly which i really didnt like. In general id like twice as many savepoints.
On the plus side are also a veriety of interesting environment kills that keeps things interesting including: electrifying a puddle of water, pulling the pin of some soldiers grenade while he goes back to his buddies and shooting exploding barrels/gas barrels. Sometimes a combination of all of them.
All in all i think the 20€ i spent were well spent.