A 15-year-old schoolboy who murdered his elder brother when he deliberately set fire to their family home in a row over an Xbox computer games console has been imprisoned for 10 years.
Matthew Stringer, then aged 14, launched a revenge arson attack after his family took away his Xbox as punishment for stealing from his elder brother Craig, 24.
He set fire to the family home by pouring white spirit in the hallway and stairs and set it alight by throwing a match through the front-door letter-box. He walked off leaving those inside to their fate.
The three bedroom semi-detached in Kitchin Road, Wombwell, near Barnsley became an inferno trapping six people inside.
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Sheffield Crown Court heard how Matthew calmly watched from the street with his arms folded as the blaze claimed the life of Adam.
Gary told the court: "He was stood about with his hands in his pockets and did not seem bothered."
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During tape recordings of his interviews played to jurors he constantly denied his involvement and said: "I didn't do anything. It wasn't me." When asked by officers about his home life he admitted being a "bit angry" when the family took away his Xbox as punishment.
They don't make games like this anymore.
Too dated in my book. The AI is way too unpredictable to be acceptable today. It's definitely a game of its time.
Agreed with those sentiments. The quality of the CPU controlled characters make or break a stealth game and they are pretty poor in all the Splinter Cell games by today's standard. This is what led me to playing Spies vs Mercs all the time in later games just to get a better stealth experience from a real person. Arguably Sony are making better stealth games albeit not Tom Clancy stuff.
You should stick with fortnite or one of the countless bloodborne style games then. What a joke.
I had a good time with the game. It is a product of its time. But when it came out it was a must have game for a lot of people. I wish Ubisoft would make another game in the series or at least a reboot.
They are making a remake, I think. I loved the original game when it was released, but I tried to play it again in recent years and just couldn't get on with it. The same with the older Hitman games.
Yeah chaos theory still holds up though I gotta say. If you’re a fan of the series I highly suggest you go back to that one. Ubi has said they are remaking sc for “modern audiences”. I don’t have a lot of faith for the future of that company
Due to the lack of modern stealth games, and me constantly playing the MGS series, I've been looking for alternative stealth games to play, and went back and re-played the SC series recently. I wouldn't call SC1 or SC:PT masterpieces, there are AI issues, they're very much trial-and-error games, and that can lead to a lot of frustration. I also found the stories in this series to be boring, uninteresting, and just sloppily told. Cinematics are also of poor quality for both in-game scenes and CG cut-scenes, the soundtrack didn't leave any impression on me either.
Chaos Theory is better, but there was still a lot of room for improvement, and Double Agent (old gen ver.) was a sloppy mess that ended up a regression from CT. But still, at least they tried back then, these days Ubi-junk doesn't even try to make good games!
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Nothing. It's up to the gamers to stop consuming content from companies that they don't agree with.
How do you know if you agree with it or not unless you play it? Which without conventions forces gamers to rely on trailers. Perhaps Demos should be made more frequently. But companies need to do better as well.
But is that not what they have now? Tons of gameplay or are you talking about watching actual gamers play it versus the trailers and streams? The big issue is that some companies pay streamers and influencers and they create content but for me; that is hardly a fair, unbiased, and factual look at a game.
They usually are attached to the money sadly. It would be nice to have gamers in charge but you have so much money invested that business people are needed. Hence the issue; you need people who know business but are also gamers who know have an eye to the community. It sounds simple in theory that if you give gamers quality games that they want to play; money will be made. But that is not always so.
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Only 10 years? *Sigh*
ive read the story and i'm still not impressed, this should not get approved.... silly little bastards..... Yawn.
to kill your older brother over the sake of a games console is just f**ked up.
I wonder if there will be an Xbox in prison for him to play. I know who's going to be playing first.
don't drop ya soap.