Snow Angel wrote:Call of Duty- I have played either Call of Duty or Call of Duty 2 on the PC, not sure which one. And a little bit of CoD 2 online for my brother (during his Snickers-and-milk breaks). I have played CoD: Big Red One and CoD 3 on the PS2. Big Red One is the best of the Call of Duty games, IMHO.
Those were fun games. I want to say it was COD 1, but one of the games had 3 distinct story arcs. There was one in which you were playing an airborne paratrooper in the 82nd, the 2nd was a British story arc, and the 3rd was in the Soviet theater. That Soviet one's intro was very intense. You start off your missions on a troop barge headed across the river into Stalingrad (I think it was Stalingrad, can't remember) and Stuka dive bombers are flying over you and blowing all the other barges up. To make matters worse you don't even have a weapon and the Commisar running the thing tells you you'll get one as soon as one of the other Soviet troops dies.
Even more warped is that you end up taking intense fire from the Germans (bear in mind you still have no weapon), and if you try to retreat the Commisar will start to shoot at you. Reminds me of that old 80's song..."
Don't turn around....the Commisar's in town"
Snow Angel wrote:I hate the Battle of the Bulge map, I never win on it.
That is a
very tough map. The Germans are swarming at you from every direction, they have better tanks and a more powerful starting position, and the US just doesn't have the numbers to hold them back. I like to grab a sniper rifle and hole up in the windmill when I can. You'd be surprised how much damage you can do just by hopping in a jeep and running over enemy soldiers. The key there is that the US has one really good tank over on the right side of the map in its own little bivouac, and if you get that you can take out a ton of enemy soldiers and even a few Panzers provided you keep reasonably good cover. Of course the CPU soldiers you're allied with never seem to capitalize on this (they're really only good at running around and dying) so at best you'll be able to nail maybe 10-15 troops and up to 3 tanks before you have to bail. Still, very fun map. I still think Wake Island is the best map though.
All this talk of BF1942 is making me give serious thought to loading the old girl up and having another go of it. I've been working through
Starcraft (for the umpteenth time) and I might just put it aside when I get home.
W4J wrote:My computer can only run Bioshock on medium system requirements.
You're preaching to the choir, friend. But who has $2,000 to plop down on a tricked out Alienware PC anymore? My wife would have a coronary when she got the bill.
FFJ wrote:I remember Mike Tyson's Punch Out (currently known as Punch Out featuring Mr Dream).
A Classic among Classics from the golden age of the original NES! I'm rather embarrassed to admit this, but my very first time playing (
waaaaay back in 1986 at the tender age of 14) Glass Joe TKO'd me. There, I said it. You've probably never seen Glass Joe do his little victory dance, but
I have
. Eventually I was able to make it to Mike Tyson himself, but man, that was
work! I made it about 1:30 into the match before he punched me through the wall of the stadium.