Battlefield 2142 Retrospective
Battlefield 2142 holds a special place in my heart because it’s the first shooter I was any good at. I’d been playing the Battlefield series since 1942, but I never had a fast enough (read: non-dialup) internet connection to support online play. In 1942 I used to play at infrequent LAN parties at the houses […]
Nimbus Review
—– It begins like many other games — the adversary appears, snatches your girl, and runs away laughing. You raise your fist to the sky, and vow to get her back. This time though, you’re not a sword-wielding hero or a manic plumber. You’re a small brown spaceship. Your girl is a pink spaceship. And […]
Bad Company 2 for iPhone Reviewed
Nine months after Bad Company 2’s successful release on consoles, publishers EA and developers Digital Legends Entertainment released Bad Company 2 for iPhone. At £3, the game isn’t expensive, but how does it compare to other iPhone shooters and Bad Company 2 proper? Let’s have a look at the shooter’s fourteen mission singleplayer campaign, online […]
Tiling Windows – Get a Windows 7 Snap on Windows XP and Vista, OS X, and Linux
Tiling windows can be really useful, allowing you to quickly and easily move and resize windows on your desktop into useful combinations. For example, if you wanted to read a webpage while typing in a document, you could resize the web browser to the left half of the screen and the document to the right. […]
Bad Company 2 Singleplayer Review
Battlefield has never been praised for its singleplayer campaigns. In 1942, you could play a series of World War II battles in chronological order, but there were no characters and no plot, save the wee loading screen text. Battlefield 2 and 2142 didn’t even have a campaign, just a skirmish mode against dim-witted bots. Modern […]
In Your Face Recon
Snipers. We’ve all seen them. They spawn, climb onto a high perch, and start picking off enemies (or at least trying to). They die, they go right back up there. They get involved in low-stakes sniper duels. They occasionally score a lucky hit from miles back, and scream into the headset. They suck. Recon is […]
Vietnam Weapons Guide
Here is a brief introduction to the weapons of Bad Company 2 Vietnam. I used each gun for two rounds each while playing Squad Deathmatch to get a good feel for them. We’ll produce more in-depth guides for each of the new weapons in the coming weeks. I’ve also included short sections on the gadgets […]
Vietnam Squad Deathmatch Tips
Here are a few tips and tricks to help you playing Squad Deathmatch in Vietnam. Keep the high ground – visibility is everything in Vietnam; if you can see them coming then you can likely deal the killing blow first. Stay away from your squad – if you’re in a tight group, you may fall […]