Lets take a moment and talk about a few highly anticipated FPS games of 2007
Crysis
Crysis is by far the most appealing game when it comes to graphics, Crytek made other anticipated games like Far Cry which was also dipped in a Jungle-ish Rambo kinda look, I can't really tell anything from the game, but I must say I'll be eagerly waiting for the game to come out, since I'll hopefully will be able to play this game on my rig, which also costed me both my legs. Theres one, big downfall for Crysis tho, you'll be needing a BEAST of a PC to play this game of all its glory, since Crysis is really taking extremely much advantage of the PC nowadays, and will only come in the hands of people that have a high-end PC.
Multiplayer will be, interesting atleast, I saw a video at a Nvidea 8800 show and saw that the multiplayer maps are almost just as huge as one island/city from Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, I'll be hoping multiplayer will host alot of players, because I honestly think that only 12-16 players will make the game pretty slowpaced, as I want it to be full of action, vehicles and fastpaced rampage.
Halo 3
Halo is by far, the biggest tourist trap ever made, don't get me wrong, Halo and Halo 2 were alright, but it doesn't live up by how high the fanboys claim all the Halo games. I bought Crackdown just to get in the beta of Halo 3 and I was instantly thinking of Unreal Tournament for some reason, mainly because both games include people dressed in mailboxes and spray a gun, but the only diffrence between UT and Halo is that UT plays right as a MP, because its made to be one, Halo and Halo 2 got the formula not right two times, and I think they get incredibly close from this beta, and with close, I mean getting closer to UT's direction.
Single Player from Halo was always somekind of bonus, I really enjoyed Halo's single player but in Halo 2 it was lacking somewhat, I'm very sure Halo 3 will beat UT with single player, unless UT re-opens and huge cinematic assault mission series.
Unreal Tournament 3/2007
Unreal Tournament is one of the first (next to Doom) games in its genre, it had the formula right in one shot: unlimited online hectic chaos, now over the years the games has been getting better, with Ut04 it made a FPS 'Monster kill' with Onslaught mode.
In the trailers of the new Ut game, I can see that they kept to their formula: unlimited online hectic chaos, now finished of with better graphics and vehicles, I saw a huge Tripod like machine that blew stuff up, so I'll be hoping more vehicles like that come in the game.
I'm really hoping that UT3 will be just as good as any other UT game, and being a fan of all Epic's games (GoW, Unreal series) I'm pretty sure they'll succeed.
Single Player in Ut04 wasn't good, you could pick out a character and battle in the 'Unreal Tournament' against other players in DM mode, which is pretty good if you really was into the UT universe, but everybody just wants CHAOS, and I think UT3 will delives CHAOS, I'm really hoping Single Player now will give you somewhat assault missions like I mentionned above, since they were always the best part of UT apart from CHAOS.
Half-life 2:Episode Two
Half-Life is pretty popular game, it brings alot of interesting features to games, like the physics engine in combination with the great Gravity gun, and HDR lighting (or Bloom if you are lazy).
I'm dissapointed that the Black Box isn't appearing tho, cause I don't feel like paying money for games I already have, but I'm still buying the Orange Box because it still contains Team Fortress 2
According to VALVe, Episode Two will be in White Forest, a forest where I barely know something about, but from the trailers and gameplay movies I'm pretty sure HL2 will step away from Line-ar gameplay and start somewhat freeroaming, seeing that the new muscle car is used to travel long distances.
I'm very sure this segment will be a success, because they are also bringing out a new vehicle, a new weapon and a new enemies, plus a freeroaming forest to explore in and kill combines with.
Team Fortress 2
I never played a TFC game, I only watched user uploaded movies from YouTube to get the idea of the game, I'm pretty sure that old fans of the originial game are going to like this one, because it will make a blast start being a stand-alone game AND with a great overhaul of graphics and physics.
The rock-paper-scissor kinda classes do fairly good in FPS, especially with the classes of TF2 like engineer and Heavyweapon guy, one class can work good and weak against all other opponents in one way or another, thats what makes this a tactical game and I'm waiting for this game to come out, it really looks that good.
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