Games new and old gaming

My gaming has been largely centered around older PC games recently, but to paraphrase Steve Martin in The Jerk, "The demos are here! The demos are here!"

• Unreal Tournament 2004. Faster and with vehicles. w00t!
• Hidden and Dangerous 2. Single player AND multiplayer demos available.

Also, make sure to grab:

• Desert Combat 0.7. Still the finest mod ever made - with no apologies to Counter Strike. Requires the BF1942 1.6 patch.

Speaking of patches, these are pretty useful:

• Rainbow Six 3: Raven Shield 1.53
• Call of Duty 1.2

Finally, Microsoft (of all organizations) has done something really cool. They once had a little-played space sim called Allegiance. On paper, it sounded very cool - there was a lot going on, jumping from tactical team-based play with roles (think BF1942 with everyone in vehicles) to resource management to the ability to pop out into a 3rd-person, RTS-style interface and issue orders. I think my brother-in-law was one of the 12 people who bought it. :)

At any rate, it died due to lack of interest but there is still a hard-core following. In order to keep the Allegiance legacy going, Microsoft has released the complete source code (including comments) to the public. Score one for making old games part of the public domain!

Posted by Dan on February 12, 2004 at 10:50 AM | TrackBack


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Oh that was Allegiance. I simply couldn't place it at all, so I didn't really care too much about the source availability (well, that and the lack of a development environment on Winders, but hey).

I think this year will be the year I finally kick my rustbucket into the round file and get a new machine. Since I can't even play Halo on the thing, there's no way I'll be able to play all this other good stuff coming out.

You guys find that break pedal yet? ;)

Posted by: ColdForged on February 12, 2004 02:51 PM

I think I played Allegiance for a grand total of two hours. The game looked great but the learning curve was too much. Add ADD and my hopeless addiction to Asheron's Call to that and you would understand my lack of interest. I like the idea of them releasing the code for a game that is old and had potential. Wish more people would do that. Then maybe I can play the old Sega Shadowrun game on my computer.

Posted by: Antitheus on February 15, 2004 02:31 PM


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