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    your 2007 gaming highlights

    just wondering what your gaming highlights were this year?
    mine as follows:

    XBOX 360
    FORZA 2 - wow. this game is exactly how a racing game should be. realistic, a great sense of speed, and visually good to boot.
    totally love this game and its subtleties ref handling etc, its very addictive and is prolly the game i spent most time on this year!

    Playstation 3:
    Uncharted - Drakes Fortune - Combine stop 'n' pop GoW style with tombraider and this is what you get. brilliant gameplay, stunning visuals. When im looking at buying multi format titles, i always seem to be pointed to wards buying them for my 360, they look and play better, with smoother frame rates and better online. But im noticing with ps3 if you buy a platform exclusive title, they really shine. Drakes fortune truly shows what the ps3 is capable of and im loving it!

    PC - Virtua tennis 3 - my loly P-M 740 and geforce go 6800 equiped lappy struggles to play much these days, but this game ran beautifully, and looks as good as the console versions. RESULT!

    so then, thats me, what floated your boat this year..........
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    Re: your 2007 gaming highlights

    mine had to be selling in my high end pc componenets to buy a 360
    always slagged of consoles but 2007 was the year that i finally became a console guy
    current 360 highlights
    Forza 2 PGR4 Assassins creed

    pc highlights
    call of duty 4 virtua tennis 3

    there was also some major downs for me too
    1st spending £900 on a quad core and dx10 card+ vista to run crysis at medium at 1280


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    Re: your 2007 gaming highlights

    There is already a thread about the best games of 2007, but I don't rate most of the games I've played in the last year. But there where some highlights that I could mention seeing as they are just highlights and don't mean I loved the game overall. Also, some of these games might not have been made in 2007, but this is the year I played them:

    1) Test Drive Unlimited - I always get bored of racing games after a couple of weeks, and this is no exception... but I did really enjoy it at first. Being able to drive around a nice looking island is great. I'm not hemmed in by fake indestructible walls or hedges or whatever. It was nice. Similar to the new GTA games.

    2) STALKER. I disliked it overall, because about half way through, it all went horribly wrong imo. But the first hour was one of the best bits of gaming I have ever experienced. You do that first little farm, which was fun and really challenging. I then did some other bits and bobs, but my next major goal was after I found a railway line that I couldn't cross, except for a small bit under a bridge, and some bad guys had sealed the bridge area like a chokepoint, and they where patrolling it. I wanted to get past, but most of all, I wanted to kill them all so I could take their gear. But I was really under powered and only had a pea shooter, and they all had machine guns. Nearby there is a little house, and I started taking shots at them out of that house. They all got together and started an assault on the house like a real team of mercenaries... the AI was great, and they worked together and did a proper assault on the house, like a trained team of soldiers. Some went ahead to try to flush me out, and some stayed back to provide cover. I was amazed. But the best bit.. is that I ran out the back door and ran in a huge circle and did a big loop all the way around to the other side, which was where they where attacking from... To my amazement, the AI was realistic so they didn't see me leave the house and they where still attacking the house, without me in it! I was then attacking them from behind. I quietly killed one of the guys who stayed back to provide cover, and he dropped a machine gun and a grenade... I grabbed his stuff and then I approached the house too. The bad guys where just about to storm in to the house together, so I chucked the grenade and it took a few of them out, and then I had a huge firefight with the remaining guys, using the machine gun I stole. When I had killed them all, I realised it was one of the best things I've ever done in a game. Usually in about 99&#37; of FPS's, everything is scripted, or it is so linear that it is just me running through a bunch of corridors with people jumping out at me or standing guard at various stages. Even the mighty Halflife 2 was pretty much like that. STALKER was different though. The enemies where humans so it wasn't any of that silly alien rubbish where they take 500 rounds to take down. The AI was realistic and it was like they could really see and hear, and behaved like real people. And most importantly of all, was the free nature of the world. It was really out in the open, so there where lots of flanking manoeuvres, and being sneaky and taking cover behind trees etc.. is as important as being a good aim. Really great stuff. Shame I felt that it went wrong about half way through.

    3) Desktop Tower Defense
    NOT to be confused with another game which has a very similar name! This one is one of the best games I've seen for ages.

    3) Portal. Everything about it was just amazing. It's more than a game of the year imo. It's like a game of the decade. It gives me hope for gaming, when I see creativity and presentation like that.

    4) World In Conflict - Another game that I don't really like overall, but there are things about it which I loved. The camera view is surely the future of RTS gaming. Playing something like COH, C&C, or Supreme Commander etc... all just feels so restricted now. Being able to actually fly around the battlefield and look at everything from any angle... just makes it a completely different experience. You can technically do most of that stuff with the other games, but it just isn't controlled the same way. The way WIC does it, you feel like you are actually there, and you are flying around the battlefield. In the other games, it just feels like you are controlling an areal camera which is on rails or something. Also, I really enjoyed the single player. The multiplayer is where I have problems with the game. It needs other modes really, like the traditional RTS games. Just controlling half a dozen tanks or choppers, just doesn't cut it... The line about it all being about working as a team, just doesn't fly with me. That should be a secondary thing, the main thing should be learning to win battles, and there isn't much learning to do when all you have is a few units. That's why I really liked the single player campaign... because it wasn't just about sitting off in a little artificial circle.. You actually got to control a LOT more units, and you had to fight all over the map, so it was a lot more like a real RTS. Without the game focusing in that direction more, it just ended up being like an RTS-lite. But the single player campaign, a week's worth of multiplayer, and that camera... are a highlight for me.

    5) Crysis: The actual game is a bit hit and miss in some ways, but technically it was amazing. Seeing that for the first time, is a gaming highlight more impressive than I have never experienced before really. Running around that beach in the demo and realising what you could do, and how good it all looked, just amazed me.

    6) Gothic 3: Nice in some ways. The freedom etc. Overall though, not really impressed. I preferred Gothic 2. But still, I played this game very early this year, and yet I still sometimes think back to it. So it did have some highlights.

    7) Virtua Tennis 3 - I agree with what you said I don't normally like sports games, but I got a lot of fun from this one.

    Few other highlights too but I can't remember them now.
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    Re: your 2007 gaming highlights

    I must agree Portal was a breath of fresh air in pc gaming. but I loved Episode 2. Opened up so many more questions in the series and added more gameplay variations for an fps.

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    Re: your 2007 gaming highlights

    I wouldn't get too hopeful about games like Portal arriving by the bucketload in the future though, there's only a certain amount of times games like Portal can be done really.

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    Re: your 2007 gaming highlights

    Portal and TF2...

    Company of Heroes actually. I realise its a 2006 game, but I picked it up early in the year and absolutely LOVED it.

    I cant really think of anything else....I'm getting the Witcher and hopefully CoD4 but that's it!

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    Re: your 2007 gaming highlights

    I never did get the COH bug. I quite like it but I never got hooked enough to love it. It just seemed like another RTS only on a smaller scale in some ways. There are no planes or choppers besides the strikes you can call in. No ships, no subterranian units, no EMP pulses and nukes and ION cannons etc. It just all seemed a bit simple. I wonder if that's why people liked it so much, because it takes RTS's back to basics? I might play it again and see if I get hooked.

    I finally just finished HL2: Episode 2. I have seen a lot of people talking about how they liked it, and I got bored after the first hour or so, and I hadn't played it since. But people told me it gets better so I went back, and it did get better. Still not amazing, but it was pretty cool. Better than the first episode, and it's got me excited about the third episode. I really like Valve, and I like how these episodes are adding real story and characters to FPS's, rather than just mindless shooting. The ending really surprised me :O I would really like to see them go out with a bang though, make an epic 3rd episode, but then let the Halflife 2 thing rest. They need to bring out a more modern graphics engine and I'd also like to see them push the FPS genre forwards a bit. If anyone can do it, they can.

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