Ice Cream Jonsey wrote:

One of the very first things you have to do in this mod is crouch-jump onto a crate. I had completely forgotten that such a thing is possible in the Half-Life-descended engine. Was that originally by design (Valve's design)? Or was that something that was sort of "discovered" ala rocket jumping? Regardless, it's horribly shitty and for someone to go out of their way to make that one of the first things you have to do is mind-boggling. Who the fuck goes through all the trouble to make a TOTAL CONVERSION and then decides that to fuck themselves like that?

The one part I did like was when I encountered the helicopter the second time. It killed me, but after doing so someone from an apartment building shot a rocket at it and avenged my death. Virtually every apartment I have ever been into in a FPS was made up of rats, grime and squalor, so the idea that the locals would put down their SNES controllers and "Natural Light" brand discount 40s and fire an RPG at the chopper creating the ruckus outside was somehow strangely satisfying. In fact, if the entire game had been about a bunch of angry single fathers in the hood shooting down Tomahawks, I think it would have been a much better game. Anyone who said that it rivals Half-Life in story or gameplay as Creexul noted deserves games just like CE.

Urban Terror for Q3 is supposed to be solid, right? I downloaded that last week, I think I'll install it and give that one a go.


the dark and gritty...Ice Cream Jonsey!