RTCW2

I’ll keep this brief as i can’t be stuffed doing a long review. After much anticipation i picked up RTCW2 this week. There has been a fair bit of hype and bluster about this game and with mixed accounts from the leaked beta i wasn’t really sure what to expect.

First impressions of the multiplayer version are: – the interface and game browser blow. – the game itself isn’t bad. it feels a bit clumsy to start with but so did etqw. – In terms of pace it is no where near as quick as et but is probably on par with etqw. – not sure what to make of the whole vail thing. i like my games relatively simple (et is still the best game ever in my books) so it is hard to adapt to this new dimension. – weapons seem fine but i haven’t played with all of them yet. – there seem to be a lot of lag spikes in game with players going to 999 ping for no apparent reason and servers failing.

First impressions of the singleplayer version are: – getting it to work was a pain in the arse. – have only played a little bit so far (as it has taken ages to get the farker to work) but what i have i liked.

in general: – don’t buy this at the moment unless you are willing to put up with all the bugs and issues. it definitely needs more work and hopefully there will be patches to resolve all of the obvious issues. – support really sux for the game with the community providing proving to be the only source of help thus far providing solutions in the form of workaorunds etc – having said all the above, i think this game has heaps of promise and i actually quite like it. It is bloody frustrating though that it doesn’t function as it should out of the box.

If anyone else does buy it and has hassles, let me know and i’ll link you to the solutions i found for browser, sp etc

Also pro is out in beta form now; so there is hope!!