Yeah, they could make awesome updates of Midwinter and Carrier Command for the PC, with multiplayer modes etc they could very well make me wanna buy PC games again. Put simply, I love FPS games, but I only play them on the X-Box on multiplayer - because single player FPS games are so mind-numbingly similar that I can't get into them anymore, co-op modes enhance gameplay a great deal for me. If we had multiplayer games with more freedom, I'd invest in broadband and join the 21st century.
The most original FPS game I ever played was Corporation on the Atari ST (by Core Design), the controls were stupid, it was slow - but it had this freedom element that made it totally cool. For example, in a modern PC FPS, to pick a lock, or do anything - its usually a case of pressing a button until a little bar goes up. Yawn. In Corporation, you had keypads, and a little digital number display, you'd have to click on the buttons with the right combination to open the door - either by finding it out, or you could overlay a lockpick thing that cycled through all the numbers for you, or you could try and guess the combo yourself. I love gadgets like that in games, it even had a hologram viewer - you'd put in a hologram image and try and get clues from it, like in Bladerunner. I miss that stuff, I miss having to draw maps and work things out mentally, it makes it so much more rewarding when you finish a game - it's like the challenge is gone and if there was anything like that in a modern PC game it would get slated as bad gameplay.
Van-B
I laugh in the face of fate!
