RTCW

It's been a while since I had played Return to Castle Wolfenstein, and I sort of forgot how much fun that it was. I really only played it while I was living on Montreal where I had a fast 'net connection. It's one of those games that can be very different every time that you play it, depending on who you are playing with. It can either be very frustrating, or very enjoyable too depending on if your team members are actually working with you. It's one of those games that if you have a good team with mixed classes together (someone to heal, someone to give ammo, an engineer, ...), you can be pretty much unstoppable.

You have to move as a team, work as a team, and help each other to win. I remember when I played the demo (that's the only level I played while in Montreal), a group of four guys who when defended the wall so well because of how they worked together. We weren't able to breach the wall. They would have guys shotting and people standing behind them healing them. It was really cool to watch, and a challenge to play against.

One thing that I doubt is unique to the game, but cool none the less is the ability to "capture" way points that change where you spawn. If you fight well and capture a position, anyone spawning in will show up there. But it's easy for the other side to recapture that position too, which makes it really cool. So much fun, so much time wasted. ;-) One of the funniest things that I liked about the demo was the ability for some classes to throw "smoke cans" to call in an air strike. You put some smoke on one side of a wall, and all of a sudden players get bombed and they didn't see it coming. Ah, the joys of mindless video game violence....

Listening to: Underworld - Born Slippery