Comments on: WorldShift Demo Runs Free On Internet

By: thotaku

thotaku — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 01:06:07 +0000

quite likely the most poorly-thought out demo i’ve ever played. multiplayer only, with no bots and less than 6 games going every time i’ve loaded it.

By: nabeel

nabeel — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 22:55:45 +0000

Kieron, is that narrator in the first vid the guy who gives you the briefing in Hidden & Dangerous?
nabeel

By: po

po — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 20:40:26 +0000

Bloody thing keeps triggering my firewall by trying to access the net, then crashes when I ALT-TAB to get rid of the pop-ups. Is it really that difficult to allow ALT-TABing?

Never mind that…

**** Gamespy and **** your game!

*Goes back to playing SoaSE. Thank you RPS for that one*

By: Nakkila

Nakkila — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 20:15:45 +0000

Tried it, got confused, quit. ADHD.

Maybe reading a faq or such would help, but no ingame button configurations? What does what from where?

I tried a coop mission with two random internet pals from Germany, I suppose (they insisted on talking German). We started near each other with armies of our own and we all died together trying to hurt a giant scorpion. Clearly we didn’t get the idea and just tried something, because there’s no guidance. It’s the 21st century and no hand holding “this is how you use your mouse to look around” tutorials?!

The other game was about some kind of 1on1 basebuilding ‘n stuff, without the basebuilding except for a mine of some sorts, for income. Or I got it wrong. Nevertheless, my opponent left after I lost all my units(?).

Interesting game, tho.

By: Seb Potter

Seb Potter — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 15:54:24 +0000

That narrator reminds me of the narration from the tedious science videos that schools used to use in place of real teaching back in the 70s and 80s, the sort of thing you’d find on the Open University courses on BBC2. It’s almost impossible for me to watch these videos without feeling like I’m being condescended to.

By: Elyscape

Elyscape — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 15:31:38 +0000

@Dan Harris
I’ve been saying it like that for years, so… maybe?

By: Butler`

Butler` — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 13:43:49 +0000

Played the open beta a while back based on the awesome trailers (good to hear an English accent!)

Let’s just say, I find myself using the words “conceptually sound” and “flawed execution” in the same sentence for the nth time this year. ;[

By: Cyrenic

Cyrenic — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 13:41:36 +0000

Watching the co-op trailer, it seems one of the co-op missions separates players for the entire first half of the level. BAD IDEA! Even if you’re combining to fight the boss by the end, you shouldn’t separate players like that in the CO-OP mode :P.

By: araczynski

araczynski — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 13:23:03 +0000

the trailer looked interesting, but the demo was multiplayer only, passing.

By: Paul

Paul — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 13:12:42 +0000

I don’t know if I’m comfortable with that much mmorpg in an rts game. Aggro, tanks, healers, loot drops? Looks like a top down WoW with some cannon fodder units to make it look like an army.

By: Lorc

Lorc — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 12:52:49 +0000

I like to hear it as “mammorpugg”.

By: John P (Katsumoto)

John P (Katsumoto) — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 12:06:27 +0000

Surely it’s just an English voice. But yes!