Actually, Tom Clancy has had a couple of gems recently.
Raven Shield, even though it's hardly more than a smoothed-over regurgitation of Rainbow Six, is a truly great game to play. I have it in my college apartment and my two roomates play it more than I do. One of them prefers to go through the level lone-wolf style, which takes patience and precision firing, and the other likes to play with full teams, which is usually easier but requires tactical planning.
Not to mention the fact that the weapons are all great accurate models of the real thing and that this game basically succeds in realism and replayability where America's Amry fell flat on its face in the mud of the trenches. Innovative? Well, no, technically it was the Team-oriented design of the original Rainbox Six that was original, but since this game goes even further in that direction, it's really nice.
Second, need I mention Splinter Cell? Not only does it look ridiculous, it also gets my heart pumping. This is a truly innovative game, and I don't care what anyone says about "Thief." There are umpteen ways to finish any level, and after I complete one I go back to do it again, trying to increase my firing accuracy or kill fewer people. CS is not the -only- innovation in the past few years.
This has been going on since 12/31/02 with Phish. They started by releasing all of their New Year's run (Madison Square Garden 12/31, Hampton Coliseum 1/02 - 1/04) about two days after the show. The copies weren't re-mixed, it was just the soundboard guy's mix of the shows. Of course, Phish makes you pay for it, but it's much less money than a CD costs - the three-cd shows run around $13. They're also going to release their entire winter tour in the same fashion. Fans are excited about it, and I think it's definitely a step in the right direction, a way to have further control of their own "intellectual property," however false I believe that term to be.
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This is nothing more than a script kiddie giving the linux world bad publicity. How often is it that a whiny, opinionated, immature h4ck3r convinces a corporation to change OS paradigms?
Clearly, the way for us Linux zealots to take over the world is the same way the Russians gave Napoleon the smack-down: we just have to wait until MS products begin to weaken companies' infrastructures (uh, kinda like freezing your ass off in a Siberian winter, kinda) and THEN maybe we can hire John Doe to send out an e-mail worm or something.
Blah, I don't know. I'm just very unimpressed with this.
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Actually, Tom Clancy has had a couple of gems recently.
Raven Shield, even though it's hardly more than a smoothed-over regurgitation of Rainbow Six, is a truly great game to play. I have it in my college apartment and my two roomates play it more than I do. One of them prefers to go through the level lone-wolf style, which takes patience and precision firing, and the other likes to play with full teams, which is usually easier but requires tactical planning.
Not to mention the fact that the weapons are all great accurate models of the real thing and that this game basically succeds in realism and replayability where America's Amry fell flat on its face in the mud of the trenches. Innovative? Well, no, technically it was the Team-oriented design of the original Rainbox Six that was original, but since this game goes even further in that direction, it's really nice.
Second, need I mention Splinter Cell? Not only does it look ridiculous, it also gets my heart pumping. This is a truly innovative game, and I don't care what anyone says about "Thief." There are umpteen ways to finish any level, and after I complete one I go back to do it again, trying to increase my firing accuracy or kill fewer people. CS is not the -only- innovation in the past few years.
This has been going on since 12/31/02 with Phish. They started by releasing all of their New Year's run (Madison Square Garden 12/31, Hampton Coliseum 1/02 - 1/04) about two days after the show. The copies weren't re-mixed, it was just the soundboard guy's mix of the shows. Of course, Phish makes you pay for it, but it's much less money than a CD costs - the three-cd shows run around $13. They're also going to release their entire winter tour in the same fashion. Fans are excited about it, and I think it's definitely a step in the right direction, a way to have further control of their own "intellectual property," however false I believe that term to be. livephish.com
This is nothing more than a script kiddie giving the linux world bad publicity. How often is it that a whiny, opinionated, immature h4ck3r convinces a corporation to change OS paradigms?
Clearly, the way for us Linux zealots to take over the world is the same way the Russians gave Napoleon the smack-down: we just have to wait until MS products begin to weaken companies' infrastructures (uh, kinda like freezing your ass off in a Siberian winter, kinda) and THEN maybe we can hire John Doe to send out an e-mail worm or something.
Blah, I don't know. I'm just very unimpressed with this.