A group of my friends and I have invested several hours playing multiplayer Sin. We all agree that although it's not the best first person shooter (that honor goes to UT), it is probably one of the most under-rated first person multiplayer games.
The weapons are great. It's got the self-guided rocket (similar to what you can do with the Redeemer's secondary fire in UT except it's just a standard rocket), the 'nuke', sniper rifle, concussion gun, and many others I just cannot remember (It's been a while since we've played). In fact, many of the cool features found in UT were features available in Sin. Coincidence?
Also available is a power-up that turns you into an incredibly fast and mean beast that can tear your enemy to pieces in no time flat. Most weapons have an alternate mode (my biggest complaint of all of the Quake games). And in several of the CTF maps you have access to the same mounted machine guns found in the helicopter in the first level of single player mode. Very cool.
Oh yeah, and you can also punch and kick in the absence of a weapon. At times, we would just say "Ok, just fists!" and all run to a certain point in a level and just duke it out. It kicked ass!
But probably the coolest thing of all is in the add-on pack 'Wages of Sin' (hopefully this will be ported to Linux also). In several of the Wages multi player levels there were hoverbikes! You could hop on one of these vehicles and 'fly' around the level about 1-2 feet off the ground shooting rockets, lasers, or dropping mines for anyone following you. You could ram each other, shoot each other off the bikes, or shoot the bikes out from underneath someone (credit one frag for that feat!). You could jump off the bike and get to a high spot and just snipe the bikers if you wanted to. The possibilities are limitless. I have not seen anything like those hoverbikes in any other first person shooter. And I don't know why. They were so much fun. And they weren't unbalanced like it thought they might be a first. If someone was just dominating on a bike, hop on one yourself. Or if the bike is slowing you down, jump off.
Ahhh, the days of sinning. Looks like I'm going to have to get the gang together again;)
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La Caille's Entree Menu
Champignon Ravioli - Twenty-Nine
Veau aux Champignons - Forty-Nine
Carré d'Agneau - Fifty-Seven
Filet Café de Paris - Sixty-Six
Yeah, I guess that's pretty expensive...
Menage de Trios - Financing Available
*choke* WTF?!?! Do I need a copy of my credit report?
A group of my friends and I have invested several hours playing multiplayer Sin. We all agree that although it's not the best first person shooter (that honor goes to UT), it is probably one of the most under-rated first person multiplayer games.
The weapons are great. It's got the self-guided rocket (similar to what you can do with the Redeemer's secondary fire in UT except it's just a standard rocket), the 'nuke', sniper rifle, concussion gun, and many others I just cannot remember (It's been a while since we've played). In fact, many of the cool features found in UT were features available in Sin. Coincidence?
Also available is a power-up that turns you into an incredibly fast and mean beast that can tear your enemy to pieces in no time flat. Most weapons have an alternate mode (my biggest complaint of all of the Quake games). And in several of the CTF maps you have access to the same mounted machine guns found in the helicopter in the first level of single player mode. Very cool.
Oh yeah, and you can also punch and kick in the absence of a weapon. At times, we would just say "Ok, just fists!" and all run to a certain point in a level and just duke it out. It kicked ass!
But probably the coolest thing of all is in the add-on pack 'Wages of Sin' (hopefully this will be ported to Linux also). In several of the Wages multi player levels there were hoverbikes! You could hop on one of these vehicles and 'fly' around the level about 1-2 feet off the ground shooting rockets, lasers, or dropping mines for anyone following you. You could ram each other, shoot each other off the bikes, or shoot the bikes out from underneath someone (credit one frag for that feat!). You could jump off the bike and get to a high spot and just snipe the bikers if you wanted to. The possibilities are limitless. I have not seen anything like those hoverbikes in any other first person shooter. And I don't know why. They were so much fun. And they weren't unbalanced like it thought they might be a first. If someone was just dominating on a bike, hop on one yourself. Or if the bike is slowing you down, jump off.
Ahhh, the days of sinning. Looks like I'm going to have to get the gang together again;)
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