50GGS: Cross Fire
Cross Fire (SubaGames, 2009?)
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Is Free always good?
—Visuals—
6 / 10
Graphically, there’s nothing wrong… though, nothing astounding either… just playing the safe card…
—-Audio—-
4 / 10
Sound effects have nothing wrong with it, nothing to really complain about… but there’s just nothing there to make it get stuck in your head like… what Portal has done
—Gameplay—
6 / 15
Being a full on MOFPS with strong similarities to Counter-Strike and no doubt…. it is far too similar to Counter-Strike. It has been popular for a reason. Feels like a near copy with a couple of noticeable differences.
There’s a lot of grind, for the grind-o-holics, good enough to help you to kill loads of time… if you are after it… though the main complaint has been the number of hacker and whingers within the game… But come on… nearly all the pro servers I go on…. there’s either one or the other that seems to ruin it for the others… With the hackers… they are damn near impossible to weed out… how about they learn to come up with a cheat detector of their own… Just a thought…
—Longevity—
2 / 5
With the hackers + grinding + latency issues… maybe… for me… I’ll go back to TF2
—Stab Time—
5 / 10
Woo!
Grind
For absolute FPS fanatics
Interesting Maps
At least they have a female character in the game
Bigger gun selection than Counter Strike
It is free (is that even a good thing?)
Boo!
Too many Hackers & Whingers
Grind-tastic
No Oceania servers…
Horrible Latency
nProtect is just rubbish
Just a CS clone
Lack of maps
No mapping community to keep the game going
Lag shots = instant miss + instant unknown death
—Summary—
V: 6 / 10
A: 4 / 10
G: 6 / 15
L: 2 / 5
S: 5 / 10
Total: 23 / 50
I’ll stick to Counter Strike Source with the Warcraft mod on it, that’s a fun grind!
Cross Fire (SubaGames, 2009?)
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An Online FPS that’s a mock of Counter Strike, what fun…
First to start off… I have no idea as to why I even bothered to check this game out… maybe for laughs mainly… but hell… now that I’ve play tested out this game, it comes down to the point of just reviewing it and then back stab it for being good, bad, or just plain old crap…
Cross Fire is a multiplayer online First Person Shooter with the intent of just copying Counter Strike in most ways but with different maps, graphics, visuals, characters, teams, characters (except for SAS… ha!) slightly more items but the biggest grind up the arse of any MOFPSes which ever existed… which I think… must be just two… though… still, couldn’t be bothered playing those… wait… just one now! The slate is now a blank slate and gone bye bye!
What makes this game different from that blank slate is the fact that it is just a pure clone of Counter-Strike with idiocracy level scaled to high, makes the noobs just piss off regular players…
The game modes within this game include Free-for-all, Team Death Match, Elimination, Sabotage, Detonation (or whatever the hell it is) and ghost mode. All of these game modes are self explanatory with the exception of ghost mode where the evil team are invisible and can only knife whilst the other team goes out and goes all guns blazing… until they run outta ammo. Also, something to the mention of blowing something up.
Initial jumping in, everything seems fine and dandy until I noticed a lag or above normal latency, but it seems okay so powering on, going through the tutorial system… I must say… it isn’t professional FPS friendly and I was instantly lost within the first section until I realised what was going on… then comes bonus credits to purchase a weapon… If I had of known, I wouldn’t have actually bothered to purchase a gun… but being lost… I purchased one… but it was still good…
If I had of been told that you would of initially started off with the standard M4, sniper rifle plus a few grenades to boot… I wouldn’t of actually bought any guns… but hell… at least there was a decent amount of guns.
This game with a free-to-play MOFPS, this has a really frustrating grinding system to get people to pay of get some stuff and keep things exclusive to ranks or whatnot to maybe… get some to people to actually pay to play things with a slight advantage, but given that it is free… I wonder if it was actually worth my time play this game at all… but never-the-less… all this pondering doesn’t actually get to the nitty-gritty of how the game is actually like, so might as well get to the game now…
Starting off with a flying start, I started off gun blazing and just did whatever like an absolute idiot without the need to care about the surroundings by attacking anything that I saw, including friendlies since this doesn’t actually tell me anything. Thinking that it was a game that was heavily populated by novices… but it was just the server itself, remember to move to another server if you think that a lot of people are complete novices as a side note.
The graphics within the game is okay for a free MOFPS, clipping being absolutely horrible and there is the constant problem of running into team mates, causing a great deal of grief more times than not. Death animation just a static bugger and does the same thing over and over, making Counter Strike the option all round with the occasional death-defying (quite literally) impossible death poses ever, creating comical situations at the best of times. With one single death pose, gets boring and the respawn times… meh… though, they have tackled the issue about spawn campers by giving them invincibility for a small amount of time.
This game being new and all, have come across two major annoying groups… Hackers and Whingers… I could of chosen the word noobs, but there have been some quiet and honourable novices around, so whingers it is…
nProtect is attached to this game and “was” suppose to get rid of the hackers… but it just doesn’t stop them… so… question… why doesn’t it stop the hackers from ruining the game? Maybe another system that seems more worthy and a bit more cost effective… Use that instead… geez…
Whingers… the same level of idiocracy as the hackers and can just as be destructive due to the tendency to spam false accusations about players is more annoying than say the smell of crap… you know it is there and maybe it is more preferable than the whingers. Anyone disagree with that?
Some of the audio within the game, I can’t disagree with, but it isn’t that good either… but meh…
The grinding within the game does try to keep players in, but I’m into the casual and intense stand-offs or land stands, so it is either Counter-Strike of Team Fortress 2 which does perform better… plus Team Fortress 2 is having the updates coming out.
—Summary—
V: 6 / 10
A: 4 / 10
G: 6 / 15
L: 2 / 5
S: 5 / 10
VAGLS: 23 / 50
46%
So, if you live the grind… Then go for this game… I’m just going to go at this game for a little while more until I can’t stomach the game…
