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The Sharkoon Xtatic Headset arrived and …

The Sharkoon Xtatic Headset arrived and I played two games of Modern Warfare 2 with them. Sound quality is great, although mid to high range sounds are missing a bit of “oomph”. They need a bit more bass. The subwoofer does a great job with booming explosions however!

Unfortunately at this time of day it was really hard to find a game, so I had to play on rust where it’s so small that players are all around you making noise. The next game on Favela was better, and I clearly heard footsteps clomping up the stairs 🙂

All in all, my first impressions are good, the sound is immersive. I noticed the wind blowing on rust and other atmospherics that I never heard before when playing with a stereo headset. There are a ton of settings I don’t know about so I’ll need to experiment with those to find the best ones.

I’d buy Armalyte if I had a PC

Armalyte, a horizontal shooter from the glory days of the C64 was and still is a firm favourite of mine. It was bloody hard, but I think I got about half way through the game. I knew there was a remake coming but not sure when. Well, it’s out now.

JUSTONEMOREGAME has posted a glowing review and now I’m sad that I blasted my Windows partition when I upgraded my laptop’s drive. I can’t play it!

Edit in 2023: I did buy it in a bundle. Unfortunately it played at double speed and I couldn’t get it to work properly. I still love the original C64 version.

Battlefield 1943

I own a few digital downloads. Trials HD, Splosion Man and Battlefield 1943. Of the three I haven’t played Bf1943 that much, probably because I have MW2 to keep me busy, and I can play Trials and Splosion Man when my son is around. (Ask him about Splosion Man, he loves watching that!)

Above is a gameplay video by NextGenTactics. It’s from last July. I really should try to play more it before Bad Company 2 comes out!

Extra game modes in Modern Warfare 2

Modern Warfare 2 has extra game modes! Sort of!

Gladiators

This has to be my favorite .. and it’s customary to shout out ” I’M RUSSEL CROWE ” or “FIGHTIN’ ROUND THE WORLD” …

How to play : Everybody equips riot shields and throwing knives , nobody is allowed use their secondary … This results in an epic battle of riot shields..
(for added fun , have everyone throw smoke grenades and fight in the mist like Spartans)

(From here)

MW2 Strategy for Estate TDM (FAMAS)

Geoff show some tactics for Estate TDM on Modern Warfare 2 that I used last night and worked fairly well.

I had an interesting match as 99% of the time in Estate everyone seems to attack and defend in the large house but in this game 3 enemy holed up in one of the other buildings. A sniper even set himself upstairs in the attic too. He killed me the first time I stumbled in there but I came back, sneaked up on him and looked down at him for a few seconds before swiping my knife.

Should have used scavenger because I ran out of ammo shortly after, I use far too much of it sometimes. I also should have used my assault class with ninja pro instead of commando after I was killed by a heart beat sensor wielding m16.

It was a tough night, in another game on Rundown I came out top of my team with 13 kills, and 11 deaths. Needless to say we lost!

Oh yeah, if you invert the Y axis on your controller, watch out when you’re guiding the predator missile. The Y axis is inverted there too! After a few disastrous attempts I gave up and went back to the sentry gun. *sigh*

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