Womble is CREAMING the rest of you! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" /> nobody else is on the same lap as him at the moment <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/devil.gif" alt="" /> pull into the pits, refuel, change your tyres, drink a few pints of ale, or do whatever it needs to give this man a worthwhile race..
Hmm - clearly I’m five laps down and driving an Austin 7, with not much hope of catching Womble’s Ferrari. But perhaps I can cause him to make a mistake and crash into the barrier next time he comes round. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/evilgrin1.gif" alt="" />
I rather suspect that taking on Womble will be writing my own death sentance… um.. santence... er.. sentence… but I’m just going to have to risk it… <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/delight.gif" alt="" />
What did he pick – Starcraft – well there’s a potential oil slick on the track for a start. I’ve never played Starcraft, and as I’ve been playing computer games for at least 150 years and have played all the coolest games, then Starcraft can’t possibly be the coolest game of all time…. Whereas I picked ..um .. what was it now …. Baldur’s Gate…. Aah… OK.. that was clearly a typing error..
What I meant was Far Cry – yes, Far Cry – fast, furious, plenty of genuine brown trouser moments, not all of it blatantly copied Half Life, splendid jungle graphics, and some fun moments running down monsters in jeeps and jumping over lava streams that brought tears of laughter to my eyes. Also AI that was almost believable at times – particularly the time that I opened the door of a hut I’d already checked once and found some enemy grunt RIGHT IN MY FACE. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" /> It’s not often that a game causes me to squeal like a schoolgirl with a rat in her hair and requires me to be scraped off the ceiling with a plastering trowel… <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/ohh.gif" alt="" />
Discovering that one of the most irritating bosses in the game could be killed quite easily by shooting him in the nuts instead of the head, that was good too… <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggrin.gif" alt="" /> Well, OK not quite ‘discovering’, more like reading it on a forum and then finding out it was true. Yes, lots of amazingly cool moments in Far Cry, and a worthy winner of Coolest computer game of all time.
Am I on the same lap yet? <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/question.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/think.gif" alt="" />
