Catch22: Last week I got bored and decided to go see if there had been any more recent games bumped to freeware by their makers. While perusing the lists of flop, bug ridden or poorly timed release titles of yesteryear I bumped into this gem. Now Full Spectrum Warrior was a title I had heard about but it had been hidden in the combat-sim saturated market at the time so I didn’t really give it a shot. It’s been released as an ad supported game and at a paltry 1.6 gig download I thought why not. I mean, i do like free.
After doing some reading while the install was chugging away I discovered that Full Spectrum Warrior was originally developed for the US Army as a training tool. Its purpose was to prepare soldiers and potential recruits (that’s you btw) for different types of combat operations. The game was later criticized for being unrealistic and not useful its intended purpose. Read the rest of this entry »
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Maroo: Ok, here we go again, another “search through the ruins of a forgotten civilization in South America only to find the Spanish conquistadors, who didn’t in fact leave the place hundreds of years ago, have risen as monsters under a curse to fight you for trying to steal their treasure” game… tell me that hasn’t been done before. All right, so it has a somewhat original storyline. And by somewhat I mean ever so slight twist of lime flavour in a glass of ice water type somewhat. It’s given this game a slightly different taste to others within its genre. 
