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Whilst browsing Gamestation for some new games (woah!), I stumbled across Warcraft III, along with the Frozen Throne expansion, for £3.99 (bogof, used)! A few minutes later and I realised that there wasn't anything else worth picking up, so I purchased the two.

You may have read that I've been looking for decent games to play over the LAN at home, as by mid-September there will be 4 of us living in the house, each with our own computer - ideal for some late-night gaming.

Warcraft III is famous for its LAN abilities, so last night as an alternative to Age of Empires, we decided to try it out. To cut a long story short, I won (again!), but the game was a lot more entertaining for both of us.

Warcraft III is another RTS, just like AOE, but whereas AOE requires you to spend time building up a huge army and then attack - Warcraft III allows you to attack pretty much constantly, improving as you go. The building and gathering elements of the game are relatively simple too, allowing the gamer to quickly re-establish a unit if needed.

Tonight we'll hopefully have another go, getting used to the game a bit more. I've also located my copy of Red Alert 2, which will add a bit more variety to the RTS collection. Dawn of War is somewhere, but I reckon it wont run smoothly enough on the SFF PCs and may be too fast paced/gory for some.

The only problem is, we're still on RTS games. Maybe that's a good thing, afterall the gameplay is essentionally the same from game-to-game. I'll be happier when we're all playing Counter-Strike : Source though...

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"by mid-September there will be 4 of us living in the house" Eh?! what you on about?! You mean 5 living in the house! Dont forget i need somewhere to live cum september...

get this beta demo http://www.gamershell.com/news/32263.html Its from the creators of dawn of war and its the pimpshitznass. Only prob gonna run good on your red 19 incher, but its next gen baby yeah!

My pooter stuff still delayed....this is a joke..they've not even bothered to contact me this time and tell me its delayed.... i cant be arsed to cancel order either but im confident it will arrive mid next week, other wise i fooking will cancel it. (come on Scan Computers!).

Adamskii


Sorry! 5!

I'll cross my fingers for you, so that it does arrive. I wouldn't blame it on Scan, I'd blame it on Intel for not giving you first dibs on their new CPUs!

BTW, you can sleep in the garage if you want, as it is nice and dry in there now...

Matt


Woowoooo! I like the garage better then the greenhouse!

It's not scans fault I know...Im just Mr sad sack :( Id rather be happysack! New Monitor Today woowoo should keep me going..! Yay now Im happysacks!

Adamskii


What monitor did you get? You could do Dual now!

Matt


BTW - have you made up your choice on GPU? I'm guessing you are waiting for DX10, but if not, you could give this one a go?

Matt


"get this beta demo http://www.gamershell.com/news/32263.html Its from the creators of dawn of war and its the pimpshitznass. Only prob gonna run good on your red 19 incher, but its next gen baby yeah!"

Bollocks - went to download it just now and it's been pulled by the publisher.

Just finished downloading the Prey Demo, along with Lego Star Wars 2 Demo and Caeser IV demo - should give me a bit more to try out on my Red Nineteen incher, as you say...

Matt


Pulled by publisher lol It was a fileplanet special thing i was suprised to see it on gamershell! Never Mind the demo should be out again just b4 the games release on sept 11th or soemthing.

Tamsin bought a samsung 940mw and i gave her my monitor and paid extra for this monitor (lost?). So now i own the samsung and she has my old one. I got a much better deal there :) Im pretty chuffed with it so far, its a 19 incher widescreen with a built in tv tuner and is hd ready. Just what i needed really for 360 in widescreen and good monitor too, also feeding the tv thru it using a picture in picture feature so can watch tv and piss aboot on pooter. I like!!

As far as graphics cards go i totally changed my mind about directx10 and swiftly forgot about it. Ive had this graphics card: http://www.hisdigital.com/html/product_ov.php?id=227&view=yes Sitting in my room for the past 2 weeks awaiting all the other dam components... :(

Adamskii


Spend that resource as fast as you gather it! Just like life really.... Im broke! :(

adamskii


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