Wait, wait... You can jump from rooftops and not hurt yourself? Like I pointed out after the initial PR trailer and got flamed for saying?
If I've understood you correctly, then consider this my "I told you so" to all those who bought into the hype. I'm going to go and smirk now.
Well not really mate. All thats required is to alter the settings. I beleived I mentioned the equivalent of CKR (crow king realism) oh a few times LOL. =IcM= play both MOHAA and RO in the following flavours:
1 RO
2 RO with match mutators
3 RO with realism mutators (1 life only)
4 MOHAA patched to version 1.11 with CKR and DMW anti cheat.
5 MOHAA freezetag
6 MOHAA CTF
The point of this is to say that we don't play the game 'out of the box' we mod it via 3rd party mods to get what we want. To moan about how far you can fall without taking damage in Airborne is almost as pointless as moaning that RO is a respawn game. Both can easily be altered.
It appears (and I'm sure few will disagree) that the
present form of Airborne is primarily aimed at the single player market (further,at the console owning single player market). Until the fabled MP patch is released any further comments are pointless. I could witter on about how crappy the SINGLE player element of RO is but I'd be missing the point wouldn't I..... As we ALL know, RO is meant as a multi player game, whereas at the moment at least, Airborne is a SP game with slight leaning towards MP. Don't even mention the public servers as they are not run and adminned by clans who have an interest in them.
I just can't understand, I genuinely can't, why people are trying to compare the two games. Beyond the fact that they concentrate on the same era and are both FPS's, there is NO similarity. They have different target audiences. Its almost and I stress ALMOST like peeps are trying to defend
their game by justifying it and its mechanics. Listen carefully: THERE IS NOTHING TO JUSTIFY AND NO REAL COMPARISON!!!!. Its OK to like either game, its also OK to like both!!. Why the constant sniping?. I like Rugby Union, both playing it, refereeing it and watching it on the telly, it doesn't mean that I say that anyone who likes watching/playing Football has no idea of what they're talking about, and that Football is only a game for idiots who can't handle a REAL game (actually I do LOL but thats another story
)
There are far more important things to be worried about: Those who think that even playing a FPS leads to some sort of irrevocable descent int violent behaviour. Those who justify releasing a half finished game on the basis that it "can be patched". Those who develop a new game, find it won't work on current technology and blithely inform the paying public that they will not only have to pay for the game that junior wants, they'll also have to buy him a new graphics card and better CPU to go with it!!
Those that will give Airborne a go will do so whatever is written here. They'll no doubt be the same as me (waiting ever since MOHAA) hoping against all hope that EA don't kill the goose that lays the golden eggs. Those who
really don't want to play it won't play it no matter what they're told. Me, I'll play either. Maybe in a few weeks after I've played both to death fully patched and modded, I'll tell you what I prefer, maybe I'll just keep it to myself and enjoy playing a game
