Saturday, July 09, 2005

I'm not feeling too good. Anyone seen a crate around?

crates
Ask any gamer and they'll tell you there are a cubic buttload of first-person shooter-type game out there, everything from Jedi Knight to Unreal Tournament to Doom to Drakan. And they all have one thing in common: they all have these crates laying all over throughout the game, usually stocked with health points or ammo or other goodies.

Regardless of whether the game is set on a futuristic starcruiser, the front lines of Iwo Jima or a freakin' deserted island, the place always is awash in ginormous crates sometimes towering ten-twelve feet high which end up containing... a clip of ammo weighing maybe what, two pounds tops? And where are all the pallets that these crates came in on?

Going on the assumption that the appearance of the first crate marks the point where the game designer officially ran out of ideas, two guys review 26 games using their soon-to-be-patented Crate Review System.

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