pimlicosound

I'm with the pro-FC2 camp on this one. I found it to be immensely enjoyable - the most immersive experience this gen. To all the haters who complain about guns that broke, vehicles that broke, not having enough pills, not being able to escape chasing enemies, being seen from miles away: I suspect that you just weren't very good at the game.

FC2 wasn't a traditional FPS. You couldn't play it that way. It was more like a survival challenge. Yes, the game hates you and punishes you, but it forces you to dig in and find ways to overcome the challenges. You have to earn the right to good guns that don't break. You have to learn how, where and when to use a vehicle. You have to learn to look after yourself, helping out the church to get your pills, gaining and upgrading your safehouses so you always have a place to hide. You have to learn the maps, and the lay of the land: where you can hide, where to go in and where to get out. Above all, you have to be patient and tough. Approach the game in the right mindset, and it rewards you in spades.

Have you upgraded your weapons and abilities at all? A maxed-out assault rifle or shotgun can fire continuously without overheating (unless you use the crazy HE rounds) and the sniper rifle is rock-steady.

"This game looks like it comprises nothing else" is an even better sentence and, as a bonus, is grammatically correct.

You're exactly right. Virgin Media is effectively maintaining a monopoly on the transmission of HD video content on their cable network. Their bandwidth limits make it impossible to download or stream HD video, unless it's part of their V+ package.

Actually, whether or not the target is wearing rubber soles is irrelevant. If the electricity has enough charge to cross thin air, which is one of the strongest insulators, crossing rubber will be no problem. It's when rubber soles don't save people from lightning strikes.

Indeed. We British like to say that the Americans don't get irony. It looks like the boot is on the other foot now.

Thank you for proving my point so concisely. Lighten up, I'm not seriously suggesting that if you're strangely pro-CCTV but anti-Google you should be silenced. You're the ones trying to shut up those of us who find it funny.

This whole thread has produced the further irony of rabid Brits (making my slightly ashamed to be British) yelling insults at Americans for this "xenophobic" article. Hilarious.

I'm British. So your repost is irrelevant. I'm simply not getting offended at what is a harmless jest. All you people calling Americans fat, lazy and stupid are much more offensive.

I don't understand why all the other British people here are getting so worked up and spouting bile at the Americans. Relax! I think the picture and description are funny. And there is something ironic about the most monitored nation in the world getting up in arms about Google Streetview. Just enjoy the anachronism, and if you want to have a tantrum go somewhere else.

Does it remind anyone else of the Stormbreaker computer in that poor teenage-secret-agent film of the same name?