I have been playing GRAW (Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter) on and off the past couple of days. Yes, it’s not GRAW2, but the older one.
Rather than giving a full rundown on mission 1, here’s a 12 minute clip showing some highlights up to the point of reaching the rendezvous with the airborne drone.
I did complete the mission with zero injuries and fatalities on my side though, but I didn’t record them on video.
As I said, the AI in GRAW seemed much better than in GRAW2. I remember that there was a machine gun post hidded in the warehouse, on the way up to the helipad to evac from the area. So, this time around, I just ordered all 3 Ghosts to run straight into the warehouse. I am partially amazed that none of them was injured at all, and they managed to take out the machine gun nest in under 3 seconds.
Now I’m on mission 2, and again, I forgot to record the action. No matter, I’ll record it when I get back into it again.
Yeah I have just reinstalled yet another old game, Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter. Playing Ghost Recon really reminded me of how much GRAW is alike to it, and what kind of improvements were made after Ghost Recon itself.
Now, as you all may recall, I have just reformatted my PC again, due to some wonky behaviour after the first format on Wed, 6th Feb. Thing is, when I reformat, usually nothing’s lost, ie I know where all my data files are, so when I wipe out my C drive, nothing else gets touched (incidentally, C drive should contain nothing except Windows and system files). Yeah I always move MY DOCUMENTS and other important stuff over to D or E or F etc.
The trouble is, I forgot that GRAW saves its savefiles into its own directory. During the format I was thinking I won’t be playing GRAW or GRAW2 again since I’ve completed them. So, I casually just wiped both the directories out (my games are on E drive). So anyway, long story short, when I reinstalled GRAW again today, I suddenly realised I lost all my savefiles.
Well no matter, since I was planning to replay it all over again, the loss of savefiles isn’t too big a deal. I did a quick video capture of the prologue mission too.
The video clip above is a short clip during the part where I’m supposed to locate and hook up with the members of my Ghost Team which were scattered during the parachute jump. It served as a training mission to slowly ease you into the game proper. Now that I’m replaying GRAW from scratch, perhaps I can now do a GRAW series on this blog, where I will record the whole mission and show it here, mission by mission. Well I’m sure it’s going to take massive harddisk space since raw captures have filesizes that are excessively huge. A simple 5 min capture might be as big as 4GB.
Or I could capture at half resolution, that should cut the size down somewhat, I hope!
Anyway, as I said before, I prefer GRAW over GRAW2 because the AI actually is smarter. Well, now that I have GRAW and Ghost Recon installed, I really am spoilt (and split). Sometimes I really can’t decide which to play!
I was just catching up on news of upcoming releases on various gaming sites, when I came across this piece in Gamespot.
Now call me biased, but I have never been a fan of WW2 games. For example, I never bought any WW2 flight sims – all my combat flight sims are modern-era ones, ie with jet fighters, radars, and BVR missiles and stuff.
So it is the same when I play FPSes – I don’t like WW2 stuff, so I never bought games like MOHAA (Medal Of Honour – Allied Assault for the uninitiated) or Call of Duty. I kinda avoided them, although they were popular on gaming servers.
Well what can I say? Call of Duty 4 looks impressive. I might just add this to my “must-have” list. If it’s anything like Armed Assault or GRAW, I could be loving it, although I don’t know if I’ll ever have time for online play. Speaking of online play – I haven’t been on Battlefield 2142 servers in a long time. In fact I’ve been gaming very little of late. If you take a look at my Xfire banner, it doesn’t show “40 hours” anymore, like back in the 0ld days… nowadays, it’s like 1 hour or 3 hours a week… sigh! Sign of old age I guess.
Speaking of games, I still haven’t finished up GRAW2, and I’m still kinda mucking about in GRAW1. Bioshock has been put on ice for abit… I just feel that I need to finish up GRAW2 first…
Not only that, Tabula Rasa is scheduled for release on 30 Oct 2007 – GAHHH!!! I had promised my old guildmates back in EQ2 that I’ll meet ‘em there once TR is released… dang I need to get on Teamspeak soon and talk to them – see if they’re still going over to TR…
