Lead & Gold: Mini-Review
Lead & Gold
Lead & Gold: Gangs of the West was available on Steam over the weekend for a free trial. It’s a team-based, third-person shooter, set in the wild frontier lands, something akin to Team Fortress 2, but with outlaws and gunslingers. The game pitches two teams of players against one another in a variety of game modes, with four different classes for players to choose from. Each class has its own particular weapon combination, special ability, and a ‘synergy’, essentially a class skill which radiates out to nearby teammates and gives them one or other skill boost. The four classes are:
- The Blaster
Armed with a double-barrelled shotgun and sticks of dynamite, radiate a defensive ‘synergy’ effect. - The Deputy
Wields a repeater carbine rifle, has the ability to tag enemies, and radiates the damage ‘synergy’ effect. - The Gunslinger
Armed with an accurate heavy revolver, has the ability to ‘fan’ his rounds off quickly, and radiates the ‘accuracy’ effect. - The Trapper
Armed with a scoped hunting rifle, is able to lay bear traps to immobilise enemies, and radiates the ‘criticals’ synergy effect.
Super Easy Mode
Never unlocked that “Super easy mode”? Have a look at this video from College Humor, and find out what you were missing.
The Hidden: Pigsticking 101
Part of a possible forthcoming clip montage for the Red Army, here’s a funny little scene from our recent The Hidden: Source MOD night. Watch it on the higher quality settings for a hope of spotting Subject 617 dodging in and out!
Note: I should probably point out that The Hidden during this scene was being played by someone who actually knew what they were doing, i.e. not one of us.
The Hidden: Source Review
Know your enemy... Subject 617
The Hidden: Source is a modification for the Source Engine (i.e. Half-Life 2 and co.) that pits a group of soldiers against Subject 617, aka The Hidden, a genetically enhanced experiment gone wrong. As part of a potential series of random MOD weekends, the Red Army got to trying this one out for size on Saturday night. We set up a server, which at the time of writing is still up and running, invited our friends lists and ploughed on into the unknown. Since most of us hadn’t even loaded up the game before, it probably made the experience all the more interesting. We did have a few visitors who had clearly played the game a lot more than us, which showed us what was at least possible in the game, but I think it would require a lot more practise to get even half as competent.
Here’s a short review of my own personal impressions of the mod.
Doom of the Vuvuzela
It’s been some years since I last saw the opening of Doom II – and never before like this! Umm… kudos to the author? Reminds me a bit of this reworked trailer for Invictus.
[Via Gamer Melodico]