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Die.

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I am not sure...at hard I don't think you can save in combat. But theres custom difficulty sliders. I don't know if the demo has them, but you can adjust how much HP the enemy has, as well as every other difficulty variable.

I have no idea why you couldn't kill him. Point Blank..you should have destroyed him. Only way I can see him living is if you Single shot and you had a bunch of negative conditions...but even then. And you said you burst to his head. His head should have been blown off....literally. Until you told me this, based on my playtime..if I got to point blank range and had a SMG I could kill him before he had a chance to react. Its the very reason I normally carried a SMG on every guy.

All I can tell you is that never happened to me. Now the interrupt thing should have only happened if you had a newbie scout, which I assume you did in the Demo. Its quite possible to be interrupted if your skill is low...even if you have a complete drop on your enemy. I loved my scout. I made him into a super duper melee guy. He could sneak right up to the enemy and cut him and his friends in half with his katana. Mucho fun.

Between the physics system, the RPG aspects, and the actual combat system...don't know how you can go wrong if your a fan of the genre.

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I don't do requests. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...ies/tongue.gif

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"Ivan is now... house."

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World in Conflict looks really interesting. I was a fan of both Ground Control games, and its from the same team.

Unfortunatley I can't find any info on it, other then the article in PCGamer. I went to the GC2 forums, and theres something called Project Ice that sound familiar, but they are hush hush about it so I can't be 100%.

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Just found out about it, but Titan Quest sounds like it might give the hundreds of hours of hacking, slashing, and looting that Diablo 2 did.

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You have any link for that?

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Re Titan Quest:

Eh - looks like this is the official site, but third party sites like Gamespy, IGN, etc, have a lot more information than the official one - previews, developer diaries, etc. Incidentally, it's headed up by Brian Sullivan, the guy who co-helmed the Age of Empires RTS.

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Even if Diablo II hadnt been put in my head I would have said it after seeing their little video. The monsters even remind me of Diablo II monsters upgraded to 3d

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They have been hyping this game for a while. It looks very very good. But, any game that gets a lot of pre-release hype looks very very good. Hopefully it will deliver.

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Too lazy to check which came first, but the Combat Mission series models soldiers' reactions as well. Of course, those games are not realtime, but use simultaneously-resolved turns of one minute increments.

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On the scale of RT - TB that one would fall more on the side of TB imho. Close combat was impressive because it was 100% realtime.

Erik Youngs Squad Assult attempted to be the spiritual successor to CC, but tripped and landed in a puddle of suck.

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Oh and Combat mission came out after the last CC I believe, which was 5.

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I just got the new PC Gamer in. The Ved did a spread on Company of Heroes, and OMFG it looks good. Anyone who is even remotley interested I'd definatley pick up PCGamer to check out the preview. I simply can't wait.

They also had a big preview of the new C&C 3, which looks interesting, and a E3 preview. Some interesting games from the E3 preview that haven't been mentioned:

Maelstrom - Q3 2006 - RTS
Gods and Heroes: Rome Rising - Fall 2006 - MMO
Sid Mier's CivCity: Rome - Summer 2006 - City Building
Lords of the Ring Online - Fall 2006 - MMO
The Witcher - Fall 2006 - Action RPG
Sid Meier's Railroads! - October 2006 - Remake of Railroad Tycoon
Bioshock - Early 2007 - Spiritual Successor to System Shock (woohoo)
Sun - Fall 2006 - MMO

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Well, I downloaded the Titan Quest demo last night, had insomnia so played from 2:30 until 4:00. Definately looks like it's potentially the successor to Diablo 2 : gorgeous graphics, very clean interface, and a lot of ways in which it has improved upon D2. Including having 8 different player class / masteries, which over the course of time you combine any _two_ of. Want to be a warrior or a hunter, but also want an earth elemental to guard your back? It looks like it's possible http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

And the map system, the quest interface, having multiple skill points to spend each level, three filters for looking at loot on the ground (all items, unbroken only, and non-normal)....

Definately the game I'll be getting next when it's released, supposedly in June.

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Yeah, it is really decent in the action RPG genre. It will be fun in MP. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...es/biggrin.gif

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It wont run on my machine. NVidia card.
But it sounds like it will be worth looking at when its released. I still play Diablo II ocassionally

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Yes, I read Cainehill's review and went to watch the trailers, looks like I'll want to buy it too when it comes out. I tried the demo but it didn't work, requires XP. Luckily the full game doesn't require it (I guess just the demo). And I still play Diablo 2 occasionally, so I'm curious to see how this improves on it (in regards to graphics and character system).