Call of Duty and Gaming Links, 29 December 2009

Return of the Girl with the Great Guns

   

    Reibo joined Matt64 and me for a bit of Modern Warfare 2 last night. It was a good night, overall, we won (I think) 13/18 games. Towards the end, I stopped keeping track of w/l and scores. Ironically, I had my best and worst games on Invasion (the map with the American base which we call the Embassy. In the first game, we were the OpFor, and the Rangers rushed hard from the American base to the gas station area where we spawned. The entire team was dead within seconds as we tried to assault the ladder side of the American base. I wound up the only one left in the game from the Ranger team and did just terrible, 1 and 9. Worst of all, the 1/9 translated into 0/9 after an accidental teamkill. The players who spawned in after everyone else left did much better. They came within 3 kills of winning. If I hadn't sucked and sucked hard, we (the new team) could have won.
    I had some vindication later on Invasion later, tho. We again spawned as the OpFor, but this time, we flanked right, moving through the buildings to the American base. I got killed early on and respawned in the field near the American base (marked with a white X on the map right). I claymored the covered approach on the left and my right rear flank and took cover behind the burned out car. From this position, I was able to pick off anyone approaching the American base from the South, while the rest of the team consolidated defensive positions in the building. I got 3 or 4 kills before I hauled ass towards the American base where we camped out (red Xs on the map right). I finished the game 12/2, which made me extremely happy after the ass-whupping I took on the same map earlier. Overall, I was negative in only three games, and none of my neg scores cost us any matches. In the disastrous Invasion game, everyone was negative and dashboarded but me. (In fact, except for that game, I was substantially positive in all our losses.)
    We won the last two matches despite being connected to a foreign server. Matt had another sweet killcam last night, too. On to the links:

• BASHandSlash has side-by-side comparisons of the CoD4 Galactic Warfare mod's Mos Eisley map and Star Wars: A New Hope movie locations. Also, BASHandSlash bash 135 has interviews with the Galactic Warfare mod team, BlackMonkeys.de. The Star Wars themed CoD4 full conversion is currently in beta release. 
  
• YouTube: Tactical knife = nuke. (Thanks to SpaceGrass of 2Old2Play!) Modern Warfare 2 Mythbusters, Episode 2. (Thanks to VenomRudman of 2Old2Play!) Episode 1 is here.
  

    More Gaming Links:

• 1Up op-ed: Duke Nukem: Dead for a Reason. But, then again, maybe not.
• GameSpot Gaming Convention Pics of 2009. Some folks have no shame and entirely too much time on their hands. Fav pic: MasterChief and his mom.
• Army of Two: The 40th Day has a new trailer.
  
• Thief tracked down by Xbox Live gamertag.
• YouTube Humor (NSFW language): Mickey Rourke raps Rogue Warrior end credits. (He does sound quite a bit like Dick Marcinko. And, yeah, soldiers do swear like that.) 
• You can check out more of 2009's weird/offbeat gaming moments on Crispy Gamer's feature, The Year in Weird. 
• If you're pissed at something in gaming, you have lots of company. Here's The Year in Bullshit from Crispy Gamer.
  
• Build an "awesome PC for $647".  Their words, not mine. YMMV.
  
• Coolest image of the day: If Left 4 Dead had a Scooby Doo mod.
  

    Non-Gaming Links:

• Global Warming ping-pong: German researchers pooh-pooh (great expression, huh?) global warming via increased CO2.