Contents. Plot The game is divided into three acts following the player's Mobile Infantry platoon from the start to the end of the war. Act 1 On October 18, 2369, the player's platoon is first deployed to Klendathu at the start of the war only for the mission to end with a general retreat. The player's platoon, however gets stranded during the evacuation and is forced to deal with Plasma bugs to facilitate extraction, while saving any allied MI squads in the area. Shortly after Klendathu, on November 23, 2369, the player's platoon is sent to Zegema Beach to extract a supply convoy in the area. Shortly after Zegema Beach, the player's platoon is deployed to the Arachnid Quarantine Zone in Dentana to save the local civilians in the area, while capturing a live Arachnid specimen in the process on January 20, 2370.

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The last two missions for this act take place in Planet P on February 28 and March 1, 2370, where the player is deployed to secure Whiskey Outpost while capturing further bug specimens. The act ends with the player's platoon in a cave labeled 'Bug City,' where the player's platoon facilitates the capture of the Brain Bug.

Act 2 Five months have passed since the capture of the Brain Bug, and Arachnid Egg Fall Clusters have been attacking various planets in Terran-controlled space. The player's platoon was tasked with escort missions for Internal Security's officer Major Alexander Bishop, while repelling an Arachnid invasion of Mars, attempting to recapture a colony called New Wellington from the Arachnids for morale purposes, as well as learning the true nature of how the Arachnids were able to efficiently attack the Terrans especially with a key food processing facility and the loss of two key military research bases. Bishop and the player's platoon is deployed to Axel 6, a small mining outpost with very little strategic value to exfiltrate the commanding officer of the base as a potential witness.

Major Bishop and the player learn that a high-ranking Federation officer, Colonel Holland, has been leaking intelligence of the major Terran bases to the Arachnids via the captured Brain Bug, in hopes of uniting humanity with the bugs. Bishop and the player's platoon succeed in killing Holland and the captured Brain Bug while saving scientists who were witnesses to Holland's treachery. Despite the nature of Holland's behavior, the Terran Council decide to cover up Holland's death for morale purposes and finish the battle.

Act 3 As of September 20, 2371, the Federation has managed to create new weapons and technology for use against the Arachnids and has begun a counter-offensive against the Arachnids to ensure the end of the war. The player's platoon was tasked with rescue missions for stranded Mobile Infantry troopers on Planet P, as well as students from a military academy used to train Psychics on the planet Sirius 3, and recovering ancient teleportation technology on Planet G. Shortly after the success of the mission, the player is sent to Klendathu for the second and last time to search for an Arachnid Queen. Utilizing psychic troopers to track the queen, as well as reverse-engineered teleportation devices for extraction, the player's platoon fights through arachnid forces to plant Nova bombs in the hive and manages to escape the cavern before it explodes.

The war ends on New Year's Day of 2372, with the Terran military celebrating their victory. External links. at MobyGames.

Remember that thread about games that haven't aged well in your opinion? This is kinda the reply to that. I've been playing Wario Land 4 lately to use as material for a gameplay analysis. This is a game that my brother and I played a lot when we were kids, and it was the first GameBoy Advance game we owned. Booting it back up and playing it again. It still feels like a solid and fun game to me. It might be because of my nostalgia, but I find that many of the gameplay mechanics still work in this day and age.

It never really feels stale to me. The gameplay is engaging, the music is great, the presentation is cartoony and colorful, the worlds are memorable (If a bit on the easy side, but that's not really a minus for me) and the bosses can be a bit tricky if you don't know what you're doing. The only levels that weren't that memorable to me is the industrial-themed ones, and I think that's only because those were the levels I played the least as a child. Also, on a slightly unrelated note, the Hurry Up! Theme is quite possibly the most hectic piece of video game music I've ever heard. Dear old Operation Flashpoint. I got back into it recently and I didn't think I'd still like it as much as I did.

The graphics weren't even very good back in 2001, and it shows. But at this point, it's more endearing than distracting. They remind me of Thunderbirds puppets.

You can see what things are supposed to be, at least, and I think that's enough sometimes. Charge of the Cardboard Men. The gameplay is the thing that holds up the best. It's still fun and tactical, even if it does make you miss the additional bells and tools the sequels brought along. I still can't think of a game that has done tank fighting as well, barring the sequels and proper tank sims. I like the campaigns, and the emphasis on good old gruntwork.

The series got a bit carried away with highly trained and well equipped commandos after a while, and it feels a bit refreshing coming back to something more simple now and then. While the stories aren't very novel, they keep you interested enough to keep going.

There's no doubt some nostalgia at work, but I honestly think the game still holds up on its own. Mind you, I managed to get the CSLA mod working, and the updated character models and textures was all the graphical improvement I needed.

Even if it did make the mission texts look like they were written by Polandball. Hmm to this day I still love firing up Heroes of Might and Magic 3. Its graphics are outdated, but they have a specific charm. Matches can last forever if you want them to.

Theres soooooooooooo much to do with so many different builds/artifacts/heroes etc. It has multiplayer, so you can easily grab a few friends, have a drink or two and have a mega LAN session at it all night (with the exception of the rule.No Necropolis, we had one match before were 3 of us were Necro's.needless to say when we finally got to the second month one friend had already passed out from playing drinking games.ah-hem.) I just find it all in all a great game if your into that stuff hehe and as spoken, to this day when I know Im not going to be doing anything that day, and trying to be as unproductive as possible.with my cat. Ill fire it up and finally look at the clock at 5:00 in the morning, noticing Id better get to bed.

(Its getting an HD remake thats being released on Steam I saw.Im tempted but.not completely sure at the moment seeing as I have the 'Complete' Edition along with WoG.time will tell.). A launch title for the good old original Xbox. I am of course talking about the Shrek Halo: Combat Evolved, and its eventual sequel, Halo 2. For games that came out in 2001 and 2004 respectively, they still play remarkably well, and their aesthetic design holds up today, even if their graphics did not.

It is nice to see that some games are still just fun to play, even if they are over 10 years old now. They revolutionised shooters on a console, and the sequel spearheaded online gaming too. They are proof that you don't need mechanics like sprint or ADS to make a successful shooter, but sadly this seems like something that 343 forgot. Max Payne 2, MGS3, Devil May Cry 3. Those three are the first that come to mind. Graphically they're just fine.

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More than fine even, as far as I'm concerned. But that's not what I'm talking about. I'm talking about the gameplay mechanics in these games. They are still relevant.

There are some bizarre gameplay choices in MGS3 but nothing too serious to hamper the overall enjoyment. And there is still nothing else quite like it. Not even Ground Zeroes because it replaced the survival elements with health regeneration. To me, it's mostly the games with a really good story and/or a unique setup. And puzzle games.

Puzzlers rarely age. Top of my head: Rez Who would've thought you could reinvent something as straight forward as a rail shooter? The music, the graphics, the flow - even the story and its presentation is a joy to experience. Abstract, yet clear in its message, it remains a marvel of synesthesia. Child of Eden (its spiritual successor) is good as well, but it was a tad too bombastic in my opinion. Where Child of Eden was a full-on celebration of life, Rez was the journey of one lone hacker to soothe what can only be described as the self-manifested soul of an AI that had shut itself away from the world after accessing the net and experiencing the madness we wreck upon one another.

Do robots dream of electric sheep? Can artificial life become depressed?

Final Fantasy IX The story, the atmosphere, the world, the characters, the ability system, Everything except the graphics has aged beautifully - and even then, the designs of the pre-rendered backgrounds remain amazing. Also, I haven't played a game since this that had so many strong, well developed female characters (without laying it on thick or using it as some underground marketing ploy). I mean, it was never without its flaws (the card game is pointless, loading times for battles take a while and I have huge problems with the ending), but everything that was good then is still good today. Bombastic Probably one of my favorite puzzle games - though I hesitate to call it 'just a puzzle game', because my mind can't except that a puzzler would be this freakin' hectic. Seriously though, when it comes to local multiplayer fun, this game is up there with TimeSplitters and Amplitude. Kingdom Under Fire: The Crusaders, and it's sequel, Heroes. Of all the original Xbox games, these games I still keep in my collection of pop 'n plays.

Those two games had such a perfect balance of Dynasty Warriors style commander action, real-time strategy combat, and RPG-lite troop development, no single game to date has taken over their spot in my heart. It really hurt my soul when Circle of Flame came out for the 360 and it was just a giant pile of crap, with NONE of what made those games so great. Oh well, Kingdom Under Fire 2 is gonna hit beta soon. Let's roll the dice once more, yeah?

So, how about you? Which game has aged well for you?

That really is something. This all reminds me that I need to get a lot more Advanced games, cause there were so many! Heaps I still haven't played!

On Topic: Most of them are fine to me really. I've gone back to plenty of classic games, and while I notice that the graphics are out-dated and certain mechanics aren't perfect, I will slowly sink into it if it has style and functions well enough. Before I played Half Life for the first time in July 2014, I noticed the game received a lot of praise and a lot of flak. Criticisms about how the textures are crummy, the 3D is blocky, the movement is like ice-skating, certain weapons felt like they weren't functioning well enough, how the ladders are dangers on their own, AI doesn't always seem to have a proper directive, common bugs that can screw your game, etc. These are all true, and yet, it's one of the best damn games I've ever played.

The textures do look unappealing at times but some of it has a very original feel to it too. And they never mentioned how clever the lighting was to disguise a lot of it. The 3D is definitely out-dated, but it all fits in with the concept and none of it was blaring (unless you saw that screwed up face model). The movement is very zippy and loose, but the speed really gives it it's own unique feel. I really can't think of many other games that feel this quick, plus you can just walk in the dangerous bits with Shift. The shot gun and machine gun did feel very off, but I managed to find times where they were useful, and the double fire of the shot gun was effective against most things.

I did get killed by the ladders, especially where the pipes were, but I practiced and adjusted and now I don't even care. The AI did some weird things every now and again, all of them were funny though.

And I can acknowledge there are some very well known bugs in the game, and I found them all, making me have to load from a previous save. Good part was they were all just before a save point (except one) so it was never the end of the world. All in all, some of these flaws really felt like it added to the game for me, and it was just such a nice change. Including the game is so intense and mixes up things so often in such a clever way that I started to ignore all of these early on. And no, I actually don't think much of the Black Mesa remake as it has it's own flaws that detract from the experience. Oddworld: Abe's Exodus for sure, when I was 8 years old I thought this game was the bomb, it looked great, it played great, it sounded great and it even smelled great (oh wait that was my ancient, Pentium II processored, gaming rig). Nowadays it's just as awesome as I remember, the graphics hold up amazingly well the gamepay is just is engaging as before (if infinitely easier as a consequence of me playing the game so much I can recite it entirely from memory) and Abe is still the likable goofball I remembered from my childhood.

It's on Steam for 5$ so if you haven't had a chance to play this timeless classic yet I suggest you play it now. I still like loading up the original Jak and Daxter. One of the only two games to date i've ever 100%ed because i wanted/needed to. I could even do a decent speedrun of 2 h because i just knew it so well. Somehow the graphics still don't feel too dated, probably because of the cartoony style. In comparison, Jak 2 has aged terribly and i couldn't bear playing through it until they released the remastered collection. Other game is Beyond good & evil, but that's because nostalgia just carries me through to the end.

Most CRPGs that I used to play, especially Icewind Dale (never played the sequel though). In terms of graphics, I don't think LoZ: The Wind Waker is ever going to look old. The remastered version is going to stand the test of time, it just looks so good. Final Fantasy Tactics.

The Job system is still infinitely fun to play with and adds tremendous replayability. The story is deep, multilayered, but never really loses you; for all the plots within plots, you can always follow along. It wasn't a graphical beast when it came out, but it looked good, and it still does. Castlevania: Symphony of the Night. I love the artwork for this game. Sifra za rar fajlove. The enemies are interesting to see (despite the bouts of palette swapitis), the gameplay is straightforward but flexible, sequence breaking and exploration is still fun, and there's enough variety in weapons and tactics to keep a player amused for a while.

The old Infinity Engine games (Baldur's Gate series, Icewind Dale series, Planescape: Torment). The basis of their visuals are the beautiful painted backdrops which give the graphics a timeless quality.

The sprites for characters and creatures are also quite detailed and well done, fitting with the background seamlessly. The game mechanics merge turn-based and real time fairly elegantly, and the controls are based on standard RTS layouts. All in all, very few things about these games would need modernizing and they are still perfectly playable, especially if you get a mod for higher resolutions (a problem with the earlier IE games). Some of the best RPG games ever made and they hold up amazingly well even today. Only played System Shock 2 for the first time recently and loved it so I'd say that holds up pretty good, despite the graphics looking dated. The creepy sound design is a real highlight as is the exploration.

The first two Oddworld games are both still excellent and still look pretty good too. There are a lot of old 2D platformers which hold up well even by today's standards. Most of the 2D Mario games, Plok, Donkey Kong Country, the old Sonic stuff, Rayman, the decent X-men sidescroller I can't currently remember the name of. Actually quite a lot of the SNES/Sega Genesis era still plays nicely. It's the early 3D stuff (PS1/N64 era) which has aged about as well as chicken left out of the fridge. MechWarrior 2 on the other-hand, has aged like chocolate milk. The Z-buffer doesn't work properly, the sound lacks proper fading with distance, the AI often acts legitimately confused, and basic visual effects such as weapons fire and explosions aren't visible half the time.

Some of the issues are attributed to the Titanium Trilogy version. I would love to play the Ati 3d rage edition, but getting that thing to work is a pipe dream at best.

I still like it, but mostly out of nostalgia, an appreciation for game history, and the fact that it's kinda adorable and funny sometimes. I have a few. And most of these are because of mods. Rome: Total War. Hands down still the best of the Total War series. It was the first 3D total war Game too so it was pretty special.

While the vanilla game hasn't aged quite as well in the graphics department, mods like Roma Surrectum look better than some of the more recent total war games and have fantastic gameplay. The AI is still as dumb as it's ever been, but it has the best battle engine of the series. Dawn of War: A truly great RTS and the best 40K game they have made so far. All the races play similar but also each take time to master and each army caters to a different playstyle. The animations for the units are all still absolutely fantastic.

Combine it with some race and update mods (The SM's haven't aged as well as the others) and it is even better. Doom 1/2: This one is also mainly because of mods. Doom still plays pretty great, but it's the user made levels and mods that really make it fantastic. Mapsets like Back to Saturn X and mods like Weapon X, Guncaster and Project MSX make Doom play however you want it to play. Be it like a modern shooter with aiming, give you a Crysis style suit, or a shooter RPG where you play as a gun wielding dragon. Probably my favourite shooter of all time.

Half Life: Still the best story shooter out there. While the graphics have aged a bit, nothing mods can't fix if you want to. I always preferred the original to 2 as well, just something about it that I can't quite put my finger on makes it much better. Resident Evil 4: Still the best action horror game there is.

It's amazing how well it still holds up today. Especially when compared to 5 and 6, which weren't great to say the least. Battlefield 2: Yes, another one because of mods. But Project Reality make it the best modern shooter, and Forgotten Hope the best WW2 shooter. Although online does work for these 2 mods, I only play the singleplayer, and the bots are surprisingly good. This one really is because of just those mods, ans Battlefield 2 itself hasn't aged all that well. Call of Duty 1 & 2: Yes, CoD, it sucks bla bla bla.

But the first 2 had some of the best WW2 Solo campaigns out there. Starship Troopers: Terran Ascendancy: A Starship Troopers RTS that hardly anyone knows about. Despite being not all that well received, I personally love it. Commanding a small squad and killing loads of bugs, with an RPG system for your troops. That and the cool mech suits make it as fun as ever for me. It's now shareware I believe, so you can download and play it for free. Future Cop: LAPD: Another one many haven't heard of, but very fun.

Having a mech that can transform into a car is pretty cool, and the gameplay still holds up, both campaign and the strategy mode. Starfox 64: My favourite childhood game. It was great getting this in my hands again when I got a 3DS. It's criminal they haven't made more yet.

The gameplay is truly timeless. Super Mario All Stars: Because Mario is fun and always will be. METAL GEAR SOLID Shooting is a little awkward, but otherwise the game-play still feels remarkably smooth. I actually only played it for the first time a couple years ago, and was frankly blown away. Easily the best game in the series, especially story wise - the wordy exposition dumps and over-the-top silliness are still present, but to a much more palatable degree than in later entries.

SACRIFICE The graphics are admittedly rather low-res but they're saved by stunning art design and fluid animation, and while the controls might feel a little clunky to some I feel right at home whenever I play it. Also, voice acting! A lot of old games have absolutely abysmal voice acting, and that's thankfully not the case here. The likes of Tim Curry, Paul Eiding, Brad Garret and others make this Sacrifice as enjoyable to listen to as it is to look. 4th gen SNES games have aged very, very well (better than 3rd gen I think).

Super Mario World, Yoshi's Island, Kirby Super Star and the Donkey Kong Country Trilogy could all be yesterday releases for all I care. I imagine HD makeovers would make overworld maps a little more dynamic but whatever.

Conversely a few SNES games haven't aged as well. The Star Wars Trilogy isn't very good.

Also a whole bunch of licensed Disney games that I recall weren't even good by early 90s standards. I have a lot of fond memories about The Lion King and The Beauty and the Beast games, but the design was awful and often unforgiving. Generally speaking I think 5th gen games have aged the worst. It was the early day experimentation on VG voice acting and 'realistic' animation (whatever that means to you), but worst of all is the 3D camera handling. Having just played it for the first time recently, Banjo Kazooie has aged incredibly well. The controls feel great, the visuals are good enough if you are familiar with N64 level graphics, and the music still sounds great. I'm really sad I never got it as a kid.

Star Wars: Rogue Leader. It came out early in the Gamecube's life cycle, and it still not only plays great to this day, but it still looks excellent visually. Update some of the textures just a little bit, and it could've come out last gen and no one would bat an eye. I find some people say Ocarina of Time hasn't aged too well, but I would certainly disagree.

However, my many playthroughs and fanboyism would never make me think it has aged poorly. Plus, there is the 3DS remake if one thinks the visuals have aged badly. Zelda: A Link to the past. The art style held up really well considering it's getting on for 25 years old, it's packed full of secrets, has great puzzles and is all round way better than mainstream Zelda has been, for nearly 25 years.

Baldurs Gate 2. This is heavily caveated with 'Since I am already familiar with D&D 2nd edition'. Baldurs Gate 2 still looks better than most games released today, has tons of content and side missions and has a massive amount of variety in its combat. That caveat is needed however because 2nd edition (A)D&D is an obese dinosaur of a system that just feels horribly out of date. Final Fantasy Tactics. Considering how amazing FF7 seemed at the time this is needed as contrast.

It still looks lovely and I don't think the gameplay has ever been bettered, with the possible exception of Tactics Ogre. To many to name but ones I still get a lot of enjoyment from would be FFVII which has aged graphically but still plays and feels exactly as I remember Crash Team Racing which has also only aged graphically (still the best karting game ever made) we should also be having a tournamnet of this game again in the next couple of months. Games like Super Mario Bros and its sequels on NES and SNES havent aged a day same with Tetris and many puzzle games SF2 and its iterations still feel as good now as they did back in the day as well. Soul Calibur on DC and DOA2 have aged well as well but then they are not really very old so you would expect that. Hmm to this day I still love firing up Heroes of Might and Magic 3. Its graphics are outdated, but they have a specific charm.

Matches can last forever if you want them to. Theres soooooooooooo much to do with so many different builds/artifacts/heroes etc. It has multiplayer, so you can easily grab a few friends, have a drink or two and have a mega LAN session at it all night (with the exception of the rule.No Necropolis, we had one match before were 3 of us were Necro's.needless to say when we finally got to the second month one friend had already passed out from playing drinking games.ah-hem.) I just find it all in all a great game if your into that stuff hehe and as spoken, to this day when I know Im not going to be doing anything that day, and trying to be as unproductive as possible.with my cat. Ill fire it up and finally look at the clock at 5:00 in the morning, noticing Id better get to bed. (Its getting an HD remake thats being released on Steam I saw.Im tempted but.not completely sure at the moment seeing as I have the 'Complete' Edition along with WoG.time will tell.) This. Probably in the minority on this, but Morrowind to me is still as fun as t was years ago, albeit a bit less impressive in some areas now (still very impressive in others though) I can always get lost in Vvardenfell. The PS1 Final Fantasy games too, particularly FFVII, I hear a lot of people say they aged badly, for the most part, they have aged very well in all areas except possibly the graphics (VII's polygons still make me chuckle) but they are still massively fun.

The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past, game looks damn good even now, easily my favourite Zelda title and sadly, the most frustrating (that mother-fucking caterpillar in the 3rd dungeon can go die in a fire) I would list more, but then I would take up so much space with SNES/PS1 classics.