Crysis: Warhead coming Sept. 18. This time, with more unplayable vehicle combat? Say it isn't so. Please. Pretty please.
My Weekend Crysis
Plus MMO gamers targeted by malware. Beware!
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So I spent the weekend playing Crysis. Again.
You know Crysis, the genius FPS that came out last year – with system specs so high that you had to play it on a Jet Propulsion Labs Cray super-computer. Luckily I spent the sheckles on a high-end computer just so I could play games like this in all their glory. So when I threw Crysis into the platter during the weekend hot, I thought I would look at the next installment to be released in September – Crysis: Warhead.
Wouldn’t you give anything for a Kim Jong Il appearance? Developers at Crytek please take note: Kim Jong Il = Solid Gold.
Following the shenanigans of Psycho – AKA Jason Statham – the British SpecOps commando that shadows Nomad throughout the first game, he blasts, jumps, and shoots his way through the Korean People’s Army in the second game. Allegedly.
Aliens? Who knows? I found the tension leading up to the alien emergence on the islands to be a great plot element. And flying around in the zero-g environment inside the ship was inspired fun – if not leading to a bout of simulator sickness. But once I got out of the ship and into the vehicle escort missions well… that’s when the wheels came off the wagon for me.
The game, in essence, was a sneaker-shooter. You spend probably 70 percent of your time stealthed in the game, and why not? That’s what its there for. Unfortunately, it makes the game – even on hard – fairly easy to beat. But it’s the aliens, plus the vehicle shoot-outs that did me in. I’ve played Halo 1 – 3, thanks. Yet I was willing to hold out hope that maybe, just maybe, the wonky, “terribad,” vehicle combat wouldn’t be making an appearance.
Then I saw this. And wept.
Crysis: Warhead Game Play
MMO Players Beware: Malware targeting online gamers on the rise
So you’re visiting the World of Warcraft realm forums. It’s the usual flaming, loot drop bragging and guild drama when a new post pops up that says “Pic’s of My Teacher Nekkid!!1!”
There is a link. Do you click it?
If you do, chances are that you are going to find your lvl70 paladin for sale on eBay.
In a startling report from ESET.com, the computer security site reveals that the number one worldwide malware threat for July was against online gaming.
According to the security site, malware attacks against MMO players have been the number one threat for the last three months.
More than 12 percent of all attacks are credited to the malware family known as Win32/PSW.OnLineGames. Essentially a keylogging Trojan that also sports rootkit capabilities that surreptitiously relays your information back to hackers.
According to ESET: It’s important for participants in MMORPGs (Massively Multi-player Online Role Playing Games) like Lineage and World of Warcraft, as well as “metaverses” like Second Life, to be aware of the range of threats ranged against them: not just harassment nuisances like griefing and pointless quasi-viral attacks like grey goo, but phishing and other scams that can result in financial loss in the real world. Their objective in such cases is to steal account information or game items and then resell them on the black market (or at any rate on eBay).
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