I was okay with me being rubbish, but what about the three computer-controlled Marines? Why were they allowed to die? I bitched and griped in the RPS chatroom. I was bug-eyed with rage through some of the open levels, where repeated battles with unseen assailants left me, or my team-mates, defeated, and restarting a level, again and again. I'd teach them to :/Īnyway, Arma II seems like one such familiarly frustrating scenario. My modest talent for Quake III came out of sheer disgust and rage at the people who, when I first started playing, could shoot me in mid air with a railgun and spam ironic smilies in the text chat at the same time.
I had three or four attempts to crack Eve Online, for example. It seems that many of the games I have the greatest respect for start out as exercises in pure frustration. Does that mean you shouldn't play it? Here's wot I think.
It is the single most ambitious war game ever to grace a games machine.
