Ubisoft has been irking me ever since they bought the rights to Tom Clancy games from Redstorm.
The original Rainbow 6's and Ghost Recons were fantastic tactical shooters. Now the crap they are putting out is run-and-gun crap aimed at todays youth who have no appreciation for tactics, and would rather have 'awesome cool guns that shoot lots of bullets'.
Rogue Spear has kicked my butt many a time. This crap they have out now like Vegas... boring.
I will always have a soft spot for the Red Storm Entertainment games--those are what I played the most of when they came out. The graphics were under par, and the engine needed some work. They still managed to be fun and I played the hell out of them. By the time Ubisoft started making the games, I was playing through each of the older games on elite mode using only a pistol and speed-running the level doing only head shots trying for 100% accuracy.
I love the ubisoft games, though. The only complaint I really have about them is that the damage system needs work. I don't like that you could get shot in the leg, the screen show you as nearly dead, then recover completely. In multiplayer, you can get dropped, and then be revived by your teammates.
Besides, if Ubisoft didn't buy Tom Clancy games from Red Storm, we wouldn't have Splinter Cell. I love that series.
I'll miss the old game play in which you get hit once, you die, and then you sit there for the next 10 minutes waiting for everyone else that wasn't stupid and rushed in to finish the level, but these new games are still a lot of fun in quite a few ways.
I used to play a lot of PC games, but haven't upgraded my computer at all since high school. I've unfortunately run out of games to play without some serious hardware upgrades--probably a whole new PC. I've been playing PS3 pretty exclusively lately. My PSN name is Dirtdiver643.
