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Being a child deprived of broadband I rarely get a chance to play anyone at a PC game, and my favourite genres are FPS and RTS 
. I was thrilled to go to a gaming café in Cork with two of my friends (from here on they shall be refered to as A and B). Both are experienced RTS players and A is OK at FPSs.
First off we played Command & Conquer Generals: Zero Hour. We all owned Generals, sadly, I had only played Zero Hour once. I chose the GLA stealth general. A and B picked the USA Laser General and USA Super Weapons General IIRC. I did OK but B was far better than both of us. My base had so many stinger sites that it was pretty much imune to air assaults (neither of them used auroras, I don't know if they had access to them). But B built about 10 particle cannons. I managed to destroy about five of them using my two scud storms and a rebel ambush but he rebuilt and I was screwed. He ripped apart my base with the cannons and in the end all I had left was a Jarmen Kell who I tryed to get to steal a dozer. He was unfortunatly killed though I'm not sure what by. A was already destroyed at this point so the game was over.
We had a game of Unreal Tournament next, which B had never played. We played two assaults. I was on one team, A and B were on the other. Eveyone else was bots. I owned both of them. I din't manage to succesfully defend either time but I beat both assaults in under 2 minutes
We then decided to play Warcraft 3:Frozen Throne. I was the only one of the three of us who had played it (I own it) but another guy joined us aswell. His username was MALEK and he claimed to be the Cork champion at Tekken. Anyway MALEK and I were all Undead, A was human, B was Wood Elf. I managed to defeat A but MALEK shortly overran me and B with a stratagy he then shared with me.
MALEK then set up an Unreal Tournament game and we all played. Last Man Standing. Both MALEK and I were the 2 last on each one. I don't know the name of the first map but he beat me with 9 lives left in it and then in Hyperblast I beat him with 5 left, so I suppose he won by a 4 lives margin over all
We then left and had lunch at McDonalds and B had to go home. A and I decided to go back in for another hour. We played Battlefield 2 which to my horror I discovered that the names Rim-Fire, RimFire, Rimfire and Rim--Fire were all taken. I eventualy settled for Rimre and he Jacxel and joined the same game. As an assault I did OK, though I got killed more than killed, but it was my first time. I managed to take 2 or 3 flags. Everytime I attempted to be an anti-tank all enemy vehicles suddenly seemed to disapear. Every time I tryed to be a medic I died within 5 seconds. I did quite well with my one venture as a sniper while defending a flag I outsnipered 2 people and took out 2 other enemies before I was killed. About 7 seconds before the match ended the server made me swap teams, to the losing side:angry:
We then played HL2M for a while before we got picked up which was surprisingly easy. I killed far more people than got killed. Maybe I just got lucky. I did manage to kill 2 properly armed people in a row with just a pistol.
It was probably the most fun I've had in ages.
. I was thrilled to go to a gaming café in Cork with two of my friends (from here on they shall be refered to as A and B). Both are experienced RTS players and A is OK at FPSs. First off we played Command & Conquer Generals: Zero Hour. We all owned Generals, sadly, I had only played Zero Hour once. I chose the GLA stealth general. A and B picked the USA Laser General and USA Super Weapons General IIRC. I did OK but B was far better than both of us. My base had so many stinger sites that it was pretty much imune to air assaults (neither of them used auroras, I don't know if they had access to them). But B built about 10 particle cannons. I managed to destroy about five of them using my two scud storms and a rebel ambush but he rebuilt and I was screwed. He ripped apart my base with the cannons and in the end all I had left was a Jarmen Kell who I tryed to get to steal a dozer. He was unfortunatly killed though I'm not sure what by. A was already destroyed at this point so the game was over.
We had a game of Unreal Tournament next, which B had never played. We played two assaults. I was on one team, A and B were on the other. Eveyone else was bots. I owned both of them. I din't manage to succesfully defend either time but I beat both assaults in under 2 minutes
We then decided to play Warcraft 3:Frozen Throne. I was the only one of the three of us who had played it (I own it) but another guy joined us aswell. His username was MALEK and he claimed to be the Cork champion at Tekken. Anyway MALEK and I were all Undead, A was human, B was Wood Elf. I managed to defeat A but MALEK shortly overran me and B with a stratagy he then shared with me.
MALEK then set up an Unreal Tournament game and we all played. Last Man Standing. Both MALEK and I were the 2 last on each one. I don't know the name of the first map but he beat me with 9 lives left in it and then in Hyperblast I beat him with 5 left, so I suppose he won by a 4 lives margin over all
We then left and had lunch at McDonalds and B had to go home. A and I decided to go back in for another hour. We played Battlefield 2 which to my horror I discovered that the names Rim-Fire, RimFire, Rimfire and Rim--Fire were all taken. I eventualy settled for Rimre and he Jacxel and joined the same game. As an assault I did OK, though I got killed more than killed, but it was my first time. I managed to take 2 or 3 flags. Everytime I attempted to be an anti-tank all enemy vehicles suddenly seemed to disapear. Every time I tryed to be a medic I died within 5 seconds. I did quite well with my one venture as a sniper while defending a flag I outsnipered 2 people and took out 2 other enemies before I was killed. About 7 seconds before the match ended the server made me swap teams, to the losing side:angry:
We then played HL2
M for a while before we got picked up which was surprisingly easy. I killed far more people than got killed. Maybe I just got lucky. I did manage to kill 2 properly armed people in a row with just a pistol.It was probably the most fun I've had in ages.
