8xid_Burned: A Developers Perspective

Game Review: Crossfire Beta

I was privileged enough to receive my invite of the Crossfire open beta. ( http://crossfire.subagames.com/movies.aspx ) Initially I was excited when I started reading about it because it looked so much like one of my favorite FPS games "Combat Arms." Immediately I knew that maybe my expectations were a little high. My download took an hour, I assumed it was due to traffic on their server so I set my computer to scan for viruses while I had some downtime. This should have been the end of my hassle...



Getting the game to run on my system was quite a task. After pulling my hair out for a little over an hour just trying to get the app to not trigger my virus scanner anymore it started popping up windows errors without fail. I never actually got it to stop doing that so I just moved the last error message out of the way and started my game. From what I can tell the errors are nothing more than Vista64 hating the game. I don't know why, but it just does.

So on to the game. If I wasn't already frustrated this game pushed me right over the edge. The game featured 6 servers and without even giving me a chance to read anything on my homepage I was bombarded with micro transaction options. It's a freaking BETA! WtF could you be offering me? In game credit. Now I'm not against micro-transactions in a game, but come on. You don't even have the full version available.

So after I purchase my character and get into a game I finally have a chance to play the game (This is almost three hours since I wanted to start the thing in the first place.) All this build up. All this great music in the menus and what do I get. A slap in the face. Lets start with...

Graphics, are a joke. The game resembles quake 2. It's not even on par with the original Counter Strike. I can handle bad graphics (I play Combat Arms) but this was a joke. We can do better than this. With the other games that are out there we at least deserve a graphic engine with intelligible characters. I could barely tell what was happening. The lack of resolution control is very disappointing. I think the game plays in 800x600.



Controls... WOW. I would rather play pole position. At least the car moves when I push the button. The controls are so laggy that I was actually able to win more battles using a knife than the gun. Mainly because it takes so long to line anything up that I had a dead run on my opponent. While it was amusing to do that, it sucks bad. Controls are configurable, but not by much. I use a 2000dpi mouse and I still could not get targeting to function right.

Sound - Oddly sound is good. Not much to say except that I plan to rip the MP3 files from the folder to Combat Arms, rename and use them instead of the CA music.

Game play. See controls. This game is abysmal.

I'm giving this game 1 star. I would give it 0, but the weapon customization seems a little better than norm. Granted you cant actually benefit from it because the game is so crappy, but the ideas presented and the way it's presented could get better companies in on the action. Also, I like the music. I hate bagging on something that someone has worked so hard on, but if something isn't fun it just isn't fun.

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