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The hard part of Multi Theft Auto today is not the mod. It is free, installs in minutes, and has been maintained longer than most studios stay in business.
You will be killed by somebody who appeared to miss. The swing passed your face, you stepped back, and it hit anyway, because they turned mid-swing.
Monday Night Combat is not presented as a war. It is a televised sports show, with a crowd, a commentator, and ad breaks while you are being shot at.
A friend sends a server address. You type it into Minecraft on your phone, it will not connect, and you spend an hour sure you typed it wrong. You did not.
You do not have a team of twelve in Medal of Honor: Warfighter. You have one partner, and almost everything depends on them, including where you spawn.
Expansion packs are usually extra maps everybody plays for a fortnight. Spearhead is one of the few that ended up replacing the game it was attached to.
Breakthrough is the Medal of Honor expansion where dying puts you in a cage, and somebody on your team has to cross the map to let you out.
Everybody remembers the beach. Medal of Honor opened the ramp at Omaha in 2002, and most of the men beside you died before you worked out which way to run.
Medal of Honor: Allied Assault put you in a landing craft off Omaha Beach in 2002, dropped the ramp, and killed most of the men beside you in three steps.
You can dig a hole in Life is Feudal and the hole stays: real terrain removed, leaving a slope that water, physics and other players now have to deal with.
There is a reasonable argument that you should not buy Left 4 Dead. Its sequel absorbed all four campaigns, plays better and has six times the servers.
Installing L4D2, the eight special infected and why five of them leave you helpless, and how to find the dedicated servers running 8-player co-op.
The ground you are standing on is going to burn. Not as a scripted event, not as a raid mechanic — as the basic condition of the world.
Killing Floor's best moment is between waves: the trader opens somewhere on the map, everyone has money, and six of you argue purchases on the run.
The best moment in Killing Floor 2 is not a kill. It is the minute after a wave, when the trader opens and six calm players become a crowd racing for it.
Just Cause 2 asks one person to destabilise an island nation by themselves, mostly by attaching things to other things and then driving away.
Insurgency will kill you before you work out where the shot came from, and it will do it in your first thirty seconds. That is not a difficulty setting.
There is no ammo count on screen. You press a key, your character glances at the magazine, and you get an impression: roughly full, half, or nearly empty.
There is no ammunition counter in Insurgency: Sandstorm. A key checks your magazine and tells you roughly how heavy it feels. Not a number. A feeling.
The dropship leaves whether you are on it or not. That one rule separates Icarus from every other survival crafting game, so it is the thing to learn.
Hurtworld looks friendly: flat colours, clean geometry. Nothing prepares you for a stranger driving into your half-built shelter and taking your haul.
Most 2011 shooters gave you a killstreak that reset when you died. Homefront did something quieter and better: it gave you a bank account.
The first thing Hell Let Loose does is make you walk. Not for ten seconds but for a minute or two, over open ground, to a treeline where someone might be.
Blood Gulch is two bases at opposite ends of a valley with a Warthog outside each and a set of caves connecting the walls. It is a simple map.
