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How the Server Browser Stopped Being the Front Door
Four separate things happened and none of them was about killing community servers. What was lost is discovery, not supply.
· 7 min read
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11 resultsGuides · SWAT 4
How to Install SWAT 4 and Join a Server
In SWAT 4, shooting someone loses you points. Not always. If a man is pointing a rifle at your team, you shoot him and the game agrees with you.
· 9 min read
Guides · Medal of Honor: Spearhead
How to Install Medal of Honor: Spearhead and Join a Server
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.
· 9 min read
Guides · Medal of Honor: Breakthrough
How to Install Medal of Honor: Breakthrough and Join a Server
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.
· 9 min read
Guides · Medal of Honor
How to Install Medal of Honor and Join a Server
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.
· 9 min read
Guides · Crysis Wars
How to Install Crysis Wars and Join a Server
Two products came in the same box in 2008 and people have been confusing them ever since. Crysis Warhead is a single-player campaign.
· 9 min read
Guides · Crysis
How to Install Crysis and Join a Server
Almost nobody remembers that Crysis had multiplayer. Those who do remember Power Struggle, an ambitious 2007 mode that almost nothing has tried since.
· 9 min read
Guides · Crysis 2
How to Install Crysis 2 and Join a Server
The joke about the first Crysis was that no computer could run it. Crysis 2 is the one that ran, which is why it is the entry most people finished.
· 10 min read
Guides · Battlefield Vietnam
How to Install Battlefield Vietnam and Join a Server
You hear the helicopter before you see it, and the music before either: a sixties rock track that the anti-aircraft gunner below can hear as well as you.
· 9 min read
Guides · Battlefield 2
How to Install Battlefield 2 and Join a Server
The hard part of Battlefield 2 is not installing it or finding a server. It is getting a copy at all, because no storefront has sold it in a long time.
· 9 min read
Guides · Battlefield 1942
How to Install Battlefield 1942 and Join a Server
On Wake Island the round starts with a sprint. Thirty people leave the airfield, about four reach an aircraft, and those four decide the next ten minutes.
· 9 min read