Universe at War: Earth Assault Comments by Dan Whitehead

I was hoping this would be ok. But this just sounds broken. Maybe I'll give it a go when it's in the bargain bin and it's been patched. I imagine that won't be long.

So anyone want to sell me their pre-ordered copy for £5?

Even with a mouse and keyboard, this game was nothing special.

'It was probably the authors intention.'

Yes. Dan Whitehead wrote this review with the intention of pissing you all off at the start. He's that vindicative. Really.

It's true. I'm a cruel monster.

@rashes:
"Have you guys nothing better to do? That discussion IS a collosal waste of time... "

Starting an article with such bullshit forces readers to wonder if EG supplies its writers with free crack cocaine (and enforces the comments observed here).

Sorry in advance for continuing this pointless debate... but.. to say that PC controls are superior because in a theoretical deathmatch a mouse user would beat a pad user is blindly missing the whole point of what we all come here to read (and argue) about.

Video games reward the player for learning skills. A game isn't necessarily better or worse for making it easier to shoot bad guys. Would snooker be a better game if you got rid of the white ball and just hit the coloured ones straight into the pockets... or better still forgot the cues and just picked them up? (no it would still be boring)

Clunky controls are a problem in some console FPSs but that's really down to the individual game. I say all this as a recovering PC Counterstrike addict.. N64 Goldeneye addict.. xbox Halo(l) addict.. DOS Doom addict... etc..

In a word? Disappointed!

Hopefully Halo Wars will hit the mark.

/goes back and reads comments... shakes head

Don't you guys have games to play, instead of keyboard wars?

It's sort of amusing how people hold Quake up to be such a pinnacle of mouse gaming, when it had such strong autoaim (particularly vertical) that it was easily controllable with just the keyboard, and would have been a doddle on a joypad. And it rocked for that reason. Anal pixel clicking is a lame dead end gaming mechanic IMHO and has held back a lot of FPS game design which would have been more *fun* with a forgiving aim system. But a typing keyboard? For movement? What century is this??

Because mouse and keyboard haven't changed 1000 times over the years like gamepads have or because they don't look as iconic or as cool as a gamepad they're passé? They're still the future for certain popular genres, precision aiming or precision controlling coupled with logical movement controls is essential if you really want to feel like you've made that kill or that movement/attack order yourself. More control = great and leads to more options for the player. How simplifying an aim/control system is any good or would allow for a more fun FPS (or even RTS) design is beyond me, it only gives developers an excuse to open up their games for the masses (read: make them far too easy).

Of course, console FPS's and RTS's are fine as long as the console design doesn't infect the PC version and vice versa.

@JSPOOLE

rofl, I've seen some poor arguments come out of Halo types but you sir win.

And to all the people with the "omg how much time u hav!?1" and "who gives a shit about pc vs console" may want to direct themselves to the first paragraph then comment again.

Just because console FPSs have a decent controls these days (how long did that take them, 7 years or so?), doesn't mean they come near kb/m.

I actually like the game, takes a while to get a hang of the controls but once you figure them out, it's actually pretty good

had some nice online matches and stuff, certainly not a 4/10 imho

Good Seinfeld reference. I can't help but thinking that those Internet forums are full of Kramers and George Costanzas.

Bleh -- auto-targeting on console FPS games is not a "solution" to console FPS games.