Cold day and quake

 

Country house, country house. Sweet village. So, it is already month June. But, to my surprise, it was cold weather. And I need to change shorts for jeans. So, this time, it was really cold, but without rain. Clouds in the sky. And when sun goes from the clouds, then it was getting warmer. And, by the evening, weather starts to be better. And I was basked under the sun in the evening. I watched the trees. You know, country house is in the forest. And I watched the sky.

And, of course, I spent time, also with videogames. After, some little village tasks. I sit down and play. In my Windows Xp notebook. I try several games. By serious, I run simulation. Harpoon Classic 97. It is some style sea simulation, or better say, strategy game. About theme of radars, oceans, land, and mainly about ships and submarines. 

It was about times 80s or 90s, I think. And game is more serious, than I expect. I don’t understand at all. How to play it. So, even hurricanes can happen in the sea. Before my eyes, there is a strategy map. Lots of ships and submarines and you need to do something. I don’t get, what to do.

 

I try to continue play in Crimsonland. I stuck at level Arachnid Farm. It is already episode 2. In mode with levels. Game has lots of play mode, by the way. And lots of weapons, bonuses, and even has upgrade system. It is made with perks. You gain experience for monsters and choose a new skill. Such a funny arcade. Shooter. Game is just a meat, you know.

 

A most of all, in a dusky day. Better to say, just grey and cold day. I was playing, of course, in Quake 2. I move forward pretty good. I reach episode, or how, they called here – missions. Such a super big length levels. Up to the stage Jail. It was a scene with a big gun. Such gun, to shoot in the sky. You cannot sit before it. But after the gun it was an enemy. It was such effect. And, mainly, enemies become more evil. And more strong. And stage is jail. It is rather dark place. I need to say.

 

Some change in locations. If previous stage was industrial base, technological base. And this stage is different, it reminds about medieval architecture from first quake. But only reminds. There is also a place for computers, and it is also industrial place.

 

I noticed, that labyrinths are become trickier. So, mainly, you are going just forward. But you need to push something. Get up with the lift, take useful item. And that’s why it become more tricky to play. Multi floor architecture.

 

There are places with water regions and underwater. It is large territory, saying in another words, for your explore. As I say before, you can walk these maps. You can have a walk on a map. And even more, you need to do that, because computer gives you some tasks. And now I am reading carefully everything, that computer writes to me. Button F1 is your best friend. It writes to you what to do and where to go.

 

I take a notice, that some locations are made like a circle, you can go by circles. You, if you do not know where to go, then you will get lost. Because it is a round and circles. And enemies will catch you. And some places there is a screaming alarm signal here. And all the time all these cyborgs, half humanoids, half humans are running at you. It is serious war game is here. You intrude with automatic gun to the enemy base. And you are making some task here. Man, you know, no jokes, it is scary. Especially at level stage Jail.

 

It is a dark place. There are your soldiers in the prison cells here. But they are already gone mad after experiments. We can see, that not all of them will become cyborgs or borgs. It is a scary picture. So, one soldier speaks – “Lets go”. Some one another is screaming something. Third is hitting his head about the floor, while he is at his knees, or if he stands, then he hit his head into the wall. Scary place. No jokes. And I don’t have sunny day, also. And it is a cold day. It is getting more of this atmosphere. It is intense situation and cold.

 

 Machinegun takes, as I see, same ammo as automatic gun. And I don’t have time to make sure while a battle time. But machinegun use ammo very fast. It starting rotating for a long time. And fast blowing bullets. Works well. But usage of ammo is so big, that very fast, you will be out of ammo. I am, standing for automatic gun. As for me, it is more close to me. Automatic fire saving situations, all the time.

 

Shotgun is not bad. But you need to aim from a right distance. To the head or body. It depends on how strong is enemy is. Some enemies, you cannot take just with shotgun, and you need to fire 5-6 shotguns slow strikes.

 

You are out of ammo all the time. And I even play on level easy. And I become dead many times. I make a load and try again. Shotgun is good against who is small or weak. And in other situations, it is good with automatic gun. Or is it Uzi into his hands. I say automatic gun, saying simple.

 

I pick up all the time, healing things. It helps a lot. Location jail is made in another style. With elements as medieval, as industrial. There is some pyramid here. It is a several people in high. Not high, but higher than a human. As one and a half of human size, or little higher. And it is something like their computer. And lots of running because of this pyramid. First, you need disk to bring. Then to go to another part of the map. And all the time computer will tell you what to do.

 Game has a good music. It is playing rock music. It is nice to listen to it. Or such heavy metal. Or minor rock with gothic mood, but rock. It happens, that when you walk this labyrinth a lot of time, then music stop to play. And you go with silence and hear screams of monsters. And it is wind blowing outside. And red sky. Effects and music are cool here.

 

So, in result, I think quake is good game. And there is a change of locations. And there is something to surprise player. With more fat and hard to hit monsters. And tasks – like bring disk, activate pyramid. Find computer and restart it. Something like this. And all the time, it is feeling, that you are on enemy territory.

And, I finish with country house theme note. At the evening, I was just standing about half of hour under the sun. It basks, but it is not a heat. And it was a rather cold wind. North, maybe. But sun basked. I simply was standing under the sun and watched the sky and trees. I spent time very good. But, day, was cold for summer. But I remember this day. And I played in quake very good!