Airborne Combat Engineer

Weapons customization in "Army of Two" game

One of the coolest aspects of Army of Two is the sheer amount of guns in the game (over 30 at the moment) and the fact that you can completely customize them to a level you've never been able to in other games before. As you play, you earn cash to buy new weapon parts and other sorts of customizations in a very RPG-like fashion.

"It's definitely a big, big part of the game now," senior producer Reid Schneider tells us. "As we got down the road we were like, 'Wow, this is a huge feature' -- it's a ton of work -- but I think people will be totally stoked about it."

The original idea for the weapon customization actually came from the private military company expert Richard Woodie Mister, who had spent a lot of time on private military company missions and saw how PMCs would treat their weapons. "He showed us these pictures of him in Afghanistan and these guys, they'd literally take one gun and duct-tape it to another. We were like, 'Wow, what's that?' And he was like, 'Oh, that's real.' And we said, 'What do you mean that's real?!' So we kind of riffed on that concept and said to ourselves, 'What if you had completely customizable weaponry in the game, wouldn't that be pretty damn cool?'"

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ACE, already having more than enough time wasters, avoids games, but this one is tempting.

Games are magic

... places, where 115-lb girls can carry and fire GE or Dillon mini-guns (presumably with a generator to power the motor).

For more magical/mythical images, visit gamewallpapers.com.

h/t the Download Munkey, which likes a image I don't know what to make of.

Now, there was an airsoft reproduction which could be lugged around, but it only shot pellets and the gears frequently jammed. See Monty's Miniguns.

Gunslinger Girl box set

The Gunslinger Girl box set (identical to the individual volumes reviewed here: 1, 2, 3) is at the same time an excellent and a terrible example to hold up to skeptics. On the one hand the sophisticated plots, beautiful animation, and tense action amply demonstrate that this show isn’t kids stuff.

Anyone who enjoys the Mission Impossible or Bourne films is sure to thrill to the fast-paced, blood-soaked, and mostly realistic counter-terrorism missions. The quiet sections are filled with plenty of compelling character drama probing the extent of the cyborg assassins’ humanity.

If you’re a discerning anime fan you either already own Gunslinger Girl, or were just waiting for the box set. That excuse is gone, so it’s time to lock and load with the show no NRA member could fail to love. Charlton Heston never looked this good in a skirt.

[Tune Zone]

ACE, already addicted to internet read-search and blogging, avoids all games; but this might be just your cup of tea. I'm not qualified to analyze grown men watching young anime girls with big eyes shoot guns.

 

EA Medal of Honor Airborne

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If ACE played computer games, this would be the one.

See the trailer