gunsmoke on 27/3/2011 at 00:29
How is Metro gonna fare on a single core 3200+?
Sulphur on 27/3/2011 at 02:28
Not very well. Not very well at all.
catbarf on 27/3/2011 at 03:52
Eh, his GFX card's good enough and I don't recall Metro as being particularly CPU-intensive, so it could work.
Sulphur on 27/3/2011 at 04:05
I purchased an Athlon 64 3200+ back in the day. Back in the day being 2004. If Metro runs at all, it won't run with anything like acceptable performance. It's a fairly new and fairly demanding title, all things considered.
Quote Posted by "Metro 2033 System Requirements"
Minimum:
Dual core CPU (any Core 2 Duo or better will do)
DirectX 9, Shader Model 3 compliant graphics cards (GeForce 8800, GeForce GT220 and above)
1GB RAM
Recommended:
Any Quad Core or 3.0+ GHz Dual Core CPU
DirectX 10 compliant graphics card (GeForce GTX 260 and above)
2GB RAM
Azaran on 27/3/2011 at 04:12
Quake 1-3, Blood 2, and many others I can't think of now
june gloom on 27/3/2011 at 04:13
I love how people keep suggesting Serious Sam.
Shadow on 27/3/2011 at 05:32
Check out Aliens versus Predator 2 and Undying. You could also try Unreal 2, although it's nowhere near as good as the first.
Volitions Advocate on 27/3/2011 at 06:26
There are quite a few good FPS games that were made after the whole non-key-card searching revolution that were considered low-budget.
mind you, "good" is pretty subjective.
Try Chaser, you can get it on steam for $5, There's also Red Faction 1 & 2. And a terrible painkiller clone (or serious sam clone depending on how you look at it) called Will Rock, that you may or may not enjoy.
Muzman on 27/3/2011 at 06:53
With Half Life 1 and 2 on there in the positive section, I feel fairly safe mentioning No One Lives Forever 1 and 2.
Return to Castle Wolfenstein is actually a lot of fun. Yes it's World War 2, but only in the barest sense. Mostly it is amusingly Hellboy-ish. Also has one of the few decent gratuitous stealth sections ever to be crobar-ed into an FPS for no good reason.
The Soldier of Fortune series are kinda offensive if you take them and their "Based on real life murdering bastards" marketing at all seriously. Looked at as gory (
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088944/) Commando-esque trash, they can be fun. (apparently the third one was so hilariously bad playing it was like ironically watching a bad eighties film).
Vietcong and its addons are good, but not really shooty-bang fun. More crawling through the underbrush on your face muttering "oh jesus, oh fuck, where are they? Oh god! Mother!" fun.
I remember people went a bit gaga for XIII back in the day. I couldn't look at it for more than a couple of minutes at a time though.
I have heard good things about some of the Turok series, as far as dumb shooty distractions goes.
And for second rate "sci-fi marine shooty on a space base" stuff from the hey day of that sort of thing, I can vaguely remember Chaser, Chrome and GORE being ...ok I guess.
june gloom on 27/3/2011 at 06:58
Return to Castle Wolfenstein has some atrocious design decisions, though.
