There are lots of different Tom Clancy games. They come in three flavors. Realistic squad-based shooter, action shooter, and stealth. Among the realistic shooters, the best are Ghost Recon, Rainbow 6, Rainbow 6: Rogue Spear, and Rainbow 6: Raven Shield. The best action shooters are Rainbow 6: Vegas and Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2. The best stealth games are Splinter Cell, Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow, and Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory. Rainbow 6, Rogue Spear, Raven Shield, and Ghost Recon all have expansions (I can't remember the expansions for the first two but the others are Athena Sword and Island Thunder or something). I would rank the genres from best to worst as realistic shooter, stealth, and action shooter, but all three have some top notch games. Also, they have some bad ones. The worst realistic one is Sum of All Fears, the worst action ones are Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter (actually not so awful) and Rainbow 6: Lockdown (so bad that it might be worth downloading the demo just to see how awful it is) and the worst stealth one is Double Agent, which I never played because I heard it sucked. For PC, at least.
<!--quoteo(post=1647437:date=Sep 4 2007, 04:49 PM:name=cshank4)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(cshank4 @ Sep 4 2007, 04:49 PM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1647437"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->Anyone else astounded at how off topic the MCD's advertisements are?<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->They are off-topic, but considering it's MCD I am definitely not astounded by it! <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/tounge.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":p" border="0" alt="tounge.gif" />
<!--quoteo(post=1647437:date=Sep 4 2007, 10:49 AM:name=cshank4)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(cshank4 @ Sep 4 2007, 10:49 AM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1647437"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->Anyone else astounded at how off topic the MCD's advertisements are?<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
What topic should they be addressing, really? The genocide in Darfur? Interest rates? They're advertisements for McDonalds. The topic is McDonalds, and the buying of its food.
<!--quoteo(post=1647462:date=Sep 4 2007, 09:28 PM:name=TychoCelchuuu)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(TychoCelchuuu @ Sep 4 2007, 09:28 PM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1647462"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->What topic should they be addressing, really? The genocide in Darfur? Interest rates? They're advertisements for McDonalds. The topic is McDonalds, and the buying of its food.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->I think you pounced too early Tycho. He obviously wasn't talking about MCD advertising food, but how they're advertising food linked in very tenuously with game guides from IGN: <a href="http://www.hdvg.net/images/stories/Screenshots/FarCry/Before.png?ok=ok" target="_blank">example</a>
It's like they think we'll be conditioned somehow so every time we want a game guide we'll get hungry and crave monosodiumglutamate-sodden cardboard with melted yellow plastic and refried dead cow lung...
The advertisement I was talking about goes like this.
'When it comes to video games, there's no lack of competition... At the toy store. Taste the rich life, dollar menu-naire(Wtf?) Bada ba bada.'
Not only does it seem like they're marketing to pedophiles, it seems like they just have no idea what they're saying. Not to mention the narrator's voice sounds like a porno star.
<!--quoteo(post=1647525:date=Sep 5 2007, 06:39 AM:name=cshank4)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(cshank4 @ Sep 5 2007, 06:39 AM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1647525"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->The advertisement I was talking about goes like this. 'When it comes to video games, there's no lack of competition... At the toy store. Taste the rich life, dollar menu-naire(Wtf?) Bada ba bada.'<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->WHAT? <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/confused-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="???" border="0" alt="confused-fix.gif" />
<b>"Do you want games with that?"</b> <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":D" border="0" alt="biggrin-fix.gif" />
<b>"Do you want games with that?"</b> <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":D" border="0" alt="biggrin-fix.gif" /><!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
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What topic should they be addressing, really? The genocide in Darfur? Interest rates? They're advertisements for McDonalds. The topic is McDonalds, and the buying of its food.
It's like they think we'll be conditioned somehow so every time we want a game guide we'll get hungry and crave monosodiumglutamate-sodden cardboard with melted yellow plastic and refried dead cow lung...
...mmmm! Informalicious game guides! <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/marine.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="::marine::" border="0" alt="marine.gif" />
P.S. Has anyone got any screenshots of the in-game billboard advertisements?
'When it comes to video games, there's no lack of competition... At the toy store. Taste the rich life, dollar menu-naire(Wtf?) Bada ba bada.'
Not only does it seem like they're marketing to pedophiles, it seems like they just have no idea what they're saying. Not to mention the narrator's voice sounds like a porno star.
'When it comes to video games, there's no lack of competition... At the toy store. Taste the rich life, dollar menu-naire(Wtf?) Bada ba bada.'<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->WHAT? <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/confused-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="???" border="0" alt="confused-fix.gif" />
<a href="http://www.8bitjoystick.com/archives/jake_i_could_sell_out_at_any_time.php" target="_blank">http://www.8bitjoystick.com/archives/jake_...at_any_time.php</a>
<b>"Do you want games with that?"</b> <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":D" border="0" alt="biggrin-fix.gif" />
<b>"Do you want games with that?"</b> <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":D" border="0" alt="biggrin-fix.gif" /><!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
"May cause disk obesity"