Now I’d love to run their real life course see how well I would do, but as for the game version, he was at least 6 seconds slower than me, and I’m not what I would call an expert.
He looks a bit old to be sounding like a fanboy and playing games but I understand they don’t have much real jobs over in Britain – everyone’s on the dole.
The average video game buyer is 35 years old. The iteration of the game in the video presold more than half a billion dollars worth of copies prior to launch. The video game industry is, by a huge margin, far more lucrative than all of Hollywood.
All of which is a long-winded way of saying that the conventional wisdom that holds video gamers to be pimply, fat, underemployed man-children with emotional issues who engage in a fringe activity is a bit outdated. Or at least a bit disingenuous.
How many times did the spec op guy get to run the course before the face off? I assume the gamer had played through that intro level dozens of times. And did Sid know the trick about shooting two at a time, because that was pretty lame.
It was interesting to see the different approaches. It seems to be a lot easier to run and gun in a virtual world. Not having to worry about tripping or running into things helps, I suppose. Still, not a lot of strafing or bunny hopping so I have to conclude Sid was a noob.
March 24th, 2010 at 10:42 am
I have a GSG and I thought the same thing…those magazines look just like mine.
March 24th, 2010 at 10:49 am
It’s the UK, of course it is a .22.
March 24th, 2010 at 12:39 pm
It is a GSG5. Not just the magazines, but the trigger housing, the fake can, and the ejection port are quite dead give-aways.
I wanna see gamer boy actually run the real course, not in the game.
March 24th, 2010 at 2:12 pm
Long time since I’ve seen a real soldier with finger on trigger…
March 24th, 2010 at 2:16 pm
Now that I’ve watched the whole thing… I never want to see that guy again.
March 24th, 2010 at 3:49 pm
Now I’d love to run their real life course see how well I would do, but as for the game version, he was at least 6 seconds slower than me, and I’m not what I would call an expert.
March 24th, 2010 at 5:19 pm
He looks a bit old to be sounding like a fanboy and playing games but I understand they don’t have much real jobs over in Britain – everyone’s on the dole.
March 24th, 2010 at 5:43 pm
One shot, two kills, using a round that couldn’t penetrate a vest? I thought these games were supposed to be realistic?
March 24th, 2010 at 6:05 pm
They’re not penetrating a vest… just cardboard.
March 25th, 2010 at 1:13 am
@DirtCrashr
The average video game buyer is 35 years old. The iteration of the game in the video presold more than half a billion dollars worth of copies prior to launch. The video game industry is, by a huge margin, far more lucrative than all of Hollywood.
All of which is a long-winded way of saying that the conventional wisdom that holds video gamers to be pimply, fat, underemployed man-children with emotional issues who engage in a fringe activity is a bit outdated. Or at least a bit disingenuous.
March 25th, 2010 at 6:21 am
How many times did the spec op guy get to run the course before the face off? I assume the gamer had played through that intro level dozens of times. And did Sid know the trick about shooting two at a time, because that was pretty lame.
It was interesting to see the different approaches. It seems to be a lot easier to run and gun in a virtual world. Not having to worry about tripping or running into things helps, I suppose. Still, not a lot of strafing or bunny hopping so I have to conclude Sid was a noob.