Camper Killers: Imaginative Weapons Against Camping

TheUS Navy SEALS, the elite breed of warriors that killed Osama bin Laden while half the Pakistani Army was asleep, has a special saying: “There is no problem that cannot be solved without the sufficient use of explosives”. Which is why when it boils down to the battle between hardened bunkers and explosive-tipped missiles, the latter will always win. No matter how much of an “impenetrable”

The Decline of the Adventure Game

There was a time when all the adventure games that people played were done with pen and paper. Then text based games appeared for the PC, then finally came the graphic adventure games like Myst that were so popular in the 80′s. Being so intensely popular then that they influenced the number of purchases for the computers needed to play them, it was surprising that a mere ten years later, the people who bought

Why Everybody Likes the AK-47 in Counterstrike

People like certain things for many reasons. In racing games like Formula 1, most people like to use the team Ferrari. In FPS games, players also have their own favorite weapon. If you ask a Counterstrike player what his favorite assault rifle is, then the answer that you’ll probably get is the AK-47. This rifle is not just popular among FPS players; it’s also the most popular assault rifle in the real world. I

An Anti-Camper Game

Here at Stop Camping, we take our advocacy very seriously. We hunt each and every campers on games that we are capable of playing, from the old Battlefield 1942 and Battlefront 1 to CoD: Black Ops and Knights of the Old Republic. However, campers are like zombies: they seem to multiply faster than you can kill them. Case in point: the other day, I was playing on the of them North American servers for Black Ops. The

No, Wait – Camp

I realize the name of this site is Stop Camping, but I ran into a little map pack the other day that brought back some memories. While I originally played these maps on Quake II, the map pack I found was for Unreal Tournament. This pack is called Tapestry of Injustice, and it lives up to its name. Camping is one of the most infuriating habits you can encounter in online games, but rather than being a source of frus

How to Master the MMORPG

When you first begin to play a MMORPG you will notice that there are very important skills that you will have to learn quickly if you want to have any success at beating the game. In fact, there are certain skills that you will need to have learned at the beginning of the game if you even want to progress out of the opening city or village. When you play an MMORPG you will need to realize that you are in a massive

Multiplayer Mayhem for CoD: Black Ops

Flying the SR-71 Blackbird. Stealing a prototype Hind and using it to get your sweet revenge against those North Vietnamese commies. Ending the game with a nuclear bang. What else can you do in Call of Duty: Black Ops? Maybe the question should be, what can’t you do? Below are some tips to be a true black operator for this new smash hit game from Treyarch: No Rush It’s called black ops for a reason, not Rambo.

Helpful Tips for Better FPS Gaming

Here are some helpful tips so you could do better at playing FPS games. 1. When you are going against stronger opponents who can seriously defeat you, try tossing a grenade first and then keep firing at the enemy so that he won’t get the chance to escape from the explosion. The gunfire will keep him distracted so that he won’t be able to notice the grenade come at him. He won’t know it until the last second w

The Granddaddy of them All

The modern FPS genre is one that has a lot of traits associated near-exclusively with it. There’s the obvious one – the first person perspective – which puts the players right into the action. There’s the notion of secondary fire, which is an alternate function or firing mode for specific guns in an FPS, giving players new ways of using them. FPS titles also tend towards being very multiplayer-friendly, sin

The Most Underrated FPS Game of All Time

We have all played Doom, Call Of Duty, Brothers in Arms, Goldeneye 007, Halo, and we have all played Wolfenstein. Very few of us got the chance though to see or even play Alien Vs. Predator for the Atari Jaguar. This had to be one of the most impressive and difficult first person shooters of its time. It offered things that would be seen in first person shooters for another fifteen years and it was released on a sy