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Post your favourite game screenshot :)

Here's mine:
ROME TOTAL WAR (Barbarian Invasion)
night battle
Samartians - yellow (me) VS Eastern Roman Empire - purple (computer)







 

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Ok, here is 1 of mine, from my currently favorite game (Quake 4 1.3 SMP build, as ONLY NVidia can deliver):



And, here is another from its predecessor!

Quake III Arena, & what I personally, like to see (note my 'custom character' lol!):



:)

* IDSoftware = my fav!

("Accept NO substitutes!")

APK
 

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btw, i won that battle, but it ws by short, i lost a lot of mens and womans (crazy samartian archers bitches:p )

I didn't know that darth vader entered in quake 3 :p
 

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I didn't know that darth vader entered in quake 3 :p

In the stock/oem model of it, he isn't...

(However, there's a tremendous community that develops additional characters & more for it (much as the custom maps system exists for it)).

:)

* It's pretty cool stuff...

APK

P.S.=> Again, back to Bruce Springsteen's "Bobby Jean" tune for me, great stuff too... & I don't even particularly LIKE Bruce Springsteen, but this tune & "The River" are awesome! apk
 

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And FEAR




These are my favorites
 

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F.E.A.R. looks very nice... I have heard talk of it, & now I have seen a screenshot. I have to agree on what I heard now.

:)

* The neatest looking one I've seen is from Microsoft though, that "Dead Rising" one...

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Here's something for you guys. ;)





STOLEN from Lokigames.com (will soon upload my own screenies, if I have the time).

The best game EVER made. :D :respect: :D
 
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Go Protius GO! I was going to post a screnie of this game soon, but I donno how to take a ingame ss, was going to read the sticky on here.
 
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