  Any of you out there gamers? Well i am,  big time! nbsp;  I love the rush i get when i sit at my desk and play my favorite PC game,  and drinking a ice cold beverage of my choice. nbsp;  For me,  its " Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six 3,  Operation Ravenshield" nbsp;  This game has it all,  its a first person shooter,  where you are an elite fighting force based out of hereford England,
 and you are responcible for maintaining peace throughout the world,  with just your team to plan and execute insertion teqniues that rival the SAS,  CIA,  and any other intelligence agency out there.
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 What can you do,  well let me tell you. This game is fully integrated,  you can manipulate anything.
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 In cooperative mode,  you and your teammates,  plan the insertion,  down to what to do at each individual room,  such as,
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at 5pm,  insert side door,  Simultaniously breaching frount double doors,  proceeding to room 1,  crack door,  toss flashbang,  and clear room,  then wait for next 'go code'.
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 And the best thing about this,  if you setup " waypoints"  for your AI backup,  you can change it on the fly,  simply by aiming at a door,  and clicking the menu button,  and it asks you what you want the AI to do,
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frag the door,  flash the door,  open clear and frag room"  and they do it. like professionals. if this sounds fun,  it doesn't even hold a candle to multiplayer.
 I belong to a unit called urlLink http: www. teamsmokin. squadservers. com &
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TEAM SMOKIN)  and we usually get together at all times of the day,  and play this game together.
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 Unlike Ghost recon,  Ravenshield only holds a maximum of 16 players,  like the old " rogue spear"
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 Combined with the versitility of " team speak"  a voice communication program that alows us to communicate,
 RVS becomes an oustanding source of fun.
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 Voice communication with your fellow teamates,  add's a " third dimension"  to gaming.
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 Being able to tell your team where someone on the other team is,  when you see them,  or when they kill you.
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 Its just wonderful.
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 Today i played online for 7 hours straight,  and thats a slow night,  sometimes I sit and play the whole weekend,  then its monday,  and I wonder where my weekend went so fast.
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 Right now im totally psyched,  because the first week of september,  My unit is having a reunion,  called "  team smokin bash 2004"
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 basically,  one person decides to have the party at thier house,  and invites the whole unit.
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 My unit has 34 players,  all charater of themselves,
 and 25 of them will be attending.
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 It was decided that leaving the computers home would just drive us nuts. so we are going to hook them all together,  and have at each other for 4 days straight,  while drinkin and what not. lol.
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 Also,  and this is the big part,  we organized a " LAN PARTY"  in indianapolis,  and invited the entire ravenshield community,  which we are very active in,  asking who wanted to participate.  We even got " Redstorm entertainment"  the maker of the game,  to sponcer most of the lan party fee.
 As of right now,  the 25 players of my unit are signed up,  with garenteed spots to play,  but the surprising part was how many people from other squads lived close,  and decided to go,  and we have a total of 224 people signed up for this.
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 Its gonna be huge.
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 Also,
 Redstorm is developing a new interface for lan parties that can hold a maximum of 150 players in ONE game,  with MUCH larger maps that no one has seen,  to make it fair. lol Anyay. enough rambling from me. im out till tomorrow G~
