I'll have to echo Brendon Chung and agree that the squad voice chat for Battlefield 2 was pretty great all-around. Me? I just ducked in here to say that I'd heard Chromehounds had the best gameplay-based voice integration of all time, though I wasn't in a place to buy and play a 360 until the servers were just about shuttered anyway. Who knows? Thirty years from now you might be able to go to a video games museum and play a stylish installation of Chromehounds (From Software, 2006) set aside other great art like Bad Dudes. And unfortunately, due to the temporal nature of multiplayer games, it can never be experienced again by anyone ever. My main was a four-rocket wheel base that just ran circles around all the howitzer builds that eventually dominated the game.Ĭhromehounds is one of the most fun games I ever played - it had a great variety of options, that fun persistent war mode, encouraged teamwork and strategy, and was entirely unique. It was so inefficient, it was such a trolling build, I got so much hate mail for playing like that. (Leading to a situation where the same equipment, if they even had thermal imaging, would do nothing for them, because their vision was obscured with fire.) They'd be completely helpless as their mech slowly overheated. Set down the vision-obscuring smoke mortars, flip on thermal, and start pounding the enemy with fire mortars. I usually played a scout too, one of my favorite builds was to pack on fire mortars and smoke mortars. God damn, what a great time i had playing that. Seriously though, a game just absolutely filled with brilliant, wonderful ideas. (Party chat also broke the whole communications conceit, though Microsoft has allowed games released since the introduction of that dashboard feature to disable party chat under certain conditions.) Chromehounds was badly balanced, and some massive game-breaking bugs were discovered near the end of its life, but that is a game that sorely needed a sequel and the fine-tuning that would have come with it.

Portal 2 no steam voice chat