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Natural Selection movies worth watching |
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By Øivind K. "Fana" Foss
A few months ago, Dracka started a project to gather all the Natural Selection movies ever made and make them available for download. The movie list quickly grew and jiriki provided the server space for distributing these videos. However, looking at the list, I realized how much crap there was on it. Most of these movies aren't even worth the space they take up. So how can we fix this problem? Make a list of all the decent movies. The movies that are actually worth watching and provide direct download links to make it easier to grab hold of them.
Now bear in mind, these are all Natural Selection movies, and even the best ones are of dubious quality. There's only one, maybe two, Natural Selection movies I would even consider recommending to someone who isn't particularly interested in the game. However, for the rest of us, who are or have been interested in Natural Selection, there's quite a bit of fun to be had watching these flicks.
I've written short descriptions for each movie, mostly why I think they're worth watching summed up in one sentence. I could write proper critical reviews of the movies, but I don't really see the point. You won't have any problems spotting the faults yourselves, so I'm just going to focus on the good stuff. I don't feel comfortable reviewing my own movies, so I've just written some random bullshit line for most of them. I'm pretty sure I've listed all the movies I found enjoyable, but there's always the chance I've simply forgotten one. Feel free to let me know if you think some movie should be on this list and maybe I'll add it. If your suggestion is really bad I'm probably just going to make fun of you. Over the Internet. Ha-ha. The movies are listed alphabetically.
Big thanks to Dracka and jiriki for doing the legwork to make some of the more obscure movies on this list available for download.
Highly recommended movies
And then came the Finns by Aleksi
Nice quality, cool frags, some decent attempts at video/audio sync and Scale's legendary hand grenade. Don't miss it!
Fananation by Fana
What the cheese?
Flawed eXistence 2005 by Tempo
Who'd 'ave thunkit -- the NEW ZEALANDER is pretty good at making movies. What's even more shocking -- the NEW ZEALANDERS AND AUSTRALIANS are also pretty good at playing NS. Hot frags, hot editing, hot stuff. Baby this evenin'. Looking for some. Errrr anyway.
knifegaming tribute by b1
Some neat editing combined with b1's ever popular blooper reel emphasis makes this one of my all-time favourites.
Lagga The Second Coming by Lagga
Hot quality and ingame sounds, 40 fps is pretty cool as well. Bear in mind that 40fps and x264 encoding means that you're going to need a very beefy computer to be able to watch this.
morphzmovie by morphz
It's mop. Do you really need another reason?
nineLegends: Origins by Fana
Mmmmm. Tasty sync.
Natural Domination by Lagga
Hot frags and quality, that's good enough for me.
Natural Selection Jumped by Fana
The movie that started the craze, the genesis of Natural Selection trickjumping.
Natural Selection Jumped 2 by Fana
Better jumps, sweeter editing and strangely funky tunes.
Radial by esJ
By and large the best Natural Selection fragmovie to date. What else is there really to say? Go download it, meatbag.
Reign of Terror by Mustang
While there are other reasons to watch this movie, it all boils down to a single scene: Mustang devastating Reflect on ns_eclipse and kn... I won't spoil it.
teamexigent by froggeh
The frags. Oh my God the frags.
Seriously. The frags. aahafhafhrags.
Team Exigent - Ascension by Jmms
The slickest Natural Selection movie. Seriously beefy computer required for smooth playback.
tutu the movie by FreeZe and b1
I could write pages about how bad this movie is -- strangely, however, it doesn't matter because the good parts more than make up for it. FreeZe's trademark mix of movie -- in this case a music video -- and ingame footage combined with Günther's legendary song, tutufrags and tutubloopers makes for a very enjoyable experience. The insinuation that the viewer should touch tutu's tralala does make me a bit worried though...
Check these movies out if you're bored
knifegaming - Open Cup 2004 Champions by b1
Knife in Open Cup 2004 by b1
Laggarrrrr: The Movie by lagga
Reflect - Metamorphosis by Albino (Admittedly this is only here because of DrFurious' amazing voice)
Strafe by esJ
Terror by Mustang
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