CoD. The Russian level with the big house, rifles only. Games like this would allways start off pretty fast paced until the numbers began to thin out and I was lucky enough to survive till it was just me and some other chap.
I was slowly going around the floors of the building looking for this last sniper, making sure I didnt blow it by walking past an window or a bomb hole too quickly. After about 5 minutes of sneaking around I concluded: "He's on the bloody roof!"
The only way I could get at him was to make a dash for an outside building and try and get a good vantage point and just find the bugger. This was technically a suicide run, I mean, its not like I really knew where he was, he could have seen me and was just waiting for a clear shot. I ran to the north bombed out house and quickly hit prone incase he saw me. Nothing. No shot to the back, no gun shots off in the distance.
I finally plucked up the courage to turn around and saw him on the roof. Not enough to get a shot but enough to know where he was. He was prone looking away from me but I could see his rifle moving around looking for me.
After 10 minutes (really, 10 sodding minutes) of crawling and stopping I finally had a clear head shot available. I aimed, I waited and I fired.
That was the tensest (I cant imagine that is how you spell it) match of my gaming life and I was sure my "suicide run" outside was not going to work
Another CoD story, in CoD2, playing as the Brits vs Nazis, the level based on the SAS French village leve, the one with the bombed out lawns and houses but its all nice and green. TD, Brits firing at the Nazis, who had holed themselves in two conjoined houses and had pretty good cover. Any attempt for a frontal attack was met with headshots and grenades. I finally coined on after 15 minutes of this bloody stand still that one of us should run around from our spawn point and try and get in the back. Of course I wasnt going to tell the rest of my team this bold plan, what with online computer game democracy still in its early stages :"why should we listen to you?" "because I have 50 more kills than you THATS WHY!" "LOL NOOB"
So I willingly took a bullet for Blighty and spawned a mile away (Well it felt like it). I ran through the rubble and the streets praying I wouldnt be taken out by a sniper shot (doesnt it just suck when that happens?) when I finally made it to the block of houses the Nazis where in. I only had a rifle, a cruddy pistol and 2 grenades, If I was going to do this, I had to do it quick and efficient. I screamed (in my head) "CHAARRRGGEEE!" and ran in to find all the Nazis looking out the bloody windows! From then on it was a simple run around the houses clonking the Bosche on the back of their heads *Clonk!**thud thud thud**Clonk!*thud thud thud*Clonk!*. I cleared the rooms, went to the front door and slowly walked out of the building, triumphantly.
I was promptly kicked for "noob bashing"
bloody Nazis.