Headshots

One of the most telling indications of how skillful a progamer is the number of headshot kills he dishes out per minute in competitive gaming.

A headshot kill is pretty standard fare in FPSes today, and as damage modeling goes, it’s almost certainly fatal unless you’re facing off a higher-level mob or an NPC wearing head armor. Gamesrader has just put together a fun (sort-of) video tribute to the years in which headshot-kill mechanisms have been included in FPSes. Link is right here.

Be warned though; this video has lots of graphic violence. So do exercise some discretion and good old common sense, and don’t mimic these actions in game like those luckless fellows from Hyde Park below in the earlier blog entry.

(Picture from Game Pressure’s game guide to Crysis)