Combat Arms Review: Pt 2, The Game

In my previous post “Combat Arms Review: Pt 1, Nexon and the business proposition” covering Nexon’s online First Person Shooter (FPS) game Combat Arms (CA), I covered the general economic model and the attraction for playing this very comprehensive of “free games”.

This 2nd part of the review is looking now to the game mechanic and the strengths/weaknesses of the platform and community. Specifically:

1. Is the gameplay any good?
2. How good is the user interface?
3. What is the community like?

Background
I’ve been playing first person shooters for a very long time, albeit I don’t profess to being particularly good at them. I still have a zipped up version of the original Wolfenstein and Duke Nukem for a historical laugh. Similarly aged FPS players like myself have a chuckle that as we upgraded our machines from 386 proccessors to 486 architecture, we would turn off the “turbo” button to slow the computer down so that they could comfortably play the game in its original game state. A whole new world was unveiled with the arrival of the Pentium Processors of the day. I’ve been in businesses which played networked versions of Doom, Counterstrike, different versions of Quake, Unreal Tournament 2004 & 2007.

Ironically enough I never got into Call of Duty or the Battlefield 1942 type of games, being what I class as just a “casual gamer”,  I just never quite had a computer “fast enough” to run such heavy duty graphics and support the game play comfortably and always seemed to be 2 versions of Direct X behind what was current and more to the point what my computer and video card could support.

Recent times, though I’ve managed to get a laptop with a solid state hard drive, which has made a huge difference in terms of my gaming ability, connected to a decent external monitor. This led me to my search for different first person shooters that were free and had reasonable graphics and gameplay which would entice me to play on a semi regular basis.

Is the gameplay any good?
If you like Counterstrike, you’ll like CA. Set in modern times, there is an array of maps and assorted weaponry which is accessible to all players. The ranking system is modeled after the US Military, with some variation at the upper echelon ranks. As discussed previously, as you progress through each rank, gaining experience you are allowed access to different maps and more importantly, different GP (Gear Point) based weapons of varying types and capabilities.

When you first start off life in the CA world, you are the rank of T = Trainee, having to go through the mandatory training and orientation battles. When I joined a couple of years back, they didn’t have this orientation, instead throwing you in the deep end into the battle servers instead. There are an array of servers available – at the time of writing, I’m playing on the US based servers and I tend to spend most of my time on Server West. Within Server West, there are a number of different servers groups – Alpha, Bravo, Foxtrot, Black Market and Papa – each with an array of game play servers underneath that you can join. Access to these servers is based on either your rank or your KDR = Kill Death Ratio or in some cases both. Starting off life as a modest T= Trainee and than graduating to P = Private, you start with a KDR of 1.00. KDR is calculated by your number of kills divided by your number of deaths (yours). So if for example you manage to kill 20 people in a game, but die 15 times, your KDR = 20/15 = 1.25. If conversely you kill 15, but die 20 times, your KDR = 15/20 = 0.75. Really, anything above 0.85 is considered pretty good.

Gameplay itself is simple – you pick a room, with the appropriate game mode you want to play and join it. With up to 16 players (multiplayer) in the same room, games in general are surprisingly lag free. I play at home over my home wireless and ADSL and don’t have any problems. In game, graphics is fluid, and very much focused on rapid, real time decision making, skill and good representation of graphics. This to me is the appeal of CA – the gameplay is very enjoyable, as on the whole, everyone is there to have a good time. In game chat options are 1/All 2/Team or 3/Clan, which you can interface with via either keyboard or voice microphone/headphones.

On the whole, I spend the bulk of my time playing Elimination, as I find that, particularly when you are playing with some friends, it is the most enjoyable from a casual gaming perspective, as you can work together.  There are a number of game modes:

Elimination: Which is you and a group of team mates against an opposing force of similar numbers. The game has a target number of kills e.g. 140 and its the first team to get there, which wins. Each time you kill, it adds to an overall game tally of “kills”, each time you die, you re-spawn about 5 seconds later and continue on, accruing a “death” = hence the capability to calculate a KDR. Probably the most popular of the game types.

Elimination Pro: Tougher. Again, you are separated into teams, but if you die, you don’t re-spawn – get a second life until the round ends. The game lasts as long as a team has a player in the field, who remains alive, with the winning team that which has the last player standing. Games on big maps can last for ages, as you run around “hiding” and trying to get a clear line of sight with the enemy, without them getting a bead on you. Much less forgiving of mistakes and tends to be played by better KDR players, who fave higher powered weapons i.e. shotguns, sniper rifles or have particularly good aiming accuracy.

Fireteam: You verses the computer and hoards of either a/ Zombies or b/ Computer controlled players. There are limited maps being available in this mode, those being Cabin Fever, Desert Storm, or Desert Fox. Team work rules the day here – much harder to play as a lone gunman, you will get over run and swamped by the opposition in a matter of minutes.

Quarantine: A variant of Fireteam, you have a time limit to destroy all the Zombie hoards attacking you from all points of the game – played on a limited set of maps, you have the opportunity to “hole” up in specific places. Again, a heavy emphasis on team play to defeat the enemy overall. My least favourite mode.

Capture the Flag: 2 spawn points, 2 flags, get the oppositions flag and return it to your spawn point. Simple.

One Man Army: As the name suggests, everyone to themselves. Weaponry and skill rule the day here.

How good is the user interface?
When you log into the platform, navigation around the servers is pretty straight forward – there are different areas where you can gather on the server to take part in community chat, there’s a section to look at your game character and fit out the weapons you accrue over time. In the 2 or so years I’ve been playing the game, the Nexon guys haven’t rested on their laurels – every 6 months or so, they update the game interface, based no doubt on analytics of what people are looking at and where they are spending their time. Each time they have upgraded the interface, I’ve been really happy with the evolutionary changes and incremental functionality introductions/deletions – it’s all very logical and straight forward.

In game play, user interface is the classic FPS keyboard/mouse combination which can be specifically configured to your own requirements i.e. invert the mouse so that forward is up and reverse is down or change the firing keys etc. Sensitivity in game can also be altered too in game which is nice, when you want to tweak your settings to a sniper type game where you want slow movements verses a Close Quarters Combat (CQB) battle with high sensitivity.

Game play is full screen and the array of information around the screen is clear an unobtrusive. I think this is where Nexon really got it right in the game play – I’ve since downloaded and tried a few of the other games that are available in the space like  Operation 7, Cross Fire etc but they just don’t have (In my humble opinion) as good a user interface in terms of design or usability. It makes a serious difference when you’re running around a map and someone is taking snipes at you, how easy it is to read and interact with the user interface.

What is the community like?
I’ve mentioned that games can have up to 16 players in them – if you play regularly enough, you often get to know players by their call sign, as they tend to log in the same time as yourself and you can get chatting to them. If you find a particularly good bunch of people to play with, you can join a “clan” which is a collective of people who play under the same team or clan name. There are some distinct advantages to this, not least of all co-ordinated game play. The camaraderie that occurs during a clan match with like minded team mates is also a lot of fun. Clan War’s between 2 opposing clans, with both clans communicating on their own private channels to each other during the middle of a game takes the gameplay and complexity of the game to a whole different level – it is fantastic, the blend of tactics, skill and thinking involved.

A by product of clan wars, is that clans are sectioned off into levels – Level 1 can have a maximum of 10 players, Level 2 = 20, Level 3 = 30 and so on. With the accrual of each level (by way of clan war matches) the clan members can access different weaponry and armament which is wholly unavailable from the store or via ranking up through the levels as an individual.

I’m the member of a clan which is quite small – only 8 members, but because we are all based in Australia and play at similar times, each time we log on its nice to have people around. It’s an adult clan – we’re all got kids and mortgages and chat about real world things over voice chat – with the common thread of interest being the game itself. Playing a clan war in a co-ordinated way is a whole lot of fun, particularly on the bigger maps and in the team mode maps like capture the flag etc.

Overall, if you like FPS – I’d highly recommend giving this game a go, particularly if you have an office environment where there are network games on a Friday night – it’s great fun.

Adventure Racing

As I write this post on my daily commute into “the big smoke” – Melbourne CBD – heading into work after a long weekend, I glance at the time and realise that the best man at my wedding Michael Kolody, is taking starting position with his 3 team mates Kerryn Rim, Paul Gruber and Brendon Hills in what some would call masochistic, organised mayhem – an Adventure Race. They represent the revival of the adventure racing team Mike & I founded back in 2005: Tali Karng Trackers.

Not just any adventure race either, but the grand daddy of Adventure Races in Australia – XPD. Held every 2 years in different, beautiful parts of this fare country of ours, it is a journey of exploration, self belief and ultimately achievement. Set across 10 days, it traverses 700+ kilometers of terrain by no means other than walking, mountain biking, kayaks, the occasional abseil/climb. It eschews modern navigational aids such as GPS and mobile phones communications (or Google Maps!) in favour of more classical methods – old fashioned magnetic pole compass and high quality cartographer maps.

By grand daddy of races, XPD is so highly regarded, this years event in its 6th year, is the final leg of the Adventure Racing World Series for 2011 and is also the “Championship” event.

The Adventure Racing World Series this year comprises of 7 events:

• Adidas TERREX, United Kingdom, Aug 2010
• APEX – Alpine Expedition, Switzerland, May 2011
• Costa Rica Adventure Race, Costa Rica, Jun 2011
• Raid The North Extreme, Canada, Jul 2011
• Raid in France, France, Aug 2011
• Gold Rush Mother Lode, United States of America, Sept 2011
• XPD ARWS World Championship, Australia, Nov 2011

80 teams from all around the world – 23 countries to be precise – have registered to be part of this race. Sporting teams representing the elite of the elite have trekked here in what is nothing less than an awesome field. An example of the calibre includes:

•     Team Adidas Terrax from the United Kingdom (#1 UK Team)
•     Team Black Heart, Australia (#1 Australian Team)
•     Wilderness Traverse.com from Canada (#1 Raid The North Extreme)
•     Team Wild Rose from Canada (#2 Raid The North Extreme)
•     Seagate from New Zealand (2nd in the 2010 Adventure Racing World Championship)
•     Team Silva (from Switzerland 1st APEX Switzerland)

So, what is Adventure Racing?

I liken it to this: If you think about anyone you know that does triathlon events, they have their race divided up into the swim then the bicycle ride and rounded off by the run. This is set out on a pre-determined course and the objective is to finish the course in as short as time as possible. With notable exceptions, the course is usually in an urban environment, near the beach and the course is known days, if not weeks in advance, so that competitors can go “train” there and plan out their attack. By this, if the course is slightly hilly, competitors can plan how they tackle the hills, according to their style of competition – attack the hills and conserve on the descent or take the hills conservatively and move quickly down the slope. Everyone’s different.

Adventure racing is totally different. For one, there isn’t a set course. You are given check points that are mandatory to pass through and you can only get there by old fashioned navigation with a map and compass.

For the XPD event, I spoke to Mick on Monday evening and expectations were high as at 9am on Tuesday morning, they were going to be receiving the maps to the entire course area, covering 700km of terrain. The course is across some 80km by 160km, which equates to 11,000km square of terrain. Wow. Rather than having the course marked out for them though, like in a triathlon event, they were only given particular destinations they had to pass through with their team. Mick expected that the whole of Tuesday up until midnight would be devoted to mapping out exactly where the teams would travel.

Each checkpoint carries a points value, with points assigned to the difficulty of the location. An example is that a checkpoint on the summit of a mountain carries maybe 100 points, but the next 100 point checkpoint is at the bottom of a valley in heavily wooded forest. To make matters more interesting, checkpoints carry different points values according to locale and with the underlying strategy of winning being accruing enough points, it suddenly becomes a tactical game of choosing which course will track the most amount of points in a given time period.

Each checkpoint is governed by GPS locators on each team, both for marshaling purposes as well as a safety precaution. It isn’t unusual to see an event with 200+ checkpoints ranging from a modest 10 points each to difficult, far flung points with 150 points attached to them.

It is for this reason that adventure racing is a team sport. Across the 700km+  XPD’s absolute elite teams are expected to cover this in some 5 to 6 days. With no sleep. And just walking, cycling, kayaking or (as has just been revealed this morning) caving.

Picture this: You’re alone with your 3 team mates, navigating by compass and maps. You have a backpack full of food and water, the mandatory safety provisions like flares, thermal blankets, first aid kit and spare parts for your bike. It’s 3am in the morning and you’re moving by torchlight. It’s raining. And you’re running.

I’ve done a few adventure races, but its been limited to 12 hour and 24 hour events. I’ve done a lot of rogaining – which is the spiritual sister to orienteering, relying on gaining as many points as possible in a set time limit. I used to work on 150 points per hour, because if you did that, you were a shot of taking a podium finish. Team mates, more fit and more talented than I, ranked a number of times over the years.

I’m not downplaying the fitness aspect of my team mates and the team that is on the trail at XPD. Back in 2005/2006 when I first founded TKT with Mike, I was relatively fit. I was able to comfortably run 10km in 38 minutes and on Wednesday evenings, we would walk/run 22 kms on single track with race packs in the Darabin park lands along side the Yarra River in around 2 hours 15 minutes. By relative, by way of example Chris Steven’s of PNG Trekking Adventures who is one of the TKT crew used to ride on his mountain bike before our weekly run 30km from Ringwood to my house in Heidelberg, run the 22km single track, than ride back home again. Then he’d be up at 4:30am the next day and do a 10km kayak. So in context, my fitness level back than, which by any standard is rated as high, pales in comparison to the team that’s out in the field this week.

Mick is a competitive bugger at the best of times. However chatting to him earlier this week, even he conceded the aura of “extreme” that the world championships has bought out in the 80 teams hes had teh opportunity to meet from Canada, UK, France, New Zeland, Costa Rica and the United States. He said he’d be happy just to finish the race.

I will watch with envy and satisfaction Mike, Kerryn, Brendon and Paul’s endeavour over the next few days.

Good luck guys, be safe, be well: Stay Strong, Stay on Target.

Websites:
XPD Live on http://www.trackmelive.com.au/xpd2011/default.aspx
XPD http://www.xpd.com.au
Tali Karng Trackers http://www.tktrackers.com
PNG Trekking Adventures http://www.pngtrekkingadventures.com/

Tree Change: Moving to the country

In recent months, those of you that know me, would be well aware of the massive amount of activity Katie & I have undertaken in re-arranging our lives and moving up to the Macedon Ranges. In high level terms:

• Renovated House – Bang! Really upped the tempo in our activities – new kitchen, new wardrobes, painted inside & outside, terraced the backyard, spent a small fortune on the gardens. This off the back of new bathroom, re-modelling the layout of the house and turning the ugly duckling into a desirable home.
• Put House on Market – Used the most expensive agent in the area and got a spectacular result. A first hand experience of “you get what you pay for”
• I changed Job
• Sold House – at auction, just before the downturn in the market. Yay!
• House Cooling - Had a succession of events at our sparkling house, which involved LOTS of dinner parties, weekend gatherings, children running around everywhere, excellent company, great food & wine.
• Started looking for a Rental – summarised by: hovels or in the middle of no-where (as in 10km from the station in the hills)
  
• Started Packing – gave away to friends and charity probably 30% of our material possessions.
• Rental – still looking.
  
• Revved up Luci & Noah (well mostly Noah) – the next big adventure for a 3 year old – new playgrounds! new kids!
• Kept looking for a Rental – getting desperate now – prepared to pay 4 months in advance…..
• Found the Perfect Rental, 2 streets from our block!
• Moved – 1 Rental Truck, 3 trips and 5 Station Wagons of belongings later.
• Started our new life – angels singing with 4 part choral harmony materialises in the air

Katie wrote a really nice piece on her blog describing the move for herself in the post: Breaking Free.

Reading it, I realised the reasons that I wanted to move to the country were slightly different, because in all seriousness, I get my dose of urban hipsterism, sipping lattes and window shopping (my retail background you know!) each day I head into work. Katie’s view on her lifestyle is driven around the fact she is originally from Daylesford, indeed her parents are still up there and she would be “stuck at home” with Noah & Luci, sans all the creature comforts she had gotten used too – neighbours, cafes, shopping, skipping out for an evening with friends. In this regard, I admire her all the more highly, because I believe she has the tougher journey in the initial phase of our re-existence.

With that, it could be surmised that I have a tough journey as well in front of me, with a cloudier view of what is possible and accessible for myself. As one of my friends noted, moving to the Macedon Ranges requires a very precisely calibrated sense of timing, organisation and scheduling. Miss a train and you’re cooling your heels for an hour on a cold (okay: VERY COLD) platform. Scheduling around work comes to the fore – I’ve found that it has forced me to become even more efficient and zealous with my time and capacity to organise. I’ve had to be somewhat up front with my work colleagues to bring them to my scheduling.  I like to think and have been told, that I’m super organised. Moving to the country has definitely made me more so – I’m finding I’m processing things more quickly and comprehensively and I’m generally getting more work done.

Why? Time to introspect for one. A good friend of mine and I have been pondering the importance of “me time” for the past few months. He asked me a simple question: “Do I get time to do my own thing, on my own terms?” I responded that yes, I did and I did so, because I made the time. I would get up half an hour earlier and read my book for that extra 20 minutes. I would walk 20% slower from the station to home making the 12 minute walk, 15 minutes, admire the gardens, take a few extra deep breathes of fresh air or pause and marvel at the progress of a house being built. They are tiny, tiny things I’m doing, but I’m choosing to do them on my own terms. That’s very healing. That’s me time.

To paint the picture, he’s one of these guys I consider in that realm of “insanely bright”, as in so absurdly, brilliantly, intelligent our only problem in life is we run out of time to discuss the ideas we concoct in our heads when we are away from each other. He is in a similar position in life, with two children of similar ages to myself & Katie. As part of his “insanely bright” persona and intellect, he has chosen a life partner who works as a senior manager for the “elite of the elite” in management consultancies. And she’s a qualified doctor (GP). And she’s raising two wonderfully smart, caring and inquisitive children.

So, back to my reasons to move to the country. It’s a super complex question, with an equally super complex and convoluted set of answers and responses.

However, distilled simplistically: To slow down and smell the roses.

I’ve spent much of my life in fast forward. I love pace. I love change. I love learning. I love the sense of achievement when you learn something and can than apply it for an outcome you plan for. Translating this type of outlook has been realised most poignantly in having children and learning to share their time learning about the world and mixing it up with other children of our friends, who are similarly minded. That old adage “seeing the world, through my eyes” doesn’t ring more true than when you are tasked with the responsibility of raising your very own human being, or in our case two of them, to be morally upstanding, caring and humble individuals who believe in themselves and their value to the world.

Now we have made the move, I’m wondering, in my late 30′s why I didn’t do this earlier. I certainly haven’t set a precedent – two of my closest  friends, one the best man at our wedding, the other a dear friend who I’ve known since I was 15, both did a tree change in their early thirties – one moved to Far North Queensland, just outside of Port Douglas and the other moved to the Gippsland high country (yes, there is a high area). Both have made a tremendous impact on their lives and their lifestyles and they are both all the more fulfilled for having taken this adventure upon themselves.

Katie & I are focused on 3 things at the moment – our new home we are building, the future of our children and finally, ensuring that we have enough time for each other. These 3 modest goals, I can say we are meeting in such a way that I envisage, I will be blogging about more often in the future. I can say that having been a country mouse making the commute into town each day for the past 3 months, each night I journey home on the V/Line, I feel like I’m going on holiday. I love sitting on the train and reading a book. Or catching up on the continuous deluge of emails in an uninterrupted environment. Or reading, researching and finding out what is happening out in the digital world.

The intangible, personal things I’ve gained?

• Politeness - a sense of belonging to people and within the community. Katie & I have this metric which we laugh about, in judging the quality of a suburb. If you are driving and you have to give way to a car oncoming in a narrow street, if the suburb is decent, you give each other a “thankyou” wave. Suburbs like Camberwell, Alphington, Ivanhoe are the sort that reflect a more “polite” way of  existence. Where we have moved too, we not only get a wave, the car oncoming pulls up, lowers their window and asks how your days been so far. You end up chatting for 10 minutes.
• Community – last week it was particularly windy. Some bins got knocked over in front of us as a group of us departed our train at the station, sprawling the contents on the road with the wind doing its best to send paper, rubbish and debris to the four points of the compass. As one, 5 of us quickly started picking up rubbish and straightening up the 2 bins that got knocked over. Within 20 to 25 seconds another 8 people were helping pick up the rubbish and tidy up the street. 45 seconds later, we all bade farewell to each other, by way of nods and “thanks – see you soon” and went on our way.
  
• Nature – Fresh air. Beautiful parks and untouched forests. Clear sky’s at night where you look up into the sky and feel sucked up into the vastness of the stars above, and feel like you are 5 years old again. Having a 3.5 year old sitting on your lap and looking into the sky each night is surreal.
• Fresh food – We have within 5 kilometers of us, some of the states best fruit, vegetables and livestock available to us on our doorstep. The cafes go to the trouble of learning your name. And remembering you. And engaging you.
• Neighbours – uniformly neighbours at our rental and adjoining our block of land we are building on are terrific. It’s amazing to meet so many people of similar outlook, mindset and values. You want to have them over to dinner to get to know them better. You feel privileged that you drew the lucky hand and will have these people around contributing and influencing your own children’s lives in the future.

A tree change: It’s fantastic.

Firefox Profiling People – The old fashioned way

So upon upgrading my Mozilla Firefox Browser just now, I was asked (optional) to answer a 20 question survey about my web browsing habits. The questions were a bit silly in some cases, being your atypical style multi choice, with not much variance/choice.

You arrive at a party, who are you?

a/ wearing the crazy rented costume, drawing everyone’s attention

b/ slinking in as unobtrusively as possible

c/arriving with a group of friends to spread he scrutiny or

d/ what party?

You get the picture. I don’t believe very scientific. However, I plough through the questions and as reward, it generated the below profile of myself.  The full flash driven, menu pop up experience can be seen at the WebifyMe.org website here: http://mzl.la/oroULb

1. I use a Blackberry. I do own an Android Honeycomb Tablet though. Half right.
2. I do have a 2nd old school phone for when I go snow skiing and mountain biking, as a backup. So half right again….
3. I do eat well, but not to the extent of being a hypochondriac and carrying a thermometer around with me.
4. Master of Disguise. I think not.
5. Tarot? What’s that? BUT, to be known as a magician able to weave magic out of thin air. Now that’s cool.
6. Tech Mag. Guilty as charged: Wired, Monocle, T3, occasionally.
7. USB Key: Hmmmmm maybe. Maybe 2 of them. One Waterproof, the other made out of Titanium for rugged handling. Nerd alert!
8. Moleskin Address Book? For 2,200 contacts…. Urrggghhhh fail. However for a notebook, that’s a different story. Matched by a nice Schaeffer or Inoxcrom Pen. I use my smart phone to manage my contacts – enter: BlackBerry.
9. Buttons? Laughter. Plucky. Resourceful. If I could but live up to these noble traits.
10. Friendship Bracelet. Now this one was genuinely nice. If I could be remembered for such endeavor with my friends, than I am all the more enriched and humbled for both the experience and the opportunity.
11. FAIL Location being U.S.A. Nice to visit. Not to live. Australia all the way.

Intriguing. I wonder what my other friends would get on their walls?

There’s an App for that: Apple

Today, we celebrated one of my work colleagues birthday’s in the usual fashion by off key singing – somewhat lacklustre, with the lack of alcohol to uninhibit the developer contingent in the audience – and a collection of delicious gourmet (pronounced: gore-met) cupcakes.

We found candles, which was useful, but we couldn’t find matches, nor a lighter to light said candles.

We’re a healthy bunch here, with none of us smoking.

So, living up to and exemplifying Apple’s publicised assertion that “there’s an app for that”, one of my colleagues hit the Apple App Store and within 30 seconds had dutifully downloaded a virtual candles and cake app, which actually works.

As in, you blow the (unlit) real candle and the virtual candles blow out, on the iPhone, via way of the decibel meter monitoring a change in ambient noise or shaking the phone using its inbuilt gyrometer.

Nerd alert.

Talk about servicing a niche requirement within the market!

And for the record, Blackberry’s App Store is far too sensible for such frivolous code to be there. Blackberry devs are just reinforcing their view of being boring folk, more concerned about data protection and security.

Lamborghini Aventador TVC

Woohoo!

What a cracker of a TVC.

Not withstanding the Hollywood budget and special effects this new advertisement for the up and coming Lamborgini Aventador obviously has, this advert is exciting for me to watch, because the local laws here in Australia prevent such exciting adverts as this hitting our screens and have been in play  since 1st July 2004.

Don’t believe me? Look here at the Federal Chamber of Automotive Industries (FCAI) “Voluntary Code of Practice for Motor Vehicle Advertising”

It does say it’s a “voluntary” code. I wander what would happen if everyone spontaneously did adverts with cars sliding about. The recent Ford Ute flying down a tunnel to get a delivery of beers I thought was pushing the boundaries and the fact that I saw it only once only reinforces that a bunch of wowsers with nothing better to do complained and the advert got pulled off the air.

Lamborghini Aventador from Sehsucht™ on Vimeo.