Tag Archives for first person shooter
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3
For some the figures speak for themselves – $400 million dollars made in the first 24 hours and $775 million within the first five days. Clearly Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 was the most eagerly anticipated game of the year and the fans proved it by rushing to the cash tills. Yet once you…
Battlefield 3 by EA on PC
It’s very easy to big up the rivalry between EA’s Battlefield 3 and Activision’s Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 by comparing enormous sales figures and reflecting on the failure of earlier Battlefield titles and EA’s recent Medal of Honor to match the global popularity of the CoD franchise. The truth is that both series…
RAGE by Bethesda on PC
When we heard that games developer iD (who made the pioneering shooters Wolfenstein 3D, Doom and Quake) were linking up with Bethesda (home of the Fallout and Elder Scrolls series) to produce a ‘groundbreaking’ first-person shooter, we naturally got very excited indeed about the promised offspring. After a lengthy gestation, RAGE was the result. The…
Red Orchestra 2: Heroes of Stalingrad by Lace Mamba Global on PC
You know all about first-person shooters, right? They’re all about fast action, contemporary scenarios with tons of precision firepower and targeting and they come with titles like Battlefield 3 and Modern Warfare. Not overly hot on realism but all about the adrenaline rush, correct? Well, according to developers Tripwire, that’s not the whole deal. 5…
F.E.A.R. 3 by Warner Bros
When the first F.E.A.R. game came out in 2005 it became an instant landmark classic for the first-person shooter genre. Here was an action game that gripped you with its storyline from the opening frames, and was so genuinely scary that it still sends shivers down the spine six years later. At the heart of…
Duke Nukem Forever by 2K Games
Never was a game so appropriately named. Fans of the cigar-chomping, gum-chewing, babe-flirting alien destroyer have had to wait nearly 15 years for their wisecracking hero to return, in the process surviving near-extinction on several occasions. Question is, now he’s back, is he up to scratch? When he first appeared, the Duke was a breath…
Brink by Bethesda
The future isn’t bright, no matter what a certain mobile operator claims. According to first-person shooter Brink – and a number of other apocalyptic sci-fi visions, from Kevin Costner turkey Waterworld to that 2012 film – the future’s wet. Bethesda’s FPS is set against a backdrop of global warming, rising waters and the Ark, a…
Section 8: Prejudice by TimeGate Studios
Alongside the usual machine guns, sniper rifles and rockets, this high-tech sci-fi first-person shooter (FPS) from TimeGate Studios sports power armour and pulse cannons. Section 8 also throws jetpacks, vehicles and mech suits into a team-based firefight where two sides face off in online multiplayer with three different modes of play. The trouble is, there…
Crysis 2 by EA
Four years have passed, and still Crytek’s stunning sci-fi first person shooter Crysis is the graphics benchmark for all superior action games. Thankfully, PC technology now enables most high-spec machines to play Crysis in all its glory – which is why Crysis 2 has been one of the most eagerly awaited launches of the year….