2 Shares Share Tweet Share Share Email Comments It’s hard to talk about what Valve’s The Orange Box offers without immediately falling into an impression of some sort of late-night pitchman for fantasy knives and alternative cleaning products. That’s partially because the name “The Orange Box” sounds more like some […]
Share Tweet Share Share Email Comments Does Slam-Bam’s ice shoe slide ignore incoming enemy attacks? If not, you can’t even try this. But, most importantly, you’ve missed the fact in your own post that Slam Bam IS weaksauce melee. He’s got a slide that deals no damage, a decent (yet […]
Share Tweet Share Share Email Comments Arma II is a first- and third-person tactical shooter that simulates a military operation in the midst of a growing civil war in the fictitious European country of Chernarus. The sequel to Armed Assault and the spiritual heir to Operation Flashpoint, Arma II sets […]
Share Tweet Share Share Email Comments This year was supposed to be filled with sci-fi-themed first-person shooters. But now that titles like Doom 3 and Half-Life 2 have slipped to 2004, similarly themed shooters with less name recognition now have a better chance to gain an audience. Chrome is such […]
Share Tweet Share Share Email Comments Doom 3: Resurrection of Evil is the expansion pack for Doom 3, which was released on the Xbox six months ago. That, in turn, was a port of the PC original, which was a classy first-person shooter from id Software that features some pretty […]
Share Tweet Share Share Email Comments It’s good. If you’re a fan of Ghostbusters (and maybe even Ghostbusters 2), that’s all you needed to know, so you can go out and grab your copy without worrying that you’ll have to tread through bad game mechanics just to get a few […]
Share Tweet Share Share Email Comments The days leading up to the release of Icewind Dale in June 2000 didn’t make the odds of the game being a success look very good. Billed as sort of a dumbed-down hack-and-slash version of the epic fantasy role-playing game Baldur’s Gate, Icewind Dale […]
Share Tweet Share Share Email Comments Coming out of left field straight from Poland just eight months ago, Painkiller was an awesome surprise in what’s turned out to be a great year for high-quality shooters. With its wildly varied environments, impressive physics, huge cast of creatures, creative weapon design, and […]
Share Tweet Share Share Email Comments There’s no line of work more stable than space marine. The ubiquitous occupation is never at a want for intergalactic battles, and their eternal struggle is realized once more in Section 8: Prejudice. But just because you’ve waged similar battles in your first-person shooting […]
Share Tweet Share Share Email Comments The original SWAT game, released in 1995, was Daryl F. Gates’ Police Quest: SWAT. Named after the former Los Angeles Police Chief who formed the world’s first SWAT team, the original SWAT and its sequel were actually strategy games. It wasn’t until SWAT 3: […]
