Tag Archive | First-person shooter
Call of Duty
Video Review: On the way… Written Review: When I think about how the first-person shooter has evolved, my first instinct is to turn to Call of Duty. The little-remembered 2003 war epic turned a niche genre – the military shooter – into a full-blown phenomenon, earning millions for publisher Activision and resulting in an avalanche of […]
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
Trivia: -While in development, the game was meant to be based on real-life events, but further planning was brought to a halt due to events in the 2008 South Ossetia War and the Mumbai terrorist attacks -Infinity Ward chose only to test the game’s multiplayer suite in an internal beta, believing that an open beta […]
Call of Duty: Black Ops II
Everyone, get ready to load up, get in your marathon chairs, and wipe down your controllers. Call of Duty is back and, as always, is ready to get obsessively played for hours on end (and then criticized for being formulaic by us hypocrites). Wait… Scratch that above statement – that’s from my 2011 cue-cards. Toss […]
Quake III: Arena
Being raised in the age of cover-based, high-adrenaline, set-piece oriented first-person shooters has the effect of cutting one off from the equally intense yet lower budget classics of yesteryear. That’s a shame, because the late ’90s were a breeding ground for well-known multiplayer-oriented gamer obsessions, such as Quake and Unreal. Quake III: Arena, therefore, is […]
Halo 4
Halo 4, the 8th installment to the Halo series, is finally going to arrive on November 6, 2012. 343 Industries has taken over the Halo series on this one and so far are doing a good job to make it look amazing. Even though these games are not repetitive like other series, all the Halo […]
Call of Duty: Black Ops
When a gamer thinks of iteration, they think of Call of Duty. These days, the two have become inseparable, as the once-innovative and fresh cinematic franchise has fallen into a popular yet unchanging section of the market. The games still manage to outsell one another by millions, but the formula is beginning to get stale…until […]
Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 – First Trailer Analysis
Note (May 1st): All I can say is…What. The. F*ck? I’ve never done a complete 180 like this before, harping on something for having the potential to be disappointing before eating my words with my mouth gaping open like a fish’s all within a 24 hour period. To specify, I am referring to the premiere trailer […]
Five Wishes for Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 (plus a Retrospective Look at Black Ops)
By now, many of you will have heard the news from other publications, but here it is: Call of Duty Black Ops 2 will be formally announced on May 1st during the 2012 NBA playoffs on TNT. Exactly how it will be done, I’m not sure (betting on a teaser trailer), but it’s still exciting […]
Forever: A Gamer Codex Production
The timing on this release is a tiny bit off (about a year, give or take), but it’s good to remember the times when 3D Realms’ infamous vaporware project, delayed for thirteen years, was still being hyped to the point of no return. Ladies and gentlemen, courtesy of Gamer Codex, this is Forever, a short […]
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