Posts Tagged ‘first person shooter’

#562 Planetside

Posted: 8th April 2013 by Jeroen in Games
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230th played so far Genre: First-Person Shooter Platform: PC Year of Release: 2003 Developer: Sony Online Entertainment Publisher: Sony Online Entertainment Here’s a novelty. Rather than an MMORPG, we’ve got an MMOFPS. It’s like an MMORPG, but you run around shooters and such. But wait, you ask, most FPS games have a multiplayer component, co-op [...]

#889 Borderlands

Posted: 22nd July 2012 by Mulholland in Games
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164th played so far Genre: First-Person Shooter/Role-Playing Game Platform: Xbox 360, Playstation 3, PC Year of Release: 2009 Developer: Gearbox Interactive Publisher: 2K Games The two of us had a discussion a few days ago about role-playing games. This is a fairly regular occurrence seeing how Jeroen’s favourite games to play whilst I am out [...]

#931 Halo 3: ODST

Posted: 18th March 2012 by Mulholland in Games
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131st played so far Genre: First-Person Shooter Platform: Xbox 360 Year of Release: 2009 Developer: Bungie Publisher: Microsoft There are games where you know the moment you start playing that they are going to be enjoyable but they never live at the top of your list. Whilst this may sound odd for someone who loves [...]

#429 Team Fortress Classic

Posted: 19th February 2012 by Jeroen in Games
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124th played so farGenre: First-Person Shooter Platform: PC Year of Release: 1999 Developer: Valve Publisher: Sierra If today’s entry seems short, it’s because a lot of this can reference Half-Life again. It is, you could say, the nature of this beast. Team Fortress Classic is a remake of Team Fortress, a mod for Quake.  It [...]

122nd played so far Genre: First-Person Shooter Platform: PC, Playstation 3, Xbox 360 Year of Release: 2007 Developer: Infinity Ward Publisher: Activision We’ve referenced our list of games borrowed from Peter’s friend Chris before (quiz question: who here knows which we still have to play?). This is the next game on our (admittedly quite good) [...]

#378 Half-Life

Posted: 30th January 2012 by Jeroen in Games
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119th played so far Genre: First Person Shooter Platform: PC Year of Release: 1998 Developer: Valve Publisher: Sierra Entertainment  Oh, Half-Life, how happy I am to see you again. Imagine me, over a decade ago, seeing this game played over at my cousin’s place, and having some tries. Amazed at the graphics. Marvelling at the [...]

#834 Far Cry 2

Posted: 14th January 2012 by Mulholland in Games
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115th played so far Genre: First Person Shooter Platform: PC, Playstation 3, Xbox 360 Year of Release: 2008 Developer: Ubisoft Montreal Publisher: Ubisoft Remember when we played a lot of shooting games in a row and then suddenly it all went quiet for a month on that front? Well the shooter is back and it [...]

#476 Halo: Combat Evolved

Posted: 14th October 2011 by Mulholland in Games
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92nd game played so far Genre: First-Person Shooter Platform: Xbox Year of Release: 2001 Developer: Bungie Publisher: Microsoft We DID warn you in our post for Call of Duty 2 that it would be time for a little bit of Halo (yes purists we are only calling it thus instead of the more longwinded, yet [...]

#630 Call of Duty 2

Posted: 10th October 2011 by Mulholland in Games
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91st game played so far Genre: First-Person Shooter Platform: PC/Xbox 360 Year of Release: 2005 Developer: Infinity Ward Publisher: Activision Whenever you launch a new console you really need that killer app to make sure you can tie in gamers early. Like how the original Xbox had Halo, which we will be covering very soon, [...]

#938 Killzone 2

Posted: 17th September 2011 by Jeroen in Games
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85th game played so far Genre: First Person Shooter Platform: Playstation 3 Year of Release: 2009 Developer: Guerilla Games Publisher: Sony Computer Entertainment And so we continue our journey into games defined by, well, shooting people. Thanks to the games we recently borrowed, we’ll be playing more of these… meaning we’ve been training our trigger [...]