608th played so far Genre: First-Person Shooter Platform: PC Year of Release: 2004 Developer: Epic Games Publisher: Atari One of my big early FPS experiences was the first Unreal game, one of the early games in the genre to play with story telling and audio logs. It was a new experience that I wasn’t used […]
Posts Tagged ‘first person shooter’
#619 Unreal Tournament 2004
Posted: 8th June 2017 by Jeroen in GamesTags: 2004, atari, epic games, first person shooter, pc
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#417 Quake III Arena
Posted: 9th April 2017 by Jeroen in GamesTags: 1999, activision, first person shooter, id software, pc
593rd played so far Genre: First-Person Shooter Platform: PC Year of Release: 1999 Developer: id Software Publisher: Activision A bit of a jump in genre here. Somewhere around 2000 – and obviously, in case of this game, in 1999, several publishers and developers realised that the main thing that kept people playing FPS games was […]
#629 Battlefield 2
Posted: 1st April 2017 by Jeroen in GamesTags: 2005, ea digital illusions ce, ea games, first person shooter, pc
591st played so far Genre: First-Person Shooter Platform: PC Year of Release: 2005 Developer: EA Digital Illusions CE Publisher: EA Games It’s a quick return to the Battlefield series. At the time of writing the first game hasn’t been published on here yet, showing the quick turnaround. Aside from being a long series, however, it’s […]
#496 Battlefield 1942
Posted: 23rd January 2017 by Jeroen in GamesTags: 2002, digital illusions, electronic arts, first person shooter, pc
574th played so far Genre: First-Person Shooter Platform: PC Year of Release: 2002 Developer: Digital Illusions Publisher: Electronic Arts There are four games on this list that are from the Battlefield franchise, with this one being the oldest. It’s another franchise of military shooters – the Call of Duty series coming from the same lineage. […]
#586 Halo 2
Posted: 31st August 2016 by Jeroen in GamesTags: 2004, bungie, first person shooter, microsoft, microsoft game studios, xbox
538th played so far Genre: First-Person Shooter Platform: Xb0x Year of Release: 2004 Developer: Bungie Publisher: Microsoft Game Studios And here we finally return to the Halo series. We’ve played the first and ODST spinoffs of the series so far and have a few more coming up. The first was an exploration of a nice, […]
#359 Quake II
Posted: 27th August 2016 by Jeroen in GamesTags: 1997, activision, first person shooter, id software, Various
537th played so far Genre: First-Person Shooter Platform: Various Year of Release: 1997 Developer: id Software Publisher: Activision Following in our travel through first-person shooters, Quake II is the next on the list. Despite its current omnipresence in the list, it seems to have taken until the 2000s before it got that good. Before then, […]
#501 Metroid Prime
Posted: 11th August 2016 by Jeroen in GamesTags: 2002, action, first person shooter, gamecube, nintendo, retro studios
533rd played so far Genre: Action/First-Person Shooter Platform: Gamecube Year of Release: 2002 Developer: Retro Studios Publisher: Nintendo The Metroid Prime series is Metroid done as a first-person shooter, an interesting variation on the theme that was experimental at the time. So when we started playing Metroid Prime, we did so using the Wii remastered […]
#753 Crysis
Posted: 23rd December 2015 by Jeroen in GamesTags: 2007, crytek frankfurt, electronic arts, first person shooter, pc
475th played so far Genre: First Person Shooter Platform: PC Year of Release: 2007 Developer: Crytek Frankfurt Publisher: Electronic Arts I’ll be honest, I don’t have that much affinity with Crysis. I’ve obviously seen it on lists before and come across it, but it never really struck a chord with me. Reading about it, it […]
#313 Quake
Posted: 30th July 2015 by Jeroen in GamesTags: 1996, first person shooter, gt interactive, id software, pc
444th played so far Genre: First-Person Shooter Platform: PC Year of Release: 1996 Developer: id Software Publisher: GT Interactive There were a couple of major steps during the development of the FPS genre that happened, it seems, in fairly quick succession. Doom was the notable one we already covered – the first to really go […]