ACTION : FPS/FPThis category contains First-Person Shooter (FPS) games that have a 3D doom environment similar to Quake and Unreal Tournament. It also contains First-Person (FP) games with the same 3D perspective as an FPS game but without the handheld weapon.
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3D Bomber
3D Bomber is a 3-dimensional maze game. Although this game is more fun when played with an online opponent, it is still fun to play in single-player mode against the computer.
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Afro-Santa
This game is rather unique. In Afro-Santa you walk in a 3D doom maze trying to deliver the presents to the X-mas tree - but you cannot be detected by people. By virtue of a sneaky radar screen, you need to complete your Christmas mission. There are also strangely looking ghosts that you need to avoid (or shoot down) that lurk around in the maze's cealing. It's a cool and fun concept to bring Santa into a first-person game setting. The game has three levels of difficulty. Note: This game ran smoothly with an S3 Savage 8 MB videocard and 450 MHz CPU/64 MB RAM.
PC REQUIREMENTS: Pentium III 650MHz CPU, DirectX8.1, NVidia TnT2 Videocard (or better) |
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Alien Resurrection
Alien Resurrection 3D game is based on the movie with the same name. Try to survive and destroy as many alien monsters as possible.
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Battle of Endor
The Battle of Endor pits you right in the middle of the epic... guess what? Battle of Endor. The game is based on the scene which appears in the movie: The Return of the Jedi. While on your way to completing your primary objective (which is to invade Death Star 2), your fellow Rebels discover that its shield is still on! Your current goal now is to stall some time in which Hans can turn the shield off. From a first person view of your trusty Rebel ship, you must go through six stages fending off TIE Fighters, Interceptors, Star Destroyers, and Vader's own ship, the Super Star Destroyer Executor (what a name!). You have 3 different shooting modes to choose from (single, double, and quadruple) and the ability to use torpedos. Unlike many other similar games, your allies actually help you in this one. So it's usually a good move to try to save their pointy behinds when they need it. The game has 3 difficulty levels, so if you manage to win on easy, there's still normal and hard left to try.
The 3D graphics are good, but certainly not the best. While the actual shape and form of the ships are fine, it's the textures which annoy me. Some places they're practicly non-existent. A good example of this is your cruisers. They're pretty much just blueish-gray and nothing else. While this doesn't really hurt the gameplay much, it does nothing to help it, either. Also, the start menu is quite ugly, to say the least. The sounds are fine, and I found the background music to be very faithful to the movies. I do wish there was an option to be able to turn the sound off though, if that be needed.
All in all, this is a pretty good game. Especially if you're a Star Wars fan. However, if your not into games of this genre or just Star Wars, this might not be the right thing for you.
NOTE: Screenshots courtesy of TFN Interactive.
PC REQUIREMENTS: DirectX 8.1, 3D graphics card, Windows 98, ME, 2000 or XP |
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Black Shades
In Black Shades you control a psychic bodyguard, and try to protect the VIP (dressed in white) from a horde of zombies, snipers and other assorted would-be assassins. The game is about as cool as the description sounds and includes ragdoll physics and a fluid aiming system.
While the blocky graphics may be a bit of a put off, Black Shades makes up for them in gameplay. The bodyguard has an assortment of moves including punching, diving, disarming, and slow motion shooting. There is one useless feature that is tacked on called “Soul Release Mode”, but besides that everything serves a purpose.
The sound effects and music are well suited for the game. The gunshots are nice, the punching sounds are decent, and the music consists of a looping beat. It isn’t much, but it works.
It’s worth playing the game just for the last level, which involves swarms of zombies that must have their heads blown off unless you want them to get up again and chomp on the guy in white. There are several other “oh s**t” moments in the game as a result of the ragdoll physics.
Black Shades can’t be saved, so beating every level must be done in one sitting. Sadly, there is no real reward for beating the game besides a high score; it just ends. The focus on gameplay more than makes up for the lack of story, though.
One thing missing in Black Shades is variety. Each level plays about the same, and the city area is the only setting. Giving the player different weapons for each level mixes it up a bit, but besides that everything feels about the same.
Black Shades succeeds in gameplay and has nice physics and cool slow motion as an added bonus. Despite the unsavory graphics and lack of variety, the game still deserves an 8/10.
PC REQUIREMENTS: Mac and Linux versions available. |
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