Good evening. If you were to make a list of truly legendary PC games, then that list would have to consist of at least 14 first person shooters. Why 14? Simple. It was the first number I came up with. I mean, this so-called 'list' has absolutely no credibility anyway, mainly because of its indeterminiteness-ness and everything. But this shouldn't matter to the first person shooter expert, no. Because he's mainly a combination of 'muck 'n' muscle' (eye - just tha' way ya liiike it") and total (and I mean total) totality - I'm sure you get my drift. Whatever, the point is that we first person shooter types are a crazy bunch - half in love with constant snacks and half in love with sitting down whilst consuming the very same constant snacks.
I often get stopped in the street and get asked to nominate which game is the elder statesman of first person shooters. Well, I'm obviously compelled to say Wolfenstein 3D which came from the good folks at Id Software. You are an American agent trapped inside a Nazi castle. Your mission is simple - shoot the guards, get the keys and find your way to the elevator... Duh, Duh, Daaaa...
The gameplay was pretty cool. And the graphics were pretty good too, considering that this was probably one of the first 3D engines with textured surfaces - which was mind-blowing at the time. The second most mind-blowing shooter was probably Half-Life which was mind-blowing. HL (Half-Life) combined smarts with whatever rhymes with smarts that means setting those big slug things on fire and firing 40mm 'nades into rooms full of those other things that make that gurgling sound before they fire 30 million volts of 'leccy through you.
Um... I think I just worked out how to complete that mission in Far Cry 2...
Anyway, there was Doom, Quake, Quake 2, etc. Half Life 2, Counter-Strike, Swat 3 Medal of Honor, Battlefield 1942 and 2 etc, etc...gotta go - here are some more screenies FROM MY ACTUAL COMPUTER! of Far Cry 2...
Call of Duty 5 is getting released next week, aaarrghhaarrgurgle...drool.
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Are you on holidays?
Nah - that's why I'm only 40% through it...
Come over after your exams, have dinner with us and we can play PC games while the womenfolk talk about shoes and the kids watch Pixar.
Maybe that's why I don't "get" first person shooters. I remember playing Wolf 3D and feeling nauseous from motion sickness.
Oh, I'm there. I've got a note in my organiser to ring you re coffee (it becomes active on 23.11, after exams), but now you've upped the ante.
Any bizarre tri-gen mutants in FarCry 2?
No. But you can set fire to people.
Which is always good.
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