Tag: Genre: First-Person Shooter

  • Halo: The Master Chief Collection: Halo: CE Anniversary (PC/Steam)

    Halo: The Master Chief Collection: Halo: CE Anniversary (PC/Steam)

    Halo: The Master Chief Collection: Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary sure is helluva a verbose title isn’t it?  All those colons!  So! Our first order of business here is to make that word salad a bit more palatable.  For the remainder of the review I’m just going to refer to the game by its original working…

  • Medal of Honor: Underground (PS1)

    Medal of Honor: Underground (PS1)

    (Review archived from April 2, 2023) I have a soft spot for the ubiquitous WWII FPS for largely the same reason (among others) that I enjoy the Assassin’s Creed series; the gamification of historical events is something that appeals to me. And it tends to work both ways really. Having some fore-knowledge of the historical…

  • Bioshock 2: Minerva’s Den (PC/Steam)

    Bioshock 2: Minerva’s Den (PC/Steam)

    (Review archived from January 4, 2019) Although it’s been a few years since I played Bioshock 2, I had never completed this DLC expansion pack. But to call Minerva’s Den a mere ‘expansion pack’ is a bit of a disservice actually. What we have here is a full-fledged single player campaign with a nicely written…

  • Call of Duty: Finest Hour (PS2)

    Call of Duty: Finest Hour (PS2)

    (Review archived from August 20, 2018) Ah … the ubiquitous 6th gen WWII FPS, the genre equivalent of white bread to a console generation that birthed a glut of them. I won’t lie; I put off reviewing Call of Duty: Finest Hour after having beaten it because I couldn’t imagine what I might say about…

  • Half-Life: Source (PC/Steam)

    Half-Life: Source (PC/Steam)

    (Review archived from February 2, 2018) Half-Life was a game that I missed at the time of its original release and never got around to playing in subsequent years. The primary reason for this is that I was an exclusive console gamer at the time and too darned poor to really delve into the popular…

  • Dead Island (PC/Steam)

    Dead Island (PC/Steam)

    (Review archived from January 20, 2016) This game is a jack of all trades master of none. It’s a first person brawler, a driving game, a FPS, it has RPG styled skill trees, etc. The trouble with this is that so many of its ideas seem a little half-baked as a result, which ultimately leaves…

  • BioShock 2 (PC/Steam)

    BioShock 2 (PC/Steam)

    (Review archived from January 7, 2015) If popular opinion is to be believed, Bioshock 2 is a game that suffers under the shadow of the remarkable first game in the series, which is mostly regarded as being the better of the two journeys into the depths of Rapture (that is, if one can actually classify…