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Horror Zombies from the Crypt Millennium Interactive (Astral Software)1991 Amigalabelimageminimize
Resident Evil 3: Nemesis  Capcom1999
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[32]***"It's in your blood . . . Just days after surviving the grisly disaster at the mansion lab, Jill Valentine resigns from S.T.A.R.S. and attempts to escape a nightmarish city in ruins. Trapped in a town crawling with hordes of flesh eating zombies, hideous mutants, and a relentless new nemesis, she must rely on cunning and brute force to stay alive.
What she soon discovers is the evil created by Umbrella Corporation's bio-tech terror is even more horrifying than she ever imagined . . . some secrets come back to haunt you."
The Resident Evil series of games is one of the best available on the PlayStation. Nemesis continues in this horrifying tradition with a brand new game with more intense action!***Like RE2, this game also uses prerendered backgrounds and near identical gameplay, but is set more outdoors, in the streets of Racoon city. With lots of zombies as usual, as well as the 'Nemesis', who just won't die.
[Haoie]
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Xevious 3D/G Namco1996 PSlabelimageminimize
Xevious 3D/G+ Namco1997Xevious 3D is a furious interstellar shoot-fest teeming with rapid-fire 3D features. You get three bonus games nasty alien bosses a galaxy of polygon 3D graphics plus two-player simultaneous shooting action that'll have you x-claiming x-pletives.***Japanese version
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Super Xevious: Ganpu no Nazo  Namco (Tose)1986[media=youtube]BgIUHdLnR50[/media]***This game is several steps better than the original Xevious game, which I didn't really liked very much to be honest. Graphics are better and more varied as are the enemies. Each stage repeats indefinitely until a certain winning condition is met. That could be flying at a certain spot or shooting/bombing certain enemies. An interesting concept, but not perfectly implemented, because it is very often not possible to guess right away what has to be done to finish the level. That and the again really horrible ingame music (except in the last two stages, which have actual melodies) are the negative points of an otherwise nice new interpretation of a classic shooting game. NESlabelimageminimize
Xevious  Namco;Bandai (Namco)1984
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[52]***Yes, Xevious is a classic arcade title of some fame. And it is a title released early in the Famicom era. But that shouldn't be an excuse for an overall unenjoyable gaming experience. Gameplay could be considered well done, since the controls are decent and the fact that you must throw bombs on ground targets gives the game a bit variety. But it is exactly the boringness and the non-variety of all the rest with the neverending flight over very plain ground with dull colors, shooting waves after waves of the same, bad looking flying enemies and ground targets that makes this game so inferior to nearly all shooters that would follow. The sound is especially annoying.***Players control their Solvalou ship and destroy the XEVIOUS forces. Fire the zapper missiles against air-based enemies and drop the blaster bombs down upon ground-based targets. Destroy Andor Genesis to earn bonus points. Unique enemies, interesting background music, a variety of vertically scrolling background environments and many hidden game play features differentiated Xevious from the other shooting games released at the time. Are you devious enough to beat Xevious?
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Secret of Evermore Square1995Late in the game the hero fights a boss named Coleoptera which is a palette swap of the first boss Thraxx (see the package shot for a drawing of that boss). Thraxx is probably a corruption of the word thorax, whereas Coleoptera is the scientific name of the order of beetles. The boss that goes by that name bears however no resemblance to a beetle at all. The literal meaning of the word Coleoptera does not make much sense either, as "coleo" comes from ancient greek [i]κολεός[/i] (koleos) which means sheath and "ptera" from [i]πτερόν[/i] (pteron) which means wing, referring to the chitinized front wings (elytra) which are characteristic for beetles and serve as a protection ("sheath") for the hind wings. Coleoptera from Secret of Evermore has no wings however.***When waiting a long time on the "The End" screen another screen appears which credits Brian Fehdrau for Dolly Grip. In movie production the Dolly Grip is responsible for operating the camera dolly. Brian Fehdrau revealed that he added that message for his wife Dolly.***In Dr. Sidney Ruttleberg's old, decaying mansion, a boy and his dog stumble upon a mysterious machine. By sheer accident they are propelled into Evermore, a one-time utopia that now has become a confounding and deadly world. A world of prehistoric jungles, ancient civilizations, medieval kingdoms and futuristic cities. During his odyssey, the boy must master a variety of weapons, learn to harness the forces of alchemy, and make powerful allies to battle Evermore's diabolical monsters. What's more, his dog masters shape-changing to aid the quest. But even if they can muster enough skill and courage, even if they can uncover the mysterious clues, they can only find their way home by discovering the Secret of Evermore.***
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[27]***[b]video games[/b] — the world of Evermore was originally a "video game" itself, but something apparently went wrong and became a reality of its own (based on the description in Wikipedia)***Secret of Evermore has a really involving story but is definitely directed towards a younger audience. The gameplay is almost completely the same as the Secret of Mana series, but the one thing that truly stands out about this game is the Alchemy system in which the spells you learn take ingredients for you to cast them, making the challenge level a lot better than games like FF3, where your characters basically become gods(at least in my opinion).***Decent RPG. If you want to play this game with your buddy in 2 player mode like Secret of Mana, you can do so by getting FuSoYa's patch:
[[link:http://fusoya.panicus.org/ http://fusoya.panicus.org/]]
[cjlee001]***Watch out for extremely cheesy humour within.
[Haoie]
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Ultima VII: The Black Gate FCI;Pony Canyon (Origin)1994This is drastically simplified version of the [game=#32923]Black Gate[/game], leaving in only some action-adventure kind of game from the original adventure-RPG with nary a dialogue left. This was done due to the limitations of the platform which simply couldn't handle the amount of data in the original.

The game engine itself was rewritten entirely in assembly for the platform, and considering the things left out, it can't be considered the same as Ultima 7 engine. This rewritten engine was re-used in the SNES [game=#38033]Savage Empire[/game].***Tags:
The 7th canonical game in the Ultima series and the first game in Ultima's Age of Armageddon. The player and party can use crossbows and bows. Ingredients can be mixed to bake bread and other things. Cheese is available as food. A variety of items can be crafted into other items. There are pumpkin fields in the game, from which pumpkins can be harvested. Flight of the Bumblebee is played at one point, Rule Britannia is overplayed. Unicorns are mentioned in in-game books and by characters[spoiler=and;and]one can be found by the player also.[/spoiler]. But due to the censorship of this game, the role unicorns it reduced. The game and story are so heavily censored that its practically unintelligible.
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GoldenEye 007  Nintendo (Rare)1997You are Bond, James Bond. You are assigned to covet operations connected with the GoldenEye Weapons satellite. M will brief you on your mission objectives from London. Q Branch will support you with a supply of gadgets and weapons. Will you succeed?***The game creators discovered that grayscale textures were exponentially faster to render than RGB (color) textures. This also had the benefit of using less ROM memory. The vast majority of textures in GoldenEye are grayscale (in the hardware). Color is applied to these grayscale textures by applying colors to the vertexes bounding the textures when they are rendered.***
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[27]***Based on Pierce Brosnan's first outing as James Bond, this game is superb. The telescopic aiming is excellent - this was the first game to feature it.***Amazing, I'll never forget this game. After Doom arrived there was nothing that really took the next step. There was Quake, but that never really took far from doom, but when goldeneye hit the shops it took a good while before anyone bettered it. Best multiplayer mode ever until all this new fangled network gaming came into play with Halo etc etc
[and3ew d]
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Xevious Atari;CCE (Atari)1983A prototype by Atari. Later published by CCE Atari 2600labelimageminimize
Xevious Atari1984CX-5246. Prototype. North America NTSC.

Pilot your Solvalou in battle against 16 different types of Xevion enemies. Arial targets can be destroyed with your laser blaster. Ground targets with your photon bombs. Those crosshairs in fort of you are your photon targeting computer. They light up even if they cross an invisible ground target.
Toroid Fleet Ships will glide in from the side, fire, then retreat. Their slow
Torkan Scout Ships like the Toroid but faster and comes from multiple angles from the top of the screen
Zoshi Death Squads move erratically and you don't want them behind you.
Terazzi Deflector like the Torkan, but fires multiple shots.
Giddo Spario (Energy Blast) will make kamikaze attacks against you.
Mirrors (Bacura Shields) are indestructible kamikaze attackers.
Zakato Energy Launcher (Black Ball/8-balls) are teleported close to your ship by Andor Genesis just before he attacks. They explode as they fire their only shot at close range.
Andor Genesis pilots is the mothership ship. Armored and armed with four laser cannons. The only way to defeat Andor Genesis is with a direct hit on his ships rector core with a photon bomb (A small thermal exhaust port, right below the main port). Getting close enough to hit that spot is very dangerous. After striking the reactor core, Andor Genesis will retreat for repairs and will return with more 8-balls.
Grobda Tanks are smart, but harmless. They play dead on the ground until fired upon. Then they zip around out of range.
Logram Sphere Station are common, small, purplish ground structures. They will fire a quick bolt at you.
Boza Logram Dome Network are cross shaped ground structures, containing four Sphere Stations around the core. Shoot the core for maximum efficiency and points.
Derota Defense ground Stations fire a continuous stream of ammo. Shoot the core for maximum efficiency and points.
Garu Derota Mega Station work like the Derota Defense Stations but shoot double speed.
Barra Energy Station provide ground-based power for the Xevion assault fleet. They are defenseless and mostly harmless.
Zolbak Detector Domes are ground structures that are defenseless and mostly harmless.
Sol Citadels are hidden on the ground and can only be detected by your targeting computer. One bomb to wake it, another to destroy it.
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Power Lords!  Philips1983As superhero Adam Power, you're the pilot of a space sled on patrol around the explosive Volcan Rock, an active volcano which frequently blows its top. And what better cover for the bad guys? Gryptogg, Raygoth and Arkus are perfecting their evil plans for a "gravitational ray" which basically amounts to a portable black hole - its gravity can alter the course of your space sled if you're on a direct horizontal line-of-sight with it.
Add to that meteors pummeling the ground from space and the enormous laser-eyed space serpent, and you've got your hands full just staying alive, let alone battling evil
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Xevious: Fardraut Saga  Namco (Compile)1990 PC Enginelabelimageminimize
Xevious U.S. Gold (Probe Software)1986 Amstrad CPClabelimageminimize
Xevious Mindscape1984 Apple II Elabelimageminimize
Horror Zombies from the Crypt Millennium Interactive (Astral Software)1990 Atari STlabelimageminimize
Xevious U.S. Gold (Probe Software)1987 Atari STlabelimageminimize
Xevious U.S. Gold;Mindscape1986 C64labelimageminimize
Xevious U.S. Gold (Probe Software)1987 ZX Spectrumlabelimageminimize
Xevious Dempa Micomsoft1987 X68000labelimageminimize
Ultima VII: The Black Gate  Exult Team (Origin;Exult Team)2000Thanks to a game engine called Exult, Ultima VII: The Black Gate and its addon The Forge of Virtue can be played on a variety of platforms.

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The 7th canonical game in the Ultima series and the first game in Ultima's Age of Armageddon. But, it was never intended to run on Linux. Exult uses SDL for the Linux version. The player and party can use crossbows and bows. Ingredients can be mixed to bake bread and other things. Cheese is available as food. A variety of items can be crafted into other items. There are pumpkin fields in the game, from which pumpkins can be harvested. Flight of the Bumblebee is played at one point, Rule Britannia is overplayed. There are severl prisoners in the game and its this plays into the plot more than once. An addictive medicine in the game is abused by characters and can be abused by the player's character and party, with consequences. Unicorns are mentioned in in-game books and by characters[spoiler=and;and]one can be found by the player also.[/spoiler]
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Super Xevious Namco1984Difference from Xevious:
* Several new characters appear in the game including a silver-grey Galaxian flagships, a large jet, a small jet, a helicopter and a small tank. The Galaxians can be shot like any other enemy. The large jet which flies down cannot be shot or collide with the player ship and doesn't have any obvious purpose. The small jet, helicopter and tank (all of which are tan colored) can be picked up for bonus points but if shot will reset the score to zero !
* Gameplay is a bit more difficult.
* The hidden Sol Citadels are in different locations.***It's basically an expert course for veteran players, with much harder enemy patterns and some new enemies. Bringing the total characters to thirty two, the new entries are, for the most part, human vehicles such as planes or helicopters that you must try to 'rescue' for points, instead of shooting them. A couple of Galaxian aliens were added too.
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Vs. Super Xevious Namco1986 Arcadelabelimageminimize
Xevious  Atari;Namco (Namco)1982Xevious contains a hidden developer message that is quite easy to find.
Start level one, then immediately fly to the right and push the Bomb button for a while. The message "NAMCO ORIGINAL program by EVEZOO" will appear at the bottom of the screen.***With the Solvalou spaceship you have to destroy all the flying enemies. Remember to avoid colliding with the black rotating monoliths.

Destroy ground objects using the bombs. Meet at the end of each stage the huge mother spaceship Andor Genesis. Destroy her dropping a bomb in its center.
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Alien Carnage  Apogee (Interactive Binary Illusions;SubZero Software)1993Earth is on the verge of a takeover by aliens intent on turning humans into mindless slave zombies, who can be used in their conquest of the universe. Harry's called into action to Space Station Liberty and given orders to penetrate the alien ship which has burrowed itself under a high-rise city.

In addition to the flamethrower, Harry can use weapon dispensers, giving him access to weapons like the photon cannon, guided missiles, grenades, shields, micro nukes, and the very powerful Omega bomb. It's an arsenal that will have the aliens shakin' in their slimy shoes.
[3D Realms.com]***1993-10-10 Halloween Harry released
1994-11-02 Alien Carnage v1.0 released -- episodes 1 and 3 were switched, otherwise identical to Halloween Harry v1.2
2007-05-24 released as freeware. Rights held by John Passfield. ([url]http://www.3drealms.com/news/2007/05/alien_carnage_freeware.html[/url])

Halloween Harry was the name of the shareware version of this game, but it was changed to Alien Carnage for the commercial version in hopes of getting better sales, but [game=#19653]Doom[/game] was likely the reason for the poor sales. Shareware version included the first episode as usual.***[b]Minimum:[/b]
* 286 CPU
* 517 kB conventional memory
* 7 MB HD space

[b]Recommended:[/b]
* 386 CPU
* Soundblaster-compatible soundcard
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Horror Zombies from the Crypt Millennium Interactive (Astral Software)1991 MS-DOSlabelimageminimize
Rise of the Triad: Dark War  Apogee1994Dark War and The HUNT Begins support a different set of sound hardware.***CD-ROM version.
[22]***You are part of an elite group of operatives called HUNT (High-risk United Nations Taskforce), and you must stop a maniac cult leader from killing millions of people. While scouting a remote island, you are suddenly surrounded by enemy troops with guns blaring. In the distance you see your boat--your only chance to escape--explode into matchsticks. In front of you is a huge fortress monastery, and your only chance to stop the madness. You are e quipped with awesome, high-tech weaponry like heat-seeking missiles, split missiles, and the Flamewall cannon, which leaves a trail of charred skeletons in its wake. You'll also find magical instruments and weapons so incredible they defy description.

FEATURES

* Super huge levels - up to one million sq. feet, and up to 16 stories high!
* Ten unique, real digitized enemies (actual Apogee employees!)
* Thirteen hardcore weapons, including magical weapons.
* Nearly every object can be destroyed - even mark walls with bullet holes!
* Modem and network playable, up to 11 players via an IPX compatible network.
* Adjustable violence/gore levels, from none (for children) to "excessive"!
* 20 Megabytes of explosive graphics, animations, music and digitized sounds!
* Play one of five players, each with unique attributes and abilities.
* In modem or network play, each player can can select what they want to look like.
* Look both up and down, up to 45 degrees, to see what is above and below.
* Ten unique, digitized enemies in the game, plus four multi-stage bosses!
* 15 incredible game hazards, like Spinblades, gun bunkers, huge boulders, Firejets, pits, Firechutes, Lavawalls, gas grates, and more.
* Special effects galore: Fog, lightning with properly delayed thunder, parallaxing skies, real lights that illuminate walls (you can shoot the lights and the room gets darker), ricocheting bullets, wind sounds, and more.
* Jump pads will spring you up into the air to jump over obstacles, walls, other players, (great in multiplayer games) and even to reach new weapons.
* Many useful objects and power-ups, like a fireproof vest, gas mask, Mercury mode (enables the player to fly!), and even a special "god" and "dog" modes, both making the player invincible for a short time (with hilarious side effects).
* 32 page full color game manual.

MULTIPLAYER FEATURES

* Supports modem, serial cable, and network multiplayer games with more specialized options than any game previously released.
* Network games up to 11 players!
* Each player can select one of the five unique characters, plus each player can choose from one of 11 uniform colors. (In team games, each team has the same uniform color.)
* Nine unique Comm-bat games, such as Eluder, Capture the Triad, and Hunter.
* RemoteRidicule allows players to send digitized voice messages to other players (an industry first!)
* With a microphone, a player can even speak directly to the other players in network games! Great for team play or taunting others.
* Play Comm-bat games in the normal game levels, OR use the special Comm-bat levels, which are specifically designed for fun multiplayer games.
[Apogee]***Dark War was the commercial full version published in 1995, The Hunt Begins was the Shareware version published in 1994. I've never met anyone who knows the game with the full name, just Rise of the Triad or ROTT, never anything about Dark War or The Hunt Beginning..

Source code was released in Dec 2002 and is available at 3D Realm's website.
[Sanguine]
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Ultima VII: The Black Gate  Origin1992Review for the French version of the game.
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[37]***Came with six 3.5' disks. The original release included a demo of Ultima Underworld on a 5.25' disk. U7 was rerealsed both by Origin and Electronic Arts in many packages that included the sequels/add-ins for U7 (Forge of Virtue, Serpent Isle, The Silver Seed)

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The 7th canonical game in the Ultima series and the first game in Ultima's Age of Armageddon. The player and party can use crossbows and bows. Ingredients can be mixed to bake bread and other things. Cheese is available as food. A variety of items can be crafted into other items. There are pumpkin fields in the game, from which pumpkins can be harvested. Flight of the Bumblebee is played at one point, Rule Britannia is overplayed. There are several prisoners in the game and its this plays into the plot more than once. An addictive medicine in the game is abused by characters and can be abused by the player's character and party, with consequences. Unicorns are mentioned in in-game books and by characters[spoiler=and;and]one can be found by the player also.[/spoiler]
Origin once again attempted to create a game engine as they had done before with Ultima IV and Ultima VI. Arthurian Legends was the game they would attempt to create using the U7 Engine. AL was not completed and the source code of the Ultima VII games was later lost.

A game engine called Exult allows the game to run on a wide variety of platforms
[Zerothis]***Still one of the best RPG's ever made IMO. The Forge of Virtue was a small expansion released with some packages. Ever wondered how to get this baby to run on Windows? Check here:
[url=http://exult.sourceforge.net]exult.sourceforge.net[/url]
[cjlee001]
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Ultima VIII Part 2: The Lost Vale Origin1994This is supposedly the expansion to Ultima VIII: Pagan. Rumor has it that it was finished but never released due to the poor sales of Pagan. It is now believed to be lost.
[cjlee001]
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Ultima VIII: Pagan  Origin1994Requires CPU 386, but a 486 is recommended.***
[22]***85% if run on a DX33
93% if run on a DX2 66
[37]***Comes on 8 3½ floppy disks or one CD.***I didn't like Pagan as much as the previous titles, mainly because you have no companions travelling with you. Still a great game nonetheless. Check this site to get this to run on Windows:
[[link:http://pentagram.sourceforge.net/]]
[cjlee001]
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Alien Breed: Impact  Team17 Software2010Un shooter de vista cenital reseñable por su fácil manejo y control de la cámara.
Por lo demás tampoco destaca frente a otros juegos similares.

5 de 10***Alien Breed Impact is an explosive science fiction arcade-shooter that resurrects a much revered franchise with an epic story, swarms of highly intelligent alien enemies, high-impact weapons, highly detailed and rich environments; all implemented with superb technology in a state-of-the-art gaming experience. In addition to the thrilling single-player campaign mode, the game also offers a relentless, action-packed, online two-player co-operative battle mode.

GAME FEATURES:

* Alien Breed is back! – An action-packed mix of arcade-shooter, survival-horror and tactical weapons upgrades and customisation.
* Epic single-player story mode - The single-player campaign mode that follows the narrative of the game through five huge and challenging environments.
* Single-player free-play mode - A single-player challenge mode – beat your high score on a previously completed campaign mission.
* Two-player co-operative play mode – Work together to defeat the alien horde across three specifically customised maps.
* Additional Steam online features - Quick Match, Create Game, Friends Lists, Voice Chat, Leader-boards and Co-operative Achievements.
* FREE TRIAL – The "Prologue" sample section – a specifically designed introduction to the game; play in either single-player or two-player online co-operative mode.
* NEW – Upgrades shop – Search fallen comrades and lockers to accumulate cash, and then tactically spend it on weapons/kit upgrades in the shop.
* NEW - Enemies– Re-imagined and improved Alien Breed enemies.***[b]Minimum:[/b]
* Windows XP
* 2 GHz CPU
* 1 GB RAM
* GeForce 6800 or Radeon X700 GPU
* 1.5 GB HD space***Single-player campaign and online two player cooperative skirmish.
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Alien: Isolation SEGA (Creative Assembly)2014 Windowslabelimageminimize
Aliens: Colonial Marines  Sega (Gearbox Software;TimeGate Studios;Nerve Software)2013Has been received extremely poorly, here's few things that go over why:
* [url]http://www.destructoid.com/so-who-the-hell-did-make-aliens-colonial-marines--244939.phtml[/url]
* [url]http://www.destructoid.com/gearbox-lied-about-aliens-from-e3-demo-to-retail-product-244966.phtml[/url]
* [url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lGXDM3LGnk[/url]***For any Aliens fans, this game will be horribly disappointing. Despite the gratuitous fanservice from including LV-426, Hadley's Hope, Sulaco, the Derelict and its dead Jockey pilot, Hicks, and various other things from the movies, this game utterly fails to deliver on the atmosphere of the films. Alien acidic blood is only a minor annoyance, player can trivially fight the aliens in melee, the aliens themselves seem incredibly lazy, the way player can carry ~10 different weapons with separate ammo for each, extremely linear locations, and whatever else make this feel unsatisfying when you come to it expecting a proper Aliens game. The license seems almost wasted on it considering how much they deviate from what fans of the franchise would expect. If they had made this a game with no ties to Aliens franchise it would've probably been half-decent, but as it is, it fails to be what it is supposed to be. The graphics are the main point where this actually is quite good at, though for PC game they're kinda low fidelity, but nothing you wouldn't expect from a game that's published on the usual platform trio (X360/PS3/PC).

To summarize: fans of the Alien franchise, keep away. People who don't care for the franchise on the other hand, this can work as a mediocre tube shooter.
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Amnesia: The Bunker Frictional Games2023 Windowslabelminimizeminimize
Binary Domain  Sega (Devil's Details)2012THE MACHINE AGE HAS BEGUN in this immersive and atmospheric squad-based shooter in which you need to regain control of a futuristic Tokyo from an emerging robotic threat.

Set in 2080, the story starts when Dan Marshall and his squad are sent to bring the robotic community under control as they begin to infiltrate society and slowly take over undetected, leaving humans redundant in their wake.

Thrilling encounters with highly intelligent robotic enemies require you to think tactically, make challenging, real-time moral decisions and build up trust with your team mates in order to guide your squad to safety and success.

Key Features:
* A NEW TAKE ON FUTURISTIC TOKYO - Experience dual layered Tokyo with a run down and derelict lower city and a clean and affluent upper city.
* THE CONSEQUENCE SYSTEM - Under the pressures of battle every action, every choice and every word affects everything.
* PROCEDURAL DAMAGE - Fully destructible and highly resilient robots adapt to the damage they sustain encouraging you to analyse each enemy, find their weaknesses and dispose of them in the most efficient way.
* WEAPON MODIFICATION AND SKILL SELECTION - Alongside a full armoury of unique weapons, put emphasis on the skills that will benefit you.
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Crysis  EA Partners (Crytek)2007El heredero espiritual del Far Cry, te presenta como un soldado todopoderoso que de golpe se ve en una situación complicada por una fuerza de carácter desconocido.
El uso de poderes hace que el juego funciona de una forma muy similar a las habilidades de un juego de rol (sobretodo porque al usarlos hay que pensar no sólo en sus ventajas sino en las desventajas eventuales), sólo que en vez de gastar maná gastas energía y no presenta especialización más allá de los módulos del arma.

8 de 10***Tagline/Slogan: Adapt, Engage, Survive.***[b]Minimum requirements:[/b]
* Windows XP or Vista
* 2.8 GHz single-core CPU (3.2 GHz for Vista)
* 1 GB RAM (1.5 GB for Vista)
* 256 MB VRAM
* 12 GB free HD space
* 512 kbps internet connection for multiplayer

[b]Recommended:[/b]
* 2.2 GHz multi-core CPU
* 2 GB RAM
* GeForce 8800 GTS or equivalent***Earth, 2019: On a remote island, an US science team makes a frightening discovery. The North Korean Government quickly seals off the island chain. Contact with the science team is lost. The United States responds by dispatching an elite team of Delta Force Operators to recon the situation and report back to the Pentagon. Amid rising tensions between the US and North Koreans, a massive, 2km high alien ship is revealed in the middle of the island. The ship generates an immense force sphere, freezing a vast portion of the island and drastically altering the global weather system.

The newly formed alliance fights epic battles against the marauding Aliens. With hope rapidly fading, the player must fight through lush tropical jungle, harsh frozen landscapes, and finally into the heart of the alien ship itself for the ultimate Zero G encounter with the aliens.

Features

* An immersive story that puts you the player in the pivotal role to repel an alien invasion and save mankind.
* A unique three-act structure that forces the player to use real-time armor and weapons customization to adapt to an ever changing dynamic world.
* Encounter a compelling, frightening and totally original alien species that uses its senses intelligently and work in combination with each other to present players with the most challenging opponents yet in an FPS.
* Enemy and ally AI utilize real-world military tactics.
* Take control of a wide variety of land, sea and air vehicles including trucks, tanks, boats and helicopters.
* Explore a living, dynamic world where earthquakes, breaking ice, landslides, and tornados pose a real and an ever-present danger.
* 32-player Multiplayer with real-time armor and weapons customization and an all new mode that combines player modification and tactical objectives.
* Emergent gameplay; actions taken in the game affect future outcomes giving each player a unique experience.
* Highly robust and easy to use mod toolset allow players to create their own expansive levels with game modes for both multiplayer and single player.
* The most realistic environments, spectacular special effects, physics game engine, lighting system and enemy Al through [[tag:cryengine CryENGINE 2]].
[Games for Windows]***Crysis is a next-generation PC first-person shooter from Crytek, the award-winning developers of Far Cry. A stunning technical achievement, Crysis combines incredible visuals, cunning gameplay and an epic story that challenges gamers to adapt to survive.

Global tensions have reached boiling point as the U.S. and North Korea square off in the South China Sea. At stake: a mysterious artifact uncovered by a team of U.S. archeologists.

The North Korean government quickly seizes the area, prompting the U.S. to dispatch an elite team of Delta Force operatives on a rescue mission. During the siege the true nature of the artifact quickly emerges, pointing to the existence of an alien presence on Earth, and ultimately the trigger for a massive-scale alien invasion.

The battle to save Earth begins as the aliens' flash freeze the tropics into a ghostly-white frozen landscape.

As gamers take up arms against the aliens, they will be outfitted with customisable weapons and a high tech nano-suit, allowing them to adapt their tactics and abilities to a hostile, ever-changing environment and a mysterious enemy.

Powered by CryENGINE 2 , Crysis delivers the ultimate DX10 gaming experience for the PC, including unparalleled graphics, special effects and artificial intelligence. The game is also scaleable to deliver a breath-taking FPS experience for older DX9 PCs.

Crysis Key features

• Adapt to Survive - An epic story thrusts players into an ever-changing environment, forcing them to adapt their tactics and approach to conquer battlefields ranging from newly frozen jungle to zero-gravity alien environments.
• Suit Up - A high-tech nano-suit allows gamers to augment their abilities in real time on the battlefield. Players can choose to enhance their speed, strength, armor and cloaking abilities to approach situations in creative tactical ways.
• Customisable Weaponry - A huge arsenal of modular weaponry gives gamers unprecedented control over their play style. Blow the opposition away with experimental weapons like the TAC launcher, discover alien technology and utlise custom ammunition from incendiary-tipped rounds to tactical munitions that can silently put foes to sleep.
• Veni Vidi Vici - Lifelike enemy AI challenges players to assess a situation and approach it strategically. It isn't about having the fastest trigger finger – players are challenged to be proactive in the fight, not reactive.
• Zero-G Gameplay - Battle a horrifying alien species in a true Zero-gravity environment, where physics change everything as players must adapt to moving in Zero-G and contending with the recoil from their weapons and more.
• Next-Generation Graphics - Built from the ground up using Crytek's proprietary CryENGINE 2 , Crysis' visuals define "state of the art," with full DX10 support and scalable options to deliver solid performance on older machines.
• Open, Physicalised World - Choose your own path through the open world of Crysis, destroying obstacles, driving vehicles from VTOL's to boats and using the environment itself against your enemies.
• Bring It Online - Full-featured multiplayer for up to 32 players with real-time armor and weapons customisation. For a pure adrenaline fix hit the Instant Action button, or prepare yourself for the all-new multiplayer PowerStruggle mode that combines economy and vehicle warfare, alien technology and ranking, all wrapped in a strategic objective-based experience.
[Electronic Arts]
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Dark Messiah  Ubisoft (Arkane Studios;Floodgate Entertainment;Kuju Entertainment)2006Discover a new breed of Action-RPG game powered by an enhanced version of the Source™ Engine by Valve. Set in the Might & Magic® universe, players will experience ferocious combat in a dark and immersive fantasy environment. Swords, Stealth, Sorcery. Choose your way to kill.

* Cutting-edge technology: Experience an enhanced version of the famous Source™ Engine created by Valve. Discover the fresh perspective of a view with complete body awareness, realistic movements, physics rendering, and a complete first-person melee combat system in a fantasy setting.
* Never-ending action: Challenge the forces of evil in 12 huge levels and learn to master over 30 weapons and an arsenal of devastating spells.
* Evolve your character: Extend your gameplay experience without being limited to a single discipline. Learn powerful new spells and attacks using Dark Messiah's unique Skill Evolution System as you progress through the game.
* Revolutionary multiplayer mode: Get ready to battle with up to 32 players in the revolutionary Crusade mode, which will enable players to gain experience and new skills across dynamic online campaigns. Enlist with the humans or the undead and choose among five complementary character classes.***EAN-13: [code]3 307210 212511[/code] (Ubisoft / UK)***[spoiler=Show spoiler tag info;Hide][b]shapeshifting[/b] - this ability is gained late in the game.
[b]hybrid protagonist[/b] - the son of the demon sovereign and some human.[/spoiler]***The German release of the game received some censorship.
Namely the following things were changed:
* Severing limbs or heads from mobs was disabled
* Mutilating corpses was disabled
* Mobs can't be impaled
* Burning mobs die right-out***Multiplayer for this game requires Steam, unlike singleplayer.***[b]Minimum requirements:[/b]
* Windows XP
* 2.2 GHz CPU
* 512 MB RAM
* 128 MB VRAM
* 7 GB free HD space

[b]Recommended:[/b]
* 3 GHz CPU
* 1GB RAM
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Darkest of Days Phantom EFX (8Monkey Labs)2009[b]Minimum:[/b]
* Windows XP or Vista
* 2 GHz CPU
* 768 MB RAM
* 128 MB VRAM
* GeForce 6600 or Radeon 9800 GPU
* 5 GB HD space

[b]Recommended:[/b]
* 2 GHz dual-core CPU
* 2 GB RAM
* GeForce 8800 or Radeon HD 3000 GPU***Story

What if history was not supposed to play out the way it has? What if people from the future are playing with us; making us do the things to make the future world a ‘better place' - what is a ‘better place' anyway? Should History ever be changed, even the most traumatic times? Doesn't History shape who we are?

Gameplay

In Darkest of Days, you get to experience some of the most varied gameplay ever released in one title. Things will never get stale as you travel to distant times, and fight alongside people from that time period. Fighting in Antietam (the bloodiest day of the American Civil War) feels much different than fighting on the side of the Russians at Tannenberg (where the Russians withstood 140,000 casualties in WW I).

* Fight In FIVE Distinct Different Time Periods
Whether its in Pompeii, Antietam, WW I, or two other unannounced time periods, you will fight with weapons of the time period. You will fight against enemies that fight in different ways, all reflective of how fighting was done at that time.

* Participate In EPIC Battle Scenes
. .* You will fight against the Confederates (and the Union at times), facing a staggering number of troops, all fighting in unison. Ready, aim . . . steady men . . . FIRE!
. .* You will jump from the trenches in WW I to lead an attack against the Huns. You will man artillery to hit distant targets. You will defend to the last man!
. .* You will Fight in Pompeii, while Mt. Vesuvius is spewing ash and fire into the atmosphere. You will fight amongst a frightened population, fleeing for their lives.

* Play From Opposing Sides Of Conflicts
Nearly every time-period offers game-play from each side of the conflict. In trying to keep History pure, you have to undo mistakes you make, which may require fighting from the other perspective to ‘mend'.

* Unleash Hell With Futuristic Weaponry
What could you have done with a automatic rifle during the Civil War, or some futuristic laser sighted pulse cannon in the Trenches of WW I? There are times where you have no other choice but to bust out the big guns.
[Phantom EFX]
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Darksiders THQ (Vigil Games)2010Un hack and slash tridimensional con algunos elementos RPG que invocan a tierras hylianas.

Nada nuevo bajo el sol, un juego bastante insípido.

4 de 10***Deceived by the forces of evil into prematurely bringing about the end of the world, War – the first Horseman of the Apocalypse – stands accused of breaking the sacred law by inciting a war between Heaven and Hell. In the slaughter that ensued, the demonic forces defeated the heavenly hosts and laid claim to the Earth.

Brought before the sacred Charred Council, War is indicted for his crimes and stripped of his powers. Dishonored and facing his own death, War is given the opportunity to return to Earth to search for the truth and punish those responsible.

Hunted by a vengeful group of Angels, War must take on the forces of Hell, forge uneasy alliances with the very demons he hunts, and journey across the ravaged remains of the Earth on his quest for vengeance and vindication.

* [b]Apocalyptic Power[/b] – Unleash the wrath of War, combining brutal attacks and supernatural abilities to decimate all who stand in your way
* [b]Extreme Arsenal[/b] – Wield a devastating arsenal of angelic, demonic and Earthly weapons; and blaze a trail of destruction atop Ruin, War’s fiery phantom steed
* [b]Epic Quest[/b] – Battle across the wastelands and demon-infested dungeons of the decimated Earth in your quest for vengeance and redemption
* [b]Character Progression[/b] – Uncover powerful ancient relics, upgrade your weapons, unlock new abilities, and customize your gameplay style
* [b]Battle Heaven and Hell[/b] – Battle against all who stand in your way - from war-weary angelic forces to Hell’s hideous demon hordes***[b]Minimum:[/b]
* Windows XP SP3, Vista SP1 or Windows 7
* Athlon 64 3800+ (2.4 GHz) or Pentium IV 530 (3.0 GHz) CPU
* 1 GB RAM (2 GB for Vista/7)
* 256 MB VRAM
* GeForce 8800, GeForce GT220, or Radeon X1900 GPU
* 12 GB HD space

[b]Recommended:[/b]
* Athlon 64 X2 5200+ (2.6 GHz) or Core 2 Duo E5420 (2.13 GHz) CPU
* 2 GB RAM (3 GB for Vista/7)
* GeForce GTS 240 or Radeon HD3870 GPU
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Dead Space Electronic Arts (EA Redwood Shores)2008Un survival horror soberbio, donde tus recursos son limitadísimo y temerás hasta el titileo de la luz de la nave.

8 de 10***Only the Dead Survive.

A massive deep-space mining ship goes dark after unearthing a strange artifact on a distant planet. Engineer Isaac Clarke embarks on the repair mission, only to uncover a nightmarish blood bath — the ship's crew horribly slaughtered and infected by alien scourge. Now Isaac is cut off, trapped, and engaged in a desperate fight for survival.

* Strategically dismember the Necromorph enemies limb by bloody limb.
* Zero gravity combat means terror can strike from anywhere.
* Uncover the horrific truth of this shocking thriller.***Finishing the game on [i]hard[/i] difficulty unlocks [i]impossible[/i] difficulty (as well as giving 50k credits, 10 power nodes and military suit). What that entails, however, is unknown.***2009-01-09 on Steam (lang: eng, fre, ita, spa, ger)***[b]Launch trailer[/b]
[media=youtube]S7VvKGlVZu8[/media]***There has been several animated comics and apparently they're making a direct-to-DVD/Bluray animated film as well to cover the back story (and so far it seems like they're selling the movie separately). I truly hope these are included in the final game, I hate to miss out on the plot simply because the people want to make more money out of it.***[b]achillesheelfoes[/b] / [b]dismemberment[/b] — this is the only way you can defeat the necromorphs, by shooting or otherwise ripping off all their limbs. Just shooting at their head or torso won't help much (much like with zombies).
[b]technomagic[/b] — (tele)kinesis and stasis devices, the latter of which literally creates a temporal distortion that significantly slows down the passge of time for the targeted object or creature (ergo, slowing their movements down to crawl).

# averted tags #
[b]limited supplies[/b] — happens only with ammo in case you use single weapon exclusively (you can carry 4). Otherwise you have plenty of ammo around.
[b]faceless protagonist[/b] — you can rotate the camera early on in the in-game cinematic portion to point towards the back of the ship when Isaac hasn't donned his helmet yet, showing his face clearly.
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Dead Space 2 Electronic Arts (Visceral Games)2011Engineer Isaac Clarke returns in Dead Space 2 for another blood-curdling adventure in the sequel to the critically acclaimed Dead Space.

After waking from a coma on a massive space city known as "The Sprawl", the lone survivor of a horrific alien infestation finds himself confronting a catastrophic new nightmare. Battling dementia, hunted by the government, and haunted by visions of his dead girlfriend, Isaac will do whatever it takes to save himself and dominate the gruesome onslaught.

With an arsenal of tools to dismember Necromorphs and new determination, an engineer will bring the terror to space.

New tools to gruesomely slice and dismember the Necromorphs complement Isaac's signature Plasma Cutter, empowering him as he meets new characters, explores epic Zero-G environments, and fights against a relentless necromorph onslaught.

Survival isn't the only thing on Isaac's mind in Dead Space 2 - this time, he calls the shots.***Continues the tale of Isaac Clarke.
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Eldritch Minor Key Games2013Eldritch is a first-person action game inspired by roguelikes, immersive sims, and H. P. Lovecraft. Unearth ancient secrets and find your way to freedom! Sneak, fight, and explore strange worlds! Invoke mystical powers to augment your play style! Randomly generated levels provide fresh challenges and opportunities! Unlock shortcuts to jump directly to deeper dungeons!***
[12]***Un juego de exploración de mazmorras sencillo y logrado, con toques de sigilo.

Pros:
-Te hace sentir como un pringao al lado de la criaturas de los relatos lovecraftianos.
-La atmósfera consigue un estado de paranoia constante.
-Puede jugarse de manera sigilosa o como un juego de acción sin complejos.
-Aparte de la campaña (3 capítulos) tiene 2 misiones extra y un modo desafío.

Cons:
-Sólo se puede guardar dinero, lo demás lo pierdes todo a la muerte, haciendo el juego bastante repetitivo al principio.
-No es muy rejugable, a pesar de la generación aleatoria de escenarios.

6 de 10***[media=youtube]cLEur4Gpl4A[/media]
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Enemy Infestation Ripcord Games (Clockworks Entertainment;Micro Forté)1998Although the premise is of aliens who try to preserve their species, it's quite baffling they feel it necessary to kill humans on the colony (implied they attacked several colonies).***The game installer may have issues with newer Windows operating systems, but it isn't really required. Just copy the EI folder from the CD to wherever you keep your games and start playing.***[b]Minimum:[/b]
* Windows 95
* 200 MHz CPU
* 32 MB RAM

[b]Recommended:[/b]
* Pentium II 266 MHz
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Evil Genius Sierra Entertainment;Rebellion (Elixir Studios)2004Siguiendo la estela del clásico Dungeon Keeper, este juego se presenta como un divertidísimo juego de estrategia y administración.

¿Quién quiere ser 007 cuando puedes ser el taponcete que amenaza a toda la humanidad?

Recomendación de guardaespaldas: Lord Kane, su habilidad de entretener es criminal en estadios avanzados del juego. Merece la pena coger a Shen Yu sólo por eso.

Eso sí, cuidado con el imitador de James Bond.

8 de 10***Siguiendo la estela del clásico Dungeon Keeper, este juego se presenta como un divertidísimo juego de estrategia y administración.

¿Quién quiere ser 007 cuando puedes ser el taponcete que amenaza a toda la humanidad?

Recomendación de guardaespaldas: Lord Kane, su habilidad de entretener es criminal en estadios avanzados del juego. Merece la pena coger a Shen Yu sólo por eso.

Eso sí, cuidado con el imitador de James Bond.

8 de 10***2009-06-22 on Steam, by Rebellion (lang: eng, fre, ger, spa)
2009-07-08 on GoG.com, by Rebellion (lang: eng)***Latest version: 1.01 (as of ?)
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Freespace  Interplay (Volition)1998Colloquially called simply "Freespace" by most. Windowslabelimageminimize
Legend of Grimrock Almost Human Games2012Simplemente la mejor conversión al videojuego del misterio, emoción y claustrofobia mental que transmite un juego de rol de exploración de mazmorras.
Además de destaca por su único sistema de juego, que mezcla un manejo casi de aventura gráfica con un combate a semitiempo real y una creación de personajes muy RPG y variada.
Y especialmente notable por su efecto "sólo una escalera/puerta más", haciendo volar el tiempo con facilidad.
Eso sí, lo del modo Old School ya es para nostálgicos masocas XD
9 de 10.***What is Legend of Grimrock?
* Old-school dungeon crawling game inspired by Dungeon Master, Eye of the Beholder and Ultima Underworld.
* Explore a vast dungeon riddled with hidden switches, pressure plates, sliding walls, trapdoors and more.
* Discover secrets, cast spells with runes and craft potions with herbs.
* Fight murderous monsters and seek lost artifacts in ancient tombs.
* Create a party of four characters and customize them with different races, classes, skills and traits.

Legend of Grimrock is a dungeon crawling role playing game with an oldschool heart but a modern execution. A group of prisoners are sentenced to certain death by exiling them to the secluded Mount Grimrock for vile crimes they may or may not have committed. Unbeknownst to their captivators, the mountain is riddled with ancient tunnels, dungeons and tombs built by crumbled civilizations long perished now. If they ever wish to see daylight again and reclaim their freedom the ragtag group of prisoners must form a team and descend through the mountain, level by level.

The game brings back the oldschool challenge with highly tactical real-time combat and grid-based movement, devious hidden switches and secrets as well as deadly traps and horrible monsters. Legend of Grimrock puts an emphasis on puzzles and exploration and the wits and perception of the player are more important tools than even the sharpest of swords could be. And if you are a hardened dungeon crawling veteran and you crave an extra challenge, you can arm yourself with a stack of grid paper and turn on the Oldschool Mode which disables the luxury of the automap! Are you ready to venture forth and unravel the mysteries of Mount Grimrock?
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NecroVisioN: Lost Company  1C Company (The Farm 51)2010[b]Minimum:[/b]
* Windows XP or Vista
* 2.4 GHz Pentium IV or Athlon 64 2800+ CPU
* 1 GB RAM
* 256 MB VRAM
* GeForce 6600 or Radeon X1600 GPU
* 8 GB HD space

[b]Recommended:[/b]
* 1.8 GHz Core 2 Duo or Athlon X2 5000+ CPU
* 2 GB RAM
* GeForce 8800 or Radeon HD38xx GPU***NecroVisioN: Lost Company is the prequel to the old-school horror FPS which covers the events that happened before the NecroVisioN story began. The game contains several unique levels, characters, weapons and gameplay elements, as well as a new main hero that tells the original game story from an opposing perspective. Players now act as one of the WWI German soldiers that discovers the evil forces unleashed by the war and starts to fight against them. Eventually the player leads soldiers from all the nations gathered on the front through massive battles against the zombies and demons. Finally players become the first Necromancer that was defeated by Simon Bukner in NecroVisioN.

Key Features:
* 10 new levels in the single player campaign
* 15 new characters
* 6 new weapons
* Variety of special weapon upgrades
* New drivable vehicles to use in the fight including the FT17 tank and Halberstadt CL.II airplane
* Several additional close combat techniques, spells and fatalities in single player
* New, unique multiplayer mode: Gas Attack
* 3 new maps and several new skins for multiplayer mode
* New visual effects like enhanced depth-of-field, soft shadows and new shaders with optimized renderer and data loading system.
[1C Publishing]
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