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| name | publisher(developer) | year arrow_downward | description | |
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| Aliens versus Predator | Fox Interactive (Rebellion) | 1999 | [i]Aliens Versus Predator Classic 2000[/i] features the Colonial Marine, Alien and Predator Campaigns and the frenetic single-player Skirmish mode from the original title: Alien Versus Predator Gold Edition, which was released to massive acclaim in 2000. Alien Versus Predator Classic 2000 has been updated to run on modern PCs and laptops using DirectX 9.0c and includes support for Xbox 360 Controller for Windows, however, it does not currently support multi-player. The three most ferocious species in the universe in a bloodthirsty battle for the ultimate prize: survival. Take your pick: be a Colonial Marine, a Predator or an Alien. Fight through suspense-filled environments: from starships and space stations to colonial bases and eerie planetscapes. One wrong move turns you from hunter to prey. * Three campaigns: Colonial Marine, Alien and Predator * Includes all the levels from the original AvP Gold Edition plus the Millennium Expansion Pack * Skirmish mode against infinite Alien hordes * Bonus Episodes * Unique abilities, weapons and equipment for each species * Scale walls and elevator shafts as an ALIEN with frightening speed as you attack and devour your victims * Stalk your prey as the deadly PREDATOR using wrist blades, shoulder cannons and stealth mode * Lock and load as a COLONIAL MARINE using motion trackers, grenade launchers and flame-throwers to exterminate your foes * Supports Xbox 360 Controller for Windows * Music from the original soundtrack CD [Fox Interactive?]***[b]healing magic[/b] - Predator heals himself by expending his energy reserves and stabbing himself with the healing stabby things, can be repeated whenever the player feels like it and there's sufficient energy reserves left. [b]health draining[/b] - xenomorph's healing method vaguely belongs to this: by "eating" the heads of humans and predators, live victims give more health. [b]hypermobile foes[/b] - xenomorphs when playing against them. [b]steam[/b] - only for AvP Classic***Lack of out-of-place music, impressive (at the time) ambient noises, slick darkness, the gritty and terrifying world and xenomorphs of the Alien franchise with the somewhat monstrous but oddly honorable cloaked hunters from Predator movies, AVP sets an experience that is action-packed and laden with horror. Stalk humans and predators alike as a lone xenomorph drone. Run in the darkness as a lone marine, hunted by both the swarming xenomorphs and the stealthy predators. Or stalk as a predator, nailing down humans one at a time and fighting the hordes of xenomorphs. Regardless of whom you play as, the feeling of anxiety, exhilaration and fear you felt with the original Alien movie and the sequel are pretty much there. The game actually feels almost Lovecraftian, but instead of psychological horror, the game gives you a relentless horde of aliens with nary a sufficient arsenal to counter them. Besides the foreboding darkness and the lonesomeness each character makes you feel, each character's gameplay is different in their own way. The [b]xenomorph[/b] drone outmaneuvers and stalks individual targets from the dark while avoiding most direct confrontations as he is quite fragile but can rend almost anything they come in close enough to pieces in less than a second. [b]Marine[/b] has it tough as the neverending swam of xenomorph drones forces them to progress onward, not giving him time for a breather, making even his impressively varied arsenal seem pitiful and even a single predator on his path can make things a lot more difficult. For [b]predator[/b], picking out humans while cloaked may seem simple, they rarely offer much of a challenge except in large numbers. The aliens however see through the predator's cloak and come swarming in on him like a nest of bees, making many of his more powerful weapons useless in close quarters. All three provide unique challenges and experience. It's amazing how AVP didn't become more popular than it is, it's a solid package of great gameplay with decent story, however it was unfortunately released shortly after Half-Life which was hyped by the press and many others even though it offered less in a sense, contributing to AVP's lower popularity. AVP was perhaps too hectic and not everyone is fan of horror and dark places where you feel insignificant and can't see your enemy properly. Instead of making you feel like a hero like HL did, AVP makes you feel like you survived. (Sorry for the ad-like speech at the start, but I couldn't think of anything better.)***Seems like people have trouble running the game with anything newer than XP SP2, meaning anyone with XP SP3 or newer (like my XP64) are unlikely to get the game to work. Though the game is practically playable even on XP64, as long as you don't linger in the main menu for long and skip the cinematics as the game otherwise crashes in a minute or so.***Comes on 2 CDs.***[b]Gold Edition[/b] includes the "Millenium Expansion Pack". I couldn't find info if this was available for separate download for owners of regular AVP, but my memory says it was. There's 9 new multiplayer levels and few singleplayer levels for the marine. There's 2 new weapons, pistol and "skeeter", for the marine. Other weapons, mostly the explosive kind, were made more powerful, too. Gold Edition multiplayer is incompatible with the original AVP. There's different title screen and apparently some voice overs were replaced by Rebellion staff. The new AvP Classic is essentially the Gold Edition.***[b]Minimum:[/b] * Windows 95 or 98 * 200 MHz Pentium MMX CPU * 32 MB RAM * 640x480x16 display * 400 MB HD space [b]Recommended:[/b] * 400 MHz Pentium MMX CPU * 64 MB RAM * 4 MB VRAM * 640x480x16 display * 500 MB HD space * EAX***EAN-13: [code]3348542147805[/code] (BestSeller series, Gold Edition)***For 1 to 8 players.***Not to be mistaken with the new [game=#172171]AVP game[/game] (2010) from the same developer.***Based on the 'Alien' and 'Predator' films, this highly rated shooter became famous for its intense fear factor, equal to if not better than other famously terrifying games: Thief, System Shock 2 and Half-Life in places. Despite its superb exploitation of human terror, however, it failed in terms of gameplay to match the top FPSs of the time (Half-Life had been released just five months before). But with three games in one, one for each race (Alien, Predator, Human [Marine]), few could be disappointed by AvP.***Official description: Featuring characters from the popular and terrifying film sagas Aliens and Predator, Aliens vs. Predator pits three of the deadliest species in the universe against each other in a bloodthirsty battle for the ultimate prize survival. Playing as a colonial marine, a Predator, or an Alien, players stalk their way through richly detailed, spine-tingling environments. | labelimagesubject |
| Killing Floor | Tripwire Interactive (Tripwire Interactive;Shatterline Productions) | 2009 | Un juego multijugador cooperativo de jugadores vs. máquina, donde debes sobrevivir a una serie de oleadas de zombies bastante pintorescos y con diferentes habilidades. Aunque no tan divertido como el Left 4 Dead, su repertorio de armas y El Patriarca hacen que este juego merezca la pena ser probado. 6 de 10***[b]Minimum:[/b] * Windows 2000, XP or Vista * 1.2 GHz CPU * 512 MB RAM * 64 MB VRAM * 2 GB HD space [b]Recommended:[/b] * 2.4 GHz CPU * 1 GB RAM * 128 MB VRAM [b]Ports:[/b] (for game hosting) * UDP 7707 (game; should be enough for direct connect) * UDP 7708 (query?) * UDP 7717 (master server query) * TCP/UDP 28852 (master server announce) * Steam ports: [url]https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=8571-GLVN-8711[/url]***2005 free UT2k4 mod by Shatterline Productions (no longer available, points to the commercial release) 2009-05-14 by Tripwire 2009-05-15 for European and likely Asian customers. 2009-11-20 Polish language added in a patch***Killing Floor is a Co-op Survival Horror FPS taking place in the devastated cities and countryside of England, after a series of cloning experiments for the military goes horribly wrong. You and your friends are members of the military, dropped into these locations with a simple mission: survive long enough to cleanse the area of the failed experiments. The only problem is, these "experiments" aren’t waiting to be taken out – they’re coming for YOU! Key features: * Co-op game mode for up to six players obliterating multiple waves of specimens * Persistent Perks system, allowing players to convert their in-game achievements into permanent improvements to their character’s skills and abilities * Over 40 Steam Achievements, including "Dignity for the dead" for killing 10 enemies feeding on dead teammates’ corpses and * "Hot Cross Fun" for finishing off 25 burning enemies with a Crossbow. * Watch those crucial and violent creature deaths in slomo "ZEDtime", even in multiplayer * Solo game mode for offline play * 9 different monster types trying to eat your face off, armed with everything from teeth and claws, through to chainsaws, chainguns and rocket-launchers * 12+ weapons for the players to chose from, ranging from knives and fire-axes up to pump shotguns, rifles and a flamethrower * Add in a welder, medical tools and body armor to help the players survive * Players choose which Perks to play with, so they can best balance out a co-op team to survive the horrors * Open, non-linear play areas: choose when and where to fight – or run; weld doors closed to try and direct the monster horde * Fully-configurable, allowing players to change things as simple as the difficulty level or number of creature waves, or go so far as to set up their own favorite waves of monsters * Support for Steam Friends and other Steamworks features * Includes SDK for the creation of new levels and mods [Tripwire Interactive] | labelimagesubject |
| Resident Evil 5 | Capcom | 2009 | In Resident Evil 5, returning hero Chris Redfield is sent to Africa to investigate a biological weapon that is transforming the populace into aggressive and disturbing creatures. Joined by another local BSAA agent, Sheva Alomar, the two must work together to solve the truth behind the frightening turn of events. Featuring a revolutionary new co-op mode of gameplay, Resident Evil 5 will let players experience fear together as terror moves out of the shadows and into the light of day. The PC version of Resident Evil 5 features online play for co-operative play sessions over the internet and will also take advantage of NVIDIA’s new GeForce 3D Vision technology.***RE5 sees the return of Las Plagas and some even older monsters as well as some completely new.***[b]cooperation[/b] - minimal; most commonly you just have to wait for the other player at the exit if they're far away. Seen with Chris helping Sheva reach higher ground, or one of the characters holding a door open while the other goes through and unblocks another route for the first character (happens several times). Besides those there's very little. [b]newgame+[/b] - unlocks mercenaries mode (survival mode) and allows playing the story as Sheva, possibly some other changes as well. [b]limited capacity[/b] - 9 item slots per character, only ammo and grenades can be stacked (and even them in very limited manner), body armor peculiarly takes item slots and stacking is limited vaguely by item usefulness, not size. [b]distorted vision[/b] - getting caught in your own flash grenades has this effect at least***?? 2009-09-?? as boxed, by Capcom (lang: ??) N&S America 2009-09-15 on Steam, by Capcom (lang: eng, ...?) INT 2009-09-18 on Steam, by Capcom (lang: eng, fre, ger, ita, jap, spa) | labelimagesubject |
| Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising | Codemasters | 2009 | Taking gamers as close to war as they'll ever want to get, Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising is the much anticipated return of the genre-defining military conflict simulator. Set to deliver the total combat experience, Flashpoint: Dragon Rising challenges players to survive the chaos and rapidly evolving situations of modern warfare in a new contemporary theatre. Players experience the intensity, diversity and claustrophobia of a modern conflict from the unique perspectives of an infantry marine, a helicopter pilot, a Special Forces officer or a tank commander, each engaged against the full force of the Chinese PLA on a scale never previously experienced in a military action title. Gameplay simulates an immense conflict between advanced forces and provides unparalleled scope with different military disciplines, vehicles and equipment for players to utilize.***NA/SA 2009-10-06 on Steam EU 2009-10-08 on Steam, by Codemasters (lang: eng, ger, fre, ita, spa) | labelimagesubject |
| Left 4 Dead 2 | Valve;EA Partners (Valve) | 2009 | Set in the zombie apocalypse, Left 4 Dead 2 (L4D2) is the highly anticipated sequel to the award-winning Left 4 Dead, the #1 co-op game of 2008. This co-operative action horror FPS takes you and your friends through the cities, swamps and cemeteries of the Deep South, from Savannah to New Orleans across five expansive campaigns. You'll play as one of four new survivors armed with a wide and devastating array of classic and upgraded weapons. In addition to firearms, you'll also get a chance to take out some aggression on infected with a variety of carnage-creating melee weapons, from chainsaws to axes and even the deadly frying pan. You'll be putting these weapons to the test against (or playing as in Versus) three horrific and formidable new Special Infected. You'll also encounter five new uncommon common infected, including the terrifying Mudmen. Helping to take L4D's frantic, action-packed gameplay to the next level is AI Director 2.0. This improved Director has the ability to procedurally change the weather you'll fight through and the pathways you'll take, in addition to tailoring the enemy population, effects, and sounds to match your performance. L4D2 promises a satisfying and uniquely challenging experience every time the game is played, custom-fitted to your style of play.***Más zombies y más pantallas. Una versión en esteroides del primer Left 4 Dead. Encuentro especialmente interesante la introducción del Charger y de los infectados especiales no jugables. 7 de 10***Only eng, fre, ger, rus, and spa have voice overs, the others are only as subtitles.***Banned in Australia due to excessive violence.***2009-10-02 pre-purchase of L4D2 made available, release date set to 2009-11-18 2009-10-28 demo released to those who pre-ordered the game 2009-11-03 demo released to everyone US/CA 2009-11-16 as boxed on retail, by Valve? INT 2009-11-16 on Steam, by Valve INT 2009-11-?? as boxed on retail, by Valve | labelimagesubject |
| Alien Swarm | Valve (Black Cat Games;Valve) | 2010 | Alien Swarm is a game and Source SDK release from a group of talented designers at Valve who were hired from the Mod community. Available free of charge, the game thrusts players into an epic bug hunt featuring a unique blend of co-op play and squad-level tactics. With your friends, form a squad of four distinct IAF Marine classes. Plan your attack using an unlockable arsenal of weapons with countless loadout configurations against a wide variety of aliens. Blaze your way through an overrun, off-world colony, eradicating the alien infestation in environments ranging from the icy planet's surface, to a subterranean lava-flooded mining facility. Along with the game get the complete code base for Alien Swarm that features updates to the Source engine as well as the SDK. Alien Swarm adds 3rd person camera, depth of field, improved dynamic shadows and a wide variety of gameplay additions to the Source engine. * Tactical, 4 player co-op action game with a top-down perspective * Complete game code and mod tools * Unlock persistent items by gaining levels * Over 40 weapons and equipment with countless loadout configurations * 4 unique classes and 8 unique characters * Matchmaking, Steam Cloud, Steam Stats * 64 achievements * Tile-based map generation tool * Powered by Source and Steam***More outlying human colonies have fallen to Swarm attacks this month, the most notable of which being the research base of Tau Ceti 5. This base was known for its intensive research on the alien threat, having produced a number of papers on their behaviour and biological makeup, information the ISAF paid a great deal for. It's unknown whether the attack on this base was caused by the recent presence of a number of recently captured live bugs or whether it was just a random attack. [Valve Steam]***Alien Swarm: Infested is an upcoming action strategy game featuring a unique blend of co-op play and squad level tactics all in an overhead view. As a Commander in the Interstellar Armed Forces, your job is to guide your squad and successfully complete their mission against the ravages of the Swarm infestation, a threat which plagues mankind across the breadth of colonized space. [Black Cat] | labelimagesubject |
| Killing Floor 2 | Tripwire Interactive | 2016 | Takes the formula of the first game and pumps it to a more gory and intense zombie limbfest. Pros: -Great enemy AI (for a zombie, don't expect advanced calculus) -Light vs. dark places and itchy placement of objects to hit with them in your escape. -Good and simple interface. -You can be the white englishcotish friend of Grandpa "Beetches" Freeman. Cons: -Its kind of repetitive, even for its variety of weapons. -Scarce vertical action situations. 6 of 10 | labelimageminimize |
