Tag Archives: First-Person

Call of Duty: United Offensive, PC

United Offensive is a DLC/expansion pack for the original Call of Duty. It was developed by Gray Matter and first published by Activision in 2004.

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Call of Duty, PC

The first game in the Call of Duty series was developed by Infinity Ward and published by Activision in 2003. Call of Duty uses the id Tech 3 engine to recreate famous battles of World War II, and uses AI-controlled team members to simulate squad play.

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System Shock: Enhanced Edition, PC

This enhanced edition of the classic sci-fi RPG, System Shock, was developed by Nightdive Studios and first released in 2023. What Nightdive has done is bring the original 1994 classic into the modern age, with high definition graphics and a boatload of quality-of-life features.

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System Shock, PC

This is the original VGA/SVGA* version of System Shock, first released in 1994. The game was developed by Looking Glass Technologies and published by Origin Systems in North America and Electronic Arts in Europe.

*= System Shock was originally released in VGA (320×200 resolution), but was soon upgraded to SVGA (640×480 resolution) via patches and re-releases. I’m showing both the VGA and SVGA versions here.

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Unreal Tournament 2004, PC

Epic GamesUnreal Tournament 2004 is the third game in the Unreal Tournament series, and is an updated version of its predecessor, Unreal Tournament 2003.

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3D Starstrike, Amstrad CPC

Written by Graeme Baird, Ian Oliver and Andrew Onions, 3D Starstrike was the hit-outta-nowhere* from Realtime Software, in 1984. Well, actually, that was the ZX Spectrum version, which came out the year before this – the Amstrad CPC port. Which was released in 1985.

*= Aided somewhat by the success of Atari‘s famous Star Wars arcade machine.

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Quake II, Nintendo 64

The Nintendo 64 version of id Software‘s Quake II was developed by Raster Productions and released in 1999, by Midway in North America and Activision in PAL regions.

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Quake, Nintendo 64

id Software‘s formidable Quake was ported to the Nintendo 64 by Midway, and first published in 1996. And it is an excellent port of the classic First-Person Shooter.

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Quake, Sega Saturn

The Sega Saturn port of Quake was apparently the first official console port of id Software‘s classic 3D shooter. And, while it plays quite well, it looks kinda ugly.

Saturn Quake was developed by Lobotomy Software and published by Sega in 1997.

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Arcane Dimensions, PC

This groundbreaking Quake mod was first released in 2015 and it has gradually increased in stature since. It’s an amazing achievement, and still incredible to play now. If you like First-Person Shooters and have never tried Arcane Dimensions before then I urge you to give it a try.

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