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Every once in a while, a game will come out that extends the boundaries of its genre through multiple facets. Whether through graphics, sound, or just general gameplay and the Polish developers at CD Projekt Red might have done it with their first release, The Witcher. Releasing onto store shelves on October 30th of 2007, The Witcher strives to become something new in a genre that has been somewhat lacking since the…
This has to be one of the best, if not the best looking game out for right now, being a week before Doom 3 comes out Far Cry was released on March 23 of 2004 and has been awing fans ever since. Utilizing the CryEngine produced by Crytek, a company out of Germany, Far Cry is definitely the most detailed, colorful engine out on the block today. The game's physics scream out to you when you plug a mercenary in the head…
Defining a new line of stealth action games, Ubisoft’s release of Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell for the pc on February 17, 2003, busted out onto the scene with a lot of enthusiasm from fans awaiting the release. You’re known as Special Agent Sam Fisher working for the Third Echelon, a special agency within the government that no one really knows about, of course. You alone are asked to free the world of…
Ion Storm's new game that was released May 25 of 2004 has definitely made a lot of old Thief fans happy. This new addition to the series has definitely improved Ion Storm's pride since their dismal output of Deus Ex: Invisible Wars. Definitely following along the lines of the first two thief games being Thief: The Dark Project, and Thief 2: The Metal Age, Deadly Shadows (DS) adds to the story right where the Thief 2…
18 Months after the initial release of Neverwinter Nights, comes Hordes of the Underdark which adds a lot of different types of content for the NWN module makers out there. Hordes adds 5 new tilesets consisting of: Exterior Underdark, Drow Interior, Mind Flayer Tunnels, Beholder Tunnels, and a new outside winter ruins tileset. Bioware also included 16 more creatures, over 50 new feats, over 40 new spells, new voice…
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Almost exactly 1 year after the initial release of Neverwinter Nights, Bioware came out with an expansion, which is subtitled Shadows of Undrentide. This expansion adds three new tilesets including: Rural Winter Tileset, Ruins Tileset, and a Desert Tileset. It also adds 5 prestige classes which includes: Arcane Archer, Assassin, Blackguard, Shadowdancer, and the Harper Scout. Bioware also included 16 new creatures,…
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Released April 9th of 2004, a first person shooter, looking like the games of old, like Quake or Doom touched down upon the shelves of game stores. The Developers known as "People Can Fly" (PCF) brought into play what a lot of deathmatch fans have been waiting for. Painkiller is a simple game in itself. Kill everything that comes in front of you. Anything and everything you see moving, shoot to kill. Why you ask?…
