The Crysis game just received its first major patch. It brings a number of little improvements and some big performance improvements, too. Link to Crysis Mod.
Category: Video games
Project Offset (working title) screenshots
I have already spoken several times here about a PC First Person Shooter (FPS) video game currently known under the name of Project Offset (a working title htat will certainly be replaced before the project goes to distribution). Its innovation comes from replacing the tired old “Space marine in charge of wiping monsters out of…
Free software shooters, for Linux
If you are a gamer (as in video games), if you like the challenge of confronting other players in FPS shootouts, if you are using GNU/Linux, you will be interested to find the comparison brought by LinuX-gamers.net: Comparison of Free Software Shooters with: Sauerbraten OpenArena Alien Arena Nexuiz World of Padman Tremulous War§ow
Screenshots for S.T.A.L.K.E.R. – Clear sky
After S.T.A.L.K.E.R. – Shadow of Chernobyl in 2007, you will see S.T.A.L.K.E.R. – Clear sky in 2008. This new opus of the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. saga will retain the advantages of the original FPS game: Great playability, exceptional environment, free wandering in acres and acres of open terrain. There is now a gallery of screenshots for S.T.A.L.K.E.R.…
Crysis: The physics engine and 3000 barrels of TNT
Watch what a good level editor can do to Crysis if you really want to push the limits of the physics engine. YouTube link
Tiberium: An FPS in the universe of Command-and-Conquer
GameInformer revealed in a world exclusive coverage that Electronic Arts really started the development of an FPS video game in the universe of Command-and-Conquer (a very successful real-time strategy game). Will it work? Will it produce a good game? Or simply a C&C-ploitation?
Amazing: Duke Nukem Forever comes back again, and again
After years of multiple announcements but a launch always pushed far into the future, the oldest PC First Person Shooter on the planet comes back again with a video trailer supposed to thrill us with anticipation. However, it’s been years that we’ve been thrilling and the vibration is now dampened. Link to GT
Cryostasis: The Sleep of Reason – Review
This PC First Person Shooter (FPS) game was already presented on Roumazeilles.net some time ago. Here is a preview by HookedGamers. As they say: “Ghosts and zombies and rust, oh my!”
Free FPS game to play: Daikatana
Daikatana was a good FPS game for the PC a few years ago, in 2000. The story is of one sword fighter in post-modern tehcnological Japan and gives a little twist to the FPS genre (and some of the adversaries were the strange robotic frogs). Today it is made available for free download from GameTap…