Buy it now. Member since: Nov. Member Level 10 Blank Slate. I'm on Last. Also, I used to be YeOldeSierra. Now I'm just Sierra Member since: Mar. Member Level 01 Blank Slate. Sacred 2 is pretty good very diablo like.
Member since: Dec. Moderator Level 50 Reader. Member Level 25 Game Developer. Dante's inferno and final fantasy XIII. It would be among the final Halo games developed by Bungie before it exited the series and Microsoft's Industries took control.
If you're curious where Halo 3 lands on our overall list, check out our Halo mainline series ranking. Read our Halo 3 review. The four-player co-op shooter takes place after a zombie outbreak and your job is to take them out with your squad mates in a variety of settings. The game had more than just mindless zombie hordes to overcome; it also featured numerous different zombie types, including the horrifying Witch and the hulking Boomer.
Who could forget Limbo? The tone of Limbo is eerie, and the fact that the small child you control can, and often does, die in horrible ways in this black-and-white side-scrolling game is something few who played the game will ever forget. The game's ending led to many different interpretations of what actually happened and what it all means, and that mystery is part of what made the game so memorable. Read our Limbo review.
Yet another of the standout releases of was BioWare's original Mass Effect. After years of developing fantasy games, BioWare took its talents to space and into the realm of sci-fi with an engrossing and rewarding role-playing game that spawned a franchise. It also introduced the world to Commander Shepard, who is now one of gaming's most recognizable characters. Mass Effect was praised for its powerful storyline, its many and varied characters and choice-based dialogue, and its setting.
Lesser-loved elements like vehicle navigation and combat would be improved upon in subsequent installments, as well as the retooled trilogy released in Read our Mass Effect review. Valve's puzzle game sees players controlling Chell in the halls of Aperture Science as she uses her portal gun to solve puzzles and figure out what was going on.
The sequel not only added new equipment, but also a bigger celebrity cast, with J. Simmons and Stephen Merchant voicing characters. The sequel also had a co-op mode for solving puzzles with friends and featured music by The National. Portal 2 still stands tall as one of the best modern puzzle games. Read our Portal 2 review. The game was directed by David Jones, who is perhaps best known for creating the legendary Grand Theft Auto series. The game initially sold well, thanks to very strong and very fun gameplay mechanics, not to mention getting bundled with a multiplayer trial for the hotly anticipated Halo 3.
However, time and successive disappointing sequels have killed the name, and it is now regarded as little more than a nostalgic memory. Hard Boiled is one of John Woo's best action movies , and Stranglehold serves as its official sequel.
Made with the Unreal Engine 3, Stranglehold was made in direct collaboration with Woo himself, who provided much of the creative direction for the game.
Players were excited to see the return of Chow Yun-fat as Tequila, and the game was a pretty exciting third-person shooter with fun bullet-time mechanics. It's very Max Payne , but there's nothing inherently wrong with that. Few stories in gaming are as tragic as Rare's. Rare was once one of the top names in gaming, but they have since been relegated to memory and unmemorable titles. In , they created Kameo , a fun but little-known beat-em-up that nicely mixed combat mechanics with fantasy elements.
The game was a technical marvel of its time, and it helped establish the Xbox as a powerful console capable of displaying some incredible graphics. It obviously looks dated today, which is a shame, because much of its magic lay in its revolutionary production. Dancing games are nothing new, and by the turn of the s, the Guitar Hero franchise was dominating the music and rhythm genre. Dance Central was a great game for working up a sweat , and it was also a lot of fun from a gameplay perspective.
While there were some visual cutbacks compared to the PC version, The Witcher II port still looked like it belonged on the despite being notoriously difficult to run on high-end PCs. There are also some notable improvements when playing the game using the Xbox One's backward compatibility with screen tearing eliminated and smoother cutscenes.
While it was well-received by fans of the series on the older platforms, American Wasteland was definitely showing its age on the newer hardware. The game was essentially an upscaled port of the Xbox original but the visual differences between the two ports were negligible at best.
The low-quality graphics were especially noticeable compared to other launch titles on the like Condemned: Criminal Origins and Perfect Dark Zero. Saint Maud is the psychological horror movie that scared audiences to death with its nightmare-inducing ending. Gaming, wrestling and film fan for over 35 years. He's a Schwarzenegger and Stallone fanatic that considers himself something of an expert in all things RPGs and cheesy action films from the 80s and 90s.
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