All-Time Highest Rated Games Tagged 'shooter, Xbox, action, FPS' on The Great Games Experiment http://www.greatgamesexperiment.com/css/logo.jpg en-us The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay was released in June, 2004 for Xbox, and in December, 2004 was released for Windows as the "Developer's Cut", with the improved shading effects and higher resolution expected with the pc release, as well as added content.

Inspired by the Vin Diesel movie, the story begins with you captured by mercenaries and locked down in the toughest and bleakest prison in the galaxy. Your obvious task is to make an unprecedented jail break, and will require intelligence, sharp wits, combat skill and sometimes stealth.

Additional Game Features:

• First person shooter, but with some third person actions, and even some RPG aspects.
  


• Over 30 levels, split into checkpoints.
  


• High quality musical soundtrack befitting the movie tie-in.
  


• Player eventually acquires "eye shine", a vision enhancement that becomes very useful in the often dark environments.
  


• Tied to the movie not only be relating to the story and atmosphere, but including movie star vocal talents such as Vin Diesel, Cole Hauser as Johns, Kirsten Lahman as Shirah, Willis Burks II as Pope Joe, and Ron Perlman as Jagger Vance.
  


• Among the first games to use "normal mapping".
  


• Fight with melee weapons, special moves, pistols, rifles, shotguns, and more, although by default, guards weapons are DNA coded.
  


• Single Player campaign only.
  

Developer:Starbreeze Studios
Publisher: Sierra/Vivendi Universal Games
Released: Xbox in June, 2004 followed by Windows release in December, 2004

Minimum System Requirements, PC Version
CPU 1800MHz, 256MB RAM

ESRB Rating: Mature (17+) for Blood and Gore, Intense Violence, Strong Language

]]> 22 Dec 2006 09:51:54 Halo 2 is a first-person shooter video game developed by Bungie Studios. Released for the Xbox game console on November 9, 2004, the game is a direct sequel to the critically acclaimed blockbuster Halo: Combat Evolved. From the day of its initial release, Halo 2 has been the most popular video game on Xbox Live, even after the release of the Xbox 360. On June 20, 2006, more than a half-billion games of Halo 2 had been played on Xbox Live since its debut, and by October 30, 2006, this number was raised to four billion. Halo 2 is compatible with the Xbox 360, including its Xbox Live functionality.

]]> 19 Dec 2006 02:18:15 Far Cry is a first-person shooter computer game developed by Crytek Studios and published by Ubisoft on March 23, 2004. Far Cry sold 730,000 units within four months of release. The game's story follows an ex-Special Forces man named Jack Carver, who is stranded on a mysterious archipelago in Micronesia. He is searching for a female journalist he was escorting after she went missing when their sailboat was destroyed by mercenaries.

]]> 01 Dec 2006 11:40:12 Twenty years have passed since Kevin Flynn defeated the MCP with the help of his Tron program. In doing so, he also destroyed the technology he'd used to digitize himself. He's long since left ENCOM in the hands of Alan Bradley, who is raising a family of his own.

Now ruthless global corporate powers want to send humans into the digital realm once more in order to control world finances, and only Alan knows the answer to perfecting their faulty code. Alan encrypted his secrets in time to prevent their theft, but now he's been kidnapped, and the search for the code is on.

You enter the fray as Jet Bradley, Alan's brilliant but rebellious son, who finds himself enlisted by Ma3a to fight the now viral corporate security officer within the digital realm and prevent global domination.

The Tron series of games are based upon the 1982 Walt Disney movie of the same name, beginning with a Tron arcade game and arcade sequel. Tron 2.0 is the first game of the series to be produced for the PC, and subsequently was released for Mac. A related title, "Tron 2: Killer App" was later released for the Xbox, but with significantly altered content.

Additional Game Features:

• Single player campaign entirely in the digital realm (excepting some cutscenes) immersing you into story-driven, first-person action.
  


• As Jet Bradley you will combat digital opponents using guns, rods, grenades, missiles, and the iconic TRON disc, gaining abilities and new weapons as you overcome various challenges to go deeper into the system.
  


• Defrag and disinfect your inventory or live with the unpleasant consequences (You're in a computer after all!)
  


• Intense action, intense and deadly battles, and the trademark high-speed light cycle races, featuring a new light cycle design by Syd Mead, who developed the cycles for the original film.
  


• Musical score by Wendy Carlos, the composer of the original Tron film score.
  


• Vocal performers include Bruce Boxleitner, Rebecca Romijn, Ken Boynton, Cindy Morgan and many more, and featuring Jason Cottle as the voice of Jet Bradley.
  


• Multiplayer includes some campaign scenarios and light cycle mode.
  


• Rendered with the Lithtech Triton engine (specially enhanced version of their Jupiter engine)
  

Developer: Monolith Productions
Publisher: Buena Vista Interactive
Designer: Frank Rooke
Released: August 26, 2003 for the PC, April 21, 2004 for the Mac.

Minimum System Requirements
WIndows: 500 MHz CPU, 256 MB RAM, 2.4 GB hard disk space, 32 MB GPU
Max: 700 MHz G4, Mac OS X 10.2.8, 256 MB RAM, 32 MB GPU, 2.5 GB disk space

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