Tag archive: first person shooter [ 7 ]

Games of Shame: Call of Duty

There are few other games that spark such an intense burning argument of indifference than the Call of Duty franchise. Oddly enough, I have less difficulty explaining the things I like and dislike about Call of Duty with people who don’t play video games versus some who happen to love games. I find that sad. Someone who is not knowledgeable about game design and mechanics often only serves me a very one-sided conversation which usually ends with my audience saying, “That sounds [...]

Pitched: Breaking Bad Chemistry Plug & Play Game

If you tell me that you aren’t the least bit curious about some Plug It In & Play TV Games at some point then I will call you a bold-faced liar and depants you. Every multi-generational gamer has seen a Plug & Play TV Game that has either brought you back to the retro nostalgia of yesteryear. The incredibly popular soap opera with zombies, The Walking Dead, now has its own P&P TV Game version in The Walking Dead Zombie Hunter. It’s a first person shooter on-rails [...]

Wolfenstein 3-D Celebrates 20 Years by Going Free in All Browsers

05/09/2012
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by Brandon Coppernoll in: Headlines, News

Wolfenstein 3-D owns some great real estate in my heart, and for its 20th anniversary id Software is porting it to all browsers to play for free. It’s a freaking party in Castle Wolfenstein, and we’re going to party like it’s 1992. To put things in perspective, I had just turned 9 years old when this game was released. It was the goriest, most fantastic game my PC could handle at that time. I played hours upon hours trying to find all [...]

Speculate Iterate: Call of Duty: Black Ops II Reveal

I can safely assume I’m the biggest Call of Duty fan on Horrible Night, and I’m likely the one who’s put in the most hours for this franchise. The Call of Duty: Black Ops II reveal trailer was presented to us on May 1, 2012, and the world has relatively not stopped talking about the game since. When the rumors were confirmed that Black Ops II was really going to happen, I was like many others who had a slight sigh, slumped shoulders, [...]

Battlefield 3 Review: Don’t Go to War Alone

11/18/2011
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by Brandon Coppernoll in: Rated, Reviews

Electronic Arts came out swinging with some great marketing to highlight the new Frostbite 2 engine behind Battlefield 3 as well as taking shots against that “other shooter.” For the most part, Battlefield 3 delivers on a frantic multiplayer experience complete with explosions, vehicles and intense graphics, but the single player campaign doesn’t quite feel put together and is full of questionable storytelling and pacing. The single player feels like fumbling around for your keys in the dark while the [...]

It Doesn’t Matter: Modern Warfare 3 has a ‘Shocking’ Scene

If the words “No Russian” are familiar to you, then you know all about the controversy surrounding the fabled scene in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. In “No Russian” players are placed in a violent and evil situation in a Russian airport. Without going into the details, you’re essentially committing a terrorist attack while undercover and innocent bystanders are killed. On Friday morning, a video was leaked across the internet and quickly snatched up by many video game blogs [...]

I Learned Something Today: Crysis 2

06/17/2011
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by Cole Monroe in: Editorials

In the future, we will all be soldiers. Whether it’s fighting against each other or some robot overlords bound and determined to enslave all humankind, there will be war. In order to prepare for such a calamity we need to train ourselves in the finer arts of high tech fighting. I’m already well on my way to being the leader of men thanks to the lessons I learned from Crysis 2. The Lessons of Crysis 2 When invisibility is an option, take [...]