1.) BioShock
A first-person shooter game characterized by customized RPG elements and has the main objective to complete a pipe system between two key points and at the same time voiding obstacles. Morality is practiced as an aspect of the game.
The main character in this game is Jack, which is eventually taken by the player, with a task to get through Rapture, a self-sufficient fictional underwater dystopian city powered by submarine volcanoes. Jack is equipped with plasmids, giving him cunning powers such as the ability to electrocute foes and telekinesis. Stealth can be used in this game to evade security cameras as well as his foes.
Other things or resources needed in the game are ADAM, EVE and money in which ADAM acts as a mutagen that allows genetic changes. It is also used to purchase plasmids. EVE on the other hand acts as fuel for active plasmids (abilities that function as alternate weapons) and money is used as the medium to purchase items and ammos. Bots and turrets as security elements can be superseded also by using money to bribe them.
2.) Crysis
Set on a futuristic fiction when an alien spacecraft has been unearthed on an adjacent island near the coast of
Armor, strength, speed and cloak are the four capabilities of the Nano Muscle Suit which enables Nomad to run faster, absorb and heal damage, lift and throw heavy items and enemies, become invisible and can reduce noise output. First aid kits prove to be useless because of the constant regenerating health.
In addition to all of these, a wide array of vehicles is made available for the players to use. The player can select from ground vehicles like Humvees, pick up trucks and tanks, all with a turbo mode. The available naval vessels range from motorboats to light military hovercraft. Up to 32 players can be supported in each multiplayer match.
3.) Dragon Age
Developed by BioWare and published by Electronic Arts (not yet released), this game features (but not yet final) an epical open-ended storyline, cinematic story-driven single-player campaign, class-based character development, mana-based magic system, full character customization, party-based combat mode and gameplay and a cinematic 3rd person camera exploration mode .
What will affect the entire game here is the moral choices of the main character. It doesn’t matter if the choices you made is good or bad for both can still save the world but these decisions play a significant role that can change the world around you as the game prospers. It also features actions such as spells and special attacks.
4.)
This is a follow-up to Wolfenstein’s
Each team is composed of five classes, Soldier, Medic, Engineer, Field Ops and Covert Ops on the GDF side and Aggressor, Technician, Constructor, Oppressor and Infiltrator for the Strogg side respectively. Capturing of enemy territory by completing objectives is what drives this game.
5.) Half-Life 2: Episode 2
This is a continuation of H-L2 Episode one, accounting Gordon Freeman and Alyx Vance’s sojourn into White Forest, a resistance base. While being there, Alyx suffered an almost fatal injury inflicted by a Hunter. The Vortigaunt who found them eventually can heal Alyx only if Gordon must accompany it to secure a necessary larval extract from a nearby Antlion colony needed for the healing ritual. As soon as Alyx recovered, the real action then begins. The story ends showing Alyx mourning over Eli Vance’s body that was killed by a Hunter.
6.) Huxley
Another morality-based cross-platform game (XBOX 360, PC) from WebZen, the setting is futuristic and it will begin after the Nuclearites bombarded the world which will create worldwide catastrophic destructions. Earthquakes, tidal waves, drastic climate changes engulfed the land.
Survivors of this catastrophe longed for peace. Effects of the Nuclearite bombs then set it creating abnormal changes in the human appearance resulting to mutations. When these mutants developed, racism among the classes erupted.
Important elements and characters on this game were the Lunarites, a powerful energy created by Huxley, a pessimistic scientist. Sapiens, a liberal minded characters that embodied themselves as the superior class among others. Their embodiment caused the war. Alternatives, humans who can be able to have contact with the lunaritesm which make them more mutated. Weapons used in the game were, machine gun which is used by most alternative soldiers and the grenade launcher.
7.) Left 4 Dead
Game Settings
This game is divided into four scenarios and each scenario had five maps otherwise known as acts. Thismaps include hospital, cornfield, airport and a murky countryside. There were four characters that will play through and control the game. They will be fighting the infected, humans who were infected by mutated rabies. The survivors will have to defend themselves from safe house to safe house until their getaway vehicle arrives. Survivors can also opt to play as the Infected ones in which added capabilities were introduced like seeing a mobile survivor thru the wall, i.e. running, using flashlight and talking.
Automated voice commands accessible thru quick menus serves as a communication medium for the survivors. Weapons are divided into two tiers: Pump machine gun and Uzi submachine gun on the first and Benelli M4 Super 90 semi-automatic shotgun, Ruger Mini-14, M16 Rifle on the second. The rest of the game, the player carries a handgun and has an option to use a pipe bomb or a Molotov cocktail.
8.) The Lord of the Rings Online: The Shadows of Angmar
MMORPG online game based o The Lord of the Rings. An avatar character that can interact with other players is what is being controlled here. Characters could be enhanced by leveling up and is possible only after earning a specified amount of experience. Skills must be purchased from authorized NPC’s after acquiring new levels.
What’s new in character development of this game is the inclusion of Destiny Points which are rewarded after leveling and completion of quests and can temporarily increase abilities and skills.
Other enhancements to the game were Deeds, achievable by completing multiple tasks, Titles that provides means for customization of names, and Traits which includes virtue, class, racial and legendary traits.
Playable Characters include Man, Elf, Dwarf and Hobbit (Races), Burglar, Captain, Champion, Guardian, Hunter, Lore-Master, Minstrel, Warden and Rune-Keeper for Classes respectively. This game will be released on the fall of 2008.
9.) Spore
On this game, the character can be customized from the beginning by the player. The character was meant to interact and evolve up to its complex form and it emerges as a social and intelligent being. The evolution of the character is apparent in the in-game as the player continues deeper.
The game starts at a tide pool stage but the player can jump at any stage during the game. There were five stages available namely Pac-Man for the cell phase, Diablo for the creature phase, Populous for the tribal phase, Civilization phase and the final which is the Destroy All Human! phase. Each of these can be completed up to 10-15 hours of playing. This is a single-player multi-genre game.
10.) Unreal Tournament II
John Dalton will try to outsmart the highly dangerous Skaarj aliens as his primary enemies while they were trying to recover a very crucial artifact. The player controlled
The game is in a single-player mode for PC and has a multi-player mode for Xbox Live. This is a sequel for the 1998 Unreal Shooter.
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