EDGE - Licensed real-world weapons, branded tomahawks, a web-based war; if this is authenticity, you can keep it, writes Nathan Brown.
Alongside death, taxes and terrible Adam Sandler movies, video game sequels are just another crushing inevitability of life. Sequels and franchises are the lifeblood of the industry, so you can bet any halfway successful game will be aiming towards at least five more follow-ups and spin-offs in pursuit of more delicious money.
Yet even major franchises tend to run themselves into the ground eventually, where they can either reboot themselves and come back stronger than ever (think the new Tomb Raider games) or stay buried in the past.
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This new Top 5 video series is starting with a bang, and quite possibly some teabagging, as I run through my favorite first-person shooters.
Halo ce
Halo 2
Halo 3
Halo 4
Halo5
Before i liked halo
007 goldeneye
Doom 2
Crysis 3
Cod WAW
MOH
Killzone 2
Turok 2
Medal of Honor
Time Splitters
007 Agent Under Fire
Bulletstorm
Old school would be Wolfenstein, Doom, Hexen, Duke Nukem, and Rise of the Triad.
More recently Half-Life 2, BioShock (original), Wolfenstein the new order, Timesplitters 2, Medal of Honour.
Some personal favourites Singularity, Resistance series, Killzone Series, Bulletstorm, Dishonored.
Duke Nukem was a side scroller on Dos
@robition Duke Nukem wasn't a FPS 'til the 3rd one, Duke Nukem 3D
Great concept(Nectar) and fun but a bit of an iffy execution and didn't live up to its promise. I finished it at launch. Shame they didn't quite get it right.
The video game industry is one based on the backs of its scholarly properties. Like movies and books, it’s a space that draws vigorously on strong sequels and innovative new thoughts. Notwithstanding, not all sequels surpass the enormity of their forerunners, and a chosen few of them check the start of the end for their →
Assassin's Creed series was ruined after Black Flag, Ubisoft made it annually game. I played Dead Space 1 and 2; were awesome but Dead Space 3 failed to make gosip. As MOH Warfighter was good game
Black Flag was the redeemer after 3. ACIV is my favorite of the series. Unity was bad, Syndicate is actually pretty good. So they are up and down. As for Dead Space, I thought the original was like Uncharted series. The first one was a great story and a little rough, but #2 was incredible through and through. Uncharted 3 is awesome, unfortunately DS3 was indeed a terrible terrible game. Warfighter was a good game, but aren't we all burned out on shooters???
That's right Assassin's Creed series had awesome games till AC Black Flag, AC III was terrible
I disagree on AC Black Flag. Black Flag was a good PIRATE game but a very mediocre AC.
I preferred Revelations over Brotherhood. AC Brotherhood had such a boring story while AC Revelations tied everything up very well for Ezio and Altair, if I was going to pick a game where it all started going downhill for me it would be AC 3 but despite that AC 1,2, Brotherhood, Revelations, 4, Rogue and Syndicate are all good games.
Lost Planet as far as I remember went like dead space with the third game (round based type play) it just felt like it was just a map clearing game with multiple horde survival. Call Of duty went and died long ago. Ghosts didn't help its cause but now we have three development houses it's going from bad to worse. GTA to me anyway was saved with five to me the driving up until then was awful. Mario and sonics died along time ago to in my eyes.
Realism going too far? Are you serious? Look at Arma! Don't even start complaining about WarFighter, having Danger Close change the name of the Taliban to Opposing Force in the original because Gold Star Mom couldn't handle it was far enough.
Call of Duty has official licensed real life logo stamped on the real life attachemnts for real life weaponary, wheres that article? Sounds like these people just hate war in general, and for what ever reason everyone likes to pick on EA when they do nothing wrong, and Medal of Honor just has realistic looking graphics, gameplay is arcade type like Call of Duty, but dont people complain about Arma, or Operation Flashpoint, and God knows what these people would think of the new game Ground Branch http://www.youtube.com/watc...
Stop looking to find any reason to write a negative article about gaming, especially popular console shooters that get no where really close to real life weapon tatics and techniques.
Also to add, no one looks at it as "which country is best at killing people" its more about the nature of competition, who can work as a better team, same concept as Fifa, its more of a sport being that its just a game, would you complain if there was PaintBalling or Airsoft in the Olympics?
To end on a positive note, I'm very excited for this game, can't wait to play it, EA seems to understand polish to even the smallest detail can make a game that much better even if you dont realize of notice the small details. :)
Is this article a joke? Like, really?
MoH: Warfighter is too realistic??? Hmm.
LOL this is pretty obvious. Weapons and military gear are all trademarked thus you need the company's permission to use their likeness in the game. No surprise they want to partner up as one of the conditions for portraying their products.