Guardian Unlimited writes: Another day another first person shooter, but Turning Point looks a little different. Influenced by the book "What If" by Robert Cowley, Turning Point is set in an alternate 1953 where the Nazi's have invaded the US after previously conquering Europe and the Soviet Union. No space marines comparing muscle tone here then. I recently spoke about the game with David Brickley, executive producer at Codemasters.
Q: The Xbox 360 is chock full of shooters - how do you make yours stand out from a genre dominated by heavyweights like Halo and Call of Duty?
A: I think FPS has moved beyond being thought of as a single genre - Halo is Sci Fi, CoD has gone modern and so is up against the Tom Clancy titles now. Not every shooter fan plays every type of shooter because there are elements of each that may turn people off. With Turning Point: Fall of Liberty, you have a team that's had experience going all the way back to the PS1 of making WWII FPS now taking that detailed knowledge to imagine an authentic 'what if' scenario that, pretty amazingly really, hasn't been done before as an FPS. And whereas Halo and CoD are fantastic titles, there's an almost instinctive appeal in wanting to see New York fall, or how Washington DC could have become a ghetto, that neither they nor anyone else can offer.
It’s time to wander through the Game Graveyard. A haunting, foggy location in which overlooked and forgotten video games rot under the murky surface of the earth. Unmarked tombstones litter the landscape and the tears of developers that once floated upon the air are now just dissonant wails in the distance.
Not all First Person Shooters will go do in history as a legend. What about the shooters that didn’t quite hit the mark? The hidden gems or the forgotten ‘next big thing’ which didn’t even turn out to be a small thing? Or perhaps the first-person shooter that was so damned awful that everybody tried to forget it exists?
HAZE = LMAO
Cryostasis: Sleep of Reason = This was a nice game. The water Physics, over all physics, and eye candy were TOP NOTCH thus the high system requirements. Nice pick up for those who couldn't run it on Ultra back in the day.
Project: Snowblind was a pretty awesome game that never got the love it deserved.
Oh, come on... Some of these are good. XIII, Cryostasis, and NOLF are my favorites on here. Nobody forgot NOLF though. Huge fan base for the two original titles!
But then we see Haze and Legendary. Seriously? Legendary is horrible! No gamer would say otherwise. It's just trash.
Shawn Long of GAMINGtruth.com takes a look at yet another game that had potential to be great, but just fell flat on it's face.
I remember being excited before booting up this game's demo. I had hoped, like you, that the creators would live up to the story. Sadly, it just didn't happen.
Man, when this came out, I was dying for it to be awesome!
Sadly, that wasn't the case. Great article!
