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Most memorable shooter screens ever

Which screenshots were the most memorable in the genre of shooter PC games so far? PCGH made a personal collection of pictures from games like Crysis, Max Payne 2 and Doom 3 which in their opinion were legendary at that time.

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Stuart57565112d ago

Some good memories there, nice piece of nostalgia, thanks.

Projekt7tuning5112d ago

I got all teary eyed. The Unreal 1 shots got to me. When that game came out in 97-98 it was the Crysis of the day. I had a rev A imac at the time, the Bondi blue one. It had a special port inside of it that you could add a special WizardWorks 3dfx Voodoo 2. The 1st imac came with a 2meg ATI rage card. LOL I had to buy 4 megs more of video memory. The Voodoo2 card was the sh!t. Quake 1 and 2 looked so good in Glide, but damn, Unreal 1, 2, and Unreal Tournament Wow!
Then Quake 3 Arena. My Voodoo 2 had some trouble maxing that game at 1024x768 with trilinear filtering, so had to back it down to 800x600.
By 2000-2001 I had a duel processor G4 500 power mac. That one came with a 16 meg Ati 128 rage pro in its AGP slot. I drop kicked that and put in the first Radeon card with like 32 megs of ddr ram. the power mac had a whopping 768 megs of ram, and back then when I was doing video editing and design work, that was a lot of ram. When I got that power mac, Daytona beach just got Broadband internet. I was in Heaven with my cable internet running at a staggering 1.5mbit. I just went to the new 50mbit lightning Doscis 3.0 form 22mbit. Funny thing is I still pay the exact same price I did in 2000. With my G4, Radeon, 19in Sony CPD E400 monitor, and cable connection I was kicking everyone's ass in Unreal tournament, and Quake 3 Arena.
Before Unreal came out, I remember the cover of a magazine called Next Gen had a screen shot of Unreal on it. The best part was the magazine said "actual screen shot". That magazine went belly up, but im pretty sure they became the official Dreamcast magazine, then Xbox mag. Dont quote me on that but it had the same writers and art style. Maybe someone could verify that for me. Anyway those screens brought back a lot of good memories. But they also kind of made me sad because they make me realize how old im getting. :(

vhero5112d ago

Duke nukem forever?? Seriously?? A pic from a game that never existed?? Plus they lost all credibility by adding the shot from COD4 and 6.

ProjectVulcan5112d ago (Edited 5112d ago )

Ahhhhh....but which impressed you the most first time you saw it? Doom 3 for me was gobsmacking. That shot is etched into my memory, first seen in 2003 remember- it was a quantum visual leap at the time. A year later, far cry 1.4 HDR on a 6800 ultra (gotta remember that) was astounding too

What Would Kratos Do5112d ago

I've played all of them.

and I've just woken up to the fact that i'm a geek.

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Can You Run Crysis In VR? You Can, Thanks To A New Mod

A Crysis VR mod is now available for download, allowing users to experience the first entry in the series in VR

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Rynxie383d ago (Edited 383d ago )

No one cares. The whole can it run Crysis is old, dead and stupid. It's also irrelevant, considering only less than one percent of pc owners, own a high-end PC. Second, I believe Crysis wasn't even optimized properly.

TheColbertinator383d ago

Crysis blew my mind back then and still kinda does.

bunt-custardly383d ago

Let's hope the modders can get the other Crysis games working in VR as they use the same Cryengine.

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10 Old Games With Outstanding Graphics

GF365: "There are some games with extraordinary visuals that impress us to this day. Here are old games with outstanding graphics."

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ShwaaMan455d ago

Bioshock still looks fantastic, one of my all time favorites.

Yui_Suzumiya455d ago

Beyond: Two Souls on PS3 can compete with modern day graphics.

SonyStyled455d ago (Edited 455d ago )

Same as Killzone 2 and 3, uncharted 2 and 3, Infamous 2, Heavy Rain, Resistance 3

jasonismoney454d ago

I wish this was entirely true, but you might want to load up Killzone 2 and Resistance 3 again.

SonyStyled454d ago

@jason I watched some gameplay videos of KZ2 and R3 on my full screen. They are on par or succeed graphically to the first person shooters mentioned in the article that also launched on the seventh generation of consoles. Try the same and see what you think

cthulhucultist454d ago

Killzone 3 was super impressive! I could not believe the graphics back then as I was regularly pausing the game to stand in awe looking at the surroundings! Resistance however did not impress me that much. Heavy rain is also another amazing graphically speaking game. It almost felt next gen

Fist4achin455d ago

I always thought the first 3 Gears of War games looked great and still hold up for today.

SonyStyled455d ago

They did for their day. I recently played gears judgement with on the 360 and the draw distance was so blurry. The characters up close look great though

JEECE454d ago

Far Cry 2 was awesome. In addition to having demonstrably better physics and AI than later games in the series, it had a lot of design decisions that, criticized at the time, have since been praised in games like BOTW and Dark Souls.

iNcRiMiNaTi454d ago

It might not be super amazing by today's standard but I thought Mgs3 looked really good

JEECE454d ago

In terms of art style it still holds up.

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Ten best games from the 2000s you may have missed

The 2000s was a great decade for a lot of brilliant video games. Here are the ten best games of the 2000s that you may not have played.

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isarai490d ago

You know usually when someone says "you may have missed" it's games that were lesser known, hidden gems, underrated games. These are all super high profile games that sold extremely well.

FPS_D3TH489d ago (Edited 489d ago )

You know the 2000s is 20 years ago too? Maybe, just maybe this wasn’t an article targeted to 30+ gamers? Still says at the very beginning of the title “THE BEST GAMES you may have missed”. Regardless of how well they sold there’s tons of gamers who haven’t touched these older well known games lol.

Welshy489d ago (Edited 489d ago )

It's games you "may have missed", insinuating you were around and gaming in the 2000's and were there to miss them. If it was aimed at everyone else then they missed literally everything, not just the top games.

The original commenter is right, this is a badly written article at best pointless at worst.

Crows90489d ago

Besides only being able to miss it if you were around during that time..if your point stands then this is a horrible list. Tons of better games people may have missed

XxINFERNUSxX489d ago

I would like the original max payne remade in a new engine with ray tracing. 😊

FPS_D3TH489d ago

Remedy games already working on that and I’m so stoked for it

XxINFERNUSxX489d ago

Oh yeah thanks for reminding me I totally forgot they were doing it. Also what the hell happened to Kingpin: Reloaded? On Steam coming soon and nohting from the dev.

MadLad489d ago

Yeah, I was just going to say. It's interesting seeing them back behind the series. Max Payne 3 was amazing, but then Rockstar just sat on the IP.
Well, they sit on virtually anything that isn't GTA and Red Dead now.

porkChop489d ago

What is this list? These are all hugely popular games. I was expecting games like Dark Messiah of Might & Magic, Advent Rising, Arx Fatalis, etc.

FPS_D3TH489d ago

the title didn’t say lesser known titles from the 2000s. This is 20 years ago now lol. Big assumption this list was made for older gamers.

Dirty_Lemons488d ago

That makes me feel so old.

Inverno489d ago

I've only played 3 on that list. Part of me feels bad about how little I used all the consoles I've owned as a kid. One bright side is, there's over 30 years of games to experience for the first time.

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