I was never really into the shooter scene until recently. I’ve taken notice to the fair number of them coming out of the last two or three years. Yeah, there are a lot of shooters before now, but it just feels like we’re overwhelmed with them, huh? No worries, I’ll give you the low-down on what to get from now and then.

Duke Nukem 3D

If you’ve ever played a Duke Nukem game, you’d know why I’m recommending it. The games are pretty damn good. You play as the lovable Duke, who returns from fighting aliens to find his lovable planet turned into a not so lovable wasteland. You gotta shoot the aliens up, saves the babes, watch the porn, drink the brews. The game has an amazing sense of humor, quoting movies like Dirty Harry and Duke’s phrases. If anything, pick this one up for the laughs. It’s originally on the PC where it has a ton of expansions, and it was on the PS1, N64 and a few other consoles under different names.

Halo: Custom Edition

That’s right, I said it. This is a PC only game of awesome proportions, mostly because it’s customizable. There are Zelda mods, a Metroid Prime mod in the making, and in all actuality, Halo has good multiplayer anyway. If you have an old Halo: Combat Evolved CD(Or .exe, I won’t tell…), find the download.

The Orange Box

Alright, alright… This isn’t just one game… It’s five. Five REALLY good games. If you don’t have this, go get it now.

Like, RIGHT now.

This box contains the most complete Half-Life 2 collection to date, Portal, and Team Fortress 2. And for $50, probably less since it’s been out well over a year, that’s just  a plain rip-off.Half-Life 2 and it’s Episodes are awe-inspiring shooters telling how Dr. Gordan Freeman is attempting to save and rebuild the world after the hostile take over of the Combine. Portal is a puzzle shooter where you use, you guessed it, portals to move things and yourself around a closed environment to hit switches and such. Team Fortress 2 is the sequel to Team Fortress Classic, an online only team based shooter. Nine classes give you a roster of near endless possibilities for support, defense and offense.

Here’s one thing though: PLAYING AS ONLY A SNIPER ON 2FORT ISN’T COOL, DON’T DO IT. EVER.

Resident Evil 4

Alright, whoever marketed this game as horror is a damn idiot. It’s got a scary setting, but the action is happening so fast you won’t have time to be scared. Except for a few parts.

You play as Leon Kennedy, a sarcastic badass sent from the U.S. to find the president’s daugter, Ashley.

You get an over the shoulder view on this one. It fits the game well. You got your guns and you got a deadly knife. The inventory really gives it a little more of a survival feel, even if the merchant sells you a bigger one. Anyway, so you’re in Spain, killing insane infected Spaniards and they catch you and Ashley and load you full of them, too. Fun stuff! You now not only need to escape, but find the antidote on your way out. You’ll come across a few different kind of angry Spaniard from Farmer, to Cult Member to Crazy Mohawk Biker with Machine Gun. Most of the game, you have to protect the president’s daughter from being killed or taken away, sometimes a bother, but nothing too serious. The game has lots of cool things to get for beating it a number of times, like a mobster-type getup for Leon and a suit of armor for Ashley that makes that part where you snipe the cuff off of her SOOOO much easier. Anyway, this baby here is for the Gamecube, PS2, PC and Wii… I’d recommend the Wii version, myself. Easy controls, and the best graphics you can get for it.

Bioshock

This game is pretty damn sweet. You have some Irish guy talking to you the entire game, and you re-write your DNA via magic vials.

Now, when I first played this game it was at a party and I couldn’t tell what the guy was sayings, but I know he was telling you to do stuff… But when you get to the first Plasmid and inject it into yourself, he doesn’t tell you to do it. Anyway, you’re in an Atlantis kind of place, only instead of a thriving utopia… You have a dump. Mr. Ireland tells you you have to either rescue or harvest all these children called “Little Sisters”. However, each one is guarded by a Big Daddy, a large brute in an old fashioned scuba suit with hooks/drills/pain for arms and such. I have to admit, for as tough as they look, they’re pretty easy to take out. Anyway, you harvest or rescure these Little Sisters, get more genetic code magic so you can do new things, some guns, a wrench and an underwater world. This game is longer than Dead Space, but still a little short, but I guess that’s because all I did was play it till I beat it. This one’s a keeper, good story, good gameplay, good graphics, good setting… What’s to go wrong?

Welp, that’s all for shooters for today. I’m giving you enough games for a long time every time anyway. Hoho.

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Till next time!

Jumpluff~

Written for GIANT ENEMY BLOG