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First-person shooters

  • Star Wars: Tales from the Galaxy's Edge2 minStar Wars: Tales from the Galaxy's Edge arrived on the 19th of November, 2020, built for Oculus Quest headsets. ILMxLab designed the game's graphics. Players stepped into the role of a droid mechanic on the planet Batuu, caught between…
  • Quake (video game)11 minQuake is a 1996 first-person shooter from id Software, and on the day it launched, only one member of the entire development team came into the office to upload the files. That person was John Romero, who had fought harder than anyone to…
  • Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood9 minCall of Juarez: Bound in Blood opens in August 1864, with two Confederate sergeants choosing family over duty in the final months of the Civil War. Ray and Thomas McCall abandon their post near the Chattahoochee River, defying Colonel…
  • Star Wars: Dark Forces5 minIn September 1993, Daron Stinnett began writing code for a game engine that would change how players saw the Star Wars universe. The team at LucasArts needed to build something new because existing technology could not handle verticality…
  • Doom (1993 video game)12 minDoom, released on the 10th of December 1993, crashed a university's network before most people had even heard of it. At midnight, after thirty straight hours of testing, the five-person team at id Software uploaded the first episode to an…
  • Dementium: The Ward6 minDementium: The Ward dropped on Halloween 2007, the last day of October, and the timing was no accident. A survival horror game for the Nintendo DS, it placed players inside an abandoned hospital crawling with creatures they had no name…
  • Star Wars Battlefront (2015 video game)8 minStar Wars Battlefront, released in November 2015, arrived as one of the most anticipated games in the history of the franchise. More than nine and a half million players participated in its open beta alone, making it the largest beta…
  • Darkest of Days7 minDarkest of Days drops the player into one of the most desperate last stands in American military history: the Battle of Little Big Horn, where General Custer's battalion is being wiped out. The soldier at the center of the story, Alexander…
  • The History Channel: Civil War – A Nation Divided3 minCauldron HQ began work on a historical shooter set during the American Civil War in 2006. Activision Value partnered with The History Channel to publish the title for three platforms. Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 2, and Xbox 360 received…
  • Star Wars Battlefront II (2017 video game)17 minStar Wars Battlefront II arrived in 2017, the fourth mainline entry in the Battlefront series and a sequel to DICE's 2015 reboot of the franchise. It promised more content than that predecessor. The singleplayer campaign followed an…
  • Daikatana12 minDaikatana arrived in May 2000 with the weight of years of broken promises behind it. A first-person shooter from Ion Storm, it had been announced in 1997 as the triumphant solo debut of John Romero, the man who co-created Wolfenstein 3D,…

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