wide·screen gam·ing fo·rum (wsgf):
[-noun] Web community dedicated to ensuring PC games run properly on your tablet, netbook, personal computer, HDTV and multi-monitor gaming rig.
Submitted by Paddy the Wak on 1 August, 2006 - 02:51
F.E.A.R.(First Encounter Assault Recon) is a first person shooter from Monolith Productions. In F.E.A.R., you are a member of an elite special forces team dedicated to combating paranormal threats. A mysterious army of clone soldiers infiltrate a multi-billion dollar aerospace compound, and you are sent in to investigate and eliminate the leader of the clone army, Paxton Fettel, before the situation spirals out of control.
SWAT 3 is a tactical shooter from Sierra. You play as the leader of a 5-man SWAT team in LA, where a major step towards world peace is being taken in the form of a nuclear disarmament treaty. But there are domestic and international terrorists who would try to disrupt this event. Your job is to respond to incidents as they pop up for seven days, and hopefully ensure that the treaty signing goes smoothly. Police rules emphasize disarming and restraining suspects whenever possible, as opposed to shooting everything that looks like a bad guy.
You are John Blade, commander of HardCorps, an elite security force dedicated to protecting the people of Freeport City. Four years have passed since your first battle with Elexis Sinclaire, a beautiful, brilliant, and ruthless scientist who is out to remake humanity according to her own twisted vision. The law has failed to bring Elexis and her multi-billion dollar empire, SiNTEK, to justice, so Blade is determined to take matters into his own hands.
MDK2 is a shooter from Bioware and Interplay, and the sequel to the classic shooter MDK from 1997. Kurt Hectic, a futuristic commando with a stealth suit and sniper helmet, returns to do battle with malevolent aliens once again. New to the series are playable characters Max, a six-legged dog who can wield four weapons and fly with a jetpack, and Dr. Hawkins, a mad scientist who must gather pieces of junk and combine them MacGuyver-style to create weapons.
Psychonauts is an action game from Double Fine Productions and Majesco, with design by Tim Schafer, famed designer of Full Throttle and Grim Fandango. You play Raz, a kid attending a summer camp, where students are trained to harness their pyschic powers for combat and intelligence purposes. You must develop your own mental abilities through mental training, and use your abilities to solve a kidnapping case in the summer camp.
Midtown Madness 2 is a racing game from Rockstar and Microsoft, with physics model that manages to be simple without being totally unrealistic. The game features detailed models of London and San Fransisco with adjustable traffic and pedestrian density, a large variety of motorized vehicles ranging from Mini-Coopers to Greyhounds, and plenty of gameplay modes including racing, free-roaming, missions, stunts, and taxi driving.
Worms: Armageddon is a turn-based strategy game from Team 17 and MicroProse. You command a squad of worms and must take out one or more opposing squads using an array of heavy weaponry ranging from bazookas and grenades to nukes and doomsday devices.
Serious Sam is an FPS from Croteam and Gathering of Developers. You play as Sam "Serious" Stone, and do battle with thousands of alien nasties throughout various historical set-pieces, using an array of diverse and enormous weapons.
Total Annihilation is a sci-fi themed RTS from Cavedog and GT Interactive. You play as the commander of either the Arm or Core, and fight the other side in an intergalactic war with high tech weapons like giant robots and plasma cannons.