Blood: Fresh Supply™
Of the holy trinity of Build Engine games BLOOD is arguably the best one!
TL;DR: BLOOD is fast, intricatly designed, extremely fun to play, and also really hard. The Level Design is great and the maps flow into each other seamlessly. The Enemy Design is perfect, each enemy type is distinguishable and requires a different approach, which leads to an infinite amount of possible and engaging encounters. I recommend this game to anyone with an ounce of appreciation for FPS games.
BLOOD is my favourite FPS game of the 90s and one of my favourite video games in general. It may not be as influential as Doom or Quake, but it has a special place in my heart due to its charm.
– Real player with 52.2 hrs in game
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I genuinely enjoyed this 90s shooter more than i enjoyed Doom Eternal this year. ‘Nuff said.
– Real player with 46.0 hrs in game
Painkiller: Black Edition
Painkiller Leaderboard:
1.Painkiller : Black Edition (10/10)
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The one who started the whole series, he is recognized for his old school fps and it is still fun to play it right now.
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Pros: All.
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Cons: null.
2.Painkiller : Hell & Damnation (9/10)
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A remake to the original Painkiller made by Farm 51 including a variety of new features like : new weapons, new gamemodes, new level design, new levels etc.
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Pros: New weapons, new gamemodes, new level design, new levels, new monsters, new mechanics etc.
– Real player with 439.4 hrs in game
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Painkiller is an PC designed Action FPS game where you take the role of Daniel, a person who goes to purgatory after an car accident. Daniel must fight his way if he wants to get to heaven since the hell’s warriors are attempting to take Daniel into hell. What you heard, is also what Painkiller is all about, killing.
You will be mauling down hordes of hundreds of different enemies in different location ranging from Icy Bridge to Abandoned Mansion with loonies in it to Trophical Palaces of Persian regions or midevil times Castles and soforth.. Modernday set Harbour Docks. Almost all of these maps feature completely new set of enemies, so there is quite alot of enemy variety.
– Real player with 62.4 hrs in game
Duke Nukem 3D: 20th Anniversary World Tour
This port of Duke Nukem 3D is like rereleasing a classic movie like Casablanca on a 240p resolution. It ruins the smooth, crisp movement of Duke, makes a 25-year old game lag from vsync and ambient occlusion, and replaces the expansion packs from the Megaton Edition with a fourth episode. The best way to play this port is not to, but to install eDuke or BuildGDX and play Duke Nukem 3D that way. While you install them, be sure to install the expansion packs and play them on said ports.
Bring back the Megaton Edition.
– Real player with 24.6 hrs in game
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Protozoid fear is a real thing
– Real player with 14.7 hrs in game
Kingpin — Life of Crime
(1000+ hours now!)
I have played this game for over 500 hours since Spring 2019 now and I can honestly say it is better than any other game I have played. The amount of enjoyment I managed to get out of the singleplayer campaign, multiplayer deathmatch and mapping is eye watering
Everything that made me sink so much time into this fucking masterpiece of a video game:
The singleplayer campaign took me a couple of attempts to get into but once you recognise all of its quirks and the ways it works differently to other first person shooters you’ll be in for a mofoing ride - Kingpin’s grungy urban environments carry this oppressive atmosphere that no other game in the FPS genre does. The game doesn’t hold your hand, which at first may lead to a frustrating experience in Skidrow but you only need to talk to crucial NPC’s to learn about objectives and information about the area. Skidrow has the best usage of open level design with many things to do; a good number of later areas are simplified and linear in design but still feature elements from Skidrow in some capacity.
– Real player with 1183.9 hrs in game
My review is divided between 2 sections (past and present), to give the game a fair score
Perspective of 1999 Review:
There is a large and vast library of first-person shooters for the PC on the market. This is a well-known fact, and with the emergence of groundbreaking 3D accelerators and blazing processors, the abilities to create more than “just a Doom clone” is more plausible than ever. Although a game can bust out some sci-fi elements or a tactical military background, it takes an ambitious team to create something different from the pack. Kingpin: Life of Crime is a prime example, with a setting that is quite literally “in a past that never crossed paths with the future” (also known as retrofuturism).
– Real player with 62.2 hrs in game
Mad Sector
This game took me on an existential journey like no game before it. It helped me understand who I am as a man, and what my purpose on this planet is. Pick up this game if you are looking for a transformative experience that will give you new insights into the inner workings of humanity. Truly a marvel.
– Real player with 9.6 hrs in game
Nice little retro-style shooter.
You progress through levels by finding a key and bringing it somewhere else, usually on the other side of the map. You get to shoot a lot of monsters on the way. There’s a nice variety of weapons.
This game is nothing deep or revolutional, but it’s fun for a few hours.
– Real player with 5.9 hrs in game
Shadow Warrior Classic (1997)
if youre new into this click F5 and thank me later..
now this game if getting used to it aged really well.
like the graphics actually doesnt hurt your eyes…
shooting is on point, and the weapon choise is just awesome.
Ive played it twice on I have no fear I think and who want some wang..
which is bearly easy and medium I think… and no pain no gain is hard?… I have no idea, the only thing Im sure of ive finished the game on the second hardest difficulty WHO WANTS SOME WANG
and its a really, really good challenge… I wont say its really hard especially if you put auto aim..
– Real player with 21.4 hrs in game
Shadow Warrior Classic is the original game which drew people into the crazy world of Lo Wang, the protaganist and comedic mass-murdering machine of this series.
Pros:
-Gameplay is fun and exciting. Plays a lot like Duke Nukem 3D, which is not a bad thing. You have access to a reasonable variety of weapons to slice and murder your way through the game.
-Graphics is exactly what you’d expect from a 1997 game, but is great to experience if you enjoy retrogaming.
-It’s hard, like really hard. And will definitely keep you on your toes throughout your play of it.
– Real player with 9.6 hrs in game
Turok 2: Seeds of Evil
When i think back to my childhood, My mind instantly goes back to what i consider to be my nostalgia days.
Games like DOOM, Timesplitters Duke Nukem, basically raised me as a young lad.
But if theres a game that i have a raging hard on for other than Doom, its Turok 2 Seeds Of Evil a game that for the longest time was nearly impossible for me to get my hands on.
After legally obtaining it and totally not torrenting it, the original pc port was finally mine and it was time to experience one of the games i grew up with as an adult.
– Real player with 353.1 hrs in game
When I played Turok: Dinosaur Hunter a few years ago I was impressed with Night Dive Studios’ ability to remaster classics from the past. The remastered game inspired me to buy Turok 2: Seeds of Evil. I didn’t play either game when they were released in the 1990s, so I wanted to experience both games. When I saw screenshots and videos of Turok 2 from 1998 I thought that the graphics were too blocky, and the lighting was murky. I can say that the remastered Turok 2 significantly improves on the graphics and the gameplay is quite intense.
– Real player with 86.0 hrs in game
DOOM 64
Like most people, I passed on Doom 64 back in 1997 and assumed it was yet another port of the PC version.
Nope! This is a totally different game, and it’s now considered to be the canonical sequel to Doom 2 and the prequel to Doom 2016.
Doom 64 goes for a more unsettling style of horror, with creepy ambient music and a colorful gothic atmosphere. It does a good job of putting you on edge and creating a sense of dread.
The level designs are elaborate and labyrinthian, and very much in the spirit of the original Doom games. They’re a joy to explore, but some people will be put off by the game’s ample use of switches and trigger events, which are sometimes unclear and can slow down gameplay.
– Real player with 12.9 hrs in game
Never played the original on N64 and was worried it would feel like a cheap knockoff, but it feels like a real followup to Doom 2. Feels just like old-school DOOM with the graphics and sound polished up.
– Real player with 11.5 hrs in game
DOOM II
What I liked:
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Amazing modding community
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Fast paced, pick up and play with secrets for those that search
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Gameplay that may seem simple, but offer great challenge and variety that feels badass too
What You Need to Know:
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Like Doom, this game needs to be modded to play for anyone that is used to mouse and keyboard controls. Otherwise aiming with keyboard and no looking around will turn you off from the game.
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With mods like project brutality,brutal doom, doom 64, brutal “insert old fps game” mods are all really great and offer tons of variety and fun, along with tons of maps and you can never run short of mods to play
– Real player with 80.5 hrs in game
Should YOU play DooM 2?
First off you’re expected to be a 90s guy.
-You’re expected to be a filthy masochist. You’re punished for things that aren’t really your fault.
-You’re expected to not have learned controls of such a game. VERY SIMPLE CONTROLS
-You’re expected to be playing your first fps game ever and be amazed by everything.
-You’re expected to like the 90s aesthetic, so American exaggerations over realism.
-You’re expected to replay this. The second play through is more fun than the first.
– Real player with 32.1 hrs in game
Carmageddon Max Pack
Carmageddon is an amazing, unique game and one of my all-time favourites. For that alone, I have to recommend it. That being said, the version being offered here is frankly quite terrible.
You get to choose between software mode and 3dfx mode. Software mode is visually outdated even by 1997 standards, so most people will play the 3dfx version. Both options run in DOSBox - and while I think there are good DOSBox ports out there, this is not one of them. The menus and cinematics tend to be completely broken. With some config modifications, you can get the 3dfx version to run in a decent resolution (and without stretching) and improve the terrible sprite pop-in, but I’ve been unable to fix the framerate in any way - and it is awful. These are “only” technical issues, but they’re serious enough that I can’t honestly recommend playing this specific version of the game.
– Real player with 48.5 hrs in game
Intro
The original Carmageddon is nothing short of a blast to play. However, the Steam port is absolute dogshit. The game only runs with DOSBox and if you choose to play with NGlide, no matter the resolution or graphical detail, you will
not be getting a solid 60fps with drops down to even 20fps regularly. I have a GTX1060 and an i5 4460 and it doesn’t matter. It runs like trash. I would only recommend this on Steam if you don’t mind very low framerates or don’t
care about using DOSBox. It’s unfortunate that Stainless hasn’t decided to update the compatibility because if they did I could easily wholeheartedly recommend this fantastic game.
– Real player with 36.0 hrs in game