Everything published under this tag, newest first.
Return to Castle Wolfenstein was sold as a single-player game about an occult research programme, zombies in a crypt, and a man with a Thompson.
There is no crosshair. That is the first thing anyone notices and it is not a stylistic choice — it is the foundation the entire game is built on.
Your first death in Red Orchestra 2 will teach you nothing, because you will not see what killed you. No kill camera, no arrow, no outline on the shooter.
A multiplayer-only game with nobody playing it is a folder on a hard drive, and no guide can change that. Ravaged is a multiplayer-only game.
The person beating you 25 to 4 in a Quake duel is probably not out-aiming you. They are standing where the red armour will appear, counting the seconds.
Good Quake III players do not shoot at people. They shoot at the floor beside them, because a rocket aimed where you will be beats one aimed where you are.
Buy Quake II, install it, run it, and the first thing you will notice is that it is a 1997 game behaving exactly like a 1997 game.
Nobody plays Quake online with the executable id Software shipped in 1996, and the reason is a piece of software history that most games never had.
About a third of the way through Quake 4 you are captured, strapped to a conveyor belt and fed into the machine that turns prisoners into Strogg.
The game tells you how it ends before you take a step: "This is how you died." Not if. Your character has a fixed destination, and only the route is open.
In most survival games you walk to a new biome. In Nightingale you specify one. There is a portal, and the portal has slots in it.
About five minutes into your first Natural Selection round, a health pack drops out of the ceiling and lands at your feet. Nobody threw it.
