Game of the Year 2009: First Person Shooter
30 Dec, 2009, 3:58 pm IST | by Avinash Bali
Shooters that blew us away this year.
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And the nominees are: Left 4 Dead 2 Improving on the original in many ways while retaining the core gameplay that made the first one such a blast, Left 4 Dead 2 was a wild ride through yet another zombie apocalypse. It packed in tons of new stuff like an all new set of characters, new weapons, melee weapons and harrowing new (and not to mention annoying) infected. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Unless you’ve spent the last month inside a nuclear bunker you know what this game is about and the massive amount of controversy it generated. Still it delivered at the end of the day with a solid single player campaign and an ‘addictive as crack’ multiplayer mode. Borderlands Borderlands treads the fine line between shooter and RPG with entertaining results. The game allowed you and three of your friends to embark on a loot-hunting fueled journey through the treacherous planet of Pandora (not the same as the one from Avatar) as you strived to unravel the alien treasure hidden deep inside an area known only as “The Vault”. Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood I enjoy a good Western shooter and Call of Juarez: BiB was just that. It improved on the first game significantly axing the annoying stealth segments for all out balls to walls gunplay as two renegade brothers on the run from the law. It was a solid package boasting of terrific voice acting, tight gameplay and gorgeous visuals. Killzone 2 Killzone 2 was one of the titles that could have buckled under the monumental hype it carried on its shoulders. But it didn’t and provided us with a solid shooting experience this year. Not only was it one of the best looking games out there (up until Uncharted 2 stole that title) but it offered players a lengthy and entertaining single player campaign and intense squad based multiplayer action. And the winner is: Killzone 2 Honestly speaking I was going to go with Modern Warfare 2 but then I got thinking of all the stuff Infinity Ward have pulled off even though God knows how much I love this game. A short single player campaign that wasn’t as epic as Modern Warfare 2, no dedicated server support and the insane pricing are some of the things that shaved off some brownie points. On the other hand Guerilla Games delivered a superb shooter without all those issues and that’s a pretty sweet feat in itself considering the amount of hype riding on this game. Sure I didn’t like the control scheme all that much but the game delivered on every other aspect be it visuals, a visceral single player campaign and addictive multiplayer. |
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