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 Mach1.9pants on 11 August, 2007 - 02:46
S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl is a first-person shooter video game by the Ukrainian developer GSC Game World, published in 2007. It features an alternate reality theme, where a second nuclear disaster occurs at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant Exclusion Zone in the near future and causes strange changes in the area around it. The game has a non-linear storyline and features gameplay elements such as trading and two-way communication with NPCs. The game includes elements of role-playing and business simulation games.
Turok: Evolution is a prequel that takes us back to the origins of the Turok lineage. In the beginning of the game, we see our hero, Tal'Set, fighting his nemesis Captain Tobias Bruckner in 1886 Texas. During the battle, a rift between their world and the Lost Lands opens and Tal'Set is sucked into it. Tal'Set, injured and near death, is nursed back to health by the natives of the River Village, a colony in hiding from the Lost Land's greatest threat: the Lord Tyrannus and his reptilian hordes. Tal'Set becomes a reluctant participant in the brutal war that is raging in the Lost Land.
Wolfenstein 3D is a seminal first-person shooter game first released in 1992, pitting the player, a captured American spy, against a horde of WWII-era Nazis ensconced within Castle Wolfenstein. It is widely regarded by critics and game journalists as having helped popularize the genre on the PC, and having established the basic run-and-gun archetype for subsequent FPS games.
Spear of Destiny, often also called Spear, Wolfenstein 3D: Spear of Destiny or just SoD, is a 1992 first-person shooter computer game developed by id Software and published by FormGen Corporation, and is the prequel to id Software's Wolfenstein 3D. As in Wolfenstein 3D, the player assumes the role of allied spy William "B.J." Blazkowicz, on a mission trying to recapture the Spear of Destiny from the Nazis after it was stolen from Versailles.
You Are Empty is a first-person action game, that offers players an alternative approach to the history of USSR. In the late fifties of the XX century, leading Soviet scientists start experiments that alter human physiology and mentality in order to create super humans capable of building a bright future for communism all over the world. But tampering with the universes' toolbox is not without consequence. As a result, the experiments break free of their creators and go on a rampage throughout the city.
After a series of cataclysmic events, the planet is now dominated by a massive corporate superpower known as the LIMBO corporation. Limbo's sole purpose is to advance technology in bold new ways, regardless of the human cost. This pursuit of technology led LIMBO to maintain control over what remains of the human race through the development of an advanced army of super-powered soldiers, some of which possess a new kind of telekinetic ability that LIMBO calls PSI powers.In the game you battle on both sides of the war, the LIMBO corporation and the human resistance known as GUARD.
Submitted by Paddy the Wak on 23 April, 2007 - 02:56
Somewhere in deep space, at an apparently abandoned mining base on the asteriod Alpha Prime, something has gone terribly wrong. Miners were warned that the hubbardium they were mining was too dangerous, but the lure of unimaginable wealth was too strong. Now, something has happened to them and it's up to you to save them and face an unknown threat.
Equipped with a surplus of advanced weapons and devices--including a variety of robots and manipulators, surveillance cameras and security systems that can be hacked, controlled and used to complete your task--your mission is simple: Get in, get 'em, and get out!
Prey is a sci-fi themed FPS from Human Head Studios and 2K Games. You play as Tommy, a garage mechanic living in a Cherokee reservation in Oklahoma. You have been abducted by aliens, and must fight your way through their massive ship, using alien weapons as well as spiritual Cherokee powers.
Submitted by Paddy the Wak on 21 April, 2007 - 02:58
Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter (GRAW) is an FPS based in the world of Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon. The "Ghost Recon" team is an anti-terrorist team. In this installment the player takes the role of Captain Scott Michael, and leads efforts to protect the US & Mexican Presidents (among other missions).It'shows you the future of military science, today. In 2013, the U.S. Army will implement the Integrated Warfighter System -- combining advanced weapon systems, satellite Communication devices and enhanced survivability into one fully integrated combat system.