« Stop the presses! | Main | The Top Five or Ten Best Games that are Awesome - Number Two »
» February 23, 2006
The Top Five or Ten Best Games that are Awesome - Number One
Before we start off this video game list, I’d like to mention that these games are in no particular order. Trying to order them is very difficult, and if they’re all good, then who really cares?
The first game I’m going to talk about here is also the most recent one I’ve bought: Timesplitters: Future Perfect. While the genre of console first person shooters has come a long, long way since Wolfenstein 3D was on the Jaguar, it still ran into dead ends and problems aplenty for years after. Games like Hexen and Doom had many translation problems from pc to console, which killed the replay value of almost all of them. Even one of the most celebrated FPS’s, Halo 2, had quite a few problems. But then came Timesplitters: FP, the third in a series of games from the folks who made Goldeneye (or so I’ve been told.) Timesplitters 2 was okay, nothing fancy, but obviously paved the way for this fantastic shooter. T:FP has every fucking thing you could ever want in a shooter: multiplayer bots, co-op story and arcade modes, time travel, bizarre and silly humor, lots of guns, one hundred and fifty playable characters, and a plot that goes all over the place. Really, I can’t find a thing about this game that I don’t like. Curling monkeys? Blasting butchered cow carcasses come to life in a kitchen after decapitating the zombie cook? Hot animated chicks with plenty of sexual innuendo? Driving an old-school Warthog while the guy on the machine gun is fucking shit up? Teaming up with yourself from the past to kick ass? A level on a speeding train just like in Blood? Robots that leave you fubar’d pretty damn hard? Oh man.
The story focuses around Sergeant Cortez, back from the fuck-up in Timesplitters 2, and on a mission to remove the evil Timesplitter race from existence, thus ending the war between the race and the humans, which has escalated to a near Starship Troopers-like level. He has to travel to key points in the past, chasing the diabolical genius in charge of the wrong-doing, Jacob Crow. What really gets me going is the drastic change of scenery in between the levels. First off, you get a futuristic desert war level, then a 1940’s evil lair on an island, then a 1960’s evil lair in a military base, then a zombie-infested mansion, and so on. The missions are great and the specific character you get paired with on each one adds great personality to each mission. Great shit.
So why did I pick this game that I just bought for one of the top five or ten best games ever? Because it’s just so fun without being annoying at all. It has everything that I ever wanted in a game of this genre with none of the bullshit you get in any other game. Great. Well, I’m going to go play it now.
Thanks for signing in, . Now you can comment. (sign out)
(If you haven't left a comment here before, you may need to be approved by the site owner before your comment will appear. Until then, it won't appear on the entry. Thanks for waiting.)