IGN PC team comments on genre trends, makes fun of itself:
"If you look back at our review list and sort by the shooter genre (we've done it for you!), it's pretty clear 2007 is one of the, if not the best year for first-person shooters, well, ever. There've been weird hybrid releases like S.T.A.L.K.E.R., thrilling reworkings of classic games like with Team Fortress 2, and some of the best graphics the video game industry has ever seen with Unreal Tournament 3 and especially Crysis, which I don't think I'm alone in saying looks absolutely phenomenal."
Valve has finally introduced the much-needed 64-bit support in an unexpected Team Fortress 2 update after 17 years since its release.
64 bit support is not the same as a next gen upgrade. 64 bit has been used for like 12-15 years now?
MW 2019 is five years old at this point and on previous gen hardware, but it is still the best looking Call of Duty game to date.
MW was an excellent videogame. They messed up Spec Ops big time, but aside from this it was a huge step in the right direction initially. Most notably, at launch it seemed to come from a very cohesive creative vision that was felt across gameplay, to story to art style/visual direction. It was also very notably written by prominent ex-Naughty Dog guys that quit almost immediately before release.
That COMPLETELY dissolved through post-launch content and the full pivot to a "cross-mode" narrative that completely obliterated the cohesion in overall story direction. Warzone then "became" the new face of Call of Duty and the franchise completely removed itself from anything remotely creatively "good". It is a pure money machine, so I kinda get why they're doing it....but I personally completely lost interest.
I would love to see Infinity Ward move off CoD and get to make their own product with full control. They clearly have some massive talent in their ranks but it's perverted by Activision's corporate interests.
Hey Poor Player's James Davie Takes Us On A Bio-Shocking Deep Dive Into Irrational Games' Nautical Nightmare.
crysis is the best game i've played this yr second wud be cod4(which turned out to be much better than i xpected) or portal
few good ones and too many cr@ppy ones.
Halo3, COD4