Since I shut down my World of WarCraft account in 2008, I started to pay more attention to my Xbox 360 and it took me a couple of years to find games I really liked.
In 2008 I got Unreal Tournament 3, having played the previous games in the series and a fan of the fast, bloody action I put a lot of time into the third game. Unlike many shooters these days, UT3 stayed true to its arena style roots, taking the series a bit further with some interesting uses of the Unreal Engine.
UT3: A great old school shooter.
Sadly, the game did not live long enough as most non popular, mass marketed titles do nowadays, even though it kept a loyal fanbase of players for months and even years. People moved on to other newer titles and so did I, since Midway (the publisher of the game) closed down its dedicated servers and Epic didn't bother to do anything about it either.
Last year the multiplayer title to take the crown for me was Red Faction Guerrilla or RFG, while it has an ok single player campaign the multiplayer mode is truly the highlight of the game. The game has classic modes like Deathmatch, Capture the Flag and so on, but throws 2 modes unique to the game with their own flavor.
RFG uses a physics engine that works great making for some truly fun and awesome destructible environments. These 2 modes use that as their main objective, in one of them two teams attempt to cause the most destruction around the map possible on the other mode called Stronghold a team defends key structures from the enemy, while they attempt to destroy these structures to advance further.
Yes, you can gain the ostrich of doom in RFG.
Throw all of this with equipped backpacks that give the user unique abilities whether defensive, offensive or support and it makes the multiplayer experience very rewarding, challenging and varied. Weapons are mostly the usual, assault, sniper rifles, rocket launchers, mines and so on, the only unique weapon is the Rail Gun, which fires across structures, so if the enemy is hiding inside a structure you can snipe them out with it.
The game also rewards you with EXP which helps unlock new badges, characters and challenges, everything you do in a match rewards you with EXP so the game is fair for everyone.
Jetpacks are one of the many backpacks in the multiplayer mode of RFG.
As the year was coming to an end, I too was getting a bit burned out of RFG and when 2010 came out I tried to look for a new game to satisfy my gaming needs, I thought that game would be Aliens vs Predators but I was wrong.
After playing AvP for a few months I eagerly awaited Lost Planet 2, which had me very interested. Upon its release I played the game a lot for 2 months, it was a very fun experience and having both 4 player coop and competitive multiplayer it kept me entertained. One of the biggest things I enjoyed about it was the ability to customize your character, something shooters rarely do, specially including female characters.
Players fight both human and aliens in the fight to conquer EDNIII in LP2.
I still have to finish some things from LP2 and while the game was not received very well by most people, it is one of my favorite games in 2010.
Moving from LP2 I went to Transformers War for Cybertron and without a doubt, it is the best multiplayer game I have played this year and up until now the best in the console as well. Burrowing elements from other shooters, the game pits Autobots and Decepticons in the civil war for their home planet Cybertron.
Yes, the game is this epic!
The game is not based on the Michael Bay movies and instead its a re-imagining of the original 80s Generation 1 cartoon and toy line. The redesigns of the characters is amazing, the Autobots have a more sturdier, boxier look while the Decepticons have a more edgy, dark look.
Transformers WFC also includes a horde mode (Escalation) similar to Gears of War 2.
Although a third person shooter, the game allows you to jump, transform from robot to vehicle quickly and with ease, including a variety of popular characters, weapons and abilities. While the game has limited customization in terms of visual look for your robot, you can customize their abilities and perks to make unique class builds for each character.
There are 4 classes, the Scout, the Scientist, the Soldier and the Leader, each is unique and some perform specific roles while others can fill more. Simple explanation of each class: Scouts are fast and stealthy, Scientists can fly and repair allies, Soldiers are machines of destruction and Leaders boost their allies with increase in damage and armor.
As RFG, the game rewards you EXP which helps you level up and unlock new abilities, perks and challenges, the EXP is also gained by performing different tasks and not just killing opponents.
Overall, the game is very unique and its a big treat to Transformers fans as I mentioned previously however, the game is not mass marketed or a big franchise and therefore since its release in June till now it has lost a share of its players, but, the few of us who remain try to have fun and keep it alive as much as we can (you are welcomed to join us!).
The war for Cybertron continues!
A game worth checking out if your a TF fan or just a shooter fan, I highly recommend it.
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