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Several years after the Black Mesa disaster, Gordon Freeman awakens from stasis to aid a resistance movement against the Combine, a collective of trans-dimensional aliens that have conquered Earth.
The sequel to Halo: Combat Evolved continues the epic story of humanity's last and best hope: the super-soldier Master Chief, as he defends Earth from a Covenant invasion and fights to prevent the activation of another Halo ring.
Doom 3, a more story-focused remake of the original Doom, is a sci-fi first-person-shooter that was widely considered the most graphically advanced game available for its time.
An enhanced version of Unreal Tournament 2003, adding a slew of gameplay updates and new content (namely vehicular combat and large-scale battles).
A GBA Metroid game and remake of the original Metroid for the NES. It also depicts what happens immediately after the self destruct sequence by Mother Brain.
Take control of Samus Aran in her first 3D adventure as she battles the Space Pirates on Tallon IV while uncovering the mysterious disappearance of its inhabitants.
One of PC gaming's most proficient multiplayer-focused first-person shooters gets completely revamped, adding a new lineup of weapons, characters, game modes, and arenas. Along with more-detailed graphics, this installment adds two new gameplay mechanics: double jumping and the "Adrenaline" system.
A first-person shooter for Game Boy Advance that is similar to Duke Nukem 3D.
The third entry in Bethesda's series of expansive first-person role-playing games. Arriving on the island of Vvardenfell as a prisoner, the player character is caught up in an ancient prophecy, as well as a power struggle between factions, races, and gods incarnate.
One of the launch titles of the original Xbox, Halo: Combat Evolved is a sci-fi first-person shooter telling the tale of an advanced cybernetic super-soldier known as the "Master Chief".
Diablo II: Lord of Destruction features a new act and 2 new character classes, the Assassin and the Druid, as well as new items.
The second expansion to the 1998 first-person shooter Half-Life, showing the events of the Black Mesa invasion in a different perspective: from a rookie security guard.
The sequel to Blizzard's popular action-RPG features a larger and more varied world, new playable classes, and expanded skill trees. Even moreso than its predecessor, Diablo II would provide a blueprint followed by many later RPGs and action games.
The first expansion to the 1998 first-person shooter Half-Life, showing the events of the Black Mesa invasion in a different perspective: from a commando of the antagonistic Hazardous Environment Combat Unit.
Spyro 2 is the sequel to best selling Spyro the Dragon and is also a 3D platformer. In this game Spyro is tasked with accumulating talismans and orbs so that he has enough magic to defeat Ripto, who is destroying the world of Avalar.
Discovered floating in space by a human warship, you are forced into service and sent back to the planet from which you escaped to find top secret weapons research data.
Brood War is the expansion to the best-selling pc-game of 1998, Starcraft. Brood War expands on the original game with unit additions for each race as well as a new campaign that continues the story of the original game.
Take on the role of Gordon Freeman as he escapes the disastrous aftermath of an experiment gone wrong in the Black Mesa Research Facility.
A first-person shooter where the player is stranded on the alien world Na Pali, ruled by the oppressive Skaarj, and must find a way off the planet.
StarCraft has been called the greatest real-time strategy game ever and it's certainly one of the most critically acclaimed. StarCraft features three powerful, yet balanced races: the Terrans, the Zerg, and the Protoss. You play as each race fights to the death for the fate of the universe.
Hellfire is the official (but non-canon) singleplayer expansion pack for Diablo that was developed by Sierra instead of Blizzard. It adds new dungeons, character classes, and items, but was never supported in the same way as the base game.
An isometric action RPG that takes place in and below the town of Tristram. Gothic fantasy weapons and spells are used to defeat hordes of monsters from hell through randomized dungeon levels, continuously gaining experience points, gold, and a variety of equipment to bolster the hero's monster-killing potency along the way.
Kill countless aliens while rescuing babes as Duke Nukem in this critically acclaimed first-person shooter.
A science fiction themed first-person shooter set in the year 15432.
After the events of Doom, Hell has found its way to Earth. The last living scientists develop a plan to evacuate what's remaining of the human race with enormous space ships. Unfortunately, the demons have taken control of the only spaceport, and it's up to the nameless space marine to take it back.
Super Metroid is the third game in the Metroid series and the only Metroid game to be released on the Super Nintendo. It has become widely revered for its gameplay, atmosphere, and environmental storytelling, and continues to inspire many action-adventure games.
In one of the most revolutionary first-person shooters of the 1990s, players control the last remaining space marine in the demon-infested stations on Mars' moons.
A cancelled stealth-shooter set in the StarCraft Universe. Following a lengthy development cycle with several delays, the game was confirmed to be cancelled in 2014.
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