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In Bethesda's first-person revival of the classic post-apocalyptic RPG series, the player is forced to leave Vault 101 and venture out into the irradiated wasteland of Washington D.C. to find his or her father.
Spectral Forces 3 is a tactical RPG with several interesting game mechanics and dozens of characters to recruit into your ranks.
In 2014, war has become so routine that it is at the core of the global economy. A rapidly aging Solid Snake picks up his gun and embarks upon his final mission in this epic tale of tactical espionage action -- the conclusion to the Solid Snake saga.
Focused purely on online play, Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops Plus is a stand alone expansion to the original, Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops.
Call of Juarez is a Western-themed first person shooter from Polish developer Techland and published by Ubisoft.
A 2.5D fighting game by Arc System Works, featuring a "storybook fantasy" theme with fantasy RPG motifs and the use of 3D character models on a traditional 2D fighting plane.
A Metal Gear Solid game for the PSP which uses similar stealth gameplay found in the popular Playstation and Playstation 2 titles.
Darkwatch is an action packed Wild West FPS in which the player takes on the role of a cowboy who becomes cursed with vampiric powers.
A third-person shooter that tells the story of bounty hunter Red Harlow and his bloody quest for vengeance across America's Wild West.
A spin-off of the Way of the Samurai series of samurai-themed action games, pitting a lone swordsman against gunslinging outlaws of the American Wild West.
The third installment in the Metal Gear Solid franchise is swathed in the Cold War, and it's up to a strangely familiar soldier codenamed Naked Snake to keep the Soviet Union and the United States from all-out nuclear war.
A Wild West-themed first person shooter by Human Head. The main character is El Tejon, former member of a gang called "The Nine" who was betrayed by the gang's leader, and wants revenge.
Ragnarok Online is a Korean MMORPG based around the Norse Mythology but with influences from Christianity and Asian Cultures too. It is based off the Korean Manwha "Ragnarok".
The follow-up to the 1998 blockbuster, Metal Gear Solid 2 blends tactical stealth and action. This sequel takes the action to an offshore oil cleanup facility seized by terrorists who are holding the President hostage. It helped sell the PS2, featuring advanced AI, physics and cover mechanics for its time, and one of the first postmodern narratives in gaming.
TVDJ is an action/rhythm game that was only released in Japan by SCEI. An impressive early PS2 game, it has cel-shaded graphics and is fully voice acted. Unfortunately, the game is only a a handful of short 5-minute stages that end up feeling more like a mini-game.
A revised sequel to the 1998 game JoJo's Venture, adding more characters and game modes in this fighting game adaptation of the manga series of the same name.
A third-person action game for the PlayStation, players control a katana-swinging, gun-shooting cowboy in America's Wild West.
Metal Gear Solid, released in 1998, is a game developed and published by Konami Corporation. The game follows recent retiree Solid Snake in his return to active duty as he attempts to rescue DARPA Chief Donald Anderson and President of ArmsTech Kenneth Baker, both taken hostage by a terrorist group, in order to prevent the terrorists from launching a nuclear warhead.
Building on the "Showdown" mechanic from Mad Dog McCree and its successors, Fast Draw Showdown is a FMV light-gun game built entirely in one-on-one quick-draw duels in the Old West.
A 2D side-scrolling, action game set in the Wild West that features four bounty hunters collecting awards on targeted outlaws.
Originally released for the Japan-exclusive MSX2 in 1990, this sequel is set four years after the Outer Heaven incident. New FOXHOUND commander, Roy Campbell, brings a shell-shocked Solid Snake back from early retirement to infiltrate the military nation Zanzibar Land.
Known as the first stealth-action game, Metal Gear tells the tale of Solid Snake, a rookie operative of the U.S. special forces unit FOXHOUND, as he infiltrates Outer Heaven, a fortified military compound, to destroy a mysterious superweapon known as "Metal Gear".
Precursor to the recent spate of Western Themed games. Featured player as sheriff protecting a town from bandits and even had an undertaker to clean up the bodies.
A single-screen shooting game for two players written by John P. Shay and published by Solar Software for the Commodore VIC-20 and Commodore 16.
1979 arcade shooter by Nintendo where the player must fight sixteen surrounding desperadoes. A precursor to Donkey Kong, it was designed by Genyo Takeda, with assistance from Shigeru Miyamoto, working on his first video game. Possibly the first run & gun shooter, it also introduced the damsel-in-distress trope to gaming as well as continuous background music.
An arcade shooter released in 1977. Midway released the game in North America as Boot Hill, while Taito released the game in Japan as Gunman. The game was a sequel to the 1975 hit Taito/Midway arcade shooter Gun Fight.
Gun Fight, also known as Western Gun, is a 1975 arcade shooter. Set in the Wild West, Western Gun was the first on-foot shooter, introduced human combat, was the first open-world action-adventure video game, and the first real-time tactical cover shooter. Gun Fight was also the first microprocessor video game.
Wild Gunman is a light gun shooter by Nintendo. There were two versions of the game: a 1974 FMV arcade game, and later a 1984 NES game developed by Intelligent Systems; the latter uses the NES Zapper to draw, aim and shoot the opponent.
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