Dracula – Days of Gore
When it comes to obscurity, it’s not the best computer games that tend to fade away, nor is it the ones that are notoriously bad either. Real obscurity is…
Realms of the Haunting
Cutting edge PC gaming back in 1996 meant extravagant, multi CD games featuring gratuitous use of video clips. Realms of the Haunting is one such game from back then…
Men of Valor
It’s a pretty safe assumption that most soldiers who fought in the Vietnam war wouldn’t care to re-live their experience, but that’s exactly what this first person shooter lets…
Peter Jackson’s King Kong: The Official…
Movie tie-in games are often poor quality, rush-job affairs, but Peter Jackson’s King Kong: The Official Game of the Movie (herein referred to simply as King Kong) is actually…
Pariah
Jack Mason might be a medic, but that doesn’t seem to stop him from blasting his way through waves of enemy soldiers. By the end of the opening levels…
Star Wars Jedi Knight: Dark Forces…
Star Wars Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II, to give it its full title, is the sequel to the 1995 DOS game Star Wars: Dark Forces. While the game is…
Mortyr 2093-1944
When it comes to evil empires, they don’t come much more evil and sinister than the Third Reich, which is probably why gamers seem to enjoy shooting SS troops…
Quake
Like Doom before it, Quake raised the quality bar for first person shooters when it was originally released in 1996. It featured huge levels with multiple paths and different…
No One Lives Forever 2: A…
Cate Archer’s second and sadly final outing managed to improve on the gameplay and graphics of the already excellent first game and deliver a superbly entertaining espionage experience that…
Unreal Tournament 2004
After graduating from university, I was lucky enough to land a job with a local games company. I have fond memories of those days, mostly because we got a…
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