Titan Quest Immortal Throne Expansion Pack: Windows XP: Video Games
Titan Quest: Immortal Throne continues the epic story across the dark and more sinister Underworld of Hades. In this epic quest of good versus evil, players will encounter the greatest villains of Greek mythology. Brave the attacks of Cerberus, and hazard the banks of the River Styx. Along with new foes, players will fight alongside Agamemnon and Achilles, interpret the prophecies of the blind seer Tiresias, and use the wiles of Odysseus to conquer this dark new adventure. Uncover hundreds of powerful, unique new items and use Caravans to store them as you quest through the Underworld of Hades
Titan Quest Immortal Throne Expansion Pack: Windows XP: Video Games
Red Faction : Video Games
The first-person-shooter genre has grown by intermittent leaps since the days of Wolfenstein 3D. Since then, games like Doom, Quake, Half-Life, and Unreal Tournament, among others, have added several technical enhancements to the visceral thrill of playing a video game through a gun-toting character’s eyes. Huge advances in 3-D graphics, sound, and processor speed, as well as the addition of network multiplayer gameplay, have favored the genre, and now Red Faction’s Geo Mod technology promises to take the first-person shooter to new heights.
Geo Mod, short for geometry modification, allows formerly permanent elements of a game’s background to change in real time. For example, if a player were to shoot a rocket at a stone wall, the wall could crumble or have a hole blown clean through. The best that previous games could do is change the texture of the wall and leave it looking charred.
While most gamers would applaud any advance in realistic graphics, Geo Mod also looks to influence the way first-person shooters are played. If the world of the first-person shooter can be altered, the game makers point out, then the world itself becomes a weapon at your disposal. More than just shooting opponents through walls, players should be able to cause a ceiling to collapse on an opponent. With the right tools, players will be able to destroy bunkers, block escape routes, and otherwise flush players out of their well-defended positions.
Obviously, it’s Geo Mod that has gamers so excited for this game, so other game components might be easy to overlook in the excitement. Red Faction’s story is set on a Martian mining colony, where workers, buffeted by abusive guards and a deadly plague, revolt. In the single-player game, you’ll run around the tunnels of Mars in a first-person view and use 15 weapons to destructively deform the environment, as well as your foes. You can also hijack land, sea, and air vehicles to aid your revolt. Multiplayer support over LAN and Internet includes Capture the Flag, Deathmatch, and more. –Porter B. Hall
