Top fps games 2004

In any case, here's our game of the year winners in several different categories. All of these winners are very deserving of their awards. It was a tough field this year so to come out on top means it had to be excellent and in some cases, near perfect. Runner-Up: Far Cry. I blame years of online FPSs on the PC, and for never really getting over the fact that a joypad is absolutely no substitute for a mouse and keyboard. Ronan : Halo was a great single-player experience, with some brilliant system-link gameplay thrown into the mix.

Halo 2 is an exceptional multiplayer game, but its single-player portion is average and only held together by a decent atmosphere. In my opinion, Bungie made a big mistake taking on the 'epic' slant with this. The first game was a private, almost magical experience between the Master Chief, the Halo ring and the player. Halo 2 loses that sense of wonder and the flaws are even more apparent as a result.

Nonetheless, worthy of its place here for the multiplayer alone. Rob : Like Kristan, I'm not sure why this is in the top ten. Unlike Kristan, I didn't compile this list, so I can't answer that question. For me, this was a fun sci-fi romp which was polished in some ways great voice acting, superb level design and bizarrely unfinished in others hideous pop-up, falling through the map, and other such nonsense - and which did, yes, have the worst ending to a videogame in a very long time.

The multiplayer may lift this out of the doldrums, but like many others, I've been distinctly underwhelmed by console FPS games on Xbox Live. I've certainly had fun with four-player split screen, I guess. Still - after so many years of hype, a bit of a disappointment from Bungie, and its chips were thoroughly pissed upon by Half-Life 2 only weeks after it launched anyway. Kieron : People have been griping about some odd elements in the simulation for this post-release.

These are the people who could have ultra-sex with a space goddess and then only find themselves able to talk about sleeping in the wet-patch. Kristan : There are some games people you have to be qualified to talk about, and Rome isn't one of those for me. I loved every minute of the three hours I've played this, and one of those games I'd love to find 60 hours of spare time to play.

Sadly the chances of ever finding that time rely on my girlfriend dumping me, my friends disowning me, my football team going out of business, all my favourite bands to spontaneously split up, and for my desire to watch TV to mysteriously dry up.

Rome, I love you so much, but we're just in the wrong place to spend any quality time together. Maybe in the next life? Kristan : It always annoys me that games like this are released every single year, as I feel no sense of anticipation at their arrival. And unless you play it to the levels that the real fans do, you can barely notice the sodding difference from one incarnation to the next, and as a result get really pissed off at the ticker tape parade that greets its arrival every 12 months.

With that off my chest, I will acknowledge that it's a decent game, but one that is absolutely no fun to play against experienced opposition, and a bloody nightmare to score a goal in.

One day I will sit down and properly learn how to play this over a long period of time, but until then I will be forever frustrated at the steep learning curve that awaits me. Ronan : Am I The idea seems too strange to comprehend, but PES4 is the first addition to the series that I haven't played incessantly.

To a degree, Pro Evo had gone beyond gaming for me, turned into a kind of strange ritual, a soothing aspect of my life that was more about football than gaming. Yet this release hasn't gripped me in the same way as previous PES games have. The through balls are unstoppable at times, the art of defending is a thing of the past of course, it wasn't great in the first place and the perfect balance of passing and movement found in Winning Eleven 7 International is gone.

This is, I think, comes down to football philosophies: Konami have created a game that let's you play like Arsenal at their best, but to do that they've had to remove a certain amount of control from the player. It looks more like football than ever, but it doesn't feel like it. Still, I am purely in the realms of subjectivity here - it remains an outstanding game, worthy of a high placing.

Tom : While I agree with Ronan's concerns about through balls and defending, I'd simply say that you just can't be good at Pro Evolution Soccer - really good - unless you really know and understand the subtleties and tactics that drive success in real football. And the jubilation you feel when the ball hits the back of the net during a tight encounter is the same ecstatic impulse that surges through you when it happens in real life. Maybe not to the same degree, but once Konami gets its arse in gear and sorts out the disgraceful failings of the Xbox Live aspect, and real leagues, friends leagues, with real significance start to emerge, who's to say that feeling won't be amplified?

Oh and, while this may be slightly weaker than some of the Japanese editions, it's still the best football game I've ever played on a PAL format, and if you don't have a Japanese or a chipped PS2 then you don't have any better option at the moment, and won't do until next October.

All of which surely justifies its selection for the first team? Kristan : Nnnnnnnaaaaagh! Buy this game you There is something actually quite wrong with a country that ignores a game as good as Echoes. In with a bullet at No. I was so depressed I took a week off and refused to review the game until my sulk had dissipated, taking two hours over each boss to savour each one like the finest mouthful of food you've ever tasted.

In many ways I actually got more out of Echoes than even the great Half-Life 2, as it sated my thirst for a join-the-dots storyline which HL2 left enigmatically wide open, much to some gamers' displeasure and also tested my reserves of skill and patience further than any other game managed in Admittedly I did resort to using a guide occasionally, but that was more down to the exhaustion levels at the end of a year of reviewing over games.

Some games are designed to break you, and this is one of those, but my god is it satisfying once you've won. Genius design, wonderful atmosphere, stunning visuals, and a game that's stands alone as something genuinely unique.

What more could you possibly wish for? Ronan : I haven't played Half-Life 2. And you know what? After Metroid Prime: Echoes, I just don't care. My game of the year.

I love it like a sister. Kieron : Still haven't played it, but was amused by all the screenshots of women covered in goo which proved that Bukkake Game Science progresses at an ever-increasing pace. Kristan : Like the Gillen, I'm not bitter. Ahem, no, that's not right. Must be all the talk of Bukkake [isn't this a family website? I've not played it either well, not for more than about five minutes , but although it looks like my kind of game I've played the Onimusha trilogy, for my sins , with truly glorious benchmark visuals, and hack and slashing action to the nth degree I fear its difficulty level.

I really don't have a huge tolerance for games that demand superhuman levels of skill unless I'm completely into the concept in the first place, and sadly I was never much of a Ninja fiend anyway. Maybe Tom and Rob have a better understanding of why it's that good. What freakish creatures dwell in this subterranean land? Who is Brea's captor? And just how far down does the rabbit hole go? Life isn't easy when you're a 12 pound ball of tar Return to Mysterious Island follows Mina, a strong young woman alone on a round-the-world sailing expedition.

Caught in a tremendous storm, she becomes stranded on the shores of a wild and apparently uninhabited island. As she explores her new surroundings, she uncovers artifacts, living spaces and technologies left behind by the people who came before her to this uncharted island.

Creating a new life, Mina builds a home from the remains of Granite Rock and uses her survival skills against the wilds of the jungle. She soon becomes aware of a figure in the shadows who, seemingly aware of her troubles, offers her assistance.

She eventually identifies this figure as the unsettled ghost of Captain Nemo, whose body is located in the Nautilus deep below the island shore. Piecing together the hints and clues he provides, Mina must travel to the Nautilus, retrieve his body and give him a proper burial in order to free his tortured soul.

Players will solve a variety of clever puzzles and use the various technologies found on the Nautilus to help on their return to civilization. The EA Sports Freestyle Control continues to revolutionize your ability to play simulation basketball? In addition to all-new dunks, alley-oops, and adjustable jump shots in mid-air, new user-controlled put-back and tip-in technologies reward players who box out, wipe the glass, and go back up for a quick bucket.

On defense, take more control over shot blocking to own the paint. With thousands of unique dunk scenarios? Freestyle Air lets you express your game on the court, and above it.

Be the architect of your own unstoppable dynasty, and watch your franchise flourish for 25 seasons. Jump into games with simulation intervention and use the customizable PDA to stay updated with important league news, team information, and other announcements. New free agency logic allows users to negotiate contracts and manage the salary cap using real dollars for the first time.

The game's map spans the entire world and allows players to take the War to any new front of their choosing. Any nation in the world is playable, but the game focuses on the struggle between the great alliances of the new world orders: Fascism, Communism and Democracy. Hearts of Iron is developed by the team behind the award-winning sales success "Europa Universalis I" and "II" and brings the same depth of gameplay and historical accuracy to a modern day gaming experience.

The conflict in Indonesia has spilled over to other parts of Asia where rebel troops have gained support in the war against Joint Ops Forces. Set against the lush backdrop of South East Asia, enlist once more to take part in intense large scale modern FPS combat, in games of up to players online.

Use new weapons, vehicles, team tactics and strategic gameplay to dominate the battlefield. An expansion pack to "Joint Operations: Typhoon Rising. Galactic Civilizations: Altarian Prophecy is an expansion pack to Stardock's award winning space strategy game, Galactic Civilizations.

The expansion pack adds a host of new features, content, and other enhancements to the game to add depth and much greater replayability.

In the late 22nd century, humanity came into contact with 5 major alien civilizations. Of these 5, the Altarians were the most curious to us.

Not for their cultural traits or their technology but because they happened to look human. How was this possible? The "Altarian Prophecy" is a campaign that takes the player on a multi-game journey to solve the mystery alluded to in Galactic Civilizations. In doing so, it introduces two new civilizations: The Dominion of the Korx and the Drath. These two civilizations hold the secret to Altaria's past, but worse, they know the Altarian Prophecy that for tells the destruction of the galaxy that is connected to Altaria's past.

Soldiers is a third-person tactical action game that plays out like a blockbuster war movie. Pitching the player headlong into the war-torn battlegrounds of Europe. Direct control for targeted shots to take out a tank track or execute a headshot for the quick kill. Real ballistic physics and truly destructible environments.

Group control a team of elite special forces soldiers. Advanced AI - the enemy will attack in formation; retreat if necessary; look for cover; ambush you, etc. Over different human animations in the game providing realism and detail! Arena Wars is a completely new kind of 3D Real Time Strategy game, combining the gameplay principles and interface from RTS games with the fast pace of action-based shooters.

Arena Wars is a single and multiplayer game. Multiplayer supports up to 8 players, who can fight against each other and challenge other players from all around the world via the AW Server, whilst the single player mode is loaded with action-packed single player missions against one or more computer opponents. In AW the goal is not simply to destroy the enemy's base or units. To score points in the various scenarios you must complete objectives that range from stealing the enemy flag, carrying a bomb into your enemy's base or seize and hold Domination zones for a period of time.

The winner is the player who satisfies that particular game's objectives. For example, in a Capture the Flag game with a 'capture limit' of 5, the winner is the first player to capture 5 enemy flags.

A quality first touch is the key to success for the world? A player? An all-new animation system now makes every button-press react with authentic, responsive and realistic speed. FIFA Soccer is the only complete, authentic, and intelligent soccer experience. All-new fluid player kinetic system that recognizes and then directly translates the speed, vision and awareness of the world?

The Absolute Broadcast: With new in-game camera angles, smooth and continuous cut sequences for replays, and improved contrast and lighting for players and stadiums. The World's Ultimate Roster: More than official licenses, including 20 leagues, 40 national teams, and 12, players are available.

Tin Soldiers: Alexander the Great is wargaming with a classic style. Easy to learn but difficult to master, it places you in the role of Alexander the Great during his conquest of the known world. Guide Alexander through his grand campaign from inheriting his father? Designed to evoke the beauty of museum-quality miniatures on a professional tabletop battlefield, Tin Soldiers: Alexander the Great uses an innovative multi-phase turn-based system.

As you play, the campaign unfolds before you with cinematic cut-scenes and three dimensional panoramas of the battlefields. Each battle is based on the historical terrain and troop placements, but the campaign allows you to make decisions in between battles on which units to reinforce, whether to recruit new units or replace commanders and how many of your resources to focus on training.

Build and shape your roster by trading players, signing free-agents and drafting promising youngsters while managing your team towards glory. Select your team, set up practice schedules, select tactics, re-negotiate contracts and scout players from all over the world while interacting with your current stars and the media in order to appease the fans and the owners. The detailed in-game engine will let you see the game events unfold in the form of play-by-play commentary while also providing a wide range of statistics to analyze your team's performance.

Build a dynasty; manage your local team to success and build your reputation in pursuit of developing your career at the bigger leagues; or you can remain faithful with the smaller teams and nurture generations. Perimeter is a ground breaking real-time strategy game which brings, a range of fresh ideas to the RTS genre. Use strategic Terraforming to acquire resources, project a impenetrable perimeter force shield to protect from attack and marshal your forces though manipulation of nano-technology.

These key gameplay elements deliver a new challenging and rewarding experience for single and multiplayer. Perimeter is set in a universe where the earth is dying and multiple civilisations are in a race across a newly discovered galaxy to colonise the only suitable planet. This epic journey will involve exploring many new worlds, battling against other civilisations and indigenous species, all to acquire energy to continue the search for a new home.

This highly anticipated addition dramatically expands the "Star Wars Galaxies" franchise by providing players more than 15 different vehicles for space exploration and combat.

Starfighters and other starships are featured in the expansion that can be used for both space exploration and combat, allowing players to join up with allies and fly familiar X-wings and TIE fighters into battle against faction-aligned opponents and AI-controlled ships.

Transport ships similar to the well-known Millennium Falcon are also added into the game, allowing players to venture through space with friends aboard. Set in the Star Wars timeframe between Episode IV and Episode V, this first extension to the "Star Wars Galaxies" foundation opens 10 vast and distinct space sectors, spanning from the Core Worlds to the Outer Rim, for players to explore while engaging their opponents in intense real-time combat or uniting with friends in battle or exploration.

Players can embark on more than new missions, venturing through asteroid fields, nebulae and space junkyards while honing skills in four new space-specific professions. The game also features two new and completely customizable species. Players will need to search the crime scene, analyze evidence, solve puzzles, interrogate suspects and make arrests alongside Detectives Lennie Briscoe and Ed Green.

After a suspect is in custody, the player will need to put a compelling case together with A. Serena Southerlyn in order to convince the jury to return a guilty verdict. With many more interviews and clever puzzles seamlessly integrated into the storyline, this third installment promises to be an even longer, more fulfilling gameplaying experience than the previous versions. Introducing an array of new characters, weapons and aircraft along with new single and mulit-play missions.

Original Vietcong game required to play. Throughout the living, breathing environment of Las Vegas Boulevard, you will find customers notoriously difficult to satisfy and a huge range of exciting attractions, all designed to bring you maximum money. Players can select one of a number of different soldier types, jump into any vehicle, man any turret on the battlefront and conquer the galaxy planet-by-planet online with their friends or offline in a variety of single player modes.

Single player modes include "Instant Action," "Galactic Conquest" and the story-based "Historical Campaigns" mode that lets gamers experience all of the epic Star Wars battles from Episodes I-VI, fighting from the perspective of each of the four factions within the game. Backed by the Oleg Maddox development team, Pacific Fighters allows you to participate in the most compelling air-war experience ever created!

Fly missions for the Allied forces or become an ace pilot for the deadly Japanese empire? Select from a large variety of flyable aircraft such as the lethal Japanese Zero, U. Target enemy ships, vehicles and aircraft on one of the 16 maps featuring famous historic locations.

New to the series will be the emphasis on flyable bombers and aircraft-carrier action. Players can arrange and play friendly matches against other nations or play through the tournament going from qualifying, to playoffs and into the finals. In addition to tracking injuries and suspensions, a new dynamic morale system will track players' morale, which will fluctuate based on individual and team performances and affect player abilities on the field. Total Extreme Warfare is the new wrestling management simulator from Adam Ryland, creator of the critically acclaimed Extreme Warfare Revenge series.

Taking on the role of a wrestling promoter, it is up to you to try and steer your chosen company to the top of the industry, along the way dealing with prima donna superstars, wars with rival companies, and the demands of TV companies! Based on the global wrestling scene, Total Extreme Warfare takes some of the ideas and features first presented in Extreme Warfare Revenge, and take them to the next level.

Combining the decade of experience that Adam Ryland has in creating fan-friendly wrestling simulators with the quality that people have come to expect from. Trade with over 60 towns and create your own production facilities. Increase your trading empire, and influence development of the New World. Trade is not everything though: pirates and military fleets threaten your trade convoys.

Build and command escort ships for the convoys. Turn the tides and hunt for pirates or capture the military ships. Become famous and expand your own fleet as well as your stocks of goods. If that is not enough, take on missions for merchants, diplomats and other characters. Use a letter of Marquee to gain the most desirable missions of the vice-kings; to attack and conquer enemy towns. As a sign of gratitude you will be awarded land, to be used later for the building and growth of your own towns.

Accept the MTX: Mototrax challenge: beat the pros and become the ultimate MX athlete in the fastest, most complete motocross game offering a thrilling career mode to boost your fame, fortune and adrenaline! Earn more cold hard cash from contest wins and sponsorships. Use the money to modify your rider's attributes, purchase equipment upgrades or buy access to freeride environments complete with new goals and objectives.

Make your way to the X Games and push your bike to the limit. Intense online racing action for up to 8 players. Offers the fastest motocross gaming experience that will have you accelerating around corners and flying through the air at an incredible 60 frames per second. Immerse yourself in a new, deep non-linear career mode that tests your skills and savvy as you progress through all the motocross disciplines-motocross, supercross and freestyle - to become the ultimate MX athlete.

You're a malevolent mastermind bent on achieving global domination through the construction of the ultimate doomsday device. Build a secret base, gain notoriety by completing daring missions, repel the forces of justice in real-time combat, and develop evil super-weapons to complete your nefarious master plan.

Evil Genius is a tongue-in-cheek take on the spy thrillers of the '60s, offering you the unique opportunity to play the villain as you control a secret island fortress complete with powerful henchmen, loyal minions, ice-cold beauty queens, and a host of hilarious gizmos.

Picking up right where the game's story left off, Battle out of Hell includes an additional single-player chapter 10 levels, as well as new multiplayer modes, maps and models. It offers an amplified arsenal of un-deadly weapons, bigger and badder bosses and the map editor Software Development Kit.

They just killed Cash. Now, they want to kill him again. America is full of run down, broken rust-belt towns where nobody cares and anything goes. In Carcer City, nothing matters anymore and all that's left are cheap thrills. The ultimate rush is the power to grant life and take it away, for sport. This time James Earl Cash, you are the sport. They gave you your life back.

Now, they are going to hunt you down. You awake to the sound of your own panicked breath. You must run, hide and fight to survive. If you can stay alive long enough, you may find out who did this to you. This is a brutal blood sport. Children of the Nile is the next generation of city-building game, where, as Pharaoh, you lead the people of ancient Egypt, uniting them as you elevate your status, striving to become a supreme and god-like ruler.

You design and build glorious cities in which hundreds of seemingly real people live and work in an interconnected societal web, each facet of their lives played out in vivid detail. Eventually you will forge the most advanced civilization of the ancient world, achieve works of wonder and build a lasting and unique empire to stand for the ages with you as its personification.

You'll dispatch your armies and navies to all corners of the known world, and erect monuments of splendor, including your own magnificent tomb. Come, enter your realm: the black land, Egypt. Burning Horizon offers a huge missions-campaign around General Rommel, giving you the opportunity to play famous battles like Ardennes, Tripolis, Tobruk, El Alamein, Sicily and, of course, Normandy. Furthermore, the add-on contains 8 single missions, with an entire new nation at war: Japan. Burning Horizon gives the parties a better AI: the enemy seeks weak spots in your lines, clears minefields, handles his air force cleverly.

The mission objectives offer a wide range, e. Journalist, Jack Lorski, and his companion disappear while investigating a string of gruesome murders. Soon after their disappearance, Jack's agency receives a disturbing CD-ROM containing footage he captured during his investigation. More than just a CD, this disc is in-fact the beginning of a terrifying game with a maniacal killer known only as "The Phoenix.

Receive actual e-mail from virtual characters and The Phoenix himself offering important clues. Visit a wealth of real websites and fictitious sites created solely for the game to obtain valuable information vital to solving the case. The game is a reboot of the Wolfenstein franchise, a game that stood along with the original Doom.

Berlin is all red with the Nazi-terror poster, topped with loudspeakers constantly repeating Nazi slogans. The game packs a thrilling adventure with high voltage action, balanced with a great storyline, and clean gameplay that is always a treat to play.

You are from a small resistance group on a mission to bring the Nazi Power down on its knees. You can do it, soldier! The game holds the title of the most played FPS game with over 25 million copies sold worldwide. You either step into the shoes of Terrorists who plant a bomb or Counter-Terrorists who try to defuse the bomb, a formula that has been borrowed by countless other FPS games.

GO adds new maps, weapons, and game modes that improve on the tried and tested Counter-Strike formula. The recently released Valorant is a new sensation that is taking over the FPS industry. It is an action-packed character-based first-person shooter that plays like a harmonies blend between CS: GO and Overwatch.

Coming to the game, Valorant is a 5 versus 5 characters based tactical shooter. You need to make out of the box, risky strategies to put yourself on the winning side. The game revolves around a round-based gameplay, where the winner is decided by the round victories of the team.

Whichever team wins more rounds claims the victory. The Remastered version released in is a perfect successor of this legendary and one of the most critically-acclaimed games in history. The game has already won numerous honorable awards. Call of Duty is famous for its competitive weapon range, so you have a variety of firearms.

So, sergeant, get ready for the mission. Left 4 Dead is the OG zombie apocalypse franchise. The sequel keeps up with its original version in terms of entertainment and shooting experience. The highly anticipated sequel delivers up to its expectations. You are provided with varieties of upgradable weapons. You are tasked with rescuing yourself from the Apocalypse and killing all those infected to end this never-ending zombie virus!

Fortnite makes its own league by forgoing the traditional format and adapting to the new fashion. The game packs a vivid color palette, popular characters and funky emotes. The standout feature of the game is its freeform building system which is unlike any other multiplayer FPS in the competition.

Fortnite is really efficient with its innovations. You get a funky party bus instead of that old military plane, you land on the colorful island instead of those devastated battlefields.

But in the development process, the developers of the game made it almost perfect. The released game is continuously improving with the help of Brendon Greene, the Creator of the Battle Royale game modes.

Halo is the unofficial mascot of Xbox.