Encyclopedia - Unreal Engine: Encyclopedia - Unreal Engine
The Unreal engine is one of the most popular game engines for action games. First illustrated in the 1998 first-person shooter computer g...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Unreal Engine: Encyclopedia Ii - Unreal Engine - Games Using The Unreal Engine
Many other software companies have licensed the Unreal engine in order to speed up development of their own titles. These include Star Tr...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Unreal Engine: Encyclopedia Ii - Unreal Engine - Games Using The Unreal Engine
Many other software companies have licensed the Unreal engine in order to speed up development of their own titles. These include Star Tr...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Bioware: Encyclopedia - Bioware
BioWare Corp. is a Canadian electronic entertainment company founded in February 1995 by medical doctors Ray Muzyka, Greg Zeschuk, and Au...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Playstation 3: Encyclopedia Ii - Playstation 3 - Hardware Specifications
A simple comparison of the system architectures appears to indicate that the floating point capability of the PS3 is estimated to be grea...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Star Wars: Republic Commando: Encyclopedia Ii - Star Wars: Republic Commando - Plot Synopsis
The game is set during the infamous Clone Wars that was started at the climax of the movie Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones. In...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Swat 4: Encyclopedia Ii - Swat 4 - Gameplay
SWAT 4 - Single player. SWAT 4 features a single-player campaign where the player has to take his SWAT team through a number of mission...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Tribes Video Game: Encyclopedia Ii - Tribes Video Game - Features
Several notable features distinguish the Tribes games from other first-person shooters: Battles primarily take place outdoors amid hills...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - America's Army: Encyclopedia Ii - America's Army - History
Although the Defense Advanced Projects Research Agency (DARPA) has had plans for using video games since the early 1980s, it was not unti...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Duke Nukem Forever: Encyclopedia Ii - Duke Nukem Forever - Infamy For Delay
Duke Nukem Forever was officially announced on April 27, 1997. Full scale development work began in late 1997 [1], after early prototypin...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Free First-person Shooters: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Free First-person Shooters - America's Army: Special Forces 2.5
America's Army (AA) is a tactical multiplayer first-person shooter owned by the U.S. government, financed through U.S. tax dollars and di...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Playstation 3: Encyclopedia Ii - Playstation 3 - Hardware Specifications
A simple comparison of the system architectures appears to indicate that the floating point capability of the PS3 is estimated to be grea...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - First Person Shooter Graphics Engines: Encyclopedia Ii - First Person Shooter Graphics Engines - From Wireframes To 3d Worlds And Textures
Planar worlds (rectangular grid in Wolfenstein 3D, sector-based plane levels in Doom) with sprite objects. Average Video Hardware require...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Playstation 3: Encyclopedia Ii - Playstation 3 - Hardware Specifications
A simple comparison of the system architectures appears to indicate that the floating point capability of the PS3 is better than that of ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Constructive Solid Geometry: Encyclopedia Ii - Constructive Solid Geometry - Operations
In modeling packages, basic geometric objects such as the cube or 'box', sphere or ellipse, torus, and a number of other shapes that can ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Speedtree: Encyclopedia Ii - Speedtree - Components
SpeedTreeRT (RT standing for "real-time") is perhaps the most important part of the SpeedTree package. It is a software developers kit (S...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Game Engine: Encyclopedia Ii - Game Engine - Overview
The term "game engine" arose in the mid-1990s, especially in connection with 3D games such as first-person shooters (FPS). (There is a se...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Unreal: Encyclopedia Ii - Unreal - Premise
In the original title you take the part of a criminal aboard the prison spacecraft Vortex Rikers which has crash-landed on the lip of a c...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Normal Mapping: Encyclopedia Ii - Normal Mapping - Normal Mapping In Computer Entertainment
Interactive normal map rendering was originally only possible on PixelFlow, a parallel graphics machine built at the University of North ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Lineage Ii: Encyclopedia Ii - Lineage Ii - Chronicles
A large-scale update is done once in Lineage II at the rate of half a year. It is known that as the "Chronicle" number advances, a new st...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Personal Computer Game: Encyclopedia Ii - Personal Computer Game - History
The history of computer games has not received much attention from researchers. Although one might expect a consensus on such a 'young' r...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Unrealed: Encyclopedia Ii - Unrealed - Versions
With the various Unreal games, UnrealEd itself has seen many different versions. Unreal shipped with UnrealEd 1.0, which displayed most o...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Deus Ex: Encyclopedia Ii - Deus Ex - Overview
The game is built based on a modified Unreal engine and Deus Ex is seen as combining a variety of gaming genres. The game featured enviro...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - First-person Shooter: Encyclopedia Ii - First-person Shooter - History
The first-person shooter, as the phrase is currently understood, emerged in the early 1990s. However, the modern genre is a logical exten...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Unreal Series: Encyclopedia Ii - Unreal Series - The Skaarj
The Skaarj (pronounced "scar") are an advanced race of agressive alien beings generally living in a highly tribal society, originally int...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Playstation 3: Encyclopedia Ii - Playstation 3 - Gallery
PlayStation 3 - Screenshot gallery. Killzone 3 Guerrilla/Sony (2006) Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots Konami (TBA) Warhawk PS3...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Playstation 3: Encyclopedia Ii - Playstation 3 - Online Services
Sony has stated that the online service for the PlayStation 3 will use the same non-unified architecture as that of the PlayStation 2. In...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Playstation 3: Encyclopedia Ii - Playstation 3 - Backward Compatibility
PlayStation 3 - Games. The PlayStation 3 will be compatible "on the chip" with PlayStation 2 and PlayStation games, without emulation. ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Playstation 3: Encyclopedia Ii - Playstation 3 - Region Coding
PlayStation 3 games are unlikely to be region coded, according to Sony’s Australian managing director, Michael Ephraim. Unlike its pred...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Personal Computer Game: Encyclopedia Ii - Personal Computer Game - Distribution Media And Marketing
Personal computer game - Traditional. Typically, games are distributed via storage media that would be standard to personal computers, ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Personal Computer Game: Encyclopedia Ii - Personal Computer Game - Cultural Impact
Personal computer game - Japan. Many Japanese gamers view personal computers as a business tool, and that games are best played on dedi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Playstation 3: Encyclopedia Ii - Playstation 3 - Side Note
The logo of the PlayStation 3 is in the same font as the logo of the Spider-Man motion pictures. Spider-Man 2 scenes were used in the E3 ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Personal Computer Game: Encyclopedia Ii - Personal Computer Game - Computer Gaming Hardware
Personal computer game - Hardware. Most setups will include a keyboard and mouse. Other common gaming peripherals are headset and micro...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Personal Computer Game: Encyclopedia Ii - Personal Computer Game - Screenshots
Zork I (pictured running on a modern emulator) Infocom (1980) Elite David Braben and Ian Bell (1984) Minesweeper Robert Donner (1989) Sec...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Personal Computer Game: Encyclopedia Ii - Personal Computer Game - Characteristics Unique To Pc Gaming
Personal computer game - Moddability and user-created content. Main article: Mod (computer gaming) Computer games have a large and ac...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Playstation 3: Encyclopedia Ii - Playstation 3 - Games In Development
As of October 2005, there are already over 150 PS3 games announced by multiple developers and publishers, like SCEA, Electronic Arts, Kon...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Personal Computer Game: Encyclopedia Ii - Personal Computer Game - Popular And Notable Genres Of Pc Gaming
Personal computers, due mostly to input available from the keyboard, mouse, and third-party joystick peripherals, have been the home genr...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Playstation 3: Encyclopedia Ii - Playstation 3 - Cost And Release Date
The system's retail price is not known.[3][4] Sony Computer Entertainment president and "father of the PlayStation" Ken Kutaragi points o...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Playstation 3: Encyclopedia Ii - Playstation 3 - Software Development Kit
Sony has selected several technologies and arranged several sublicensing agreements to create the software development kit for developers...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Playstation 3: Encyclopedia Ii - Playstation 3 - Backwards Compatibility
PlayStation 3 - Games. The PlayStation 3 will be compatible "on the chip" with PlayStation 2 and PlayStation games, without emulation. ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Unrealed: Encyclopedia Ii - Unrealed - Basic Premise
UnrealEd operates on the concept of brushes. Brushes can be primitive shapes (such as cubes, spheres & cones), pre-defined shapes (su...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Tribes Video Game: Encyclopedia Ii - Tribes Video Game - History
Starsiege: Tribes was one of the first first-person shooters meant to be played exclusively against other human players across computer n...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Swat 4: Encyclopedia Ii - Swat 4 - Weapons List
The weapons available in SWAT 4 are: Primary Colt M4A1 carbine .45 calibre sub-machine gun (Heckler & Koch UMP) Suppressed 9mm cali...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Unreal Series: Encyclopedia Ii - Unreal Series - The Izarians
The Izarians had a small empire of their own and enslaved many minor races before they ran into the Skaarj,(pronounced:scar) and became s...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Unreal Series: Encyclopedia Ii - Unreal Series - Corporation Wars
Following the devastating Human/Skaarj Wars (the fictional battle between humans and the skaarj in the Unreal universe), Earth's cities l...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Unreal Series: Encyclopedia Ii - Unreal Series - Release Dates Of Unreal Titles
Unreal series - PC games. Unreal — May 25, 1998 Unreal Mission Pack: Return to Na Pali — May 31, 1999 Unreal Tournament — Nov...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Unreal Series: Encyclopedia Ii - Unreal Series - The Unreal Tournament Series
Epic Games' 1999 follow-up title was called Unreal Tournament and focused mainly on multiplayer action: It was launched in direct competi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Star Wars: Republic Commando: Encyclopedia Ii - Star Wars: Republic Commando - The Squad
The clone commandos featured in the game have distinct personalities, different than the clone troopers in Attack of the Clones. During t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Playstation 3: Encyclopedia Ii - Playstation 3 - Side Note
The logo of the PlayStation 3 is in the same font as the logo of the Spider-Man motion pictures. Spider-Man 2 scenes were used in the E3 ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Playstation 3: Encyclopedia Ii - Playstation 3 - Gnu/linux
Ken Kutaragi confirmed that the PlayStation 3 will come with GNU/Linux as its operating system. [20] IBM had quickly sent a series of imp...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Playstation 3: Encyclopedia Ii - Playstation 3 - Software Development Kit
Sony has selected several technologies and arranged several sublicensing agreements to create the software development kit for developers...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Playstation 3: Encyclopedia Ii - Playstation 3 - Games In Development
As of October 2005, there are already over 150 PS3 games announced by multiple developers and publishers, like SCEA, Electronic Arts, Kon...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Playstation 3: Encyclopedia Ii - Playstation 3 - Online Services
Sony has recently revealed that the online service for the PlayStation 3 will use the same non-unified architecture as that of the PlaySt...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Playstation 3: Encyclopedia Ii - Playstation 3 - Region Coding
PlayStation 3 games are unlikely to be region coded, according to Sony’s Australian managing director, Michael Ephraim. Unlike its pred...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Playstation 3: Encyclopedia Ii - Playstation 3 - Gallery
PlayStation 3 - Screenshot gallery. Killzone 3 Guerrilla/Sony (2006) Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots Konami (TBA) Warhawk PS3...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Personal Computer Game: Encyclopedia Ii - Personal Computer Game - Pc Game Development
Personal computer game - Game engines. Main article: Game engine The term "game engine" arose in the mid-1990s, especially in connect...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Playstation 3: Encyclopedia Ii - Playstation 3 - Cost And Release Date
The system's retail price is not known.[3][4] Sony Computer Entertainment president and "father of the PlayStation" Ken Kutaragi points o...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Free First-person Shooters: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Free First-person Shooters - Starsiege: Tribes
Starsiege: Tribes (usually called Tribes or Tribes 1) is a sci-fi first-person shooter (FPS) computer game, the first of the Tribes video...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Playstation 3: Encyclopedia Ii - Playstation 3 - Online Services
Sony has recently revealed that the online service for the PlayStation 3 will use the same non-unified architecture as that of the PlaySt...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Playstation 3: Encyclopedia Ii - Playstation 3 - Gnu/linux
Ken Kutaragi confirmed that the PlayStation 3 will come with GNU/Linux as its operating system. [20] IBM had quickly sent a series of imp...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Playstation 3: Encyclopedia Ii - Playstation 3 - Software Development Kit
Sony has selected several technologies and arranged several sublicensing agreements to create the software development kit for developers...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Playstation 3: Encyclopedia Ii - Playstation 3 - Games In Development
As of October 2005, there are already over 150 PS3 games announced by multiple developers and publishers, like SCEA, Electronic Arts, Kon...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Playstation 3: Encyclopedia Ii - Playstation 3 - Region Coding
PlayStation 3 games are unlikely to be region coded, according to Sony’s Australian managing director, Michael Ephraim. Unlike its pred...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Playstation 3: Encyclopedia Ii - Playstation 3 - Backwards Compatibility
PlayStation 3 - Games. The PlayStation 3 will be compatible "on the chip" with PlayStation 2 and PlayStation games, without emulation. ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - America's Army: Encyclopedia Ii - America's Army - Overview
The game falls into the subgenres of an advergame, serious game and militainment. America's Army has been developed since 2000 and still ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Playstation 3: Encyclopedia Ii - Playstation 3 - Side Note
The logo of the PlayStation 3 is in the same font as the logo of the Spider Man motion pictures. Spider-Man 2 scenes were used in the E3 ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Playstation 3: Encyclopedia Ii - Playstation 3 - Gallery
PlayStation 3 - Screenshot gallery. Killzone 3 Guerrilla/Sony (2006) Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots Konami (2007) Warhawk P...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Playstation 3: Encyclopedia Ii - Playstation 3 - Cost And Release Date
Actual cost and release date may be announced by Sony at the Game developers conference March 20-24. The system's retail price is not kno...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Lineage Ii: Encyclopedia Ii - Lineage Ii - Private Servers
During the first half of 2003, however, an open source project called L2J had developed, and had started to fail after the leak of the of...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - First-person Shooter: Encyclopedia Ii - First-person Shooter - List Of Notable Titles And Development Houses
First-person shooter - Selected list of FPS developers. This is a short list of developers of first-person shooters who have achieved b...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - First-person Shooter: Encyclopedia Ii - First-person Shooter - Controversy
Some groups have blamed first-person shooters — the usual poster boy for video game violence — for certain spree killings. For exampl...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - First-person Shooter: Encyclopedia Ii - First-person Shooter - Overview
The first-person shooter can be considered a sub-genre of shooter games, though almost all other two dimensional shooter games, especiall...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Deus Ex: Encyclopedia Ii - Deus Ex - Real World Parallels
Although the story of Deus Ex is based on real world themes and events, a few fictional elements of the game world have seemingly spilled...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - First-person Shooter: Encyclopedia Ii - First-person Shooter - Selected Important Games In Fps Development
A chronoglogical listing attempting at listing the more "ground-breaking" or "influential" games from this genre, mainly the more popular...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Game Engine: Encyclopedia Ii - Game Engine - Middleware
Some companies now specialize in developing software suites known as "middleware." Middleware developers attempt to "pre-invent the wheel...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Lineage Ii: Encyclopedia Ii - Lineage Ii - Overview
Players create a character as their avatar in the game's medieval-style virtual world called Aden. They can choose from five typical fant...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Game Engine: Encyclopedia Ii - Game Engine - Fps Game Engines
Main article: First person shooter graphics engines A well-known subset of game engines are 3D first-person shooter (FPS) game engines. G...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Game Engine: Encyclopedia Ii - Game Engine - Hobbyists
Game engine development is a popular project amongst computer science students, hobbyists, and game developers alike. It can require stro...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - America's Army: Encyclopedia Ii - America's Army - Gameplay
America's Army is a round- and team-based tactical shooter with a gameplay similar to Counter-Strike in which the player controls a soldi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - America's Army: Encyclopedia Ii - America's Army - Controversy
Apart from the common controversy that surrounds games rewarding the virtual killing of other human beings, America's Army caused additio...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Free First-person Shooters: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Free First-person Shooters - Kuma\war
Kuma\War is a free online war game that reconstructs real-war events from the news. Kuma\War is a first and third-person squad-based war ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Free First-person Shooters: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Free First-person Shooters - .kkrieger
.kkrieger created by the German demo group .theprodukkt (a former subdivision of farbrausch group) and won first place in the 96k game co...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Free First-person Shooters: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Free First-person Shooters - Digital Paintball 2.0
Digital Paintball 2.0 is a fast-paced, team-based, first-person shooter with a variety of game modes and support for up to 4 teams. Modes...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Free First-person Shooters: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Free First-person Shooters - Death Illustrated
Death illustrated is a deathmatch oriented game in a comick book style it is based on the Cube engine 'File Size: 25.7 MB' Get the game ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Free First-person Shooters: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Free First-person Shooters - Nexuiz
Nexuiz is a GNU GPLed FPSs game that focuses on quick, lethal battles with balanced weaponry. As of this release there are 9 weapons and ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Deus Ex: Encyclopedia Ii - Deus Ex - Etymology
The game's name is derived from the Latin expression deus ex machina (pronounced Deh-OOS EKS Mah-Ki-Nah), literally meaning "god from the...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Free First-person Shooters: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Free First-person Shooters - Wulfram 2
Wulfram 2 is a hybrid genre first-person shooter, real-time strategy, and simulation game currently being developed by Bernt Habermeier a...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Free First-person Shooters: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Free First-person Shooters - Warsow
Warsow is a Standalone FPS game for Windows and Linux. Some Features Include: 3D Engine based on Qfusion (a modification of Quake 2 GPL ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Free First-person Shooters: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Free First-person Shooters - Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory
Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory was originally planned to be released as a commercial expansion pack to the popular FPS Return to Castle Wol...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Free First-person Shooters: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Free First-person Shooters - Cube
Cube is a free, open source Quake-like first-person shooter computer game that runs on Windows, Linux, FreeBSD and Mac OS X and even Pock...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Free First-person Shooters: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Free First-person Shooters - Control Monger
Control Monger is a Free First-Person Shooter by NetCharger and Mindsurge Entertainment. Players play either in Team Mode with two teams ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - First-person Shooter: Encyclopedia Ii - First-person Shooter - Controversy
Some groups have blamed first-person shooters — the usual suspect for video game violence — for certain spree killings. For example, ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - First-person Shooter: Encyclopedia Ii - First-person Shooter - Overview
The first-person shooter can be considered a sub-genre of shooter games, though almost all other two dimensional shooter games, especiall...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Duke Nukem Forever: Encyclopedia Ii - Duke Nukem Forever - Conflicts With Take Two
There has been a degree of tension between 3D Realms, the game's developers, and Take Two Interactive, the game's publisher. The most inf...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - America's Army: Encyclopedia Ii - America's Army - Similar Games
America's Army - Ideological counterparts. Special Force (Hizbullah) Under Ash (Dar al-Fikr) America's Army - Serious Games encourag...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - First Person Shooter Graphics Engines: Encyclopedia Ii - First Person Shooter Graphics Engines - The Rise Of 3d Models
For the first time, game engines recreated true 3D worlds with arbitrary level geometry. Instead of sprites the engines used simply textu...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - First Person Shooter Graphics Engines: Encyclopedia Ii - First Person Shooter Graphics Engines - New Capabilites Increasing Detail
New graphics hardware provided new capabilites, allowing new engines to add various new effects, such as particle effects, fog, coloured ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Free First-person Shooters: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Free First-person Shooters - Codered: Alien Arena
CodeRED: Alien Arena is a fully functioned free deathmatch shooter that runs on Windows and Linux, and features standard deathmatch, team...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Free First-person Shooters: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Free First-person Shooters - Axion Quake V1.1.0
Axion Quake (AxQ) is an action oriented first person shooter. It is based on action movies, where the premise is to kill stylishly. Axion...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - First Person Shooter Graphics Engines: Encyclopedia Ii - First Person Shooter Graphics Engines - The Approach To Photorealism
Developers of this era of 3D engines often tout their increasingly photorealistic quality. The maps may feature seamlessly integrated ind...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Game Engine: Encyclopedia Ii - Game Engine - Middleware
Some companies now specialize in developing software suites known as "middleware." Middleware developers attempt to "pre-invent the wheel...   » Read the article