Bandits: Phoenix Rising (2002)
Genres:Shooter, Racing
Themes:Action
Game modes:Single player, Multiplayer
Story:The game features a story driven single player mode or up to 8 players in deathmatch or team deathmatch over internet or LAN.
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With witty, sarcastic, endearing characters, good graphics, a fun storyline, and kickass music, Bandits: Phoenix Rising is a worthy addition to anyone who loves Mad Max-style games.
Follow our heroes on a journey in search for finer drinks and guns in a desolate landscape, where said journey might outgrow itself as time passes and new friends as well as enemies are met. And who knows? At the end of the journey maybe our heroes might find what they are looking for. And we might find out more about the mysterious chicken truck driver as well.
All that aside, the post-apocalyptic setting with cars mounted with guns and witty, yet funny interactions between characters made this game very fun for me. It's a solid game.
I found this game when diving through old abandonware sites a few years ago, and WOW did this turn out to be a gem! The gameplay is unlike any other car combat game I had played previously, feeling like a hybrid between the driving in Halo mixed with the responsiveness of a twitchy FPS (think Half-Life or Quake). The single player campaign is a blast and has a phenomenal soundtrack to rock out to as you play. But the most standout feature to me was the multiplayer. A deathmatch in this game leaves no moments to breath, its action through-and-through and doesnt let up even for a moment. Even for those who don't generally enjoy car combat as a genre will find the FPS-adjacent feel to be extremely welcoming, as my siblings discovered as we played. In short, this is one of the best hidden gems I have ever played, I truly hope it gets brought forward into the modern day! Even better if the multiplayer could be expanded upon further to allow for a robust online community to form around it. And if does remain locked to abandonware, at least it works on modern systems with the patches available today
The Simpsons: Hit & RunStrange wasp-shaped spy cameras, shady black vans lingering about, and a brand new flavor of Buzz Cola that everyone seems a bit too excited about. What could it all mean?
Find out as you take to the streets as America's most beloved dysfunctional animated family: The Simpsons! In this timeless action-adventure game, you can work to uncover the conspiracy taking place in Springfield while playing as these beloved characters.
As you progress through the game, you'll explore 3 unique areas of Springfield made up of many locations from the show. You can ride around in style with a memorable array of vehicles from the show or take a walk around on foot. You'll stumble into adrenaline-pumping story missions, take part in some fast paced street races and help out some of the townsfolk in bonus missions. Around every corner there's pesky wasps to be destroyed, collector cards to find and secret gags to uncover.Open world Action Comedy
WildStarCritically acclaimed and now Free to Play, WildStar is a fantastical sci-fi MMO where you can join your friends or undertake your own epic adventures on the fabled planet Nexus!
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Life was hard in the beginning, but over the 800 years the different colonies prospered and expanded their territories, claiming more and more systems for their own. Survival and propagation eventually led to growth and profit as each of the colonies developed specialties and fostered commerce. As the colonies grew and time passed their connections with their roots on Earth dwindled and they lost their memories of the conflicts of the past. Soon their attention was dominated by new, more immediate conflicts. Feelings of lost ancestral connection spurred anachronism in the look of the great cities, and created a somewhat distorted image of each colony's cultural heritage. In the ever-expanding outer edge of the territories, frontier lawlessness prevailed.
The Houses: Each shipboard colony that left Earth carried some memory of its origins in its name. The Liberty carried Americans, The Bretonia flew from The United Kingdom and surrounding territory, The Kusari from Asia, and the Rheinland launched with Germanic cargo.
As each ship settled and colonies began to expand, they knew little about each other and their advancing development. Finally, little by little, the individual colonies found each other and began to set up trade routes to link their systems for commerce and solidarity.
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