Some games age very well, despite their dated graphics. Battlefront 2 is one such game. Its got everything you could want in a Star Wars FPS. A great Singleplayer campaign, Galactic conquest mode, an Instant Action mode with bot populated single player space battles. All without a single piece of DLC or any microtransactions. In short, its a far more complete game than EA's imitator could ever hope to be. All this and Temuera Morrison's velvety smooth voice.
Doom 3 is a great survival horror game, but its really only Doom in name only. You get a lot for your money though!
Between the release of Doom and Quake, you had a lot of experimental Doom clones crop up. Some of them, like CyClones tried to implement novel ideas. Mouse aiming being the gimmick of this one. If there was a guy up on the ledge, you could use the mouse to aim the reticle up to where he was and blast him. Its a bit rough around the edges, but its got a very nice graphical presentation and its sufficiently challenging.
This collection is everything a fan of the pre-32 bit era Contra games could ever want!
What's the point of calling yourself a curated collection of games, when you let stuff like this in?
Capstone was a mixed bag developer. They produced plenty of garbage like the Trump Castle games, and Operation Body Count, but they also made excellent titles like Corridor 7. This falls more in line with the latter. Using the Build Engine that powers Duke Nukem 3-D and Blood, Witchaven further sets itself apart from the rest of the "Doom Clone" crowd by focusing on melee combat in a high fantasy setting. Its a bit stumbly in places, and there are pitfalls abound, but I gotta give them props for going in a different direction and largely succeeding! You have a variety of weapons, potions and spells at your disposal as you do battle with monsters that look like something out of a Ray Harryhausen film. The included enhanced edition even sets the controls to be more inline with a modern FPS.
To this day, Morrowind stands at the top of the heap. Imagine a single player experience, with the enormous scope of an MMORPG. While its prequels were just as expansive and lore heavy, but they weren't accessible and required you to memorize an esoteric control system. Morrowind changed all that, taking a cue from modern FPS titles of the early 00s. In Morrowind you are...whoever you wish to be. Don't wanna be the chosen one? Don't be! Want to become powerful and go kill a god? Do that! Want to be a phantom burglar Arsène Lupin would be jealous of? Be that! There's no limits. You don't even need to choose a predetermined class. Make your own if you want. The world you find yourself in is vast, even more so thanks to the included DLC, which adds a new continent and a floating city state. Despite it's age, Morrowind's world somehow feels more alive than what came after. Its a bit rough around the edges, but a few mods can fix that right up. Speaking of mods. You also get a construction kit that allows you to make your own content, if you so feel the urge.
This is a very nice looking remake, and it plays very well, but its a remake of a game that didn't have much meat to begin with. The replay value is very low here.
Allied Assault is one of the best classic WWII FPS ever made, and it's a satisfyingly long game. But in the War Chest edition, you also get its two expansions. Even at the full price of $10, this is a great deal.
Daymare 1998 started as a fan remake of Resident Evil 2, done in the older mid-90s Survival Horror style. The problem is that it sticks to these trappings a little too hard, to the point its not as accessible as modern horror games. If you're really craving that kind of game, this is for you. Point of interest: This game was the final voice role for Paul Haddad, the original voice actor for Leon S Kennedy, before his death in 2020.
