Halo Reach comes out tomorrow, and all of my friends who own Xboxes are making plans to pick up their pre-orders tonight at midnight. Gamers who prefer to play shooters on their PCs will be stuck at home with no new AAA game to occupy their time, but that’s just fine, because Player Affinity’s PC department is offering a daily recommendation of PC shooters to help distract you from those raucous midnight launch parties
While your friends with Xboxes are sleeping on the sidewalk in front of Gamestop in anticipation of the big Halo Reach launch on Tuesday, you can spend the whole weekend at home playing with the mountain of cheap games you can buy in these Weekend Sales.
There are just four days left before Halo Reach comes out, and the internet is ablaze with tantalizing previews and secret accounts of life in the beta test. Your XBox fanboy friends are probably spending the their time trying to unlock every achievement in Halo ODST, but those of us who prefer our shooters on a PC can amuse ourselves with some great titles which never made it to the consoles. Every day until Halo Reach launches, Player Affinity will feature a different shooter that you can only play on PC.
The new Halo game comes out in five days, and those jerks over in Player Affinity’s XBox department won’t shut up about their little space opera. I’m happy that the console crowd have their new game, but those of us who play games on the PC know that first person shooters were intended to be played with a keyboard, mouse and four gigs of VRAM. To help my fellow PC gamers shrug off the relentless Halo hype machine, I’m going to remind everyone of a few PC exclusive shooters that you can play, while your XBox pals are waiting in line to get their copy of Halo Reach. We’ll be detailing one game a day, right up to Halo launch day on Tuesday.
Did you enjoy your three-day weekend? Why not just call in sick for a few more days, so you can play all the cheap games you’re going to buy in this week’s online Sales?
Way back in 1991 Apogee Software released a crappy side-scrolling shooter called Duke Nukem which was set in the distant future of 1997 (HA!) By the time the real year 1997 rolled around, Duke had become a franchise of mediocre shooting games which managed to stay in the public eye because of the quaint controversy over the fact that the game had some levels set in strip joints. Yet that glorious future of 1997 held the promise of one more Duke game: Duke Nukem Forever. Now, after thirteen years in development, Forever Has Arrived!
Welcome to PC Digital Download Sales week 2! This is a weekly feature on Player Affinity where we look at the best selling games on the PC platform every Sunday with data from 3:00 PM. The info is collected from both Steam and Direct2Drive’s top 10 seller lists. This week, Direct2Drive had a great sale giving a lot of games away for only $6. Pretty good, huh? As a result, that influenced this week’s top 10 sales.
