Hor+, or horizontal plus, refers to expanding the horizontal component of the FOV while keeping the vertical component roughly or exactly the same. This is often considered the ideal solution for widescreen games, as it grants widescreen users a wider picture compared to 4:3.
Unreal Tournament 2003 is an online FPS from Epic Games and Infogrames, and the follow-up to the highly successful Unreal Tournament. UT2003 features improved graphics, improved physics, faster gameplay, and a higher emphasis on teamplay over its predecessor.
Dawinia is a strategy game from Introversion Software. The game takes place inside a computer network called Darwinia, which is inhabited by evolving digital life forms called Darwinians, and is infested with a virus that threatens to destroy the Darwinians and years of research along with them. You control various program-generated units to seek and destroy the virus.
Upon its release, Far Cry awed the world by beating Half Life 2 and Doom 3 (then most anticipated titles) by being the first of a series of “next gen” first person shooter’s. It was critically and publicly acclaimed for its cutting-edge graphics, AI, and environment, and won further praise for being the first game to support HDR.
A top-down third-person shooter. You are stationed on one of Jupiter's moons which was recently colonized, and are called in to investigate the cause of a power outage. Aliens threaten to overwhelm a nearby colony. Only you stand in their way.
Giants: Citizen Kabuto is a third person shooter from Planet Moon and Interplay. Gameplay is unusually varied, and spans three campaigns with three characters - the heavily armed, high-tech meccaryn Baz and his squadmates, the sword-wielding, spellcasting sea reaper Delphi, and the enormous, village-trampling Kabuto himself.
Rise of Nations: Rise of Legends is a real-time strategy game for the PC made by Big Huge Games, and published by Microsoft. It is a spin off of the popular game Rise of Nations, released in May 2003. However, rather than being a historical game, it is based in a fantasy world, where technology and magic coexist. It was released on May 9, 2006 in North America and on various dates around May 26, 2006 in the rest of the world.
Serious Sam: The Second Encounter is an FPS from Croteam and Gathering of Developers. You play as Sam "Serious" Stone, and do battle with thousands of alien nasties throughout various historical set-pieces, using an array of diverse and enormous weapons.
Close Combat: First to Fight is a squad-based military first-person shooter. The player commands a fireteam of 3 other U.S. Marines in a realistic, though fictional scenario where the United Nations sends Marines into Lebanon when their Prime Minister falls ill and Syria and Iran send forces to bolster certain factions.
Quake 3 is an online FPS from Id Software and Activision. In a departure from its predecessors, it completely lacks a traditional singleplayer campaign, and the emphasis is mostly on deathmatch.
Half-Life 2 is an FPS from Valve Software, and was one of the most highly anticipated sequels of all time. You return as Gordon Freeman, the strong and silent-type physicist, and you must do battle with an alien race of enslavers to liberate the surviving remainder of humanity on earth.
Also applies to Half-Life 2 Lost Coast free downloadable level.
