Category: Shooter

Title: Cabela’s Trophy Bucks
Publisher: Activision
Platform: PlayStation 2
Genre: Shooter
Release Date: 9/20/2007
Overview:
Hope you’ve got an extra mantle because with this much trophy game to bag, you’ll need plenty of space to hang it! Hunt eleven different species of trophy deer in this expansive hunting adventure from Cabela. Choose from Whitetail Deer, Rocky Mountain Mule Deer, Columbian Black Tails, and more as you track game in North America’s most popular hunting spots. You’ll travel across 24 American states and Canadian provinces in an experience most hunters can only dream of. Beyond bucks, you’ll try new hunts that’ll have you chasing wild turkeys, targeting long-range varmints, and more. The game’s 96 missions are fast-paced and full of challenges guaranteed to get your heart racing.

Title: Far Cry Instincts: Evolution
Publisher: Ubisoft
Platform: Xbox
Genre: Shooter
Release Date: 3/29/2006
Overview:
The Action Shooter of the Year evolves with this sequel that features all-new missions, new weapons, new vehicles, and an improved mapmaker that’s backwards compatible. Far Cry Instincts Evolution retains the Far Cry Instinct’s rich graphics and open-ended style. Missions can be finished any way you choose. What’s new? AI’s better. You’ll have to deal with more on-screen enemies who not only react faster, but who counter you with group tactics like flanking. Your abilities have also gotten a boost with new feral climbing, a new underwater feral attack, and a more powerful feral jump. Multiplayer options have also been improved, with more customizations and a new Seek and Secure mode.

Title: Commandos: Strike Force
Publisher: Eidos
Platform: Xbox
Genre: Shooter
Release Date: 4/4/2006
Overview:
You’re a World War II Elite Commando who is determined to ensure victory by any means necessary. Take on the roles of the action-packed Green Beret, the sneaky Spy, and the stealthy Sniper. Each role in this exciting first-person shooter offers different strengths and skill sets to assist your assault. Use authentic weapons and vehicles across three campaigns spanning France, Norway, and Russia. Multiplayer modes offer exhilarating eight-player action. Go commando!

Title: Classified: The Sentinel Crisis
Publisher: Globalstar
Platform: Xbox
Genre: Shooter
Release Date: 4/14/2006
Overview:
This action-packed first-person shooter takes you into the life of a Black Ops soldier and member of an elite military intelligence program knows as Sentinel. Armed with your combat suit and assault rifle, you’ll travel to the Balkans and ally with the local rebels to find the enemy and a missing Sentinel scientist. Massive environments and the first-person shooter objectives and covert missions make for intricate and compelling gameplay.

Title: Winback 2: Project Poseidon
Publisher: Koei
Platform: Xbox
Genre: Shooter
Release Date: 4/26/2006
Overview:
Terrorists have set a deadly plot in motion, and negotiation is not an option. That’s where the Winback assault team comes in. As squad leader Craig Contrell, you and your elite counter-terrorism unit have one task: eliminate the threat. Save the United States by blending combat and stealth to successfully execute 30 missions. Navigate each of those missions from the perspectives of three members of Contrell’s team, including the man himself. Each operative has received full training with a variety of weapons. You’ll need to use team-based strategy, keep a cool head, and blow lots of stuff up.

Title: Rogue Trooper
Publisher: Eidos
Platform: Xbox
Genre: Shooter
Release Date: 5/24/2006
Overview:
In a future where black holes serve as gates to any destination, the planet Nu Earth is positioned in a vital strategic location between two suns and a black hole. Blown to oblivion by WMDs in a 20-year battle for its control, the former paradise is a pollution-ravaged wasteland. One warring faction, the Southers, creates GIs, Genetic Infantry, capable of surviving the planet’s toxins without special gear. The GIs are betrayed by one of their own and massacred. One survives. Now he stalks the shadows in search of revenge. Play as the ultimate soldier in this intense tactical action saga that features single-player Campaign Mode and split-screen multiplayer.

Title: Urban Chaos: Riot Response
Publisher: Eidos
Platform: Xbox
Genre: Shooter
Release Date: 6/15/2006
Overview:
The city is under siege. A gang known as The Burners is terrorizing the area with freakish acts of violently disturbing behavior. The crooks want blood. The frenzied media wants answers. The people want a savior. That’s where you come in. Step into the chaos as Nick Mason, member of the elite T-Zero police unit. You’re the city’s last hope. And you’re ready to restore order by any means necessary in this first-person shooter. Take back the streets with an array of aggressive tactics, including precision gunning, helicopter attacks, and ruthless street justice. You’ll get support from medics, firefighters, and other personnel as you dispense brutal punishment with military-grade weaponry.

Title: World War II Combat: Iwo Jima
Publisher: Atari
Platform: Xbox
Genre: Shooter
Release Date: 7/21/2006
Overview:
Iwo Jima was only an eight-square-mile island. But it was vital to the Allied effort to win World War II. With artillery exploding all around you, your comrades falling at your side, and a tireless enemy dug in deep, you’ve just stepped onto the beach as part of the largest amphibious assault in the history of the United States Marines. Play as a U.S. rifleman among the troops who waged the historic 36-day battle for the island. Iwo Jima’s ten levels of single-player campaigns feature scenarios and missions based on real events. Train against bots online or find additional action with 10 multiplayer maps for up to 16 soldiers.

Title: Warpath
Publisher: Atari
Platform: Xbox
Genre: Shooter
Release Date: 7/21/2006
Overview:
The path to war branches in three directions – which one will you choose? Three alien races compete for control of the planet Kaladi, a beautiful paradise filled with bountiful resources. Pick your side and mount a campaign to win Kaladi for your species by vanquishing your enemies. Warpath’s futuristic battlefield combines strategic RPG elements and FPS action. Separate storylines for each race span 16 levels and unfold in turn-based planning that explodes into first-person battles. You’ll wield eight innovative, upgradeable weapons and command four types of vehicles. Warpath also goes online with 4 intense multiplayer games featuring 25 levels for up to 16 players.

Title: Painkiller: Hell Wars
Publisher: Dreamcatcher
Platform: Xbox
Genre: Shooter
Release Date: 7/24/2006
Overview:
You were once Daniel Garner, a regular guy who met a grizzly end in a horrific car accident. Now in the afterlife, you’re stuck somewhere between heaven and hell, and your judgment day has arrived. An unholy war simmers in the Underworld, and you’re forced to fight for your own purification. Face an endless onslaught of hellish beasts in this pure first-person horror shooter. Combo weapons deliver blistering primary/secondary assaults. Collect 66 souls and morph into a possessed creature. The proprietary PAIN graphics engine combines with the Havoc 2.0 physics engine to create an unparalleled visual experience. Online play available for up to 16 players.

Title: Xyanide
Publisher: South Peak Interactive
Platform: Xbox
Genre: Shooter
Release Date: 8/15/2006
Overview:
Xyanide is one material you don’t want to mess with. You’re a space pilot on his way to dumping a convicted – and highly dangerous – criminal into a black hole. An asteroid containing the mysterious substance that materializes thoughts has just collided with your ship. That’s when the nightmare begins in this arcade-style sci-fi shooter. Fighting stays fresh with a unique mutation systems that allows you to morph into a Mech, Organic, or Hybrid fighter. Overcome 6 levels with over 50 types of enemy ships and 15 bosses as you battle an enemy that never stops coming. Find power-ups, discover special weapons, seek out hidden bonuses, and more.

Title: Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell Double Agent
Publisher: Ubisoft
Platform: Xbox
Genre: Shooter
Release Date: 10/26/2006
Overview:
Splinter Cell Agent Sam Fisher faces his most challenging mission yet – the first that requires him to be a double agent. Working for the U.S. government, Fisher’s up against a terrorist group that’s gained a foothold on American soil. Go deep undercover to infiltrate the ring and bring it down from inside. Earn the terrorists’ trust to reach objectives using tactics of real-life double agents. Balance the patience needed to stay undercover and the urgency to act before innocent people die. At every turn in the branching storyline, you’ll face high-stakes decisions about whose orders to follow – your government or those of the group you’re trying to infiltrate.

Title: Call of Duty 3
Publisher: Activision
Platform: Xbox
Genre: Shooter
Release Date: 11/8/2006
Overview:
One of World War II’s most epic campaigns, the liberation of Paris, gets epic treatment in Call of Duty 3. Step into a breathtaking, seamless storyline as four ordinary Allied soldiers thrust into an extraordinary situation, the Normandy Breakout. An all-new close-quarters battle mechanic lets you fight hand-to-hand, rig impromptu bombs, disarm traps, and perform other keys to battlefield survival. Branching mission paths with multiple attack routes and distinct tactical requirements let you choose to outflank your enemy or overpower him head on. Environmental physics means there’s nowhere to hide: cover, both yours or your enemy’s, can be destroyed. Up to 24 can battle in team-based multiplayer with vehicles.

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Title: Bass Pro Shops: Trophy Hunter 2007
Publisher: Vivendi Universal
Platform: Xbox
Genre: Shooter
Release Date: 11/15/2006
Overview:
The hunt is more than the final moments. Preparation, location, game type, weapon choice, and ammunition choice all factor into what happens in those last, frantic minutes. Trophy Hunter 2007 lets you choose from over 35 big game animals to hunt. 10 different photo-realistic are yours to explore as you stalk your prey. Customize your hunter down to the tiniest of details. A scalable ballistics system features real tie dynamics affected by foliage, wind, bullet type, and movement. The choices you make come together to determine if you will bring down your target. Choose wisely.

Title: Sniper Elite
Publisher: Namco
Platform: Xbox
Genre: Shooter
Release Date: 10/19/2005
Overview:
It is spring, 1945, the final days of World War II. A furious battle rages for control of Berlin. The Russian Secret Service has descended upon the city to steal plans for the A-bomb. You’re invisible, elite, and working alone, with the fate of the world entirely in your hands. Infiltrate enemy-occupied territory and stop Stalin’s forces from harnessing the world’s nuclear technology. Roam freely through war-torn Berlin in extensive, non-linear levels across three modes of play – Single-Player, Co-Op, and Multiplayer Network. Learn to account for heart rate, posture, wind speed and even your breath, to hone your skills and complete 28 missions in this thrilling sniper simulator.

Title: Greg Hastings Tournament Paintball MAX’d
Publisher: Activision
Platform: Xbox
Genre: Shooter
Release Date: 10/19/2005
Overview:
Gregs Hastings Paintball Tournament became one of 2004’s sleeper hits, with over 100,000 paintballers registered on Xbox Live. Greg Hastings Tournament Paintball MAX’d ratchets up the intensity with enhanced gameplay and more furious paintball action. The tactical first-person shooter centers around single-player Career Mode and features Hastings, paintball’s acknowledged top gunner, and more of the game’s top shooters. MAX’d adds a field editor (featuring name-brand bunkers and other customizable cover), the ability to assign your squad to pre-match positions, and split-screen head-to-head and co-op play for 4 players, with competitions for up to 14 available online.

Title: Battlefield 2: Modern Combat
Publisher: Electronic Arts
Platform: Xbox
Genre: Shooter
Release Date: 10/25/2005
Overview:
Return to the war zone in Battlefield 2: Modern Combat, the follow-up to the original award-winning Battlefield. Flash forward from 1942 to the modern era and engage in firefights and warfare with today’s most advanced weaponry, tanks, aircraft and naval vessels. Choose to fight as the United States, China or the fictitious Middle East Coalition. Control soldier units of various types, including Snipers, Special Ops and Combat Support. Best of all, enter the battlefield with up to 24 players simultaneously in epic online multiplayer campaigns!

Title: Land of the Dead: Road to Fiddler’s Green
Publisher: Atari
Platform: Xbox
Genre: Shooter
Release Date: 10/26/2005
Overview:
Battle the undead in a fight for your life based on George A. Romero’s zombie flick, Land of the Dead. The founder of Fiddler’s Green, the fortified city housing the last of the living, offers you a special job. An exceptional reward awaits…if you live long enough to cash in. Fight the walking dead in 20 gut-wrenching levels. Lay waste to zombies with weapons including everything from M-16s to Molotov cocktails. The Body Part Specific Damage System produces nasty carnage, while a state of the art Unreal Engine and blood-curdling sound add to the horror. Four modes of intense, eight-player, Xbox Live mayhem include Deathmatch, Capture the Flag, and Invasion.

Title: Call of Duty 2: Big Red One
Publisher: Activision
Platform: Xbox
Genre: Shooter
Release Date: 11/2/2005
Overview:
Answer the Call of Duty again in Big Red One, Activision’s latest episode in the critically acclaimed World War II shooter series. Graphics, textures and animations are richer and smoother than ever. Jump right into the action of the historic operations of the famed First Infantry Division in Italy, North Africa and Central Europe. For the first time, play through the Story Mode with the same character, running missions with your men in bombed-out villages and Nazi-infested forests.

Title: Half-Life 2
Publisher: Electronic Arts
Platform: Xbox
Genre: Shooter
Release Date: 11/16/2005
Overview:
This stunning sequel to the one of the most popular first-person shooters ever comes exclusively to the Xbox. Once again, you’re research scientist Gordon Freeman. Your task: save what’s left of the dwindling human population and rescue our alien-ravaged planet. Half-Life 2 unfolds with cinema-quality graphics in a world developed with never-before-seen levels of sophistication. Characters react with lifelike fluidity and a remarkable range of emotion thanks to 40 distinct facial muscles. Friends and foes respond to your presence. They’ll use advanced AI to navigate terrain, fashion weapons, and assess threats before acting. Objects react according to real laws of physics. First-person shooting goes further than ever in this startling display of realism and responsiveness.