Category: Shooter

Title: Call of Duty: World at War
Publisher: Activision
Platform: PS3
Genre: Shooter
Release Date: 11/12/2008
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Title: NPPL Championship Paintball 2009
Publisher: Activision
Platform: PS3
Genre: Shooter
Release Date: 11/20/2008
Overview:
You wouldn’t want to leave a paint job in the hands of amateurs. Why should paintball be any different? Experience the run-and-gun thrills of the sport at its best with the official game of the National Professional Paintball League. First-person shooter combat meets extreme sports action in the most authentic paintball experience possible. Action unfolds with motion-captured moves including slides, dives, snaps, and more. Each piece of officially-licensed gear has been digitally scanned, bunkers and other cover shake when paintballs pepper them, and each shot fires with an accurate trajectory backed by real-life physics.

Title: F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin
Publisher: WB Games
Platform: PS3
Genre: Shooter
Release Date: 2/10/2009
Overview:
Just when you thought you’d conquered your F.E.A.R., there’s another waiting in the shadows. F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin picks up right before the original left off, frying your nerves with a new blend of paranormal chills and spine-tingling action. Alma, the psychic child at the supernatural center of the first F.E.A.R., has plunged the city of Auburn into chaos. A Special Forces Unit is diverted from a routine mission to try and stop her. Besides an enemy using advanced combat techniques, you’ll battle supernatural forces beyond human control. Use your environment to your advantage, slow time with enhanced reflexes, and more as you unravel a chilling new mystery.

Title: 50 Cent: Blood on the Sand
Publisher: THQ
Platform: PS3
Genre: Shooter
Release Date: 2/23/2009
Overview:
The tracks are as hot as they come and the action’s as cold-blooded as it gets in this arcade-style third-person shooter that lets you become the world’s biggest hip-hop star. 50 Cent: Blood on the Sand sends you into run-and-gun battles where you’ll use a cover system, buddy NPC G-Unit AI, brutal melee counterkills, and more. Build your war chest by making kills and finding caches. Use it to buy 20 more weapons and add more crushing Counterkill Finishing Moves. Fight by 50’s side in drop-in/drop-out online co-op play. He’s rewarded your loyalty with a soundtrack featuring classic 50 Cent cuts and 16 exclusive new tracks.

Title: Eat Lead: The Return of Matt Hazard
Publisher: D3P
Platform: PS3
Genre: Shooter
Release Date: 2/28/2009
Overview:
Matt Hazard’s life used to be good. He was an action-game hero in the heyday of action gaming during the ’80s and ’90s. But after a couple of bombs, he decided to call it quits. When a big-time publisher offers him the chance for the limelight yet again, he takes it and re-enters the world. He soon discovers the game he’s supposed to star in is, in fact, meant to do him in! Take control of Matt as you travel through the best action games ever. Battle monsters, zombies, space marines, 2D Nazis, and even Japanese RPG bosses. And utilize a variety of weapons from squirt guns to laser guns in this hilarious shooter!

Title: Shellshock 2: Blood Trails
Publisher: Eidos
Platform: PS3
Genre: Shooter
Release Date: 2/25/2009
Overview:
From the horror of the Vietnam War comes something even more sinister. When a special piece of cargo is lost in the jungle, a Special Ops unit is dispatched to retrieve it. Nothing is heard for a month, until one of them emerges from the darkness insane – and with something following him out of the jungle. Take on the horrific experience of the Vietnam War as you’ve never seen it before. Battle an insidious enemy which will use everything at its disposal to stop you. Fight using the weapons of jungle warfare, destroying infected enemies whose only goal is to separate you from your limbs.

Title: Killzone 2
Publisher: Sony Computer Entertainment
Platform: PS3
Genre: Shooter
Release Date: 2/28/2009
Overview:
A demoralized enemy. An army that’s no match for your military might. An operation timetable measured in weeks, if not days. In other words, the perfect trap. Return to the Killzone with this sequel that takes the battle to the enemy’s home planet. Two years after the Heighast attack on Vekta, the ISA launches a new assault. But the ISA Special Forces are getting a lot more battle than they bargained for. The Heighast army has adapted to its world’s hostile conditions and tapped a mysterious source of power drawn from the environment. You’ll battle the Heighast army and the planet itself…just try not to get too distracted by the game’s amazing graphics.

Title: Unreal Tournament III
Publisher: Midway
Platform: PS3
Genre: Shooter
Release Date: 12/12/2007
Overview:
When the game says “Unreal,” you know it’s too good to be true. The third installment of the ground-breaking first-person shooter experience is everything you want and more in its debut release on the PS3! Take control of a vast arsenal of big and brutal weapons, including the popular Shock Rifle, the massive Flak Cannon, or any of over 24 different armaments. Head to the front lines and defeat the evil Necris in the immersive single-player campaign, or take on humans or industry-standard AI in multiplayer. All your favorite characters are back, alongside all-new warriors, each with their own enhanced special abilities.

Title: Half-Life 2: The Orange Box
Publisher: Electronic Arts
Platform: PS3
Genre: Shooter
Release Date: 12/12/2007
Overview:
It’s time for the next chapter in the life of Gordon Freeman – plus four more games, all in one place! Start with the entire Half-Life 2 saga, including the original version, Episode One, and Episode Two. Continue your struggle against the mysterious Combine and leave the confines of City 17 for the first time. Next is Portal, an action-puzzle game, which arms you with a portal gun. Create portals from one place to another with the press of a button. Finally, try your hand at Team Fortress 2, a role-based multiplayer action game.

Title: BlackSite: Area 51
Publisher: Midway
Platform: PS3
Genre: Shooter
Release Date: 12/12/2007
Overview:
Take first person shooters to the next level! Lead a squad of the country’s most elite Special Forces soldiers, into a living, breathing world of difficult choices and conflicts between orders given and your own moral code. Your team responds to your orders realistically, and if you lead them well, they will rally behind you when the enemy brings the fight. If you waver, however, their morale will drop and they won’t fight for you as well. Drive the latest military vehicles, including Humvees, ATVs, and commandeered civilian vehicles, or take the gunner’s seat! Then, take the fight online for all the traditional multiplayer modes, or new modes like Human vs. Reborn or Siege Mode.

Title: Turok
Publisher: Touchstone Home Entertainment
Platform: PS3
Genre: Shooter
Release Date: 2/1/2008
Overview:
In the future, a former black-ops commando named Joseph Turok has joined an elite unit known only as Whiskey Company. Whiskey is tasked with taking down a war criminal named Roland Kane. The Whiskey Company ship is shot down en route to Kane’s genetically altered planet. Now, it’s up to you to enter the epic story and use Turok’s military training to elude Kane’s army and massive, bloodthirsty dinosaurs and insects, all intent on having you for dinner. Overwhelm the enemy with firepower or utilize quiet kill techniques with your knife or bow. Face the enemy head-on and grapple with dinosaurs, or make the terrible lizards attack your enemies!

Title: Conflict: Denied Ops
Publisher: Eidos
Platform: PS3
Genre: Shooter
Release Date: 2/13/2008
Overview:
You are an expert in weapons and military tactics. You carry no papers, objects, or clothing which could identify you. If you are captured, the US government will deny all knowledge of your existence. You and your partner will be dispatched to locations in South America, Africa, and Russia in the modern-day volatile political climate. Play in two-player Co-op Mode or switch seamlessly on the fly into Single Player Mode. Use one operative to lay down covering fire, then explore diverging paths, create distractions and pin the enemy down. Shoot through walls to create sniping holes or blast into a room to take enemies by surprise in the highly destructible environment.

Title: History Channel: Battle for the Pacific
Publisher: Activision
Platform: PS3
Genre: Shooter
Release Date: 2/21/2008
Overview:
Fight some of the greatest battles in recorded history, all re-created with uncanny accuracy by the History Channel. Don the war helmet of an American GI and step into the realm of the Pacific Theater, where you’ll face down an emperor’s army made up of soldiers who don’t know the meaning of the word surrender. Experience incredible intensity and drama on WW2’s most epic battlefields, ranging from Wake Island to Guadalcanal and Iwo Jima. Wield authentic weaponry used by both Axis and Allied forces, complete missions based on actual battleplans, and more. The fight continues online, where up to 16 can meet in encounters ripped from the pages of history.

Title: The Club
Publisher: Sega
Platform: PS3
Genre: Shooter
Release Date: 2/20/2008
Overview:
Membership in The Club is not granted to many. Fewer still live long enough to enjoy it. The Club is controlled by an anonymous group of wealthy investors who watch fighters battle to the death on a global stage in a new breed of high-stakes bloodsport. Choose from eight uniquely talented fighters, each whose lust for money is matched only by their lust for blood. Rise through the Club’s ranks in five run-and-gun, single-player, third-person-shooter modes. Blast your way to the top of online leaderboards in eight deadly multiplayer modes. Choose from 17 weapons and obliterate eight fully destructible real-world environments where everyone’s trying to take you down.

Title: Lost Planet: Extreme Condition
Publisher: Capcom
Platform: PS3
Genre: Shooter
Release Date: 2/27/2008
Overview:
Lost on a harsh, frozen world, snow pirates travel in Vital Suits, battling the planet’s native Akrid creatures for the heat energy they need for survival. On the verge of death, one snow pirate, Wayne, is rescued with almost no memory of his past. He recalls a mysterious brutal being murdering his father. The fate of the snow pirates and their Akrid rivals may lie in the darkness of Wayne’s memory, as a sinister plan to destroy both races has been set in motion. But who’s behind it? Find out in this frenetic third-person shooter set in a chilling sci-fi world, with both a single-player campaign and an online multiplayer campaign to explore.

Title: Turning Point: Fall of Liberty
Publisher: Codemasters
Platform: PS3
Genre: Shooter
Release Date: 2/29/2008
Overview:
Fight the battle after the ultimate ‘what if?’ in this game that thrusts you into a world where the Nazis have won World War II. Turning Point: Fall of Liberty turns history on its head, creating a fictional conquered America, and you’re caught right in the middle of it. You’re Dan Carson, a Big Apple construction worker who witnesses the Nazi invasion of New York from his work site high above the city. As paratroopers descend, zeppelins loom, boats land, and the Nazis swarm, Dan must find a way to survive with whatever he can find. Join the American resistance and experience World War II from a whole new perspective.

Title: Army of Two
Publisher: Electronic Arts
Platform: PS3
Genre: Shooter
Release Date: 3/6/2008
Overview:
For the first time in a shooter, the game no longer has a Co-op Mode – Co-op is the game. Whether with a friend or a tactical AI partner, you will never be alone, and all your strategies will focus on a two-man fire team. Take advantage of customizable weapons, vehicles, and tactical shooting techniques like giving cover. Snipe or parachute as a team, share weapons and equipment, and defeat your enemies as you complete your mission. Fight your way through war, turmoil, and a conspiracy on a global scale. Your AI partner will adapt to your play style, learning from you as you become a better fighter, taking the lead or giving cover, pushing strategies or taking orders.

Title: Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Vegas 2
Publisher: Ubisoft
Platform: PS3
Genre: Shooter
Release Date: 3/20/2008
Overview:
Sin City is still under a massive terrorist attack, and it’s up to you to save it from certain destruction! The best fighters are back, and you must lead the elite team to victory against an overwhelming foe. Explore beautiful Vegas hotspots and watch the weather dynamically change from dusk all the way to daytime. Create your own character which stays the same in both Campaign and Multiplayer Modes, where progress you make in each mode will benefit the other. Have a friend join in Co-op Mode at any time, on the fly, without a change to the story. Engage the improved AI teammates, who are equipped with thermal-vision and night-vision goggles, along with your favorite weapons and 11 new ones!

Title: Dark Sector
Publisher: D3P
Platform: PS3
Genre: Shooter
Release Date: 3/27/2008
Overview:
What lurks inside Dark Sector? A frightening Cold War secret and 3D-shooter action. Covert-ops agent Hayden Tenno is sent on a mission to Eastern Europe. During an attack by an unknown enemy, Hayden is infected with the Technocyte Virus, which turns its victims into mindless killing machines. Hayden begins to develop superhuman powers as his abilities gradually evolve. As the virus takes over, it works magic on his body, and wreaks havoc on his mind. Harness Hayden’s new powers, which grow as the game progresses. You’ll need them to survive Dark Sector’s gritty, shadowy world that sits on the edge of ruin.

Title: Haze
Publisher: Ubisoft
Platform: PS3
Genre: Shooter
Release Date: 5/22/2008
Overview:
You are Shane Carpenter, and the year is 2048. You are a newly enlisted soldier with the leading company trying to create peace throughout the world. This company offers you cutting-edge technology, including vehicles, weaponry, and performance-enhancers. Your first assignment is to take down a vicious rebel faction called the Promise Hand. As you begin your battle, things seem a little strange. Little by little, you uncover the truth – to do the right thing, you must switch sides and fight with your nerves and brains instead of the best technology. Each side offers completely different weapons, techniques, and abilities for two different gameplay experiences.