Quiz: name that game

[Johnway]

Okay, thanks The game is Huntdown!
I like the narrator in the trailer btw…

CORRECT! it was in fact Huntdown. A cracking shootemup. Completed it a couple of days ago, so will be updating the usual topic.

i had hoped to upload a gif but alas not working so will probably not bother.

 

[PointnClicker01]

This may be a hard one… Remember that I‘m a fan of cineastic/story-rich games

 

[Brian Boru]

Lost on Mars
no?
Lost upon Jupiter
no?
Lost up Uranus

I‘m a fan of cineastic/story-rich games

Oh gawd… you'll fit right in here. This place is a halfway house for RPG addicts. While halfway houses are meant to provide respite on the road to recovery, our guys use it to sleep and refuel on the way back in to depravity!

 

[PointnClicker01]

Lost on Mars
no?
Lost upon Jupiter
no?
Lost up Uranus

Sorry, wrong planets We‘re still on Earth… Berlin to be exact

 

[Pifanjr]

Is it State of Mind?

 

[PointnClicker01]

Is it State of Mind?

YES! It is State of Mind!
Thrilling story When I played the game it felt more like an interactive movie than a real game, but I enjoyed it anyways

 

[WoodenSaucer]

Lost on Mars
no?
Lost upon Jupiter
no?
Lost up Uranus

No.
I Lost on Jeopardy

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0iFgPIh8lA

 

[Pifanjr]

I've never actually played this game, but I had a poster of it on the wall at the foot of my bed for years.

 

[PointnClicker01]

Construction Simulator 2?

 

[Pifanjr]

Construction Simulator 2?

It is not Construction Simulator 2.

 

[Johnway]

Kinda reminds me of Mace Griffin: bounty hunter. Probably wrong though. maybe chasm?

 

[invader]

Command and Conquer Renegade

 

[Zloth]

The radar thing in the lower left looks very Command & Conquer

 

[Pifanjr]

Command and Conquer Renegade

Correct! Your turn to post a screenshot.

 

[Brian Boru]

I'm embarrassed, that should've registered something with me!

 

[Pifanjr]

This is the poster that watched over me sleeping for probably about 10 years:

 

[Johnway]

Ah Command and conquer Renegade, so much potential and also so disappointing. PCGUk gave it 40%. I remember the technical blurb - Renegade "runs like an electrocuted dog"

 

[Zloth]

Renegade "runs like an electrocuted dog"

Invisible fencing for the win!!

 

[Brian Boru]

PCGUk gave it 40%

Are you sure? Very odd if so, since PCG US gave it 79%, and it has 75% on both GameRankings and MetaCritic. I know the UK side are a bit under par, but that much…?

I played it a couple of times, it was fun mainly due to being in the C&C universe. Outside that, I'd rate it around 60 these days, since I don't like that kind of repetitive linear shooter. Still, it was in the top 100 US games in the first 7 years of the century sales, so clearly well received by the gaming public.

runs like an electrocuted dog

Was that the game performance, or some other attribute? Ran fine for me at the time. Would explain the 40% if he couldn't get it to run properly.

Oh well… since the guy clearly doesn't know an electrocuted dog wouldn't be doing any running—or moving of any kind—maybe he's an outlier best ignored

 

[Johnway]

Are you sure? Very odd if so, since PCG US gave it 79%, and it has 75% on both GameRankings and MetaCritic. I know the UK side are a bit under par, but that much…?

I played it a couple of times, it was fun mainly due to being in the C&C universe. Outside that, I'd rate it around 60 these days, since I don't like that kind of repetitive linear shooter. Still, it was in the top 100 US games in the first 7 years of the century sales, so clearly well received by the gaming public.



Was that the game performance, or some other attribute? Ran fine for me at the time. Would explain the 40% if he couldn't get it to run properly.

Oh well… since the guy clearly doesn't know an electrocuted dog wouldn't be doing any running—or moving of any kind—maybe he's an outlier best ignored

Pretty sure. i had the magazine and was reviewed by jim rossignal at the time. i had hoped someone had uploaded a copy of the magazine on archive.org so i could show it but alas no. There was some controversy over the score as well, same with the original hitman game when Kieron Gillian gave it 56% when everyone gave it glowing reviews. But that's a different story. I've not played renegade so can't comment on the game, the electrocuted dog message was the technical performance on how the game ran.


EDIT:
the closest i got to Jim's review for renegade was his review of command and conquer the first decade. This was the only paragrapth to show his hatred for the game:

"Command & Conquer: Renegade. Hahahaha! Did you actually play this? The first-person shooter of the RTS... No, no, NO. I'm getting queasy just thinking about it. Going back and playing it, well, again, no. This is an appalling atrocity of gaming craft. This is one of those games where the idea, the pitch - of playing as the Commando on the cartoonish field of C&C war - was genius, and the reality something more like the dreams of a starving hobo clown. Move on! "

 

[invader]

My turn. Has been a while since i've played the guess game in the forum so apologies if repeated:


Note: this is slightly cropped capture from a youtube gameplay. didn't want it to be to easely findable, but I think anyone familiar with the game will recognize some details.

 

[Pifanjr]

For some reason it reminds me of Power Wash Simulator

 

[invader]

I can't possibly fathom what gave you that idea (wink wink). But no, is not Power Wash Simulator

 

[PointnClicker01]

For some reason it reminds me of Power Wash Simulator

So theres a game in which you only wash? I can only guess that this would be a perfect marriage killer...

My guess lies on The Amazing Spiderman. Probably totally wrong

 

[invader]

My guess lies on The Amazing Spiderman. Probably totally wrong

Is not amazing spiderman.

So theres a game in which you only wash? I can only guess that this would be a perfect marriage killer...

Following that logic, I think that this game could start some fights on a marriage...... (i'm single so I wouldn't know)

another clue: there is some washing in the game