You're right Zwiffle mea culpa I seem to have skipped a line in your post on the zen/in game currency. 

Sounds exactly the same as C1 and C2. Looks exactly like a cross between C1 and C2....but fucking cool: http://www.bluesnews.com/screenshots/games/crysis3/20120416/ 

now that is how you do post-apocalyptic. Not this dull endless-grey-wasteland bollox. 

yeah, that'd be a nice change from the constant mad max post-ap stuff we've been seeing.
i mean, i like the evile desert wasteland thing, but i think a really beautiful and peaceful (until monsters try to eat you) setting could be awesome. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ABmD3ZZxok

Do want. 

Fact is, in a game like Spelunky you just can't trust people. The best example came in a two-player game, where a mate responded to the presence of a bat with the immortal words "I'll take care of this." He went to whip it, missed and hit me, got bitten, panicked and dropped a bomb on my stunned body, got bitten again and impaled himself on some spikes as I was blasted to smithereens. On the game over screen, you could see the bat still nipping away at his corpse.

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2012-02-20-spelunky-preview-going-deeper-and-deeper 

Which the coop version would come out for PC. :( 

http://www.bluesnews.com/s/131787/crysis-3-trailer

Exactly more of the same but the setting looks great to me. Gameplay is incomprehensible in the trailer tho. 

I hope they up the ammo limits after Crysis 2 that was my main annoyance with that game.
They removed your pistol slot and then halved total ammo capacity :( 

but the game sounds like it could be cool if they are going for more of the open jungle type gameplay of the first game but with a slightly less monotonous environment. 

Reviewed Raven Squad from 2008.

http://www.etherealhell.com/etherealhell/reviews/2012/raven_squad_operation_hidden_dagger.php

Very average shooter, 5.5/10. Probably fuck all people have played it since sites like IGN gave it a 2/10. 

On your review list, 'The Precursors' links to the RS: Vegas 2 review. 

cheers mate, just fixed that 

Given your appetite for obscure and possibly horrible FPS's, have you played or reviewed Marine Sharpshooter? I bought it on impulse (very rare for me) seven years ago or so. For me this was a $20 case of buyer's remorse as I didn't even tolerate it for more than 2 minutes off the start in a dark camp getting shot by unseen enemies that I was trying to spot over a huge and overly bright HUD. Just curious as to whether or not it ever got any better. 

Possibly horrible, lol. Nah I passed on Marine Sharpshooter. There was a bunch of them actually, I was possibly going to get Marine Sharpshooter 4, but the screenshots looked really bad, even for 2008, and even for me. There's plenty better (but still horrible) Russian shooters to play ahead of it.

I just tried to play Steam Slug, a German shooter that looks very similar to Painkiller gameplay-wise. Except it's all in steam punk 90s style level design. Couldn't re-map the mouse buttons though, and I don't use wasd.

Looks like I'm playing Dreamkiller next
http://www.gamespot.com/dreamkiller/videos/dreamkiller-alice-trailer-6232743/ 

the last part of your review makes it sound like a horrible (AND consolified) game! 

And now I've finished Dreamkiller :P
Review http://www.etherealhell.com/etherealhell/reviews/2012/dreamkiller.php

5.5/10. Wasn't that bad, but only if you liked Painkiller and want more of it. 

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2012/04/30/wrack-doesnt-ruin-doom-hopefully/

Reminds of RetroBlazer quite a bit. 

Looks like it has really REALLY boring level design.

A lot of developers seem to confuse "old-skool" with "crap". 

I honestly couldn't watch much of the video. The fight with those large robots after they hit the red button almost put me asleep. I've never seen such a dull shotgun before. The lack of feedback/flnching or such from the mentioned fight and later doesn't exactly help either.

Many people do seem to miss the point with this 'old skool' thing with FPS. Just because the game doesn't play like COD and you run around in various square rooms fighting enemies like in the 90s doesn't mean it's 'like Doom' and going to be fun.

It's the level layouts (and then design) which tend to fall short. :/ 

most "old skool shooters" made these days tend to be arena shooters with waves of dumb enemies. The level design is dull and generic typically.

I never really understand why this is, if you look at the real old-skool shooter games, ie. most of the older id games, they are nothing of the sort. Either these developers are incredibly lazy or incredibly uninspired.

Wracked will have it's own level editor on release however, it looks very similar to worldcraft. Just fyi. 

shit level design, even shitter enemies and combat. cell shading as always looks kind of cool, but it's only hiding a pretty shitty game. that needs a lot more work.

when, for the love of god, are developers going to stop putting fucking spiders in their levels? Daikatana should have permanently ended developers love affair with insects. 

"Feel" is the hardest thing to nail in a game. They have the basic mechanics - fast movement, guns, enemies, pick ups - but it doesn't have any feel. There's no kick. It's all very sterile and meh...