Hurt Me Plenty: The Ultimate Guide to First-Person Shooters 2003-2010 🌎

Bitmap Books proudly presents Hurt Me Plenty: The Ultimate Guide to First-Person Shooters 2003–2010 . The follow-up to I’m Too Young To Die , which covered First-Person Shooters between 1992 and 2002, Hurt Me Plenty celebrates almost 220 PC, console, handheld and arcade games (see a full list of the games included below). Following the genre’s meteoric rise over the previous decade, by 2003 First-Person Shooters had begun to diverge into big-budget blockbusters like Call of Duty , DOOM 3 and Half-Life 2 , versus quirky surprises such as FireStarter , Cryostasis and Moon . Featuring in-depth research and hundreds of screenshots, Hurt Me Plenty covers both classic and obscure titles, alongside trends like the proliferation of multiplayer-only shooters, what digital distribution meant to games, the shift from WW2 to modern warfare, and a look at First-Person Shooters that were never released. With a foreword by Harvey Smith ( Deus Ex , Dishonored ), Hurt Me Plenty includes in-depth interviews with the creative minds behind Call of Duty , Portal , Counter-Strike , BioShock , and many more. Discover the stories behind hits like Crysis , Borderlands , Fallout 3 , Left 4 Dead , and Halo 2 , forgotten games like You Are Empty , Daemon Summoner , and Breakdown , failed experiments like Kwari or Shattered Horizon , and hidden gems like The Ball , TECNO: The Base , and Zeno Clash .