Hurt Me Plenty
The Ultimate Guide to First-Person Shooters 2003–2010
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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.
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.
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The quality of the book is great, but the overall content is wide and shallow. I was a bit sad to see only a 1/4 page write up for some of the more popular games of this decade, and some of the screenshot selections was a bit underwhelming.
I've got most of the books from Bitmap, and this one was the most underwhelming so far.
