Half-Life 2 Related Games

This sequel to Star Wars Battlefront improves upon its predecessor with a variety of gameplay enhancements, such as upgraded AI, more than 16 new battlegrounds, and greater story emphasis. In addition to the rebel, clone, and droid warriors from the original game, you can play as a Jedi, complete with lightsaber attacks and force powers.

Serious Sam II is the sequel to the offbeat first-person shooter, Serious Sam. You can explore more than 40 levels of the game, destroying more enemies than you can shake a stick at.

Reload your weapons for the first expansion pack to Doom 3. In Resurrection of Evil, you'll return to the abandoned facilities of Mars to investigate a mysterious beacon buried deep in the ruins of an ancient civilization.

Not only is this easily the best of the Xbox launch games, but it's easily one of the best shooters ever, on any platform.

Unreal Championship 2: The Liandri Conflict enhances both single and multiplayer gameplay, including all-new player acrobatics, third-person camera mode, vehicles, and intense melee abilities. In the single player campaign, you'll fight your way through new cities and arenas as Anubis, who attempts to retake his people's Nakhti Rite of Ascension Tournament from the machinations of the Liandri Corporation.

Unreal Championship is a great game that is filled with action-packed, bloody shootouts that are especially fun online, but it lacks polish in a few spots.

The Xbox version retains the original games' off-the-chart intensity levels, and Serious Sam--which was always an arcade game at heart--feels right at home on Microsoft's powerful console.

It's formulaic but done well enough, so if you're into the previous installments or looking for another first-person shooter, then you'll find something to like in it.

It's a very fun game that borrows the best elements from past shooters, introduces a number of its own great twists, and then combines these elements to make something that will be highly enjoyable both for those who like shooters and those who simply like Star Wars.

Red Faction II can offer some good shooting action for fans of the genre.

Xbox owners will be underwhelmed by this version of Unreal II because it plays and feels like a watered-down port.

The game doesn't stray too far from the standard mission-based action script, but it does give fans of the genre something new to try, though many will surely feel as though they've played this game before.