Unreal Tournament fans will no doubt remember playing a map or two from David Münnich. He returns with an interesting singleplayer UT (also requires Operation Na Pali) experience simply titled "Bob - Everybody needs a friend!"
Mostly because I didn't like the games themselves. But also because the shooter genre generally was just "done" for me, so I had no more interest. The last shooter I really played was in fact UT99. I tried some others, but it was just the same with more visual details, that serve no purpose in a way that they would make the game more enjoyable to play.
When I do and play something, it should be something that's not been there before. Unfortunately this tendency is very rare among game developers, because there is too much financial risk involved nowadays.
But I guess everybody has made the experience, that a really good and fresh concept can be addicting without all the fancy shmancy stuff that takes 90% of the time and money to make. But you cannot buy good ideas.... instead they make crysis 2 (etc)... so palms that break physically correct and fancy shader effects will have to do the job, instead of a good idea.
