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 (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.
Priced at £34.99, Hurt Me Plenty is a 464-page hardback printed to the highest standards using special Pantone ink and high-quality paper, with an illustrated cover by video game artist Ian Pestridge.
Guaranteed to remind you of games you loved alongside titles you may have missed, Hurt Me Plenty is for retro gamers, anyone interested in the history of one of the biggest gaming genres, and First-Person Shooter fans who’ve stalked through jungles, dropped from orbit, or fought through hell.
It’s time to lock and load!
Includes interviews with:
Eric Biessman (Call of Duty and Quake 4), Garry Newman (Garry’s Mod), Jeep Barnett (Portal, Left 4 Dead, Team Fortress 2), Ken Levine (BioShock), Minh Le (Counter-Strike), Stephen Kick and Samuel Villarreal (Nightdive Studios), Robin Walker (Team Fortress), Tim Willits (DOOM 3), and Zied Rieke (Medal of Honor, Call of Duty).
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- BAbaron a.Verified Buyer4 days agoRated 5 out of 5 starsBuy It Plenty !
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This book is very beautiful, it's a real pleasure to read it and admire the picture.
Always great books from Bitmap Books !
- FFlavioVerified Buyer6 days agoRated 5 out of 5 starsAnd another fantastic Bitmap Books release!
If you like Video Games and want something cool to have at home these books are the way to go. Super high quality. And the shipping is phenomenal! Thanks again! Can't wait for the next one.
- MLMichael L.2 weeks agoRated 5 out of 5 starsA must-have book!
Always perfect both design and contents.
- MMark1 hour agoRated 5 out of 5 stars5 Stars
It’s as good as expected.
- AGAndrew G.Verified BuyerYesterdayRated 5 out of 5 starsI bought this book the day it was released
This book is another winner from Bitmap. I love the combination of famous games that I remember playing (Crysis, BioShock, Far Cry, Half-Life 2, Unreal II, etc.) and more obscure games that I've never run across before. Filled with hundreds of screenshots and articles, this book is a great retrospective of the range of first-person shooters in the early 2000s. It's almost more fun to read about some of these games than to actually play them!
