Hurt Me Plenty (Books)

Bitmap Books proudly presents <span class=""a-text-italic"">Hurt Me Plenty: The Ultimate Guide to First-Person Shooters 2003–2010</span>. The follow-up to <span class=""a-text-italic"">I'm Too Young To Die</span>, which covered First-Person Shooters between 1992 and 2002, <span class=""a-text-italic"">Hurt Me Plenty</span> 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 <span class=""a-text-italic"">Call of Duty, DOOM 3</span> and <span class=""a-text-italic"">Half-Life 2</span>, versus quirky surprises such as <span class=""a-text-italic"">FireStarter, Cryostasis</span> and <span class=""a-text-italic"">Moon</span>. Featuring in-depth research and hundreds of screenshots, <span class=""a-text-italic"">Hurt Me Plenty</span> 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 (<span class=""a-text-italic"">Deus Ex, Dishonored</span>), <span class=""a-text-italic"">Hurt Me Plenty</span> includes in-depth interviews with the creative minds behind <span class=""a-text-italic"">Call of Duty, Portal, Counter-Strike, BioShock, </span> and many more. Discover the stories behind hits like <span class=""a-text-italic"">Crysis, Borderlands, Fallout 3, Left 4 Dead, </span> and <span class=""a-text-italic"">Halo 2</span>, forgotten games like <span class=""a-text-italic"">You Are Empty, Daemon Summoner, </span> and <span class=""a-text-italic"">Breakdown</span>, failed experiments like <span class=""a-text-italic"">Kwari</span> or <span class=""a-text-italic"">Shattered Horizon</span>, and hidden gems like <span class=""a-text-italic"">The Ball, TECNO: The Base, </span> and <span class=""a-text-italic"">Zeno Clash</span>.