I read a PC gamer magazine that held the best (and sometimes worst) shooters of 2007 (e.g Best Third-Person-Shooter: Gears of War, Most innovative: Portal) according to one pretty clever guy. This sets a new standard miles away from the standards of other FPS's released at the same time. Incredibly, just because of one game, GSC Game World has become one of my few favourite gaming developers. Then they turned to making their first major FPS. GSC Gameworld has made old RTS games about the Cossacks, but they were not so successful and recieved little recognition.

I had difficulty choosing either 'Innovative' or 'Immersive' or 'masterpiece' to put as a bottom line above me, but because this game is very immersive, but even includes a lot of new things to the genre, I chose 'Innovative', but it still sure is immersive and inevitably a masterpiece.

Note: This review has been slightly edited. By CrysisFPS | Review Date: June 25, 2012