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There's something to be said for death animations. The physics revolution has changed the way gamers think about murdering everything from limo drivers to alien shock troops to giant robots. It wasn't so long ago, though, that teams of artists and animators painstakingly handcrafted individual death animations for every foe, so that players could marvel as heads exploded, innards spilled out onto floors, and, in one famous example from Goldeneye, a guard writhed around for close to a minute, clutching his injured groin.

According to ESRB, this game contains: Blood, Language, Violence

Game Description: Alien Shooter: Vengeance delivers the blood and gore of Diablo and adds a new sci-fi setting. 100 years from now, a mega-company will experiment with portals to other dimensions. An alien race bleeds through the portals & begins an invasion. To keep things quiet & battle the aliens on their own terms, the authorities send in a specialist team to push them back through the portals. Extra game modes for single-player (Survival) and multiplayer (Deathmatch, King Of The Hill, Arena Battle and more) .

In what might be considered an alchemical achievement, Nival Interactive came out of nowhere in 2003 to release a game with a perfect engine. Silent Storm combined the two greatest games in the squad-level turn-based strategy (yes, it's a genre) genre, melding the realistic combat gameplay of Jagged Alliance 2 with the massively complex, completely destructible environments of UFO: Enemy Unknown.

According to ESRB, this game contains: Mild Language, Violence