Games Used for Gaming & Gaming Tournaments
NEW GAMES WILL BE ADDED TO THIS LIST THROUGHOUT THE YEAR.
Gaming Tournaments are an exciting element of our teen activities, but do not replace or infringe on instructional time. With industry leading names like NVIDIA®, Valve®, Steam®, Half-Life® 2, Unreal Tournament® 3, Portal™, TrackMania United® and other hit games, you know you are in for an amazing time of ducking, dodging and fragging.
NOTE: Games in our Gaming Tournament are rated “T” for Teen and “M” for Mature and are selected at the sole discretion of iD Tech Camps staff. Please check out our Gaming Tournaments page for more course information.
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Half-Life® 2 sends a shock through the game industry with its combination of pounding action and continuous, immersive storytelling. Valve’s debut title wins more than 50 game-of-the-year awards on its way to being named “Best PC Game Ever” by PC Gamer, and launches a franchise with more than eight million retail units sold worldwide. By taking the suspense, challenge and visceral charge of the original, and adding startling new realism and responsiveness, Half-Life 2 opens the door to a world where the player’s presence affects everything around him, from the physical environment to the behaviors even the emotions of both friends and enemies. |
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Also part of the Valve lineup, Left 4 Dead™ 2 is an exciting multiplayer co-operative, first-person shooter horror game that has been built using Source technology. This highly-anticipated game pits four human playable or AI controlled survivors against hordes of the “Infected” with the goal of making it through various scenarios safely. |
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Portal™ has been called one of the most innovative games of the decade. A hybrid of FPS style and a new genre of spatial brain teasers, Portal offers hours of totally unique gameplay. Set in the mysterious Aperture Science Laboratories, players must solve physical puzzles and challenges by opening portals, maneuvering objects, and moving themselves through space in ways that used to be impossible. Playing Portal will teach you how to love a “companion cube”, whether a computer named GLaDOS really wants you dead, and why your friends keep telling you “The cake is a lie.” |
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Counter-Strike®: Source™ blends Counter-Strike’s award-winning teamplay action with advanced Source technology. Featuring state of the art graphics, all new sounds, and introducing physics, Counter-Strike: Source is a must-have for every action gamer. |
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Team Fortress® 2 is the sequel to the game that put class-based, multiplayer team warfare on the map. TF2 delivers new gametypes, a signature art style powered by Valve’s next generation animation technology, persistent player statistics, and more |
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Day of Defeat®: Source™ offers an intense brand of online gameplay set in the WWII European Theater of Operations. Players assume the role of light/assault/heavy infantry, sniper or machine-gunner class, and missions are based on historical operations. Day of Defeat: Source features enhanced graphics and sounds design to leverage the power of Source, Valve’s new engine technology. |
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Unreal Tournament® 3 marks the return of the world’s premiere first-person shooter to the PC. Unreal Tournament 3 unleashes the full power of Unreal® Engine 3, taking graphics, gameplay, and challenge to a whole new level. Players engage in intense battles with other human players online, or against Unreal artificial intelligence that sets the industry standard. With the most powerful futuristic weapons and vehicles available, this is FPS action at its best! |
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TrackMania United® is a series of arcade racing games. Instead of following the usual trend of choosing a set car and track for playing in the game, the TrackMania United games allow players to create their own tracks using a “Block” process. TrackMania offers both a deep single-player mode as well as endless multi-player challenges across a world-wide community of racers who are ranked by the game’s ladder system. In contrast with most other racing games, the TrackMania series lets players race a track as many times as they want, until time runs out. Players can choose to respawn at any time – due to landing upside down, going off the track or because the start did not go optimally. |
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Call of Duty® 4: Modern Warfare™ is a first-person shooter game set in the near-future. It is the fourth installment in the Call of Duty series. Similar to previous games in the series, the player takes on the role of various characters while involvement in the plot occurs simultaneously and overlaps the events in the game. Players test their skills using powerful weapons and game strategy. |
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Steam® is a pioneering online gaming platform that provides the ability to distribute games and other content directly to more than 20 million gamers around the world. Steam opens up new channels of distribution and allows for non-traditional product offerings while increasing profit margins to content creators. |
©2010 Valve Corporation, the Valve, Steam, Source, Half-Life 2 , Left 4 Dead 2, Portal, Counter-Strike, Team Fortress, Day of Defeat, names, logos and box shots are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of Valve Corporation in the U.S. and/or other countries. Image from Unreal Tournament® 3. Copyright 2010, Epic Games, Inc. All rights reserved.
