XIII

XIII (pronounced: Thirteen) is a first-person shooter video game released for PlayStation 2, Nintendo GameCube, Xbox, Microsoft Windows, and Mac OS X and based on the 1984 Belgian XIII comic series. XIII was developed and published by Ubisoft and released on November 18, 2003. The game was published for Mac OS X by Feral Interactive. The Windows DVD version has recently been re-released in the UK under the Sold-Out Software budget games label. Th... more

XIII (pronounced: Thirteen) is a first-person shooter video game released for PlayStation 2, Nintendo GameCube, Xbox, Microsoft Windows, and Mac OS X and based on the 1984 Belgian XIII comic series. XIII was developed and published by Ubisoft and released on November 18, 2003. The game was published for Mac OS X by Feral Interactive. The Windows DVD version has recently been re-released in the UK under the Sold-Out Software budget games label. The plot of the game centres on the main character, who has awakened with amnesia. The characters and weaponry in XIII are cel-shaded, giving a deliberately comic book style appearance, including onomatopoeic words contained in bubbles for sound effects, for example when an RPG explodes, the word "BAAOOOM" shows up close to where the explosion occurred. The story begins at Brighton Beach in Brooklyn, New York City where XIII awakes, badly wounded and with no memory of his past. The game roughly follows the storyline of the first five volumes of... less