App Club Contest: Win First-Person Shooter Archetype for iOS

Some video game genres fit pretty easily onto Apple’s iDevices. Platformers do extremely well, as do strategy games and turn-based RPGs. First-person shooters have been a mixed bag so far, though, and getting decent multiplayer FPS action on an iDevice has been an exercise in frustration.

That said, I’ve been playing a bit with Archetype, a sci-fi FPS from independent developer MunkyFun and published by Villain. The iPad version of the game just launched in the App Store. Here’s how they describe it:

Archetype HD players can join cross-platform online matches with the robust community that has quickly grown to more than 280,000 Archetype fans on iPhone and iPod touch while enjoying a full set of FPS features including player rank-based team matchmaking, melee combat, buddy lists, and radar-based player tracking. Archetype HD offers a console-style experience over Wi-Fi or 3G that gamers can enjoy on the go—or on the couch at home. Players can share their exploits via Facebook™ and go online to track and compare their stats to other players while competing to reach top-10 leaderboards.

The multiplayer deathmatches that I’ve played on iPad have been smooth and fun. To let more people in on the experience, Villain’s given us three codes each to give away for Archetype on iPhone and Archetype HD on iPad.

Here’s how to win: Come up with an idea for a first-person shooter that doesn’t have futuristic or science-fictional elements and post it in comments. You’ve got all of history on your side, people!

Contest ends at midnight EST.

chevelleman

My idea is to have a first-person shooter with pirates. You could have it set on pirate ships and have cannons randomly firing at you while playing. The winner of each round gets a treasure chest with some nice booty.
4zsasz4

Okay, so you’re a lone wanderer in medieval/feudal times. Your long thought dead wife has been found to be on the other side of the world, having been kidnapped and sold to slave traders. From England to travel East and fight all along the way. Celts, Goths, Normans, Turks, Indians, Chinese, Mongols, Ninjas and Samurai all stand between you and your love. Along the way you acquire weaponry from the various warriors and soldiers you encounter. Of course, you can level up weapons and skills to fight bosses of different calibers and styles.
chevelleman

Oh yeah. The name of my Pirate FPS would be: Call of Booty.
http://bro4evr.wordpress.com kpetti11

The Arabian desert, 4-6th century. You play as a member of a nomadic Bedouin tribe. Known throughout the peninsula as tough fighters and expert camel riders, you raid oases, fight the Eastern Roman Empire and clash with other tribes on your way to trade, and political, dominance in the Middle East. Some locales would be Petra, Jordan (http://tinyurl.com/347fb8m) Palmyra, Syria (http://alturl.com/u692kpg) and Damascus.
skinnieguy

Wild wild west shooter. Lots of different weapons, revolvers, rifles, knives, bow & arrow, dynamite, even a Gatling guns! Different settings, train, saloon, native American camps. Ride horses and stagecoaches.
ctjedi52

Ok, it is in the Cold War ,and you are a special ops team for Russia. Outrigged with the best gear you must remove Communist opposition without notice to spread communism. You can hunt down American and British teams ,and dispose of them. Then in multiplayer it is either team or free for all matches in several maps such as Siberia, Berlin Wall, and in Cuba. You can get different weapons and weapon upgrades from points and achievements you get from matches. It would be Called Red Operation. ( red because of communists)
4zsasz4

On Gang Day in a Disneyland-style park, every gang is out in force, showing their colors (think Warriors, but FPS). After you accidentally cut in front of a rival leader in the line for Cocaine Mountain, it’s on!!! Defend your section of the park (like Frontierland or Hookerland for example), conquer all the -Lands, collect all the 8-balls, or try to make it to the park exit to win. Play twisted carnival games to get weapons. Detailed park maps. Switchblades, broken bottles, axes, Tec-9′s, shotguns, AK-47′s, rubber chickens…
http://youtube.com/churchhatestucker Church

Has anyone done a Mafia-style FPS? Loads of potential there. From speedboating booze in from Cuba to Bootlegger driving to gang hits etc.
4zsasz4

‘Bully’ style: more friendly than your average bear. A nerdy kid walking home from school
Finally decides to live us to his name, ‘Awesome Johnson’. Bully-class bully, Winston McNamara, decides to wipe all geeks from the face of the earth. Homeroom teacher, Lawanda Cleavage, has had enough. Rulers, compasses, slingshots, and anything else you’d find in a school are up for grabs, including javelins. Rock you like a hurricane!
ctjedi52

who won
4zsasz4

Ditto. Who won? I guess that’s redundant and redundant again.
johnfrodo

Game Name: Lone Gunman

You are a clean Secret Service Agent guarding JFK in Dallas, you must clean out the grassy knoll, and work your way through the conspiracy, find out who is behind it.

Weapons all historical including a sniper contest with Oswald, a duel with Jack Ruby and lots of wet work on the shrub ranch.
http://callnresponse.wordpress.com Evan Narcisse

E-mail have been sent to the winners. If you didn’t get one, don’t be discouraged. We’ll be doing another giveaway later this week.