European 3D action

[leilei]

What are some? They seem to be obscure to me and most involve shooting robots (since the whole 'killerspiele' thing opened up a market for them - it's still like this today (see: Hard Reset))

ZAR had me intrigued a bit due to the ambitious and semi-inspired Quake video code and the voxel terrain. I believe that's a russian one

[MrFlibble]

I'm sure you know The Hidden Below?

Chasm was produced by a Ukrainian team, who later moved on to create Vivisector.

One Russian project that had much hype in late nineties was Parkan: The Imperial Chronicles, which is a blend of first-person action, simulation and strategy (haven't played it though).

There have been several entirely homebrew Russian 2.5D FPS projects in the vein of Wolfenstein 3-D, I'm not sure if those were made by the same team/person or different people. These include Dungeons of Kremlin (probably the most well-known one), Raising Dead (apparently not the same thing as Smuta) and Old Gold (all neatly organized in this YouTube playlist).

I'm also sure you know about Russian-made Duke Nukem 3D TC called Liquidator, which got an independent sequel Liquidator 2, titled Liquidator: Welcome to Hell outside Russia.

Kreed also received its share of hype in the 2000's, but turned out to be nothing special.

I guess S.T.A.L.K.E.R. got enough popularity to be only briefly mentioned.

(BTW, you haven't specified a time frame, so I'm just naming games off the top of my head, in no particular order.)

There was that neat .kkrieger German project, I wonder what happened to it.

And, on that note, Cube and Sauerbraten

I think Hired Team: Trial was made by some Russian company (Heh, I just Googled it, turns out they made that Warcraft-y alternate history RTS about Slavs, Aztecs and Mongols (?) duking it out in Medieval times that I've read about in some magazine in late nineties ).

Codename: Outbreak is by the same company as S.T.A.L.K.E.R., and if I'm correct, it is they who also did a semi-amateur Warcraft 2000 project (guess you're familiar with it, but if not, it's Warcraft II with aliens and nukes ).

Psychotoxic was developed by a German studio (I know this gets a bit repetitive but come to think of it, I can't remember any French FPS games, for example).

Mortyr games are by a Polish studio, aren't they?

Neuro was developed by former employees of New Media Generation who had worked on Hired Team: Trial.

Chrome is by a Polish studio (yay variety!).

[MrFlibble]

Here's a French one:
In Extremis

[Rola]

Some obscure Polish titles I recall from their magazine previews:

Target for PC
Dust (Pył) for PC
Citadel (Cytadela) for Amiga

[MrFlibble]

Dust (Pył) for PC

This one rings a bell, but I'm not sure. Guess I didn't play it, just read something somewhere about it.

[MrFlibble]

Here's a demo of Alien Anarchy a.k.a The Varginha Incident:
http://volftp.tiscali.it/pub/pc/windows ... endemo.zip

[Edit] And here's a German game called Project Undead, which seems rather obscure (Wayback Machine archived copy):
http://web.archive.org/web/200107200846 ... ftware.de/

You can get the demo here:
http://volftp.tiscali.it/pub/pc/windows ... undead.zip