F.P.S. a.c.r.o.n.y.m.s.
For a non-First Person Shooter player, it should be pretty hard to understand some of the talk involved on a discussion about FPS titles, since the usage of acronyms instead of game titles is so common. This website is also a culprit at that, often mentioning only a few letters instead of the whole name and even featuring it on the mod graphics (for space economy purposes though).
With that in mind, and for future reference, here’s a list of acronyms used through the website – both on my posts and on the graphics. This comes straight from the game database used by the system.
- AvP2: Alien versus Predator 2
- BF2: Battlefield 2
- BF2142: Battlefield 2142
- BF42: Battlefield 1942
- BFV: Battlefield Vietnam
- CoD: Call of Duty (1, 2, 3)
- D3: Doom 3
- ET or W:ET: Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory
- HL: Half-life (1, 2)
- MoH: Medal of Honor
- Q: Quake (1, 2, 3, 4)
- Q3A: Quake 3 (same as Q3)
- QW: QuakeWorld (usually the same as Quake 1)
- SoF: Soldier of Fortune (1, 2)
- SS: Serious Sam (1, 2)
- UT or UT99: Unreal Tournament (the original)
- UT2k3: Unreal Tournament 2003
- UT2k4: Unreal Tournament 2004
There are some minor terminologies – for example, “SS:SE” stands for “Serious Sam: Second Encounter” – but that’s the gist of it.