Warpath is a first person shooter developed by Digital Extremes and published by Groove Games for the Microsoft Xbox in the United States it launched on March 28 2006 the game uses the Unreal Engine 2.5 to deliver fast paced arcade style combat across a science fiction setting where three distinct factions battle for control of a resource rich planet the single player campaign consists of twelve missions that introduce each faction’s unique weapons abilities and vehicles multiplayer supports up to sixteen players on Xbox Live and offers modes such as deathmatch team deathmatch capture the flag and assault players can customize loadouts pick up power ups pilot hovercrafts and mechs and communicate with voice chat the title received mixed to average reviews critics praised the multiplayer depth and visual fidelity while noting the single player experience felt shallow and the overall design lacked innovation the game was added to iOctavio.com on 2006-08-08 and it was originally categorized as a first person shooter within the first person shooter genre to aid web searches