XIII left me a bit cold. It has some cool storylines and captures that pre-Nixon paranoia quite nicely, but the conspiracy is so deep that it just started to become a bit preposterous. The main character, XIII, finds out that he is actually a totally different person than he previously thought he was at least 4 times! It's quite clever the way it all works, I think, because it seemed to hold together. But it just became too confusing and I started to stop caring, after the the third badguy leader of the conspiracy was revealed and vanquished.
They made a video game out of XIII and I think there might be a movie. If you are interested in the period and the conspiracy genre, than XIII definitely has to be included in your research. As a comic, I found it below the level of Van Hamme's best work such as Thorgal and Les Maitres de l'Orge.
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I think I remember the video game as a fairly well reviewed first-person-shooter.
The videogame was one of the first games to use that 2-d illustration style, kind of like roto-scoping. So I don't think it was a first person shooter in the classic sense.
You might be interested in this post regarding the wrapping up of XIII:
http://forbiddenplanet.co.uk/blog/?p=5767
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