Just a reminder for anyone looking for an awesome game to play, Empire: Total War releases tomorrow. To sweeten up the deal if you pre-purchase Empire: Total War now on Steam, you will also receive Rome: Total War Gold free. If you’re still on the fence about buying the game the reviews are pouring in and are all giving the game 90% and up on Metacritic. As soon as the game becomes available I will begin on a review to follow up on my demo impressions.
I’ve decided to compile a list of what I feel are the most influential first person shooters released on PC as well as consoles. This first installment covers the years of 1993 on to 1998, however all of 1998 isn’t included, which will be continued in a later installment.
I know this has been done a millions time before, however this is the list that matters to me and if others feel the same, great! As stated, this list is purely subjective from my point of view, and all are free to agree or disagree with it. I don’t feel comfortable ranking these games, instead I’ll present them in a chronological order and let you readers decide how they should be ranked.
Wolfenstein 3D (1992)
Who can forget their first experience with Wolfenstein 3D? I can still remember it clearly to this day, heading over to my buddy’s house as a kid to check out this “amazing” game his dad had gotten from a buddy at work. Loading the game up on his blazingly fast 386 cpu, the main menu screen popping up with it’s awesome midi soundtrack. As soon as I first got in the game, nothing else to that date had prepared me for such an awesome gaming experience. I also remember the disappointment that I experienced when I learned my friend’s dad got the game on 3.5? disks and I only had 5.25?, with no way copy them to 5.25?. Keep in mind in the early 90’s computers were not near common place in a house hold, often costing $2000 and up.
While Wolf3D may have not been the “first” FPS game, it is the one that brought it to the main stream of FPS gaming. Battling your way through the game, killing countless nazis, taking countless (or so it seems) left turns had never been so fun. From the first time one would play the game, you could only see where this genre could and did go.
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Upon originally learning that a Total War game that was based in the 18th and 19th century I could barely contain myself. Who couldn’t love warfare carried out with black powder guns and bayonets on land while sailing ships duel on sea with a full broadside of cannons? Now the day draws near for the final game to be released upon the masses, but first, a demo has been released so all can get a taste of the game before the release. Sadly this demo may leave anything but a good taste in the new player’s mouth. Before the Total War crowd, let me say that the Total War game-play is totally there, and I love it to death, but this demo has some major issues in it’s performance and the plethora of bugs in game.
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Just a reminder for anyone looking for an awesome game to play, Empire: Total War releases tomorrow. To sweeten up the deal if you pre-purchase Empire: Total War now on Steam, you will also receive Rome: Total War Gold free. If you’re still on the fence about buying the game the reviews are pouring in and are all giving the game 90% and up on Metacritic. As soon as the game becomes available I will begin on a review to follow up on my demo impressions.
