The Evolution of The FPS Genre

[-HP-]

Inspired by this great thread on gametrailers forums, I decided to do the same here, and added some new ones! Enjoy, eh eh!

(Source: http://forums.gametrailers.com/showthre ... ost6900732)

First FPS:

1982 - 3D Monster Maze

1991-1993: Defining the genre

1991 - Catacomb 3D

1992 - Wolfenstein 3D

1993 - Doom

1994-2000: After Doom

1994 - Marathon

1995 - Rise of the Triad

1995 - Descent

1995 - Hexen

1995 - CyberMage

1996 - Duke Nukem 3D

1996 - Quake

1996 - Team Fortress

1997 - GoldenEye 007

1997 - Blood

1997 - Turok: Dinosaur Hunter

1997 - Quake 2

1997 - Star Wars Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II

1998 - Half-life

1998 - Delta Force

1998 - Rainbow Six

1998 - Unreal

1999 - System Shock 2

1999- Requiem: Avenging Angel

1999 - Starsiege: Tribes

1999 - Kingping

1999 - Quake III Arena

1999 - Alien vs Predator

1999 - Unreal Tournament

1999 - SWAT 3: Close Quarters Battle

The 2000s: Strides for Realism

2000 - Soldier Of Fortune

2000 - Deus Ex

2000 - Counter Strike

2000 - No One Lives Forever

2000 - Perfect Dark

2001 - Operation Flashpoint

2001 - Ghost Recon

2001 - Red Faction

2001 - Halo: Combat Evolved

2002 - Return to Castle Wolfenstein,

2002 - Medal of Honor: Allied Assault

2002 - Battlefield 1942

2003 - Call of Duty

2003 - Rainbow Six 3

2003 - Day of Defeat

2003 - Farcry

2004 - Doom 3

2004 - Half Life 2

2004 - Unreal Tournament 2004

2004 - Halo 2

2005 - Fear

2005 - Brothers in Arms: Road to Hill 30

2005 - Call of Duty 2

2005 - Battlefield 2

2006 - Condemned: Criminal Origins

2006 - Rainbow Six Vegas

2007 - S.T.A.L.K.E.R

2007 - Bioshock

2007 - Call of Duty 4

2007 - Team Fortress 2

2007 - Unreal Tournament 3

2007 - Crysis

[dux]

Pitty some of the screens are taken on terribly low resolutions with either low / medium detail. Good run down though!

[FrieChamp]

Yea that was great! Brings back quite some memories and makes you realize how much technology advances over time.

[Punky]

Lol knowing that I played doom '93(came out the same year when I was born) when I was like 5 years(1998)(My dad learnt me how to play it)This was fun to read, thanks.

Altough there are a lot of FPS games I have never heard of..

[Nexus]

I am the only one lucky played all the games you posted in here?

you forgot classics like Soldier of fortune

damn. this thread brings up alot of feelings..

"MMMMMONSTERKILL."

[D3ads]

Good thread, but missing a load of titles, ie:

Blake Stone

Kingpin

Soldier Of Fortune

Shadow Warrior

Blood

Shogo: Mobile Armour Division

No One Lives Forever

Requiem: Avenging Angel

Clive Barker's Undying

System Shock 2/Rainbow Six aren't FPS's either :/

[-HP-]

Good thread, but missing a load of titles, ie:

Blake Stone

Kingpin

Soldier Of Fortune

Shadow Warrior

Blood

Shogo: Mobile Armour Division

No One Lives Forever

Requiem: Avenging Angel

Clive Barker's Undying

I tottally agree buddy, gonna edit the thread soon!

System Shock 2/Rainbow Six aren't FPS's either :/

Well, Of course SS2 is a FPS, It's a FPS/RPG. And rainbow six is a shoother nevertheless!

[FrieChamp]

I think it's cool they added Turok, but that's gotta be the dullest screenshot you can find

[zaphod]

Hexen?

cool thread.

[R_Yell]

Great games there, the original SW: Jedi Knight I think was worth too, it had many original elements. I enjoyed it a lot, even without being a SW fan.

[-HP-]

I'm gonna add new ones soon

[Thrik]

Haha, awesome. Weirdly kind of nostalgic seeing some of that.

Pity some of the screenshots were really bad though, as already pointed out. I'm also a bit disappointed they didn't show 3D Monster Maze, which clearly should have been the real #1 of the list even if technically not a shooter. Highlights the extreme divide in technology better.

[-HP-]

Ok, added new screens/games and edited some of the low res ones.

[Alf-Life]

OMG, I remember Blake Stone!! That was awesome, the enemies talked! Didn't they? :s

That was awesome! Although wasn't Allied Assault 2001? And Far Cry, like, March 2004? (Also, Turok came earlier in the year than GoldenEye, I think Turok was like March and GoldenEye August (November in Europe)).

I missed Metroid Prime; I think if you have an FPS-RPG there like Deus Ex, including the 'FPA[dventure]' wouldn't be bad.

I also missed lesser known games like SWAT 3 that I personally loved. Would be awesome to see a 'every FPS(FPS-RPG/FPA) ever released, by year'. But that would take quite some time/determination.

Would be great to keep this thread active, and add bullet-points to the things each game added to the genre.

[-HP-]

Ah, good you mentioned Swat3, what a great game! It was a gem in it's year!