“ Marathon (1994)” – Featuring a few genre firsts such as Free Look, Dual wielding / dual function weapons, story-driven gameplay, friendly NPCs and various multiplayer modes such as king of the hill. That’s 27 years’ worth of release history for one title! If Wolfenstein was the flame, DooM was the revving engine. Improving the formula laid down by Wolfenstein 3D, DooM has seen multiple re-releases and ports leading up to Xbox One and PS4.

There’s a reason why people call a lot of sprite-based FPS DooM clones, enter “DooM (1993)”. There wasn’t a fast-paced and technically advanced game such as Wolfenstein 3D back then, it’s heralded as fuel for the FPS genre engine. Titles such as “Hovertank 3D” and “Catacomb 3D” serve as prototypes for Wolfenstein as they provided revelations such as ray casting and texture mapping. The team at Id software focused on making a 3D environment by focusing views on a single plane.

It was the 3 rd title in its series but was the first FPS to turn the genre visceral thanks to killing Nazis and real-world weapons such as Pistols, Rifles and Knives. The first big hit within the FPS genre and responsible for turning on 1000’s of enthusiasts and developers was “Wolfenstein 3D (1992)”.

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