The pseudo-3D graphics were mind-boggling at the time and the level design, exceptional. The 1995 original brought with it fast-paced, frenetic action and the first glimpses of a real multiplayer mode.
While you can argue that the modern shooter is the result of over 20 years of evolution, I still love the raw simplicity and breakneck pace of the classic shooter.Įnter Doom, the very definition of a classic shooter. You had to keep moving to stay alive, health wouldn’t regenerate and combat boiled down to one rule: Kill anything that moves. Classic FPS games had a kind of flow and rhythm to them.
You take a few shots, dive into cover, and recover your health and repeat, ad infinitum. Modern FPS games differ from classic FPS games in that modern games are cover shooters.
