Taking on the armies of hell, one demon at a time... When you think about it, its really unbelievable how many first person shooters are out there right now. Call of Duty, Battlefield, Halo, the list goes on and on and on. And its not just straight up FPS’ anymore. Open world games are FPS’ now (Far Cry). Hell, even RPGs are more FPS’ than RPGs now (looking at you Fallout). It’s getting a little tiresome, even if I do love a good FPS. But that wasn’t always the case. There was a time where these games were a novelty, something you only saw a few times in a generation. So what happened? Doom. Doom is what happened. Don’t get me wrong, Doom was far from the first FPS. There were games like maze war dating back to the 1970s and of course, there was ID software’s precursor to Doom, Wolfenstein 3D. But none of those quite captured the hearts and minds of Americans like the journey of a single, unnamed space marine and his battle against the armies of he
Old school game reviews and discussion, from the unfamiliar and obscure to the classics you know and love.