RTI LEGAC Y | gaming
THE HISTORY O FIRST-PERSON-S GAMES By Mr DAVID JOE WILLIAMS, Ilfracombe Round Table
Some of the biggest and most played video games are FPS games at the moment. For the non-gamers, FPS means first-person shooter. Since the turn of the century, the first-person shooter is the most commercially viable video game genre accounting for over 27% of all video game sales in 2016.
THE FPS GENRE HAS BEEN TRACED back to
multiplayer and was the franchise's start. A Call Of Duty
Wolfenstein 3D, released in 1992. Created by id
game has been released every year since, but as you
Software, Wolfenstein 3D has been credited with
can imagine, this would be a lot of work for one studio.
creating the genre's primary archetype upon which
The franchise grew so much that 4 studios are working
most subsequent titles were based. The main example,
on the games: Infinity Ward, Treyarch, Sledgehammer
and the progenitor of the genre's wider mainstream
Games, and Raven Software.
acceptance and popularity, was Doom, released in
This is a battle royale game with up to 100 people
game in the FPS genre. Due to Doom's influence, the
competing to be the last person or team standing.
term "Doom-clone" was used to designate this genre.
Many say this has saved Call Of Duty with more than
Many of you would have heard of the game Call Of
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Two years ago, Call Of Duty Warzone was released.
1993. Doom is often considered the most influential
100 million people playing Warzone. So many Tablers
Duty, or at least one of the many Call Of Duty games.
play Warzone we decided to make Verdansk Round
In 2003, the Studio Infinity ward released Call Of Duty.
Table so we can all play and chat together. During the
The game was critically acclaimed and won several
lockdown imposed due to the Coronavirus, this was
"Game of the Year" awards for 2003. The successful
one of the few places where Tablers could get together
release of the first game made them release the sequel
and have fun and fellowship. Warzone itself was based
Call Of Duty 2 in 2005. This was the first game to have
on another viral game called Pub G that revolutionised
