Wolfenstein 3D basically innovated FPS's. Doom took the genre to a whole new level, and basically invented LAN gaming.
Most innovative FPS
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Timesplitters. Lots of laughs, huge variety of weapons (the injector was, until recently replaced by the MIRV from Fallout, my favorite videogame weapon ever), tons of maps and characters, a great mapmaker on a console that allowed you to make objective-based missions AND multiplayer maps, lots of fun single player content via challenges and a story mode that pokes fun at movies and games of all kinds, and the great fun of multiplayer with bots.
Give me a game made earlier that does all that.
Give me a game made earlier that does all that.
If we're gonna count FPAdventure games like Prime, then I have to say, despite the execution being a bit linear..sadly, Geist.
Really, my only real complaints with Geist are its linearity, the controls (GC exclusive), and lack of online multiplayer.
The whole possession aspect was a fun idea, and had a lot of potential, which is why it's a damn shame that the game was so linear with its puzzles, you don't really get to experiment, there's only 1 way to go about doing things. The multiplayer was also really fun, and again the possession gimmick really made it something different. They took the standard deathmatch and managed to give it an interesting twist, host bodies scattered around each with their own weapon, you possess the one you want to use, and can depossess him at any time, but if the body is killed within a certain amount of time after you leave it, it counts as a kill for your opponent. Or the various objects you could posses, from exploding crates you could take control of and wait for someone to cross you and detonate, or the ability to possess a guided missle, or even animals you could use to access secret areas. Then you have things like Host vs Ghost where the ghosts had to possess a human host and try and force them into various death traps, whilst the hosts would fight against the possession and had anti-ghost weaponry designed to kill you. A damn shame it didn't have online.
Really, my only real complaints with Geist are its linearity, the controls (GC exclusive), and lack of online multiplayer.
The whole possession aspect was a fun idea, and had a lot of potential, which is why it's a damn shame that the game was so linear with its puzzles, you don't really get to experiment, there's only 1 way to go about doing things. The multiplayer was also really fun, and again the possession gimmick really made it something different. They took the standard deathmatch and managed to give it an interesting twist, host bodies scattered around each with their own weapon, you possess the one you want to use, and can depossess him at any time, but if the body is killed within a certain amount of time after you leave it, it counts as a kill for your opponent. Or the various objects you could posses, from exploding crates you could take control of and wait for someone to cross you and detonate, or the ability to possess a guided missle, or even animals you could use to access secret areas. Then you have things like Host vs Ghost where the ghosts had to possess a human host and try and force them into various death traps, whilst the hosts would fight against the possession and had anti-ghost weaponry designed to kill you. A damn shame it didn't have online.
Duke Nukem 3D. To me, this is the most innovative First Person Shooter. To be truthful I haven't played more then 30 (give or take) first person shooter titles, so around that time there might of been something else as well (I never got a chance to play Blood, for example).
I don't think Halo actually started most of the features in shooters, it just showed how well they could all be implemented.
My vote goes to Deus Ex, for telling a complicated and intelligent story without bogging the game down into endless cutscenes. Also, having the RPG elements really added to the immersion aspect of the game.
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That's because for the past ten years the FPS has saturated the market. You are not considered a game / level designer if you don't have a crap load of FPS garbage to your credit.thatstheguy said:
Innovative shooters would have to be titles like Wolfenstein, Doom, Quake, Halo, Half Life (no, not the franchises, and not the sequels, those games named exactly that)
Team Fortress 2 and Portal were probably the most innovative and reinvigorating games to hit the fps genre in years.
I'm not quite sure if you can consider it as such, but Descent 2 was always, to me, a first person shooter, only with multiple dimensions of movement. The only reason it stayed that way to me is because you were always constrained in the level (up yours Descent 3).
So if you consider it a FPS, then it was certainly an innovative one.
So if you consider it a FPS, then it was certainly an innovative one.