Was Goldeneye 007 the first game with a sniper rifle?

I read in a magazine that Goldeneye 007 for the N64 (1997) was actually the first FPS to feature the real-time use of a sniper rifle. It sounded awkward at first because I had never realised this, but I couldn't think of any shooter that preceded it that featured a sniper rifle. So can you guys confirm or debunk this?

never thought about that....

GoldenEye set the tone for FPSs in several ways; I would suppose that sniper rifles constitute one of those ways.

Team Fortress, in its original Quake-mod incarnation, predates Goldeneye.

I remember using one in Syphon filter. I don't remember if that was before or after Goldeneye.BlackendV

both wrong, there was a game for nes called "Rescue" You have to sneak past the lights with your sniper to get inside a buiding, then you can snipe guys through the window

Rail shooter ≠ FPS

both wrong, there was a game for nes called "Rescue" You have to sneak past the lights with your sniper to get inside a buiding, then you can snipe guys through the window

ryanweinmann

But what genre was this game?

both wrong, there was a game for nes called "Rescue" You have to sneak past the lights with your sniper to get inside a buiding, then you can snipe guys through the window

Yeah, it was mix between side scrolling sneaking around, repelling down windows, and fps. it was for nes

Yeah, it was mix between side scrolling sneaking around, repelling down windows, and fps. it was for nes

ryanweinmann

So you could actually make your character walk around AND shoot in the first person?

un when does a nes game or silent scope become fps,

the article clearly states 'first person shooter " doom being the very first first person shooter on the snes didnt have a sniper,

so yes goldeneye is definatelly the first first person shooter to have a sniper rifle,

and tf mods do not count sorry guys mods' are not full games you need tf2 to play them ,

so there for ,, it is goldeneye 007 turok was release shortly after ge i dont think that has a snipe ,, doom 64 definatelly does not nor does hexen , , -the only 3 weapons i know of in hexen are mele-the spiked thing , the wand like thing that shoots and the club ,

the secondary weapons are frost hand . ax and i think another hand type weapon

so yes goldeneye followed by quake/the world is not enough had sniper rifles on the n64 ,

and on ps1 syphon filter followed goldeneye was not released anytime before it ,

it is already confirmed that goldeneye was the first first person shooter on the n64 , and of that gen completely ,

as doom 64 was release slightly after ,

as was quake and hexen and dn64

the article clearly states 'first person shooter " doom being the very first first person shooter on the snes didnt have a sniper,

mariokart64fan

Doom is not even close to being the first FPS. Its own developer, id Software, previously created Wolfenstein 3D. And although the latter was what defined the basic archetype for all FPS that would follow, what first established this genre was a 1974 game called "Maze War".

Rail shooter ≠ FPS