The most IMPORTANT FPS ever.....

What is it? i'm not talking about the best fps, or your favorite fps, but the one that added the most to the genre.

contenders:

Half Life: Revolutionized pretty much everything. story, layout, lots of stuff

Halo: regenerating shields, melee on the fly, grenades on the fly

any others? please give their contribution. please dont say halo 3. yes its a great game, but it is not a revolution from halo2

What is it? i'm not talking about the best fps, or your favorite fps, but the one that added the most to the genre.

contenders:

Half Life: Revolutionized pretty much everything. story, layout, lots of stuff

Halo: regenerating shields, melee on the fly, grenades on the fly

any others? please give their contribution. please dont say halo 3. yes its a great game, but it is not a revolution from halo2

Awinagainov

Go check out Starsiege Tribes v1 from 1998 first.
http://www.gamespot.com/pc/action/starsiegetribes/index.html?tag=result;title;0

They had regenerating sheilds then.

You can download this game at www.download.com for free now.

Doom!!!!!!!

Half Life

GoldenEye: First FPS on a console done right.Slashkice

It'd be neither of those. They just dressed around with the formula. Same with Goldeneye, Perfect Dark, etc. Shining examples of the genre, or games that took it in new directions.

But the most important FPS would be one like Doom or Wolfenstein 3D, the games that fathered the modern FPS genre.

What is it? i'm not talking about the best fps, or your favorite fps, but the one that added the most to the genre.

contenders:

Half Life: Revolutionized pretty much everything. story, layout, lots of stuff

Halo: regenerating shields, melee on the fly, grenades on the fly

any others? please give their contribution. please dont say halo 3. yes its a great game, but it is not a revolution from halo2

Awinagainov

Goldeneye set the standards, definetly one of the most influential fps's,

Deus ExBioShockOwnz

Doom 1

What about Turok for the N64. As far as I know, it was the first game to use the duel analog scheme (or at least analog and d-pad).Tylendal

Anyway, I'd say that Wolfenstein3D in the most important - it took the FPRPG genre, simplified it, and added guns...and we've been playing them ever since.

[QUOTE="Tylendal"]What about Turok for the N64. As far as I know, it was the first game to use the duel analog scheme (or at least analog and d-pad).Planeforger

Anyway, I'd say that Wolfenstein3D in the most important - it took the FPRPG genre, simplified it, and added guns...and we've been playing them ever since.

But the C-Buttons are (in function) a D-pad. So it did introduce duel-analog control, did it not?

Ill have to spit this decision into 2 category with 2 games.

Most Important FPS are

HL - Counter Strike Mod

&

Halo CE

both brought mass appeal to the FPS genre

GoldenEye: First FPS on a console done right.Slashkice

Doom!!! Not only because of it's awesomeness, but because it's open source (I think), and it's been ported to the ipod and the iphone(although on the iphone edition, you can't play it yet. Still...)

That, or goldeneye.

Goldeneye, because it became the standard andmodel for FPS games.

Wolfenstein 3D- perfected the genre

Goldeneye 007- perfented the genre on consoles

Quake-Multiplayer

HALF-LIFE. anyone who says otherwise is too young to understandNaiKoN9293

You sir are too young to understand that Doom was infact more revolutionary than Half-life. In addition to it perfecting what was started by castle wolfenstein, it was the first FPS that had a multiplayer following. The MP was created by users though, which brings another point it was the first game I had ever played that had tons of user made mods and levels for both single and multiplayer.

Half-Life, Doom, and Unreal Tournament. (and possibly Quake)

DoomIbacai

wasnt wolfenstein first?