From Maze War to Battlefield 4: Forty Years of First Person Shooter Evolution in One Beautiful Movie
First-person shooters are one of the most popular genres of interactive entertainment. Over the decades of development, it has significantly transformed, both visually and in gameplay. The path traversed by the genre was decided to demonstrate by the author of the YouTube channel 4096: the blogger released a very beautiful video, in which the evolution of first-person shooters is shown using the example of nineteen games.
Each of the projects shown in the video is given no more than fifteen seconds. At the same time, the author of the video took care of high-quality editing and made spectacular seamless transitions from one game to another. Most often they occur when a character walks through a door or makes any sudden movement. This technique allows you to even more deeply feel the difference between projects.
List of games present in the video, over the years of their release:
- Maze War (1973);
- 3D Monster Maze (1981);
- Wayout (1982);
- Wolfenstein 3D (1992);
- Doom (1993);
- Duke Nukem 3D (1996);
- Quake (1996);
- GoldenEye 007 (1997);
- Half-Life (1998);
- Quake III Arena (1999);
- Return to Castle Wolfenstein (2001);
- Medal of Honor: Allied Assault (2002);
- Half-Life 2 (2004);
- Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (2007);
- Far Cry 2 (2008);
- Killing Floor (2009);
- Mirror’s Edge (2009);
- Portal 2 (2011);
- Battlefield 4 (2013).
