Favorite 90s contemporary 2.5D shooter?

Discuss classic and favorite computer or console games here.

What is your favorite 2.5D FPS game?

Doom + Doom II + Final Doom
5
33%
Wolfenstein 3D + SoD + RotT
2
13%
Heretic + Hexen + Hexen II
1
7%
ShadowCaster
0
No votes
Cyclones
0
No votes
Blake Stone
1
7%
Pathways into Darkness
0
No votes
Marathon I + II + Infinity
0
No votes
Quake I - III
1
7%
Half-Life
1
7%
Strife
1
7%
ZPC
0
No votes
Chex Quest I + II
3
20%
 
Total votes: 15

User avatar
K1n9_Duk3
Vorticon Elite
Posts: 781
Joined: Mon Aug 25, 2008 9:30
Location: Germany
Contact:

Re:

Post by K1n9_Duk3 »

IMA3HDDMNKY wrote:Sure have. More like a Wolf 3-D knockoff than Doom, I guess. It was pretty lame, from what I recall. There was going to be a sequel titled Corridor 8, but the company that was developing it went bankrupt during production. A prototype version was later leaked by an ex-employee and I think it's still floating around in some dark corner of the web.
And the wiki-page links to one of those dark corners. Corridor 8 also was a "Build"-engine title by the way.
Hail to the K1n9, baby!
http://k1n9duk3.shikadi.net
User avatar
VikingBoyBilly
Vorticon Elite
Posts: 4158
Joined: Sat Jan 05, 2008 2:06
Location: The spaghetti island of the faces of dinosaur world for a vacation

Post by VikingBoyBilly »

Image
"I don't trust players. Not one bit." - Levellass
User avatar
matonen
Vortininja
Posts: 194
Joined: Fri Jan 30, 2009 13:24
Location: Finland

Post by matonen »

Image

Image

Don't know about you guys, but the title screens look pretty similar to me :P
User avatar
memsys
Vortininja
Posts: 229
Joined: Thu Nov 01, 2007 20:25
Location: Vortiville, Vorticon VI

Post by memsys »

strife hands down and i tell you why
story : the game has a very nice story including interesting plot twists
gameplay : smooth balanced
characters : the characters are worked out very nicely
sound : EPIC! all [semi] important characters have fully spoken dialogue
levels : interesting lot of different places from factory's and prisons to sewers and castles
weapons : a lot of weapons from an crossbow to rocket launcher and the sigil
detail : huge from mugs and bottles in pubs to the factory with all kkinds of stuff
other : the game also has 3 different endings and has money to buy items from shops

my second choice is blood
varied levels and weapons with lots of dark humor
(i used to be ME!)
Image
User avatar
KeenRush
Android Dummy
Posts: 2560
Joined: Sat Oct 27, 2007 20:57
Location: KEEN1.EXE
Contact:

Post by KeenRush »

Yeah, Blood has some interesting stuff -- like that train level! :eek And something I've never seen in other FPSes (not that I have played them much) is the player's ability to use two guns at once. And hadn't the game a voodoo doll and dynamite too as weapons?
My newest mod - Commander Keen: Sunset: viewtopic.php?t=8568 | codename H.Y.E.N.A.
User avatar
memsys
Vortininja
Posts: 229
Joined: Thu Nov 01, 2007 20:25
Location: Vortiville, Vorticon VI

Post by memsys »

yes yes and yes i actually own the original cd versions 2 of them one 2cd version and the one unit whole blood version
(i used to be ME!)
Image
IMA3HDDMNKY
Vortininja
Posts: 196
Joined: Sat Feb 09, 2008 23:06

Re:

Post by IMA3HDDMNKY »

Blood is seriously awesome. And bloody. And there really needs to be a Blood 3 one day.

Strife was great too. The voice acting was epic! I loved the backstory and the use of RPG elements. I need to re-play that one someday.
User avatar
memsys
Vortininja
Posts: 229
Joined: Thu Nov 01, 2007 20:25
Location: Vortiville, Vorticon VI

Post by memsys »

hah yea i really want to buy the original strife cd the version i have now is from home of the underdogs

i also the the original duke 3d cd with full versions of duke 2 and 1
and shadow warrior for pc and mac
oh yea and realm of chaos
(i used to be ME!)
Image
Toomuchsparetime
Vortigaunt Elite
Posts: 417
Joined: Mon Jan 14, 2008 11:39
Location: cAnAdA
Contact:

Post by Toomuchsparetime »

Whch game do I consider to be top of its peers in the genre in the 1990's? DooM, of course. Everyone knows that.

But my favourite, you ask? Blake Stone. Sure, my computer couldn't run DooM very smoothly, but as a Wolf3D gamer (grudgingly, I admit; I am very bad at first-person mazes where all the walls look the same and are perpendicular from each another) I found Blake Stone to be just what I was after: a wide variety of kooky enemies!
Post Reply