Guitarguy on 19 September 2015
Mario set the benchmark for 3d platformers, even though it might have not been the first, it certainly did it the best and by far. Fade to Black was also an early 3D exploration game and if you compare the two, it is night and day in terms of the fluid controls, ,level design, camera etc. Alot of it had to do with the analog stick but the game was brilliant in all aspects. Crash is awesome too, but different and not comparable. It would be like comparing Ocarina of time to FF7, both same genre but vastly different in their approach.
