1993, Game of the Year

[SvennoJ]

Cyran said:

SvennoJ said:

Imo Half-Life is GotD as it was a paradigm shift in how fps games were and still are made and created such a strong franchise with the first title (and expansions) it allowed Valve to change the way PC games were distributed with the launch of HL2 tied to Steam.

Anyway it seems all modern games were invented in the 90s! Hard to choose.

On top of that Counter-Strike started as a mod for Half life.  While I not a huge fan of counter strike series my self you cant argue how humongous that series is to this day.

You can make the case Golden Eye was the first FPS that broke away from the Doom formula and it did have at least some influence on half life most likely the AI system but if Golden Eye is the Wolfenstein of the standard for narrative focus FPS then Half life is the Doom.  When it come to PVP FPS you never convince me any game in the 1990's is better then Unreal Tournament 1999 so I would agree with you that Half life is GotD if it going to be a FPS.

We played Half-Life Death match more than Unreal Tournament, yet only because of the map editor and crazy mods. using a grapling hook in Half-Life Death match while running around as Homer Simpson in a faithful recreation of our own office building. (We played it at work in LAN after work).

Unreal tournament got lots of play time as well and it was/is the better PVP game with awesome extra levels as well. So fast, so smooth. Just running and humping around in Unreal Tournament felt awesome. The level editor was a bit cumbersome though, easier to make HL maps.