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Jagged Alliance is a 1995 turn-based tactical game with role-playing elements, the first part of the series, made by the Montreal studio Madlab Software and published by Sir-Tech Software. The player is tasked with freeing the island of Metavira from Lucas Santino by hiring mercenaries through the A.I.M. agency and taking the island back sector by... 392

Star Wars is a first-person rail shooter designed by Mike Hally and released in arcades by Atari, Inc. in 1983. It uses 3D color vector graphics to simulate the assault on the Death Star from the 1977 film Star Wars. Assuming the role of Luke Skywalker (Red Five), the player pilots an X-wing fighter from a first-person perspective. The player does... 1006

Star Wars is a first-person rail shooter designed by Mike Hally and released in arcades by Atari, Inc. in 1983. It uses 3D color vector graphics to simulate the assault on the Death Star from the 1977 film Star Wars. Assuming the role of Luke Skywalker (Red Five), the player pilots an X-wing fighter from a first-person perspective. The player does... 458

Star Wars is a first-person rail shooter designed by Mike Hally and released in arcades by Atari, Inc. in 1983. It uses 3D color vector graphics to simulate the assault on the Death Star from the 1977 film Star Wars. Assuming the role of Luke Skywalker (Red Five), the player pilots an X-wing fighter from a first-person perspective. The player does... 393

Star Wars is a first-person rail shooter designed by Mike Hally and released in arcades by Atari, Inc. in 1983. It uses 3D color vector graphics to simulate the assault on the Death Star from the 1977 film Star Wars. Assuming the role of Luke Skywalker (Red Five), the player pilots an X-wing fighter from a first-person perspective. The player does... 434

FX Fighter was an early realtime 3D fighting game to be developed for the PC. The game features 8 different characters, eight different arenas, movie cut scenes, and 40 attacks per fighter. The player selects a character to face against eight of the best fighters in the universe for a prize consisting of the most powerful weapon in the universe... 173

Duke Nukem 3D is a 1996 first-person shooter by 3D Realms that moved its muscle-bound hero from two 2D platformers into first person. It runs on Ken Silverman's Build engine, which allowed looking up and down, jumping, swimming and flying with a jetpack, and it became known above all for how much of its environment the player can actually use. The... 2578

CyberMage: Darklight Awakening is a cyberpunk first-person shooter with role-playing elements, published by Electronic Arts for PC DOS in 1995. It was built by ORIGIN Systems to a design by D. W. Bradley, creator of the Wizardry role-playing series, and alongside conventional guns the player wields the powers of a Darklight crystal embedded in his... 152

Another World, known as Out of this World in the US and Outer World in Japan, is a 1991 cinematic platformer designed and developed by Eric Chahi. The graphics and box art were designed by Chahi, while the music was composed by Jean-François Freitas. The protagonist of the game is Lester Knight Chaykin; a young, athletic, red haired physicist. Lester... 600

Fade to Black is the sequel to Delphine Software's Flashback, released by Electronic Arts in 1995. It takes the series from 2D platforming into full 3D: players again control agent Conrad B. Hart, now viewed over the shoulder through fixed camera angles reminiscent of Alone in the Dark. Fifty years after destroying the Morph homeworld, Conrad awakens... 139

Flashback, released in the US as Flashback: The Quest for Identity, is a 1992 cinematic platformer by France's Delphine Software and a spiritual successor to Another World. Players control Conrad B. Hart, an agent who wakes up amnesiac on Saturn's moon Titan and uncovers a plot by shape-shifting aliens - the Morphs - who have infiltrated humanity.... 348

Descent II is a 3D first-person shooter video game noted for popularizing the use of true 3D rendering technology and providing the player with six full degrees of freedom (often abbreviated `6DOF`) to move and to look around. Originally planned as an expansion (and not a sequel) to Descent, Descent II added more weapon types, vastly improved robot... 738

3D first-person shooter has a strong following due to its unique "six degrees of freedom" gameplay. However, because this gameplay can be challenging and strongly favors the use of a joystick, Descent never gained the popularity of more conventional ground-based 3D first-person shooter games... 273

Corridor 7: Alien Invasion is a first-person shooter released in March 1994 for PC DOS by the American studio Capstone Software. It runs on the licensed Wolfenstein 3D engine, which made it look technically dated just 3 months after Doom. The player is a Special Forces soldier clearing the underground Delta Base floor by floor of the aliens that reached... 226

Corporation (originally released for Amiga in 1990) is one of the earliest 3D first-person shooter games, predating ID Software's Wolfenstein 3D (1992). It was also the first of its kind to utilize dynamic lighting. Gameplay was very complex for its time, featuring role-playing, stealth and hacking elements, similar to the later System Shock and Deus... 95

Chasm: The Rift is a first-person shooter by the Ukrainian studio Action Forms, released in October 1997 for PC DOS and distributed under the Megamedia, GT Interactive and WizardWorks labels. The player is a soldier hunting the Timestrikers, mutants who tear holes in time and invade the present day, ancient Egypt and the Viking middle ages. The engine... 350

The Catacomb Abyss is a fantasy first-person shooter developed by the in-house team of Softdisk Publishing and released for PC DOS in November 1992 under the Gamer's Edge label. After the defeat of Nemesis, the wizard returns to fight the minions who built a mausoleum in his honour, blasting his way with magic missiles from the town graveyard through... 382

Blood is a horror first-person shooter developed by Monolith Productions and published by GT Interactive in 1997 for PC DOS. The undead gunslinger Caleb takes revenge on the dark god Tchernobog and his cult across 4 episodes full of gore, black humour and horror film references. It runs on the Build engine known from Duke Nukem 3D, was the first game... 1923

Blake Stone: Aliens of Gold is a 1993 science fiction first-person shooter developed by JAM Productions and published by Apogee Software for PC DOS. Agent Blake Stone fights his way through 6 bases of the mad geneticist Dr. Pyrus Goldfire, who plans to conquer Earth with an army of mutants. The game runs on a licensed Wolfenstein 3D engine, extended... 435

Battle Arena Toshinden is a 3D weapons-based fighting game developed by the Japanese studio Tamsoft and published by Takara in 1995 for the PlayStation. It was one of the first fighting games with polygonal characters in three-dimensional arenas and popularised the sidestep, with the camera swinging smoothly around the fighters. A secret tournament... 130