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This looks only marginally worse than Wolfenstein 3D. Animation is very fluid. In some ways better because enemies are more varied. Where does Wolf 3D popularit
by b0rsuk 6y ago
This looks only marginally worse than Wolfenstein 3D. Animation is very fluid. In some ways better because enemies are more varied. Where does Wolf 3D popularity come from, then? Was it notorious because some newspaper wrote about it? Was it because you were shooting humans?
- acomjean 6y agoProbably because the 2d wolfenstein was quite popular. I played the Apple 2 version and liked it. I actually didn’t know the 3d one existed till after doom came out.
- bzzzt 6y agoI'd guess the 'realistic' scenario helped. I know a lot of folks who wouldn't touch a game with a fantasy setting ("it's for children"), but are ok with a game with a setting based in reality. Also, simplification works - maybe the varied enemies make the game too difficult for some players.
- Minor49er 6y agoFurther still, nobody really talks about Hovertank 3D. It's also a 3D shooter which was made by Carmack, Romero, and Hall, but came out in 1991 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hovertank_3D https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hovertank_3D
- AdmiralAsshat 6y agoNever encountered this one! I saw the name and got it confused with Hover, a Microsoft pack-in game that came with Windows 95: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hover https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hover!
- ArtWomb 6y agoPlayable online forever ;) https://archive.org/details/msdos_Hovertank_1991 https://archive.org/details/msdos_Hovertank_1991 "You're first assignment is to rescue a bunch of scientists who have barricaded themselves inside the Langston Research Facility. They were working on a new, clean fuel until some big oil corporations decided to buy Langston out. Now insiders say the corporation is going to nuke them"
- gagege 6y agoI played Catacombs way more than Wolf 3D when I was a kid for these very reasons.