skyjedi2005 said:
Or Dark Forces if it was not such a shameless knockoff of doom II/wolfenstein.
Shameless knockoff? Don't be ridiculous! Yeah, it was a first person shooter, and that was pretty much how they looked back then. DF, outside of being a great Star Wars game, was one of the major pioneers of the FPS genre. It was so much more advanced than Doom and Wolfenstein.
Silly to claim it is a Doom II knockoff, since both Doom II and Dark Forces were in development at the same time, and released just a few months apart from one another. Or, at least that would be a silly claim, if Doom II were anything more than the exact same game as the original Doom only with new levels and a few very minor tweaks. Dark Forces introduced ducking, jumping, and looking up and down to first person shooters for the first time. While Doom II was still relying all on 2D sprites, Dark Forces was implementing real 3D models.
So, while id Software was essentially modding Doom into Doom II by adding a few new monsters, LucasArts was designing a major leap in what is now perhaps the most popular video game genre today.
Pfft! Shameless knockoff, indeed!