In Pictures: 20 First-Person Shooters That Need a Makeover

[ITsonic]

Doom, Doom 2 and Duke Nukem 3D all need remade and Hexen too.

 

[exfileme]

Oni, ROTT, MDK... sounds like another picture story. Sorry for the bug everyone... hopefully it will be resolved soon.

 

[marathi]

Hey, people, no more Duke attempts, eh? Thought we all agreed on that?!?
On the other hand, it would be cool to see some quality reincarnations of Kingpin, Rainbow Six: Rogue Spear and the Swat series! Oh, and Comanche, just to name a few!

 

[Gman450]

I can't check out all the pics !

 

[scout62]

No love for Serious Sam?

 

[belardo]

Oh good one SCOUT62! The Serious Sam series was about pure killing, not the best tech... but was still very cool with its techno-color style blasting into your eyes. When games were aiming for grey and brown (Quake 1-3) or Unreal's hard but great looking dark colors - Serious Sam was bright and dreamy.

 

[megamanx00]

Even though it's third person I would have like to see Shiny's Messiah up there.

By the way, test your slide shows before you post them!

 

[Axonn]

Doesn't work. When clicking next, nothing happens.

 

[jinjin]

All the classic FPS games need to be redone and regraphic all the works.
bring back classic FPS games

 

[belardo]

Odd... The photos slide show thingy works on my iPad... but not on my desktop with Opera 11. Which usually works fine here.

ROTT... not great, but did some neat-O things. But I remember us going back to DOOM for multi-player.

 

[ITsonic]

Oni, ROTT, MDK... sounds like another picture story. Sorry for the bug everyone... hopefully it will be resolved soon.

MDK as well That was a good game.

 

[nativeson8803]

I can't play the slideshow, can only see the first page of it.

 

[Brockavich]

You guys do realize most of these games already have remakes/makeovers, right?

Descent: D1X and D2X Rebirth
http://www.dxx-rebirth.com/

Doom: jDoom/Doomsday with 3D HD pack
http://dengine.net/

Duke Nukem 3D: Polymer renderer/EDuke32
http://eduke32.com/

Heretic/Hexen: Doomsday
http://dengine.net/

Quake: Darkplaces (be sure to check screens)
http://icculus.org/twilight/darkplaces/index.html

Shadow Warrior: JFShadow
http://www.jonof.id.au/jfsw

Wolf3d: NewWolf (with 3d models)
http://newwolf.sourceforge.net/


My personal faves are Darkplaces and Polymer.

 

[DSpider]

Still not fixed?? Do moderators even check the comments?

 

[Mathos]

Honestly I agree with putting descent into modern graphics, but otherwise the core game itself easily withstood the test of time. I'd add Descent 2 onto that too, Rise of the Triad (still remember the bat o da hood and Ian Paul freely. And the one FPS game that wasn't mentioned that seriously should of got a modern update, Descent:Freespace.

 

[Zetto]

No one mention Neocron? classic FPS MMORPG

 

[belardo]

None of those fan-based make-overs are really... make overs. The Article is talking about modern game images, completely re-done and updated models, etc.

 

[jerreddredd]

[citation][nom]lostmyclan[/nom]IIIIIIIIIIIIII NEEDDDDDDDDDD A VOODOO CARD!!!!!!!!!!!!!![/citation]

roflmao! I had totally forgotten about VOODOO cards. That would be one hell of a reboot.

 

[SmileyTPB1]

I loved System Shock. The only game I ever played where I had to find the right severed head to advance to the next level.

I agree that the South Park game needs a remake. The N64 version was crap, but even then I could see the potential in the multiplayer. If I had a team I would so make this on UDK.

 

[Guest]

You missed 2 games that were intertesting at their time:

Rise of the triad: The first game where it was possible to visit the 3D world by using tranpolins to jump.

Strife: One of the first mixing FPS & RPG style

You are right, so many games that deserve a relooking!

 

[nativeson8803]

this article is messed up still!

 

[cRACKmONKEY421]

It would be nice if someone fixed this article. FF, Chrome, and IE fail for me. I think that implies web design failure. I keep checking every day, because I would like to read the rest of this one. Instead, all I can read about is Star Wars and Blood, and the only screenshot that shows up is Blood. Please fix it. At least get it working with the browser that you guys recommend as fastest (chrome right now). For f---s sake. Thank you.

 

[jj463rd]

Not only were these games fun (I still possess about 3/4 of them)but they also didn't have DRM in them which is the ruination of modern PC Gaming.

 

[demonhorde665]

dumbest list ever and here's why

1. a lot of the titles you lsit have sequels and reboots in modern times (doom , wolfestien, duke nuke em for example). of thise three i jsut listed two of them were ehavily bashed for being blended old school and new styles of gmae play ( wolfenstien , and DNF).

2. the world is full of too many remake this remake that , look at hollywood , half teh crap theya re pushign otu is a remake of soemthing it's just terrible granted i do enjoy remakes myself form time to time , i'd ahte to see the game indsutry go this route , new and itnersting IP is needed not rehashed old ideas.

3. the market has enough FPSer saturation with out recaping old games

4. some of the game you lsit are already in teh process of being "reimaged" namely duke nuke em 3d , check out duke nuke em 3d reloaded project , it's going to be afree updated version of the origian D3D

5. lastly this article is stupid because it exsist soley to start a flame war between gamers.



again don't get me wrng i enjoy a good update , i loved doom 3 which is essitially a remake of doom 1 , I also liked teh remake of the Dawn of the Dead movie , but do thsoe remakes repalce the importantnace of their orginals are they relaly better ??? i hoenstly can say no the remakes do thier thing but in both cases of my examples the remakes dont' follow the orginals exactly ,the only thing "improved " on them are effect (and that is arguable in some circles regarding Dawn of the Dead)


i'd rather see this site post article on new ideas they think would be intersting games , not discuss old games they THINK needs remaking.

Go Retro Gaming ! down with remakes !

 

[Ramar]

Doom did get a remake, it was set in a black hole through the eyes of a half-blind man that doesn't understand how duct tape works. It was called Doom 3.