Aside from it’s incredibly creepy atmosphere and dark visuals, this game helped to usher in the concept of the survival-horror-themed shooter, and it did this extremely well. If there’s one FPS on the PS1 that’s capable of providing you with a challenge while simultaneously keeping you on the edge of your seat, it’s “Alien Resurrection”. Regardless, it was an incredibly fun title that pushed the graphical abilities of the PlayStation. Nevertheless, this title remains relatively obscure, even within the annals of PS1 historians, probably because it rests in the shadow of a “Goldeneye”. Simply put, “Delta Force Urban Warfare” has two things going for it – one, it’s probably the most attractive-looking PS1 shooter, and two, the game utilizes an objective completion-based mechanism. Probably one of its most memorable features was of course it’s soundtrack, which featured an assortment of rock-oriented tracks. Needless to say, the game probably wasn’t the best-looking of the lot, there are certainly prettier FPS’s on the PlayStation, but it make up for this with a fairly high frame rate. In “Duke Nukem: Total Meltdown” we see yet another port to the PS1 – it’s essentially “Duke Nukem 3D”. As far as graphics and overall gameplay is concerned, this is perhaps a must-have for PlayStation 1 advocates. While it is in fact a port, the PS1 version added the ability to carry out 4-person split screen matches, which made it the obvious choice for friendly game night competitions / get-togethers.
“Quake II” was, hands-down, one of the most impressive and memorable first-person shooters to make its way onto the PS1. The simple fact that they added additional creepy music to the game should certainly account for something.
Naturally, this version of the title isn’t quite as refined as its counterpart, but it’s still an extremely solid and highly atmospheric shooter that both challenges as well as entertains. “Doom” is a legendary game in its own right, so one might accurately state that a PC-to-PS1 port was somewhat inevitable given the popularity of the console. However, the game did introduce objective-based gameplay in this context, which is something that’s still found in titles to this very day. Of course this game wasn’t centered on being true to accounts so much as it was focused on placing gamers in a historical atmosphere. Yes, it could be argued that PC games like “Wolfenstein 3D” really set the world ablaze, but it was this game that introduced a new level of realism to historically-minded shooters. If you want to know where the WWII-themed shooter craze on consoles got stared, look no further that “Medal of Honor”.
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