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Quake ii evolved legacy edition4/10/2023 Up until 1993, PC players only really had Wolfenstein 3D for their shooter fix, but Doom proved the validity of an entire genre. Hands down one of the most influential game series in existence. It wouldn't pass mustard in this day and age, but Quake continues to polish the formula with the upcoming Quake Champions. For those who braved the online, a mastery of dial-up connections meant tracking shots metres before where your opponents were actually running. Quake 3: Arena proved to be nothing less than revolutionary, and for years, many a LAN party was spent rocketing around arenas. Skillful rocket jumps became legendary, and an arena shooter staple, while the eventual shift to a sci-fi setting for Quake II and beyond, catapulted us into a world of rail guns and BFGs. For the first time, a multiplayer FPS was modelled entirely in 3D, adding an element of verticality that hadn't been seen before. The successor to Doom, Id Software's Quake didn't necessarily match its peer for its influence on shooter campaigns, but it did light the touch paper for multiplayer FPS gaming. There are few games you can play for thousands of hours, let alone hundreds, and Civilization is just such a franchise.īest-selling game: Civilization V (9.4 million) Probably the greatest success in the 4X genre (eXplore, eXpand, eXploit and eXterminate), Civilization is a series which continues to get bigger and bigger, as do the burgeoning play times in fans' Steam libraries. It's a series built on a simple yet epic premise - take a fledgeling nation and turn it into a globe dominating empire, each match spanning many thousands of (virtual) years. One of the most seminal turn-based strategy series of all time, Civilization has been teasing gamers into just one more turn since 1991. It's Civilization v Quake v Doom v XCOM as we decided the best game franchises of all time. Only one of these gaming geriatrics can earn a place in the semi-finals though. These four franchises have a staggering 94 years of gaming experience between them. It's round eight, the halfway point of the first batch of knockouts, and it's time for an old-school showdown. Things are getting heated in our best game series in 2017 showdown.
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