IGN names Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory one of their Top 100 FPS Games

(badman) #1

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IGN names Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory one of their Top 100 FPS Games

IGN have undertaken the mammoth task of compiling the Top 100 First Person Shooters of all time from all of the shooters released in the past 20 or so years. It’s great to see Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory make the list a full decade after its release, deploying in the #84 spot.

Here’s what IGN had to say about it:

Back in the dark age of the FPS, multiplayer was nothing but a bunch of people running in every direction at once with their triggers held down like savages. Return to Castle Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory wasn’t the first game to feature objective-focused, class-based competitive play, but its free, open-sourced nature exposed a massive amount of new players to the concept, opening the door for what eventually grow into a much larger trend in multiplayer design.

You can check out the rest of the list over at IGN.

(diaboliksmart) #2

Thanks for this info, always a pleasure to see ET is not forgotten.

But really, how to explain Battlefield 1942 is in the 20 first places, compared with ET, I do not rage but anyway I am happy xD

For information, complete listing :

#100 - XIII
#99 - Black
#98 - Tron 2.0
#97 - SiN
#96 - Halo: Reach
#95 - Turok 2: Seeds of Evil
#94 - Red Faction 2
#93 - Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II
#92 - Crysis 2

#91 - Heretic
#90 - Battlefield 3
#89 - Doom 3
#88 - Unreal Tournament 2003
#87 - Star Trek: Voyager: Elite Force
#86 - STALKER: Call of Pripyat
#85 - Deus Ex: Human Revolution
#84 - Return to Castle Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory
#83 - Aliens vs. Predator (PC)
#82 - Metroid Prime 2: Echoes
#81 - Counterstrike: Source
#80 - Tribes: Ascend
#79 - Timespliters: Future Perfect
#78 - S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl
#77 - Crysis 3
#76 - Blacklight Retribution
#75 - Red Steel 2
#74 - Clive Barker’s Undying
#73 - Hexen
#72 - Red Orchestra 2
#71 - Red Faction
#70 - Kill Zone 3
#69 - Rainbow Six: Vegas
#68 - Halo 3
#67 - Borderlands
#66 - Bulletstorm
#65 - Far Cry 2
#64 - Prey
#63 - Singularity
#62 - The Darkness
#61 - Soldier of Fortune 2
#60 - Timesplitters 2
#59 - Rise of the Triad
#58 - Return to Castle Wolfenstein
#57 - Halo 3: ODST
#56 - Painkiller
#55 - Perfect Dark
#54 - Marathon
#53 - Metro 2033
#52 - No One Lives Forever
#51 - Serious Sam
#50 - Quake
#49 - Doom 2
#48 - Unreal
#47 - Call of Duty 2
#46 - Halo 4
#45 - Left 4 Dead 2
#44 - Call of Duty: Black Ops
#43 - Borderlands 2
#42 - Battlefield: Bad Company 2
#41 - Metroid Prime 3: Corruption
#40 - Aliens vs. Predator (Jaguar)
#39 - Far Cry
#38 - Rainbow Six 3
#37 - Star Trek: Elite Force II
#36 - Star Wars: Republic Commando
#35 - System Shock 2
#34 - SWAT 4
#33 - Far Cry 3
#32 - Brothers in Arms: Road to Hill 30
#31 - Bioshock Infinite
#30 - PlanetSide 2
#29 - Star Wars: Dark Forces
#28 - Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast
#27 - The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay
#26 - F.E.A.R.
#25 - Crysis
#24 - Left 4 Dead
#23 - Battlefield 2
#22 - Tribes 2
#21 - Duke Nukem 3D
#20 - Medal of Honor
#19 - Ghost Recon
#18 - Team Fortress 2
#17 - Quake III
#16 - Unreal Tournament
#15 - Rainbow 6
#14 - Deus Ex
#13 - Battlefield 1942
#12 - Metroid Prime
#11 - Wolfenstein 3D
#10 - Quake II
#9 - Counter-Strike
#8 - BioShock
#7 - Halo 2
#6 - GoldenEye
#5 - Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare
#4 - Halo: Combat Evolved
#3 - Half-Life 2
#2 - Doom

#1 - Half-Life

(tokamak) #3

I think W:ET should be ranked much higher but BF1942 (not a BF fan) deserves to be in the top 20. It practically started it’s own genre.

I would take Bioshock completely out of the top 100. I think that game is trash and then snuggly fit W:ET in the spot it leaves behind. ETQW can take one of the Halo’s positions. There’s no reason to have two halo’s in the top 10.

(Mateos) #4

It’s subjective. Like all the Top XX(X) around the gaming websites x)

(montheponies) #5

Aye, but as toka says you should really rank on the legacy of the game, for me that would give something like;

  1. Doom
  2. Quake 2
  3. Half Life 2
  4. RTCW
  5. Call of Duty

Feel free to rip apart :slight_smile:

(Mateos) #6

About HL² I would go for “HL Series” instead :slight_smile: And I would put Q2 at the 4th place, upping the other titles :slight_smile:

(MoonOnAStick) #7

Pretty good list. Better than the usual ‘Best FPS games released last week’.

Not sure about the Quake order though. Quake 2 has aged rather badly. For my money 1 > 3 > 2 > 4.

(VonGlug) #8

Very cool and ET is indeed a worthy addition to the list; both in terms of its, albeit former, playerbase and incredible longevity. Thanks for posting the link. :slight_smile: