A trip back to 1999 in gaming history (Part 2)
Ah, good old 99' - I initially wanted to fit the full 1999 list into one post, but half-way through I found out that there's just too many appealing titles released that year, even though I did not have the chance to play all of them I just can't leave some of them out, which is why you're now looking at "Part 2".
If you found yourself reading this - before scrolling down it would only make sense to check out the first part, as some of my favorite titles can be found there, of course the ones I included here will still be as good as those.
One last thing to note is that it'd be really cool if you reading this would share your thoughts and opinions on the games I highlighted below as I (and probably most other people) am not well familiar with all of them and might have totally missed the awesomeness of some.
- A trip back to 1999 in gaming history (Part 1)
- A trip back to 1998 in gaming history (Part 1)
A trip back to 1998 in gaming history (Part 2) - A trip back to 1997 in gaming history (Part 1)
- A trip back to 1997 in gaming history (Part 2)
Something for more classic-oriented readers: A trip back to 1991 in gaming history
Having that out of the way - let's get the ball rolling.
- Duke Nukem: Zero Hour
Not the bet take on a Duke game, seems like a "let's make something quick and sell it" kind of thing as far as I can tell.
Clunky game mechanics have Duke moving too slow and too fast at the same time (how's that even possible ?!?!?!?).
- Crash Team Racing
Might seem like an underdog compared to the already established Mario racing games, yet I remember this game being extremely entertaining as a kid. The heavy drift-based mechanics were actually something quite new for the cartoonish racing genre at that time. I'd love to hear from somebody in the comments who played it recently (perhaps you would want to give it another go after reading this?).
- FIFA 2000
Another FIFA game.
- Warcraft II: Battle.net Edition
A so-to-say re-make of the actual 2nd Warcraft, porting the game to Windows, fixing various bugs and (oh no you didn't!) supporting multiplayer via Battle.net. Not to forget about the "Beyond the Dark Portal" expansion of course.
- Donkey Cong 64
- Earthworm Jim 3D
Obviously Jimbo here did not benefit from changing game developers, after a failure of Jim 3D this earthworm did not show a single sign of life.
- Half-Life: Opposing Force
While Valve were on about the soon release of Team Fortress 2 (which actually happened seven years later), Gearbox were working on and releasing Half-Life expansions. The first expansion was "Opposing Force', which tells us a story of a U.S. Marine Corporal - Adrian Shephard.
- Medal of Honor
Steven Spielberg himself took part in creating the first MOH game.
- Spyro 2: Ripto's Rage!
Nothing ground breaking was introduced in the second Spyro game, although I always saw these games having satisfying stories to play along to.
- Ultima IX: Ascension
- Chrono Cross
- Descent 3: Mercenary
- Unreal Tournament
Well, this one doesn't need an introduction.
- Quake III Arena
Any time I hear somebody talking about Quake games this is the one that I instantly think about. The most famous thing that this game had introduced (unintentionally, which makes it event better) is the rocket launcher jump, if you ever played it - you know exactly what I'm on about.
- Mechwarrior 3: Pirate's Moon
- Planescape: Torment
A true RPG masterpiece made by Feargus Urquhart's studio, this game to this day didn't lose it's spark.
- Shenmue
You just had to love it! This is just monumental game for it's days, a mostly open-world setting with hours and hours to explore. So much money was put into this game that in order to get any profit from it - each Dreamcast owner had to buy this game twice.
And that's it folks! It would be fantastic if you would have anything to mention about the above games that I didn't include myself! Thanks for reading, if I managed to get you reading this til the end - feel free to subscribe as I am planning to dive even further into the past and look at some titles that were "trend setters" back in the day, without which we would not have the games that we have today!
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STOPI wish I had played shenmue. The first time I heard about it, I was like "WHAT!? 13 DISCS?"
The only Quake I ever think of is Quake One. I've spent endless hours getting to the top of the frag list back in the day. IMHO Quake III doesn't come close, but it's a pretty good game, too.
Come on! At least give Donkey Kong a description.
Hah :) Donkey Kong would deserve one indeed!