A world of nostalgia, adrenaline, and hot firefights—voiced by the dubbing actor Andrey Valtz! This book will send you on an exciting journey through 50 years of video game history and bring you closer to boomer shooters—a subgenre of first-person shooters with a huge choice of weapons, retro aesthetics, and several other distinctive features. The author will tell you how boomer shooters were born, what people and games developed this subgenre and pushed it forward, how the era of 3D arrived, and how it influenced the rest of the gaming industry.
You will learn:
• How boomer shooters shaped an entire generation of gamers
• Which features and techniques first appeared in shooters and later became part of the wider industry
• Wolfenstein 3D and DOOM, Duke Nukem and Quake, Half-Life and Serious Sam—why each of these games became cult classics and won people’s hearts
• Whether there’s still room for old-school shooters today
If you love retro games and want to dive back into their atmosphere, and also understand why boomer shooters became an important part of culture, then this book is for you!
Consultant for the audiobook version—Anastasia Kurbatova.