I had read an article in a magazine which said it was the first truly 3D game which I (naively) disregarded as hype as I had played loads of Duke Nukem 3D which seemed as to me to also meet the definition of 3D.
But I still vividly remember playing it for the first time and using mouselook to actually look around, only then did I actually understand it was mind blowingly more 3D than Duke or DOOM, especially when I saw a monster for the first time.
Another interesting fact which young gamers may not know: Mouselook wasn’t an option which you could turn on or off in the game settings, at most you could bind it to a key, when you let go of the key mouselook stopped.
It seemed to me it was conceived as an opt in keybindable option to merely “show off” the true 3D nature of the game. A lot of people just played the game with keyboard only and there was also joystick support.
However, it soon became common knowledge that you could put “mouselook+” in “autoexec.cfg” (if I recall correctly) and it would keep mouselook enabled permanently. Once you became practiced enough at playing with the mouse and keyboard in combination with each other you could run rings around slow keyboard turners in multiplayer who didn’t stand a chance.
I had read an article in a magazine which said it was the first truly 3D game which I (naively) disregarded as hype as I had played loads of Duke Nukem 3D which seemed as to me to also meet the definition of 3D.
But I still vividly remember playing it for the first time and using mouselook to actually look around, only then did I actually understand it was mind blowingly more 3D than Duke or DOOM, especially when I saw a monster for the first time.
Another interesting fact which young gamers may not know: Mouselook wasn’t an option which you could turn on or off in the game settings, at most you could bind it to a key, when you let go of the key mouselook stopped.
It seemed to me it was conceived as an opt in keybindable option to merely “show off” the true 3D nature of the game. A lot of people just played the game with keyboard only and there was also joystick support.
However, it soon became common knowledge that you could put “mouselook+” in “autoexec.cfg” (if I recall correctly) and it would keep mouselook enabled permanently. Once you became practiced enough at playing with the mouse and keyboard in combination with each other you could run rings around slow keyboard turners in multiplayer who didn’t stand a chance.