You'll also hear about one of the most ambitious games of its time, Jurassic Park: Trespasser, which didn't quite come together as planned, but was still a huge influence on a more successful game, Half-Life. You will see how movies influenced the content of certain games, and even how one movie, Aliens, turned into a highly popular Doom total conversion. You will learn lots of new and interesting info on the making of many of these games. Looking Glass and Ion Storm member Warren Spector and more.

We also get to hear from people like former Epic Games' team member, Cliff Bleszinski. Lots of id Software team members talk about making those seminal games like John Carmack, John Romero, Tom Hall, Adrian Carmack, American McGee, and more. Lots of the developers who directly made these games are interviewed for the doc. It even goes back well before Wolfenstein 3D to look at, and interview, the people behind proto-FPS games like Maze War. This is an over four-hour documentary with tons of interviews with many of the people behind classic first-person shooter games including the many FPS titles from id Software like Wolfenstein 3D, Doom, and Quake, along with other games like System Shock, Descent, Rise of the Triad, Jurassic Park: Trespasser, Unreal, Half-Life, Halo, Call of Duty, and more. FPS is no brief 20 or 30-minute mini-doc that you might watch on YouTube. (Since this is a not-quite-complete version, this is not considered to be a final review of the film). If you are a fan of these kinds of games, this extensive film is a must-watch, based on my viewing of a 'work in progress' version of the documentary. I thought I knew a lot about the FPS genre, but the truth is that the upcoming documentary FPS: First Person Shooter offers a ton of new info about the making of these games over the past several decades.

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