That's why I liked it too, but have to say that I also played a lot of Unreal Tournament around this time, which came out two years earlier than RtCW and also featured a variety of different multiplayer game modes (Capture the Flag, Assault, Domination) that featured different team-based objectives.
That's true - Assault had the Overlord map.
Assault was definitely not heavily played back in the day and more fondly remembered than it was played. But it was a cool game mode anyway and I think the main reason its so fondly remembered is people wanted to see it developed further. But it got the short shift in 2k3 and UT3.
Another one I forgot to bring up during the last evolution of shooters discussion: Tribes 1 and 2.
Both were insanely far ahead of their times.
Halo is still one of the best multiplayer modes of all time. Was very balanced (pistol sniping aside). Still remember all of the times having 4 linked consoles and 4 per screen.
Plus the campaign was great, the mechanics fundamentally revolutionized the FPS genre
I've been playing the Master Chief Collection a lot lately and Halo: CE is still really fun an enjoyable. I realize they upscaled the HD to 1080p and increased it to 60 FPS so it is smoother, but the game otherwise is essentially the same. Had a blast playing CTF on Blood Gulch the other day.
I actually don't mind the OP pistol since everyone starts with it, it's a level playing field. The battle rifle and more specifically the DMR/Carbine essentially replaced the pistol in future iterations of the game.
I'm a PC voter and Halo gets my vote. The multiplayer was great on PC.I decided to wait a few days to see which of Civilization III and Return to Castle Wolfenstein got more votes so that I could throw my vote behind it and give GTA III the best run for the money. I'm dismayed to see just now that Civ III has only 1 vote (that really surprises me, since IV easily won its poll), RoCW has only 3 and GTA III and Halo are tied for the lead with 15. Where are all of the PC voters? I guess that they went to GTA III. Hmm. Do I vote for one of the two that I was originally going to vote for or do I consider it the 2-game race that it is and join my fellow PC gamers in endorsing GTA III so that Halo doesn't win? This feels like being forced to choose between throwing my vote away on a 3rd-party candidate or making it count by giving it to the lesser of two evils (though GTA III is hardly evil and I did enjoy it).
Ok, The Crypto Guy just helped me choose. I just voted for GTA III to negate his vote. Come at me, bro .
Changed my vote to Halo even though I never played it. Getting pretty silly to see the GTA fan boys continually voting for GTA. Yawn.
It’s interesting that the old GTA games have won their polls, but 4 and 5 did not win their respective GOTY polls.
Personally I think they’re all deserved results. The newer games don’t really stand out anymore but at the time of the older GTAs, and especially GTA 3, they were groundbreaking.