Shooting Games · 5

A good hit effect answers several questions in milliseconds: did the shot connect, how hard did it hit, and should the player keep firing? The category's past supplies the companion fact: Quake pushed first-person action into fully polygonal 3D worlds in the mid-1990s and became enormously influential for networked PC play. The classic tactical plan is flawless right up to the moment another player has a different plan.