The Slow Heat Death of the Arena Shooter
A long time ago, in a basement far far away It wasn’t that long ago that the likes of Quake and Unreal Tournament dominated the FPS genre, their frenetic and frantic gameplay requiring nerves of steel and almost inhuman reflexes. This was the era of Thresh and Fatal1ty. The Quake and UT franchises continued dominating the FPS scene until the first Counter-Strike(a Half-Life 1 Mod) released in the late 90s, then CoD and Halo in the early 2000s. People slowly...
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