Meanwhile, Monolith continued its upward ascent with the release of a superb spy-based PC title, The Operative: No One Lives Forever. But despite winning numerous Game of the Year awards and an equally plaudit-heavy sequel, it never quite captured the public’s imagination – a predicament many classic shooters would fall into as competition within the genre grew fiercer.
With the shooter scene now maturing rapidly on PC and beginning to make significant inroads on a new generation of consoles, the FPS was entering a new phase which was to see it reach out to an entirely new audience.
Coming up in Part 4: hanging with the Chief, Gordon Freeman’s second outing and Xbox Live.
Quake 3 was better than UT…which is why it still gets played a decade later.
UT died on it’s ass.
Q3 continued to be played throughout worldwide competitions “professionally”.