Top 14 Best N64 First Person Shooter Games
Reviewing Every First Person Shooter on the Nintendo 64
The Nintendo 64 was first released in Japan on June 23, 1996, as the successor to the Super Nintendo Entertainment System (aka the Super Famicom). It was the second best-selling of the fifth generation of game consoles after the Sony PlayStation, the first to properly support 3D graphics, and the first time Nintendo came second in two generations.
Unlike its rivals, the N64 retained cartridge based loading, which limited the storage capacity of its games. Rare's Goldeneye 007 and Perfect Dark, as well as Eurocom's The World Is Not Enough (who also created Duke Nukem 64 and spin-off Duke Nukem: Zero Hour), and Iguana Entertainment's Turok series, would however significantly contribute to popularizing the previously niche first-person shooter on consoles. This lead to series such as TimeSplitters, Metroid Prime, Halo, Killzone, and Resistance in the 2000s, as well as false starts such as Haze.
It was succeeded by the GameCube on September 14, 2001 in Japan and featuring the shooter Metroid Prime in 2002 by ex-Iguana Entertainment developers Retro Studios, now facing new competition from the Microsoft Xbox and its popular launch title Halo: Combat Evolved by Bungie. In addition, it once again fell well behind the PlayStation 2 in sales, which featured the launch title TimeSplitters by ex-Rare developers Free Radical Design.
Games[]
- Perfect Dark (exclusive)
- The World Is Not Enough (exclusive)
- Quake
- Quake II
- GoldenEye 007 (exclusive)
- Doom 64 (new game; originally exclusive)
- Duke Nukem 64 (port of Duke Nukem 3D)
- Turok: Dinosaur Hunter
- Turok 2: Seeds of Evil
- Turok 3: Shadow of Oblivion (originally exclusive)
- Turok: Rage Wars
- Forsaken
- Quake II
- Hexen: Beyond Heretic
- Pokémon Snap (exclusive)
- Armorines: Project S.W.A.R.M.
- Daikatana
- Star Fox 64 (exclusive)
- South Park
- Doom
- Hexen
- Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six
- Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Rogue Spear
- Jet Force Gemini (pseudo-third person; exclusive)
- Battlezone: Rise of the Black Dogs (original game; exclusive)
- Knife Edge: Nose Gunner (exclusive)
A port of Descent was cancelled.