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Subscribe to our newsletter FPS games are ubiquitous on consoles nowadays, but there was a time when the concept was so novel and rare that gamers would allegedly launch drinks at Seamus Blackley - often cited as the father of Xbox - for merely suggesting that Halo: Combat Evolved could be a good game.
How dare he?Perfect Dark and Goldeneye 007 certainly proved FPS games could work without a mouse and keyboard, and were definitely noticeable steps up from what had been attempted before, but neither were quite as tight as the shooters that had thrived on PC for years - your Dooms and Quakes and such.
Seamus Blackley on Creating Xbox, AI In Gaming, & The Future | Xbox 25th Anniversary - YouTube Watch On In an interview with Expansion Pass, Blackley talked about what promoting Halo: Combat Evolved was like during "a time period where people would f***ing die on this hill, probably literally, that a shooter would never work on a console." Pretty awkward for the man who built a console, the OG Xbox, set to launch alongside an FPS.Article continues below "Crazy town," Blackley said
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