Medal of Honor (1999)
The notion of a first-person shooter set during World War II and released on a console doesn’t sound remarkable today, but in 1999, things were different. Back then, first-person shooters tended to be heavily inspired by sci-fi or action movies, think Doom or Golden Eye on N64. And only a few ever leapt to console. Medal of Honor on the PS1 showed that console gamers were hungry for serious WW2 shooters, and it was also a really good game, which helped, too. — Zack Zwiezen
