10 Awesome Old-School Video Game Features We Don't See Anymore

Another formerly saturated genre, the tactical military shooter has now been neutralised.

The prevailing shooter template today is, as we all know, the online run and gun model.

Showcasing bright colours and hyper-stylised, bullet-sponge characters, and fast, over the top gameplay, games like Fortnite, Overwatch, and Paladins now have the market share.

Thinking back to seminal classics like Rainbow Six: Rogue Spear, for example, the emphasis was formerly on planning over execution (these puns…), with missions often accomplished by the firing of a single, well-placed sniper round through the window of a stationary Jumbo Jet.

Players would spend more time studying the maps for potential entry and exit points, pinpointing the location of tangos than they would in the actual missions.

Whilst we do still have some representation for this genre today in the shape of the Ghost Recon series, Tom Clancy seems to be keeping this genre alive singlehandedly (Lone Wolf, you might say).

A return of the classic tactical shooter would be a welcome surprise, as the slow, methodical, and nerve-racking gameplay, devoid of music for the most part, would make a most welcome change from the attention-deficit shooters we have become accustomed to of late.