{"id":51235,"date":"2013-03-01T10:42:35","date_gmt":"2013-03-01T08:42:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=51235"},"modified":"2013-03-01T10:44:00","modified_gmt":"2013-03-01T08:44:00","slug":"graphical-evolution-of-first-person-shooters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/entertainment\/51235-graphical-evolution-of-first-person-shooters","title":{"rendered":"Graphical evolution of first-person shooters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the next-generation of consoles preparing to come and take over our lives, it\u2019s a good opportunity to look back on the graphical advancements up to now.<\/p>\n<p>First-person shooters in particular are the world\u2019s favourite genre in gaming, and their graphical evolution has always been one of the interesting things to watch.<\/p>\n<p>A montage video by YouTuber <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/drloser333?feature=watch\"><strong>drloser333<\/strong><\/a> shows a number of the genre\u2019s biggest games, and how they each marked the next graphical step for the industry.<\/p>\n<p>The video begins with Wolfenstein 3D, the granddaddy of it all, and expectedly ends with Crysis, ArmA 2, Metro 2033 and Battlefield 3.<\/p>\n<p>Check out the video below:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yMGsWR3ocZE\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More SA gaming features:<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<div><strong><a href=\"mygaming.co.za\/news\/ps3\/51036-ps3-graphics-comparison-over-the-ages.html\" target=\"_blank\">PS3 graphics comparison over the ages<\/a><\/strong><\/div>\n<div>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/50225-who-has-the-cheapest-pc-games.html\">Who has the cheapest PC games?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/50187-cheapest-shops-for-console-games.html\">Cheapest shops for console games<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/xbox\/50563-who-has-the-cheapest-xbox-360.html\">Who has the cheapest Xbox 360?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/50776-where-to-get-the-cheapest-ps3.html\" target=\"_blank\">Where to get the cheapest PS3?\u00a0<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Watch the step-by-step visual growth of the FPS genre<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":196,"featured_media":51236,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[2658,9103,2202,9104,21,8114,791,9081,9105,183,3273],"class_list":["post-51235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-crysis","tag-first-person-shooter-graphics","tag-fps","tag-graphical-evolution","tag-headline","tag-metro-2033","tag-next-gen","tag-pc-graphics","tag-pc-visuals","tag-video","tag-wolfenstein"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/196"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51235"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51237,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51235\/revisions\/51237"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}