What makes a great First Person Shooter?

Ability to maintain framerate

Able to display a large number of objects at one time

Accurate Lighting/Shadows

Amazing! Nothing wrong with it!

Animated mesh models

3

Atmosphere

Atmospheric Effects(Reflection/Refraction from heat/water)

Average - polish, but is completely playable.

Clarity, Simplicity, Quality, Structure, Ease of use

Collision detection

Cool Lights

Correct HUD

Curved surfaces

Destructible Terrain

Detail

Detailed Environment

Detailed/Lossless Vistas

Don’t even try it. It is unplayable.

Draw Distance

Dust and sparks

Ease of use

Elements of weather

Explosion (van)

4

Fire

Fluid water

Fog

Framerate : little to no lag during effects, explosions

Gravity

Great graphics

Gun firing particles

Interaction

Length of draw distance

Lighting

12

TOP

Cameras

Materials

mesh models

Models

Multiple Textures / Lighting

Needs a bit of work, Doesn’t crash but could use quite a bit of extra polish.

Needs a lot of work. Is glitchy and/or causes the program to crash.

No clipping

Number of onscreen effects possible

Partical effects

6

SECOND

phsyics of distruction

Physics

physics on the explosion

Physics Representation(Particles)

Quality of weather and particle effects

Quality, Structure, Ease of use

Rain

Realistic lighting and shadows

Realistic physics

Shading

4

Simplicity, Quality, Structure, Ease of use

Smoke

Snow

Sparks

Specular bloom

Static mesh models

Structure, Ease of use

Terrain Destruction

Terrain Quality

Textures

6

The large amount of detail in the fence, cloth, wall and background.

Trees/Terrain

Very Good. Fun to look at, and completely playable.

Volumetric fog

Water (texture/physics)

5

Wavy cloth with gun particle affects.

Wind in the cloth