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Before Doom, there was Dangerous Dave, and John Romero's 8-bit hero is getting a spiritual successor next weekA spiritual successor to John Romero's early hero, Dangerous Dave, titled Haunted Lands, is set to release next week. The game aims to capture the 8-bit aesthetic of the original Dangerous Dave series while featuring significantly more visceral combat and reactivity. Haunted Lands releases on March 10 for PC.
A decade before Stalker, this obscure Ukrainian Quake clone was quietly breaking new ground for first-person shootersChasm: The Rift, an obscure Ukrainian first-person shooter from 1997 developed by Action Forms, predated S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl and introduced innovative features for its time. Despite its visual similarities to Quake, Chasm utilized a unique homebrew engine and featured surprising elements like detailed dismemberment and a more involved narrative structure for the era, though its gameplay was more methodical and less fluid than its contemporaries.