First FPS to use vehicles?

[RZetlin]

I know that Halo made using vechicles popular, but it wasn't the first FPS that allow the player to control a vechicle.

In Shadow Warrior, you could control a bulldozer and a tank on a few levels.

In Duke Nukem 3D, you could ride the subway, but I can't remember if there are any controllable vehicles.

Was there any FPS that used vehicles before these games?

What was the earliest FPS that used vehicles?

[Sigma]

The first FPS that I know of to really utilize vehicles was Tribes which was released back in 98'. If my memory serves me correctly though Shadow Warrior was released a year before Tribes.

[RZetlin]

The first FPS that I know of to really utilize vehicles was Tribes which was released back in 98'. If my memory serves me correctly though Shadow Warrior was released a year before Tribes.
Shadow Warrior was released on May 13, 1997.

[SirLemming]

And Tribes was the precursor to Halo, correct? Like, isn't Halo practically a spinoff?

[guinaevere]

And Tribes was the precursor to Halo, correct? Like, isn't Halo practically a spinoff? I don't believe so.

If anything, I thought it was a spinoff of Marathon.

Remember, Marathon was a Mac game done by Bungie. Halo, originally was supposed to be a Mac game, too. Obviously, things have changed.

[Nin-Nin69]

And if Halo did come out for the Mac, I wonder how MS would've held up in the console wars without their ace.

[guinaevere]

It would definately have been a tougher fight for them, but I believed they'd still pull ahead. The xbox is a great machine, and there are plenty of great games out for it (says the nintendo girl) for it to hold it's own.

[SirLemming]

Oh duh, Marathon, of course. I got mixed up.

[guinaevere]

Happens to the best of us. And no one remembers Marathon nowadays, anyway.

[randomguy]

Well, the very first FPS ever made was vehicular. It was a little game called Battlezone... perhaps you've heard of it.

[SirLemming]

Happens to the best of us. And no one remembers Marathon nowadays, anyway.Heck, I've never even played any of them.

[Daredevil_2003]

Goldeneye's the oldest one I actually know/remember. At least it was the first FPS I ever played with vehicles.

[James]

Well, the very first FPS ever made was vehicular. It was a little game called Battlezone... perhaps you've heard of it.

I think they mean a first person shoot-em up in which vehicles could be utilized.. Battlezone you were fixed in the vehicle.

I think Mercenary was one of the first in this respect.. sort of.. it was more than a FPS with A LOT of strategy, but you could choose to board cars and ships and attack other objects...