It was followed up with Catacomb II, which used the same game engine with new levels.

This was a two-dimensional game utilizing a third-person view from above, released in 1989–1990. The origin of the games is Catacomb by John Carmack for the PC and Apple II. The game's more primitive technological predecessor was Hovertank 3D. The game introduced the concept of showing the player's hand in the three-dimensional viewpoint, and an enhanced version of its technology was later used for the more successful Wolfenstein 3D. It was released for MS-DOS with EGA graphics. It is the first example of the modern, character-based first-person shooter genre, or at least it was a direct ancestor to the games that popularized the genre. The player takes control of the high wizard Petton Everhail, descending into the catacombs of the Towne Cemetery to defeat the evil lich Nemesis and rescue his friend Grelminar.Ĭatacomb 3-D is a landmark title in terms of first-person graphics. It was developed by id Software and originally published by Softdisk under the Gamer's Edge label, released in November 1991. Catacomb 3-D (also known as Catacomb 3-D: A New Dimension, Catacomb 3-D: The Descent, and Catacombs 3) is a first-person shooter video game, the third in the Catacomb series, the first of which to feature 3D computer graphics.

Wolfenstein wiki max