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Yes it did start it all, for the reasons I noted. Wolfenstein wasn't nearly as immersive. Moving around in 3d is one thing, but that doesn't make it an immersive world.

If it did, we'd have to include things like SPECTRE.

You are wildly exaggerating CS's novelty. People were going online in droves long before CS. I did it all the time in Doom and Doom 2 and Descent and Warcraft 2 and Comand and Conquer ... hell, name it. Started the online revolution? What the hell?

You may love what CS did to bring FPS's to "a new level," but that level is a damn tiny leap compared to the difference between a game feeling like a game and a game feeling like a real world. Being happy for incremental changes is all well and good, but you can't compare that to fundamental changes.