Thats because Tribes and Tribes 2 were shit Battlefeld 1942 is one of my all time favourite games and partly the reason why I became a fat cunt - all those 55p Lucozades I drank was the fuel I needed to play this game upwards of 12 hours a day every day for months on end lol. The Road to Rome expansion was awesome too, though I found Secret Weapons to be good/average. The Desert Combat mod was cool too though sadly the mods I personally worked on were less enjoyable.
Driver 1 blew my mind when it came out. I never figured out how to beat that tutorial, but if you changed a big in a readme log you could tell the game that you've already beaten it and unlock everything. Once being able to freeroam all cities, I felt really "free" for the first time in a game. I never owned Driver 2, but I played it occasionally at a friend's house. What I remember most is its horriblly low frame-rate, and of course the GTA III-like freedom it offered you.
It's now called Retro City Rampage, and should be out sooner or later. Not for the NES though, sadly.
I remember Driver 2. Never actually did anything on it. Never finished the first mission, Just bullshitted around the first city.
I'm surprised no one mentioned The Terminator, released in 1990 by Bethesda. Earliest game I can think of with sandbox, FPS and driving elements. Really quite innovative for its time. Playing as either Kyle Reese or the Terminator, you're dropped into a large 3D recreation of L.A., which you explore from a first person view. You can run around and shoot people at random, drive and steal cars, and even rob stores. Someone on YouTube did a playthrough as the Terminator: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Ix9iD64pV4
Wow, that's really cool! Had no idea it existed. Really nice 3D environment for the time. Thanks for the tip.
