Alien Breed 3D had the most advanced engine (maybe with the exception of Trapped) - full 3D (you could have multiple floors on top of one other), a textured 3D-polygon enemy (mid-boss), walls at any angle, rippling water that actually distorted the view, bouncing grenades. From purely technical standpoint, it was more advanced than Doom. Also, balanced weapons, brilliant enemy AI, good level design, and, in case of CD32, kickass music by Bjorn Lynne. It's a shame it ran like crap ob barebones A1200 / CD32 (although let's face it - 020 and no fast ram was too slow to run anything 3D). Pixels as big as bricks and single-digit framerates killed it. Luckily Arcturus Deluxe made a brilliant port called Project Osiris (using GZDoom engine) and it's a blast. My fav Amiga FPS (together with Genetic Species). Genetic Species technically had the least advanced engine (save maybe for Cytadela / Gloom / ZŻB), but it featured tons and tons of fireworks like transparency, reflective floors etc. The idea of snatching enemy bodies was pure genius. Awesome gameplay, weapons, enemies, atmosphere, ambient sounds etc. Loads of interesting things to do, loads of different areas to explore, loads of fun to have. Overall a brilliantly designed game with lots of work invested into it. My other fav Amiga FPS (together with Alien Breed 3d). Trapped 2 - great engine etc., effects n all. Never played it though so I can't say whether it was any good. Alien Breed 2 - the engine seems to have devolved (or at least the colour palette) from its predecessor in favour of performance. Unbalanced difficulty, overlapping weapons, no music, toxic floor that damages you even if you're in mid air, everything too convoluted etc. Not as good as AB3D (although definitely more ambitious). The techdemo was amazing, but the final product was a far cry from it. Za Żelazną Bramą - it was supposedly enjoyable and ran smooth in full screen on a bare A500. Never played it though. Cytadela - a SciFi Wolf3d where you lost health every time you ran into a wall. Yes, you got that right - a Wolf-3d maze-like game where bumping into a fucking wall took your health away. Playable only because of novelty factor / Doom fever - it was the only thing that ran on an A500 and had textures at the same time. ALthough I gotta give credit where credit is due - they managed to pack tons of textures / enemies / weapons etc. and even an animated intro. Lots of good work wasted on a platform where 3D games just weren't viable. Breathless - beautiful textures / colour palette, great music... and nothing else. The engine featured 90-degree walls and varying height. All weapons were the same, the only difference being strength and energy consumption. Oh, and it had a flamethrower. Barely playable. Nemac IV - another game that relied solely on novelty factor. The game was a glorified techdemo for 3D games back in the days of Doom fever on the Amiga. Flat engine with walls at different angles. And that's it. Gloom - as above, but with even less variety. Just one weapon and sounds ripped from Ridley Scott's Aliens. It ran on a bare 1200 / CD32 with 2mb slow ram and 020 CPU, which was it's only advantage. Wolf-3D like engine with textured ceilings and tinted glass effect. Novelty factor was strong with this one. Fears - similar engine to Breathless, weird graphics (I liked it personally), terrible FOV, crude gameplay. Relied heavily on Doom fever. There were others too - Testament, Ubek, Project Battlefield, even Ambermoon (although this one only had a few 3D sections). Plus a few demos / announcements that never made it (like Switchworld). Thanks for the video!

I remember Breathless, it was really fast on my Amiga 1200 with processor 030/42Mhz and graphics was really nice, and after that was really cool Alien Breed 3D II

Breathless was my favourite, for the atmosphere and for the fantastic music. Followed by AB3D and AB3D II: TKG (I still have the original floppies). Then Gloom Deluxe.

Citadel uses Cannon Fodder sfx's :D I like Trapped 2 but I never played yet. Too bad it's not a real FPS. It looks really cool, it looks real 3D! It remembered me Quake! I sold my Amiga and bought a PC when I saw Doom 2 on one of my friend's PC. It was so different, so futuristic. It was a 3D human simulator. Still one of my favorites!

IMO, Breathless was the most fun. Great atmosphere, very Doom-like gameplay, a menagerie of monsters that was different -- in appearance at least -- on the 4 worlds, great music, and of course, a solid 2.5D engine. Too many of the Amiga FPS games, such as Genetic Species, Nemac IV, and Gloom, had flat, Wolfenstein-grade engines, which makes them less visually interesting. No amount of lighting tricks can make up for limited architecture. Breathless also had a really cool fog effect, freelook, and music, not to mention an interesting incorporation of RPG elements, such as collecting money to spend at consoles for upgrades. Level design was also pretty good, though IMO, more could have been done on the architectural front.

Games like Trapped 2 and Genetic Species would've extended the Amiga's lifespan into the Playstation era had it been released sooner. Looks amazing.

I remeber spending hours on Robocop 3, all the others where out of range for the 500. But I played a little Gloom later on the CD32, lots of fun!

I had no idea there were FPS games of this standard available for the Amiga. Great video.

Good video thanks

TWO of these games were legitimately fun to play: "Alien Breed 3D" (the FIRST one) and "Gloom". The rest were a mess in terms of playability and level design - certainly compared to "Doom". _Amiga Power_ Magazine had it spot-on. ("Genetic Species" is excused from this as I've never played it)

Interesting . I had gloom on amiga cd32 console and i dont think it run and looked as good as that !? Looks like a more accurate doom clone here . Also Genetic species looks really good . Has the look of a psp or saturn/playstation game maybe . nice lighting and movement

I haven't played many of these.. I think Amiga was not designed for this kind of software and it showed, so if you really wanted to play a first person game in the 90s the best thing was going to a PC, all 3D textured games on Amiga felt a bit forced into an inadequate hardware were and less polished than the ones on PC. Also, 3D games on Amiga all required a 030 as a minimum requirement, so it was something very few Amiga users had or were willing to invest moey on; we were all stuck in 1989, thinking that any software had to run smooth on a 512 Kb Amiga 500 or we complained.that it wasn't written well.. in the mean time PC users pased from the 8088 to the 486 with VGA and soundblaster, taking Amiga's place as the dominator in graphics and sound. With this said, I think Nemak IV is perhaps the best, it runs on relatively cheap hardware, it's smooth and playable.

6:54 reminds me of disruptor on PSX

AB3D2 was the best, real 3d weapons and lightening, and some levels where so good.

I think gloom is the only 3d shooter I have ever finished :)

That first game reminds me a lot of system shock!

I liked AB3D and Gloom (Deluxe) best, they were the most fun, there was off course better looking games (but not as fun).

Cool. :3

The framerate is really great on most cases

Gloom jest najlepszy!

I wish that these games would be recreated as mods for the Doom engine.

with my Amiga 500 only fps i think that i could play was Death Mask.

04:54 cannon fodder samples😂

Death Mask?????

quake ?

Why isn't Doom 2 on this list?

I have never liked AB3d II. Weak design and graphics of the enemies, boring gameplay. My no1 is Genetic species, amazing graphics and lots of interesting ideas. My second best: breathless.

Fears best game ☺️

In my opinion Amiga was run by some bankers who was treating the company as a toy fab. They waited till the 12 years old C64 and 7 years old Amiga sales vanished and closed the company. Amiga 500-1200 was way behind in technology around 1994. After that some people still was loving the machine and try to keep it alive, but honestly these games create more depression than any fun. So I think best at that time was to accept the reality and leave the dead in RIP.

Such great games, loved them. Alien Breed 3D Alien Breed 3D II : The Killing Grounds Genetic Species Gloom/Gloom Deluxe Breathless Nemac IV Trapped 2

Breathless and Gloom were the best because they had consistent graphics and gameplay. The other fps were more experiments than complete games. Maybe Genetic Species had better textures, but not the same atmosphere of Breathless. AlientBreed 3D 2 tried to be an imitation of Quake of that time, but it failed to even replicate Doom. The textures weren't so great, the 3D maps weren't able to show the full potential of the engine, the enemies were crap, the sound average and the gameplay poor. Trapped 2 was one of the worst. Terrible textures, poor audio, poor maps, poor enemies, poor gameplay, poor everything, it was more a demo than a complete game. Amiga had great potential but after the company failure, the hardware wasn't enough (slow processors + C2P) and the remaining programmers had consistency issues. Anyway, thanks for the video.

Genetic Species published @ 1998 lol. Anyone who hasn't made the jump at this point can feel sorry for them. At that year, people were already playing Unreal 1 on PC with 3dfx support. 😂🤣😂

bah. the amiga never had a 3Dfps game that was half as much fun as doom, and none of them could run at a playable speed on less than a '030 42Mhz. These games compete with wolfenstein3D. The whole culture of trying to get the migi to do what it was not designed for vs machines that were 50 times more powerful was always doomed to serve only as evidence to gamers at the time that the Amiga had become a relic of the '80s.

Garbage compared to the best pc fps games at the time.