With its jump from 2D to 3D, the Nintendo 64 offered a whole new way for developers to make games. That led to classics like Super Mario 64, as well as some stranger experiments with this new possibility for gaming. In September, Nintendo Switch Online adds one of these unexpected experiments that fans of old-school shooters need to check out.
Forsaken 64 isn’t as well remembered as shooters like Turok or GoldenEye 007, but what it lacks in popularity, it makes up for in originality. Technically, it borrows heavily from the PC and PlayStation shooter Descent, but that game itself is such an anomaly that Forsaken 64 ends up feeling original nonetheless. Forsaken 64 is what’s known as a six degrees of freedom shooter. At a time when other console shooters were extremely limited in their movement, Forsaken 64 featured free movement in every direction, with players controlling a mercenary riding a hovering motorcycle.
