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‘The mid-2000s was the golden era of first-person shooters’: David Syzmankski, creator of Dusk and Iron Lung, discusses the games on his PC
- Szymanski calls mid-2000s FPS games the genre’s golden era.
- He values the period’s variety over standardised shooter design.
- Doom, Elden Ring and Infra remain key games on his PC.
David Szymanski, the creator of Dusk and Iron Lung, says the late 1990s to mid-2000s were the “golden age” of first-person shooters because the genre offered unusually broad creative variety. Speaking about his Steam library, he contrasted that period with eras dominated first by Doom-like games and later…
