I was deep in Half-Life mods still, playing Firearms and DoD and stuff. This was the multiplayer shooter my brother and his friends played. I tried it a few times, and honestly, I don't understand how it took off other than being a Big Franchise. I don't know if a first person shooter's multiplayer experience has ever made me more actively miserable than spawning with the SMG, moving slow and turning slow and firing a peashooter. Cultural forces are the only explanation my young mind could accept for the success of such a bad time.