15 Franchises That Tackled Multiple Genres Successfully

WOLFENSTEIN

You can’t often point to a single franchise and credit it with creating an entire genre, but with Wolfenstein 3D, that is exactly what id Software did, creating the basic blueprint that first person shooters are built on to this day. But Wolfenstein wasn’t always a shooter, of course. Before the franchise was picked up by id, it belonged to Muse Software, under whose care the series was a top-down stealth action adventure experience. And you know what? It wasn’t half-bad.