Silencer (video game)

Silencer
Title art used by publisher, WON.net, on their website showing the game logo, the category "Action Games" in the upper-left corner, and a man with a gun jumping through weapons fire
Title art used by publisher, WON.net, on their website
Developer(s)Mind Control Software
Publisher(s)WON.net
Producer(s)Andrew Leker
Programmer(s)Jonathan Stone
Platform(s)Windows
Genre(s)Shooter, capture the flag
Mode(s)Multiplayer

Silencer is an online, multiplayer-only video game by Mind Control Software that was published by the World Opponent Network (WON.net) for free play on their website in January 2000.[1][2][3] It features capture-the-flag-style gameplay—common in 3D first-person shooter arenas at the time—but presents it in a low-resource 2D package.[4] The game was released by WON.net as an open beta.[5] It saw a number of beta updates before it was removed, without explanation, from WON.net's website in September 2000 and the multiplayer servers shut down in October 2000.[6][7] Silencer is a bit of an anomaly in that it managed to spawn a fan-made WONswap site,[8] 7 known fansites,[9][10][11][12][13] plus a legacy of independent multiplayer servers and game clones (see below), from its short run as an open beta on WON.net.

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