: People need to stop saying this, because it's not true. RotT used a cheap
: hack that treated "dual pistols" as a single weapon. It was
: literally just a sprite replacement that had two pistols instead of one;
: you didn't press different keys to fire each weapon, RotT didn't treat
: their ammo sources as separate, and it didn't even have them reload at
: staggered intervals. Marathon's dual-wielding, by contrast, was entirely
: genuine: as we all know, you press different keys to fire each, they
: maintain separate ammo pools, and they reload at separate times. They
: aren't remotely comparable.
Tomb Raider had dual wielded pistols, autopistols/magnums and uzis and they were all treated as a single weapon each. Shadow Warrior did the same with its dual uzis: secondary fire was only to equip the second one. Everyone recognises those as "dual wielding" despite that. Of course they're comparable.
