Comment on First/notable 3D games where you could dive below water (and walk on land)
bus_factor@lemmy.world 4 days ago
The first was probably Duke Nukem 3D, released January 29th, 1996:
…fandom.com/…/Water_mechanics_in_Duke_Nukem_3D
If you consider their hacky approach to 3D cheating (they didn’t support one part of a level to be above another, and implemented looking up/down by just distorting the image, so all corners were too pointy), then you’d have to wait a few months for Quake.
The first actually 3D first person game was Quake, released June 22nd, 1996, and it let you swim: