Tenchu: Stealth Assassins

Tenchu: Stealth Assassins (PlayStation) 1998

First 3D stealth game

Gameplay video

Earliest Magazine preview - Australian PlayStation (1997-08)

Magazine review - PlayStation 2 Official Australia (1999)

Magazine preview - Computer and videogames (1998)

Trivia:

1) The game used motion capture where actor/martial artist Sho Kosugi and his son Kane, were hired as actors for the game's combat moves.

2) First stealth game was Manbiki Shounen.

3) Emulated in: ePSXe