Whats ur favorite FPS (First person Shooter)

Crysis/Halo 3 are the best. Halo is fun and Crysis has AMAZINGgraphics. Call of Duty is a great game, but not for me. I don't like the game's style as much as other fps. P.S. SoaSE rules!

I can see this on the GalCiv forums. Just to let you know.

Anyways, the FPS games I remember fondly are Goldeneye (N64) and Perfect Dark (N64). More recent games include Time Spliters, Resident Evil 4, and the Metriod prime games. I did kinda liked Doom 3, but I'm not one for horror games.

I don't play a whole lot of other FPS games because they are either too realistic, or don't have the right feel. As such, my knowledge of other FPS games might be a bit limited.

Its hard to say what I like in FPS games. I grew up with video games, so much of the "same old, same old" doesn't interest me. Its far easier to say what I don't like. I don't like multiplayer because I don't have very many friends that can play with, and I don't like playing with strangers. I also don't like games that have horrible plots and storylines, though some fun games are deliberately stupid and silly.

By the way, I've never played Quake, though I've heard good things about it.

Halo 3, COD4, Bioshock (not really an FPS), really like the BF Bad Company multi-player.

But my favorite has to be original Halo, nothing like rolling the campaign with a buddy on hardcore, or 8 man lan, tagging someone 50yds out with the shottie, scoped pistols, no lock on rockets. Those were the days.

Halo2

1) Because its for the PC(a lot easier to mod)
2) The Arbiter  
3) I have neither a Xbox360 or Halo3 :SNIFF!: 

HaloCE and Call of Duty are trailing behind ever so slightly

I personally like Halo 3 because of the multiplayer. Halo 3 was pretty much made for multiplayer

Counter-strike beta 5.4 or 5.6 for tactical team combat.(not sure which one was better, the colt with a scope was a little unfair, but they started screwing up stuff with the later versions)

UT is still the king of the generic slugfest

System shock 2 for the best single player experience, hands down.

Rune was pretty cool, a psuedo rpg game created using the unreal engine, gotta love vikings chopping each other into little pieces.

The ORIGINAL Call of Duty and it's expansion are my favorite FPSs of all time. I've played through the campaigns at least 3 times. I believe that the campaigns in them are far better than the ones in COD4 (and COD3 obviously); COD2 was close but was a bit off the mark regarding campaign endings, they just felt... well, unfinished.

1.) The ending for COD is the assault and taking of Berlin, and you're part of unit that assaults the heavily fortified Reichstag.

2.) The ending of the campaign in COD:UO is one of the most epic battles in ANY FPS, where you and a few ill equipped squad mates must defend a train station against massive waves of infantry and armor, all while being constantly bombed by stuckas. This is all worth when you see your allied train crash into the fray and release hundreds of allied soldiers to relieve you, and finally retake Kharkovi.

3.) The ending for COD2 is that you successfully cross the Rhein and secure a landing, which really leaves you underwhelmed since the beginning of the invasion of Germany is the end of the game.

The COD4 ending, in my opinion, is worst than COD2's ending.

 

Half-Life and Half-Life 2 (and episodes) get honorable mention for good use of physics and good modding communities.

1. Rainbow Six and Rogue Spear + exp. packs (will forever hold the #1 FPS position in my heart!  :HOT: )

2. Operation Flashpoint and now ArmA (second place by a hair...hehe)

3. MOHAA, COD, TF2 and all the rest of the twitch-game FPS's the my sons are beginning to beat me at...  ;p 



the Monk


EDIT:
I feel like crying when I see what UBIsoft has done to the Rainbow Six franchise.....shameful really. *sigh*

psychoak, you have good tastes . . .

Unreal Tournament is the best mindless 'I want to blow crap up with a flak cannon' game ever. (And yes, I'm a total flak monkey.)

System Shock 2, Thief, and Deus Ex are the three best in terms of immersion and storyline. Every other game since has wished it could be so cool as these three, and failed miserably.

I still have a soft place in my heart for Half-Life. Gotta love those headcrabs. <3

Painkiller is a great one if you want mindless, gory, gratuitous violence. I mean, we're talking ridiculously over-proportioned enemies, seas of baddies begging for you to slice them up, and a gun that shoots shurikens and lightning. No other gun is as cool as that in ANY game. It's like the razor gun from UT on steroids.

I mean, Painkiller is everything Doom 3 should have been and failed at so miserably. It's everything you loved about the original two Doom games, with updated graphics, better gameplay, and a gun that shoots shurikens and lightning. Highly recommended.

My favorite FPS is just to drive down to the gun range, or head out into the desert with friends.

As far as video games go, probably Farcry.

DOOM! (DOS), which ran choppily on my 386DX/40 with only 5 MB RAM. A friend ran it as well with 8MB and it was smooth as silk.

Well: The most fun multiplayer I have had would be Duke Nukem 3D -- 4 player coop on the hardest difficulty, 2 guys with shotguns and 2 using pipebombs to blow up corpses to avoid respawns.. And also Rainbow Six -- the original one -- when we introduced the game to a full lan party and ended up playing 16 players 8 v 8. "BREACHING DOOR!" "COVER ME!" "CONTACT!!!" .. Never heard so much exited yelling at a lan before, except for QUAKEWORLD CTF/TF and a lot of *expletive deleted*.

And how many remember rQuake -- The Rendition Veritie version of Quake.exe -- one of the early 3D Accelerators (and it looked a lot nicer than 3dfx version of Quake).

The most fun for a "army fanboi" would be OPERATION FLASHPOINT. The Singleplayer game, demo and campaign blew me away in terms of what a Strategic Shooter was. And when I first played Multiplayer CTI (capture the isle) and BF1985 (Battlefield 1985 mod for OPF) I was hooked! Also, playing as an "embedded" in a coopertive scenario with a very hardcore group of players was the single most fun gameplay experience online I've had. There is something to be said about moving around in a 'tactical formation' while on ventrilo and playing a online game, then spotting the enemy, lining up as a firig line and waiting for 'permission to fire' before engaging the enemy... Epic!

As far as FPS with epic story goes; I guess the original HALO was "epic" although I and many other PC users were very disappointed when the game became a XBOX exclusive for so long. It was still a great game, except for the repeating parts latter on in the game.

Most original concept for a FPS would be the game XIII -- a.k.a. Thirteen, which was a cell-shaded First Person shooter. With cool features such as a "cartoon style closeup" whenever you got a headshot. If you did not get sick from the way the graphics were, I'm sure you'd love it.

Another great FPS which introduced me to FPS on consoles for the first time, and that it could actually work real well, and be fun, both singleplayer, coopertively and vs mode was the Gamecube title Timesplitters 2. This game is one everyone should experience. I believe the same guys who made it made a PC title named Second Sight which you should also check out.

The scariest FPS i've played would be Aliens vs. Predator and the followup Aliens vs. Predator 2. Another great title that was unfortunately very poorly received is Undying. This title was a very good in the early stages of the game, much like Doom 3 before you get a gun. There is something much scarier about going inside a space station with a flashlight... than a flashlight and a keybind 7 for Rocket Launcher.


Other honorable mentions in no particular order: Half Life, Half Life 2, Armed Assault, Duke Nukem Forever (whenver it gets released), Prey (for the real .. annoying upside-down fps). and lots of other games I forgot.


But the best FPS of them all would be : ALIEN BREED 3D on the AMIGA!


Edit: Oh yea, Doom, Doom3 and Wolf3D were great as well. They were responsible for ruining a lot of my schoolwork

Thief 1 (Gold) and Thief 2. They're far from the average representative of the genre, but they're by far my favourite video games.

Thief 3 is good enough.

I played the original UT a lot. LAN at work. It rocked!

Team Fortress 2 is a world of fun with a decent team/clan.

Doom 3 is great, so's Condemned. Similar sort of feel to both games, but Condemned relies heavily on melee - which is designed very nicely in the game. Doom 3 has amazing sound effects. In a pair of good Sennheisers it becomes a true test of one's reign over one's bladder.

I loved Painkiller, because it had no pretense of being anything more than a straight up, old school shooter. Think Serious Sam. Hell, it even had a big arrow at the top of the screen pointing in the direction where you have to go and shoot some more mobs to finish the level.

The level design in Painkiller is amazing.

I hate Halo. It's so generic. Meh.

I played Crysis and wasn't impressed either. The physics were a lot of fun, but the game's too generic for my taste.

Half Life is pretty cool, but no one would dispute that.

Oh, yeah, thanks instant!

Duke Nukem was great fun over modem. (: So was AVP (didn't play AVP2 for more than a day). AVP multiplayer was fantastic. I loved stalking my buddy, who'd play a space marine, as an alien. You could hear his motion sensor going off and he'd freak out and then, once you get close enough, you'd get to bite his head off with your compund jaw. ((:

Oh, hell, can't believe I forgot Quake. Music by Nine Inch Nails and a great game all around. Epic.

[EDIT] Sorry, I should've edited my previous post instead of making a new one. Thought this forum didn't have an edit button for some reason.

How could I forget these great titles:

Blood
Lo Wang Shadow Warrior
Heretic
Hexen
Rise of the Triad

All responsible (Along with Doom, Doom2, Quake, Quake2) for costing me a _LOT_ of money in phonebills

What happened to the old days of FPS' that allowed cooperative gameplay.

.. I know poster wanted "favourite" FPS, but its hard to pick one. They were all favourites at one time.

All time favourite : Operation Flashpoint
Makes me sad to see so many playing Battlefield/TF when they could be participating in 4 hour long, 64 or 32 player large, Capture the Island battles.

The greatest FPS of all time is the original Unreal Tournament 1999. I'd also say that UT 2004 is a close second.

The years 2000-2002--UT99's heyday, were an amazing time to be an FPS gamer. I remember being able to find over 3000 people playing Capture-the-Flag (and that's just one game type) 24/7. I remember the joy of discovering new servers and communities and new custom maps. The game was so popular and players were so fanatically enthusiastic about it that there must have been at least 10,000 custom maps and mods made for it. (Making a custom FPS map is about 500 times tougher than making a Galaxy Forge Sins map, so that should tell you something about the enthusiasm people had for the game.) The game also had clans--real clans...hundreds of them that actually competed on organized ladders (as opposed to community "clans" that don't actually compete or do anything). Anyone remember the Proving Grounds ladders?

UT 2004 is an excellent game, too. Onslaught and Invasion Monster Hunt-RPG are tremendous fun.

(UT3's game play isn't too bad, but everything surrounding it--the awful and featureless server browser and the consolized, clunky and slow user interface--is garbage and far inferior to what we had in UT99 and UT 2004.)

I like fast paced multiplayer-only FPS.

UT2004 was good before the community died due to cheaters and boredom. I played this competitively for a LONG time.

UT3 is also dead (competitively).

Savage 2 is another game where the community is mostly dead. Usually only 1 or 2 servers going and everyone in game thinks it is great fun to stack. There are more completely stacked games (all pros vs all noobs) than there are remotely fun games. If you like being an asshole, stacking, and a bunch of immature 13 year olds I can recommend Savage 2 to you.

I don't like COD because it's a slow, team based, headshot insta-kill kind of game. I've never tried it though.

Warsow is one of the most popular open source (read: free) games.

ET: QW was okay. I especially liked the flight packs when I tried the demo [when the game came out]. I may play it later if I get bored with TF2.

TF2: Currently playing this game. It's pretty fun. The only problem with it is a lack of maps but they have been releasing new ones and more achievements lately. Noob teams are more of a problem than stacking in this game as a lot of people play it casually (read: badly).

I don't have a lot of experience with FPS, but I really got my money's worth from BF1942. It may not have had the greatest graphics, but the online action was addicting especially with several friends on a voice chat. I still can't get the intro music out of my head.

Rise of the Triad: I loved the flame wall gun and the funny sound effects when the burnt bones collapse after a kill.

(I'll only list recent titles here)

Halo 3: I loved the singleplayer, but as it was kind of "more of the same" of Halo 2, I did not find the multiplayer very interesting, and you can only play the SP so many times before you get bored.

Call of Duty 4: Singleplayer was short, but oh so sweet. I actually liked the ending, although the best part of the game was the part in the middle where you went OMFG. If you've played it, you know it. The multiplayer is one of the best I've ever played. Unlike Halo 3, I'm not already bored of it from a previous game, and everything just works. It's fast paced, chaotic and fairly-well balanced. Only bad things are the spawn-system and the non-existant host-migration.

Crysis: BEAUTIFUL graphics, but the gameplay sucks ass, so it just doesn't interest me much.

PORTAL: Can it be called a First Person Shooter? If so, this wins for it's story, gameplay and everything. Awesome game.

If not Portal, then I'd say CoD4.

COD4 is my latest foray. Been playing on the PS3 for a change. Before that, all my FPS's (except a small bout with bond 64) were on the computer including, Wolfenstein 3d (original), Doom, Quake, Doom 2, Doom 3, Unreal Tourney 99, and 04, Half life and sequels, and FarCry.

I love the realism of COD4 and the modern theme. SciFi shooters are fun but disconnected. COD4 multiplayer really takes off when you join a clan, or play on Gamebattles or other ladder play.

just one person mentioned bf1942...and one mentioned counterstrike...tsk tsk...you all should try out Battlefield 2 if you havent...for pc...its an unbelievable game all around graphics and gameplay

CoD 4 is really awesome, but I don't have it, but have played it at a friend's house. I'm not a huge star wars fan, but while the disk worked i played Republic Commando on PC alot. I still play CoD 2 sporadically, because, unfortunately, i don't have a 360 or PS3. Also have Metroid Prime 3, been replaying that recently.

Armed Assault :HOT: 

Bacause it is so realistic, the missions are huge, and the way you can make team COOP is uniq at this large scale.

I have been commanding squad´s for about 3½ years in different games, but Armed Assault is without doubt the absolut best teamplayer game... It ROCKS  


Plus+ features:

1000+ Awesome missions
100+ Cool mod´s
10+ Great ways to play

Hell yes it is. Shooting up churches, army bases, and orphanages in Purgatory, filled with the minions of Satan.

The more I play that game, the more I absolutely love it. It's ridiculously fun.

Oh yes, OGR, R6:RvS, Rogue Spear, those were the classics. I'm also liking OFP and ArmA right now.

Yeah, UBISoft has done a number on the Tom Clancy name (although the first few Splinter Cell games were quite good, I'm not sure where they're going now).

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