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What are the Top 5 FPS games

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  1. Chronicles of Riddick: very immersive, superb story and acting, proof that movie-based-games rule as much as game-based-movies suck
  2. Far Cry: great outdoor levels, awesome weaponry but stupid plastic acting
  3. F.E.A.R.: great physics and weaponry but silly derivative story
  4. Half Life 2: varied environments and enemies but poor choice of weapons and stupid half-baked X-Files-esque mythology
  5. Call of Duty 2: extremely fun and immersive but a bit too easy

Dated but worth mentioning:
  • No One Lives Forever 1 & 2: campy retro spy fun
  • Undying: horror gore with atmosphere plus liberal lopping off of heads with scythe :evil:
  • Jedi Outcast & Academy: lightsaber battles (though those are THIRD person)
  • Unreal: beautiful levels and some of the most creative weaponry ever
  • Counter-Strike: quick n dirty fun with real-life-based weaponry
  • Return to Castle Wolfenstein: possibly the best FPS remake so far... grittier and sexier
 
Originally posted by: HamburgerBoy
Originally posted by: Sureshot324
Marathon 2 was awsome, but I didn't really like Marathon Infinity. The levels were way to big. The hardest part of that game was finding your way through the maze and finding the right button/switch, not fighting the enemies.
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Yeah, a few levels did suck. ACME Station and the vacuum level right after it were both awful levels individually and being together it made them ten times worse. However, it defenitely had its moments. Poor Yorick, Eat the Path, and Venice were all awesome levels and those weren't the only ones.
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It definatly had some cool levels, but playing virtual scavenger hunt = not fun. I'd say in at least a third of the levels I ended up searching for a button or exit long after all the enemies where dead, and I never ended up finishing the game because of that. Online walkthroughs weren't much help.
 
Current FPS games? I don't really know since I haven't played too many FPS games recently. I guess my list would be:

1) Oblivion (it's first person, but not really a shooter, although I do play as an archer)
2) HL2: Ep1
3) CoD2 demo (still current? Trying to find the game for cheap)

I didn't really enjoy Far Cry that much. The enemy A.I. didn't seem smart enough to match the awesome open-endedness of the game.


My favorite FPS games ever:

0) Oblivion

1) Deus Ex
2) Medal of Honor
3) Half Life 2
4) GoldenEye
5) UT2004
 
One game nobody has mentioned is SHOGO: Mobile Armor. It's definitely not a top 5 game, but I always felt it was unfairly overlooked. Actually Monolith has developed a lot of awesome games that haven't really gotten their due IMO.
 
Originally posted by: DonVito
One game nobody has mentioned is SHOGO: Mobile Armor. It's definitely not a top 5 game, but I always felt it was unfairly overlooked. Actually Monolith has developed a lot of awesome games that haven't really gotten their due IMO.
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And I just knew I forgot some titles when making my list... SHOGO:MAD was one of the best games ever both in terms of planning and execution (it's basically to the FPS genre what Planescape:Torment was to the CRPG genre -- critically acclaimed but commercially unsuccessful 🙁 ). The fusion of manga story and FPS action elements in it was practically flawless. :thumbsup:
 
considering current to be 2004 and up; not in any order:

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Call of Duty 2 - intense, fast paced action

Chronicals of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay - unique gameplay elements, excellent addition to the Chronicals of Riddick movies

Doom 3 - Scary and fun wandering the darkness alone

FEAR - intense action

FarCry - unique gameplay elements, including super large outdoor foliage environments
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Runner up: Half-Life 2: Episode 1 - not a full game, but an excellent addition to HL2 surpassing HL2's charm

Originally posted by: HamburgerBoy
Originally posted by: Fenixgoon
if the original quake is not on there, it's automatically blasphemy
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How so? Quake is an overrated mediocre iD game.
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I played Quake for the first time in 2004 or early 2005 and I thought it was a kick ass game. It isn't overrated. It simply rocks.

 
Originally posted by: Sureshot324
It definatly had some cool levels, but playing virtual scavenger hunt = not fun. I'd say in at least a third of the levels I ended up searching for a button or exit long after all the enemies where dead, and I never ended up finishing the game because of that. Online walkthroughs weren't much help.
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Can you remember any of the annoying levels in particular? It had puzzles but I've been lost in the first two Marathon games as well. The biggest problem IMO was that so many of the levels could be beaten within a minute... the three Electric Sheep levels, Son of Grendel, and Strange Aeons were all just put there to make the game seem longer.
 
The only problem with Shogo is it suffered from the graphical limitations of the day. It had some seriously EMPTY indoor areas. Like huge, huge 40 foot ceilings in an indoor area with absolutely nothing on the walls or floor at all.
 
All Time fav FPS :
Riddick escape from butcher bay
Halo < xbox 2001 version ... please don't pm me about how you think i am stupid
Deus Ex
Metroid Prime
Marathon
BF1942

Online :
BF1942 << my all time fav Online FPS
ET
UT 2000
Quake 3
Day of Defeat

Story Based FPS :
Riddick Escape from butcher bay
Deus Ex
Halo
Marathon 1
HL 1

Good Gameplay FPS :
Call of duty United Offensive
Riddick escape from butcher bay
FEAR
HL1
System Shock 2

 
Hard to pick just 5:

System Shock 2 - only game to ever truly scare the crap out of me
Deus Ex - because augmentations are fun
Tron 2.0 - one of the better uses of a movie liscence...the game is actually better then the movie
No One Lives Forever series - Austin Powers FPS...campy, but quite humorous
Half-Life series - goes without saying
Dark Forces/Jedi Knight series - woohoo, Star Wars FPS goodness
Quake 2 - just for the soundtrack alone

 
Dark Forces is the only FPS I finished and looked back on and went......whoa that was freaking amazing.

But Quake gets HUGE nods for being the first FPS I played online. My friend snuck us into his office late one night and we played online over their T-1 and I was a changed man after that.
 
In no particular order
FarCry
Deus Ex
Quake II
Day of Defeat-best online game I've played. (not DoD:S. Haven't played HL2 or its offspring)
UT, UT24k + Unreal (the original).
Hexen-II. I loved this game. And back in the day, the graphics were quite astounding too. If Heretic -II could be classified as an FPS (actually its a ThPS) then it would have made the list too. Excellent game.
 
Quake 2 is, still, the best FPS game I have ever played....from a DM perspective.
Serious Sam (all varieties) are still the best FPS games I have played....from a fun factor (especially co-op mode) perspective.
Farcry was a great, IMHO, FPS game....from a single person player game perfspective.
Half-life/Counter-Strike were also great.
 
Gotta give the 'of all time' award to Doom or Wolfenstein (similiar engine I believe). Pretty much all first person shooters evolved from from those two.

I'm still irritated when nobody mentions the original System Shock. System Shock was the first, true, 3D first person shooter while Doom/Doom2 and it's clones weren't fully 3D. Quake was the better game, but System Shock was there first, and regretfully didn't have the deathmatch capability, or things would be a lot different today.

When I play current FPSs it only shows me how little the genre has come.
 
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