Best FPS

[Dr. Zoidberg]

Post your top three favorite FPS games here.(No you can not put Halo, Halo 2, and Halo 3 in one list.)Here's mine.

3.Metroid Prime-Gamecube:I loved the game's creepy atmosphere and the levels, but I didn't like how you couldn't move and look at the same time, and how the shooting was mapped to the 'A' button instead of 'R'.
2.Bioshock-xbox 360:A great horror shooter.I love how you really have to find out most of the story yourself with the audio diaries spread about the levels.
1.Red Faction-PS2:While its story doesn't compare with games like Bioshock and Half-Life, it was one of the best stories in an FPS.I also liked the Geo-Mod technology.There's just an undeniable awesomeness about that game.Too bad Volition had to ruin the story and make it into a military shooter with Red Faction II.

[TrogLlama]

Does Portal count?

I think Metroid Prime is my favorite. Probably because it's less a first person shooter and more a first person adventure-shooter. I can deal with that.

[Dr. Zoidberg]

Does Portal count?

Portal is one of my favorite games of all time, but I would probably mark it as more of a first person puzzle/platformer myself.

[Klemmins]

3. Call of Duty
2. Call of Duty 4
1. Call of duty 2?

lol jk

okay well...

I dunno.

Call of Duty 2 for PC is definitely my favorite...

But can't really think of any others.

Let's go with halo 2?

and...

Team Fortress Two, which I haven't actually played but looks cool?

[Bobeo]

Half-Life 2

[Murray the Chao]

1. Unreal (original, not Tournament)
2. Doom (original)
3. Wolfenstein 3D

Note: Metroid Prime does NOT count, though it and Corruption are awesome games. Echoes sucked, though.

[Dr. Zoidberg]

1. Unreal (original, not Tournament)
2. Doom (original)
3. Wolfenstein 3D

Note: Metroid Prime does NOT count, though it and Corruption are awesome games. Echoes sucked, though.

Metroid prime is in first person and you're shooting stuff.Sounds like an FPS to me.

[xChri5x]

Half-Life 2

I can''t believe it took 5 posts for this to be mentioned. Shame!

[Dr. Zoidberg]

I can''t believe it took 5 posts for this to be mentioned. Shame!

Bioshock > Half Life

[Bobeo]

Bioshock > Half Life

You can't compare Bioshock and Half Life. They are two completely different types of shooters.

[Dr. Zoidberg]

You can't compare Bioshock and Half Life. They are two completely different types of shooters.

You got me there, but my Big Daddy figurines say otherwise.

[Bobeo]

Bioshock is my favorite game of all-time, but the reason it's not my favorite FPS is because the first-pointing shooting is not what makes it great. I like it much more from an adventure game standpoint. Half-life 2 on the other hand has the gravity gun which makes it automatically awesome.

[jp-30]

3. Jedi Outcast
2. Dark Forces
1. Armed and Dangerous

[ShaggE]

Ah, the first person shooter. A favorite genre of mine, which makes choosing a Top 3 very difficult.

1. Blood
2. HL2
3. Soldier of Fortune 2 (multiplayer, that is. Single player wasn't all that great.)

[InvaderJim42]

1. Battlezone (PC version)
2. Terra Nova: Strike Force Centauri
3. Command & Conquer: Renegade

Battlezone was a sweet game that took place in an alternate timeline, where the Space Race was simply a cover-up for a massive military campaign on several planets of the Sol system (including the Moon, Mars, Venus, Io, Europa, and one or two others.) The game mixed RTS and FPS elements. You could jump out of various hover tanks and hover bombers and leap into others once you sniped off the enemy pilot. You also issued commands to ally units and structures, and set up a base and whatnot. You could play either the American or Soviet campaigns. It was a blast.

Terra Nova was another great game, and was very advanced for its time. It was largely overlooked because everyone was too busy blowing each other up in Doom. It took place in the Alpha Centauri system. Earth's government had become a sort of dictatorship thing, and the colonists of Alpha Centauri had an uneasy truce with this dictatorship. Gameplay was basically running around in powered battle armor, performing scouting, assassination, rescue, and all sorts of missions. I can't even begin to go into all the detail...

Command & Conquer Renegade was a nice FPS 'version' of Tiberian Dawn. It was a really fun game. The only thing I couldn't stand was the personality of the main character. It's even better when it comes to multiplayer games.

[yogurtmano8675309]

3.portal
2.cod 4
1.halo1
p.s.2 of these three games i have not even played but i think they sound cool can you guess which ones?

[patters]

Bioshock < Half Life

fixed :D:D

3.portal
2.cod 4
1.halo1
p.s.2 of these three games i have not even played but i think they sound cool can you guess which ones?
portal and cod 4

my favourites are
1 halo 1-3
2 hl2 inc ep 1-2
3 goldeneye

[yogurtmano8675309]

nope portal and halo

[Dr. Zoidberg]

fixed :D:D

Actually now my revision is Bioshock = Half Life.I finally beat it and I love it.And HL2 is pretty fun too.

Anyway I got a new question(you can keep answering the old one if you want)!What is your favorite FPS for multiplayer?Mine are:

3.Half-Life: Deathmatch
2.Counter-Strike: Source
1.Team Fortress Classic.

Yeah I put all Valve games.I think those are the best online ones.

[dimomarg]

Call of duty

[glenfx]

1.- SYSTEM Shock 2, I dont think even Bioshock can surpass this one. (havent played Bioshock yet though)

2.- Medal of Honor, was simple, had simple graphics but had great gameplay.

3.- Duke Nukem 3D

runners up

4.-Turok 2

5.-Unreal 2

6.-Hexen

7.-Castle Wolfenstein

8.-Tron 2

9.-Dark Forces

10.-Jedi Knight (Jedi academy)

11.-Half Life 2

12.-Deus Ex 2

13.-Thief 1

14.-Doom 3

15.-Messiah

[Mario]

Deus Ex is one of my favourite games of all time. I also like id Software games, especially Doom 1 and Quake 3. Dark Forces 1 and 2 as well as Serious Sam are nice, too. I've become quite tired of the genre, though. And worried about the increasingly realistic violence.

[StinkomanFan]

Bunny hunt from RRR1 and 2.

[natlinxz]

3: Portal
2: Half Life 2
1: Conker's Bad Fur Day
(okay, its in 3rd Person, deal with it.)

[Udvarnoky]

1. Armed and Dangerous

That would be a third person shooter.

[patters]

4.-Turok 2



cerebral bore cerebral bore cerebral bore cerebral bore!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Snicklin]

Halo 2 and 3. Enough said.

[Zootch]

3) Quake
2) Battlefield 2142
1) Team Fortress 2


Halo is really hackneyed.

[Badwolf]

Only FPS I've really got into was Timesplitters 2, and maybe 3.

Never understood the hype over Halo.

[Shauntron]

I'll list the FPS games that had the most profound impact on me at the time they came out, without remotely considering how those games have aged.

1: Half-Life
I never really "got" free-look FPS games until half life, because I didn't feel the need to toss out my old skills for Quake. In the Half Life Uplink (which was the demo, but a kind of small standalone game), the Soldiers were just destroying me with their fairly smart combat AI. Headcrabs crept on the floor and leapt around, and for the first time I had to use the mouse to look. I really thank the Hazard Course for its immersive tutorial style in getting my WASD legs, and the rest is history.

2: Wolfenstein
Seeing through the eyes of the player for the first time, and also seeing a graphical representation of your character's damage was fairly profound for my five year old self who up until that point had only played sidescrolling Apogee shareware. I also didn't want to shoot the doggies, but I had endure a difficult moral choice because they were attacking me. Needless to say my mother didn't approve.

3: Far Cry
I really appreciated being able to approach situations in my own way. In many, more scripted first person shooters like COD, I find myself playing the "wrong" way. Carefully crafted problems may require specific solutions, or you'll be flattened or just have a bad time. In Far Cry, I generally felt that I could hang out in the shadows, carefully assess the nearby enemy threat, and come up with what I felt was the best way to deal with that particular situation. Perhaps I can revisit this kind of FPS whenever I get a PC that's Stalker or Crysis ready.

[biscuitdoughhandsman]

1 Call of Duty 2 best FPS ever!
2 Battlefield Bad Company I always hated any other Battlefield 'cause of the stupid controls but this one's were actually reeally easy
3 King Kong (ps2)

[ShaggE]

1: Half-Life
I never really "got" free-look FPS games until half life, because I didn't feel the need to toss out my old skills for Quake. In the Half Life Uplink (which was the demo, but a kind of small standalone game), the Soldiers were just destroying me with their fairly smart combat AI. Headcrabs crept on the floor and leapt around, and for the first time I had to use the mouse to look. I really thank the Hazard Course for its immersive tutorial style in getting my WASD legs, and the rest is history.

2: Wolfenstein
Seeing through the eyes of the player for the first time, and also seeing a graphical representation of your character's damage was fairly profound for my five year old self who up until that point had only played sidescrolling Apogee shareware. I also didn't want to shoot the doggies, but I had endure a difficult moral choice because they were attacking me. Needless to say my mother didn't approve.


Wow, that's almost creepy. Half-Life was the game that finally dragged me away from Arrow keys + Ctrl to fire, too. And I was also a dog-sympathizing kindergartener who was distressed by my actions in Wolf3D, and teethed on gaming with Apogee.

Insert stoneresque "Duuuude..." here.

[Dr. Zoidberg]

1: Half-Life
I never really "got" free-look FPS games until half life, because I didn't feel the need to toss out my old skills for Quake. In the Half Life Uplink (which was the demo, but a kind of small standalone game), the Soldiers were just destroying me with their fairly smart combat AI. Headcrabs crept on the floor and leapt around, and for the first time I had to use the mouse to look. I really thank the Hazard Course for its immersive tutorial style in getting my WASD legs, and the rest is history.

Wasn't Quake freelook?

1) Team Fortress 2

I wish my PC could play TF2. :(

[Gary]

This thread needs more BioShock.

1) BioShock.

[Shauntron]

Wasn't Quake freelook?


Yeah it was, but at the time I didn't need a mouse to beat it. I needed a mouse to beat Half Life.

[wisp]

you could use the mouse to look around, but if i remember correctly, left and right...so that's not freelook. i am not sure if real freelook was added later though a patch or something.

best fps, eh?

quake was pretty good for being the first thing in real 3d...and duke 3d was the first game to provide lasting multiplayer entertainment. i mean, doom multiplayer was okay...but lacked pipebombs and such.

[Dr. Zoidberg]

duke 3d was the first game to provide lasting multiplayer entertainment. i mean, doom multiplayer was okay...but lacked pipebombs and such.

Quake Team Fortress was out at about the same time wasn't it? I never played it but the other TF's are good...

[MrQuizmo]

I really enjoyed Bioshock, it totally nailed the vibe and setting, and the controls on the 360 we're nice and smooth.

Sadly, Fallout 3 is not on here. Yeah, it straddles the line with FPS...esses... So I won't be upset, but I'm playing it currently, and it rocks so hard. And VATS totally compensates for Bethesda's less than stellar FP controls.

They're not bad, but I feel like I'm on a pivot, not like I'm a person that is turning. Bioshock nailed that.

Also, Half-Life 2 is great. And take it from me, Team Fortress 2 is a delight as well.

[Shauntron]

you could use the mouse to look around, but if i remember correctly, left and right...so that's not freelook. i am not sure if real freelook was added later though a patch or something.


As I recall you had to bind a key to free look and hold it down continuously, and yes there was some later modification (either official, or some tweak in the config) that could bypass this.

[wisp]

Quake Team Fortress was out at about the same time wasn't it? I never played it but the other TF's are good...
i think, quake was released after duke 3d..not much though. actually, i have no idea when team fortress was finished. i found out about it, when the tf classic for half-life was released. so for me duke was the first real multiplayer thing...and we played it for a long time. even after quake 2 was out, we still had the occasional duke3d session. a friend of mine even traveled to the netherlands to get us the atomic edition..since you couldn't get it in germany.

Sadly, Fallout 3 is not on here. Yeah, it straddles the line with FPS...esses...
i would consider fallout 3 (alongside morrowind and oblivion) more as fprpg than fps..even if you shot things from time to time. i also like it though...

[Zootch]

Yeah it was, but at the time I didn't need a mouse to beat it. I needed a mouse to beat Half Life.

That's one of the reasons I actually liked Command & Conquer: Renegade. You didn't need a mouse to play, but freelook was always an option; you also had the option of first person or third person camera view, plus the gameplay unlocks were straightforward and simple. Also the maps were well made even by today's standards. Lots of open spaces! (Except the 'Hourglass' map, terrible mapping glitch that puts Nod at a ridiculous disadvantage)

[Dr. Zoidberg]

That's one of the reasons I actually liked Command & Conquer: Renegade. You didn't need a mouse to play, but freelook was always an option; you also had the option of first person or third person camera view, plus the gameplay unlocks were straightforward and simple. Also the maps were well made even by today's standards. Lots of open spaces! (Except the 'Hourglass' map, terrible mapping glitch that puts Nod at a ridiculous disadvantage)

Aren't the Command and Conquer games RTS?

[biscuitdoughhandsman]

ok now one of the best is Call of Duty World at War! Keifer Sutherland is the dude that narrates campaign mode, so thats amazing. oh, i don't know if this is an FPS, but all of my friends say Portal is an awesome game.

[glenfx]

cerebral bore cerebral bore cerebral bore cerebral bore!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Well, it was the first FPS i played where you could kill by shooting in the head.. pluss it had bows and arrows.

Aren't the Command and Conquer games RTS?

Yes, but Command and Conquer RENEGADE was FPS, it was cool though.

[Shazyzang]

1. Team Fortress 2
2. Half-Life 2
3. Either Call of Doody 4 or Half-Life 2: Episode 2

[Rakia]

1. Bioshock
2. Team Fortress 2
3. Metroid Prime

Basically what everyone listed about them is the reasons I love them.

[Sausy Gibbon]

1.Deus Ex
2.Half Life 2
3.Red Faction

[ShaggE]

3.Red Fraction

That would be the best edutainment game EVER! Fully destructible pie charts!

:p

[Yellowtail]

1. Metroid Prime 3: Corruption
2. Portal
3. Team Fortress 2

[Badwolf]

1. Metroid Prime 3: Corruption

tbh, I didn't really think much of Metroid Prime 3. It just felt like a bit of a chore, wasn't a fan of going between different planets rather than just exploring one big one, and the final boss was so long and boring D;

First one was good though.

[evilguy12]

It would have to be...

1.Half Life 2

2. Team Fortress 2

3. Half Life

...as so far they are the only brilliant FPSs I've played. I've played Halo, Bioshock, GoldenEye and Timesplitters 3 and they were dissapointing. I found them very boring and repetitive.

[Dr. Zoidberg]

that would be the best edutainment game ever! Fully destructible pie charts!

:p

That sounds AWEXOME!!!! Someone get a Volition programming team on that s*** right now!!!!!


EDIT: It would be even better if they handed it over to some developer no one's heard of to do their spin-off!

[patters]

i've decided to finish bioshock, i still love the exploration, the controls aren't as tight as i thought they were. its still a great game and i love the story.

i've also been playing cod5 which i prefer the multiplayer of compared to cod4, despite several glitches ie the one on castle where you can get out of the map

[Sausy Gibbon]

Sorry about the spelling error, i've edited it now.

[ShaggE]

Aww. :( I liked Red Fraction. :p

[Sausy Gibbon]

I'm actually surprised that nobody made a denominator/terminator joke.