Best PC Shooters etc?

Gyre

I got a fairly impressive laptop recently and I'm wondering what are the best PC shooters out today? I know Half Life 2 is class but I can't seem to find the feckin' thing anywhere due to the release of the new episode. I also know Farcry is supposed to be good but after a few videos that I have downloaded...I was expecting a Half-Life 2 opponent...but it didn't prove to be.

So any help would be good please.



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Cuddlesworth

Single player or multiplayer?

trout

If FarCry doesn't move you ... not sure what will.

You could try F.E.A.R. .... it impressed me, at the same time as inducing bowel crunching terror at random intervals.

What didn't you like about FarCry ?

projectmayhem

Gyre wrote:

I know Half Life 2 is class but I can't seem to find the feckin' thing anywhere due to the release of the new episode.

just ask in store and i'm sure you'll get it. or download steam and download it

Gyre

Well...I haven't played FarCry but I don't like the A.I already. I just don't feel like the game could match up to Half-Life. Also, the bad guys persistantly saying "I'm gonna break your face" etc isn't a good thing and could corrupt me with rage...not to defeat the enemy but turn it off.

As for Half-Lfe...can you download it? For the same price I'm guessing?
(Single Player games by the way)

projectmayhem

Gyre wrote:

As for Half-Lfe...can you download it? For the same price I'm guessing?
(Single Player games by the way)

not sure how much it is in stores but it's $30 off steam

gizmo

FEAR, Doom 3 and Quake 4 are all worth checking out. Outside of FPS' theres Max Payne/Max Payne 2 and the Splinter Cell Series if you don't mind 3rd Person shooters/tac-shooters.

Gyre

I'm a fond fan of the Splinter Cell Series, only on the Playstation doe. F.e.a.r certainly looks nice. I wonder would I get away with 128 graphics doe? I'd say so. Doom on the other hand has got fairl shoddy reviews (both 3 and 4) but all reviewers are only opinions!

Call Me Jimmy

tbh I don't get people's gripes with doom 3, I would definately recommend it.

After half life 2 it was probably the most enjoyable single player fps for me.

Creamy Goodness

so you like walking into a corridor hit a hidden switch in the floor out pops an imp kill it.

do this over and over and over ohh and over again for however long the game is?

graphically it looks great but the gameplay is way over repetitive for my liking.

The Bollox

there are only so many ways you can have a monster come out at you. the thing that impressed me most about the game were the spider things, they had very lifelike movements and came out of EVERYWHERE in swarms

pucan

Alright its nearly 6 years old and the graphics have aged badly but if you want an immersive single player campaign Operation Flashpoint is still the business. The Gold Edition with all 3 games is about 20E in the shops.

Sarky

Far Cry is good, don't dismiss it offhand. You might not enjoy the latter third of the game because of all the bloody non-humans, but until then it's excellent.

I quite like Quake 4 and FEAR.

If you're willing to sacrifice frantic action for some real good immersion and story, have a go at Thief 3 Deadly Shadows. A teeny bit dated in these days of High Dynamic Range lighting and such, but damn good fun. Except the Shalebridge Cradle level. That wasn't fun. That was terrifying.

Oh, and you're probably better off downloading HL2 off Steam. It's cheaper, and if you bought it in a shop you'd likely need to download hefty updates to it in any case.

conzy

Single Player
Half life 2
Half life 2 episode 1
Call of Duty 2
Condemned Criminal origins

Multiplayer
Ut2004
Day of Defeat Source
Counterstrike Source
Call of Duty 2

Rudolph Claus

Max Payne/Max Payne 2

Arent they ancient, i remember playing max payne back in the day(i took a 2.5yr break from games) but i might look into getting max payne2.

Nick_oliveri

Marts wrote:

there are only so many ways you can have a monster come out at you. the thing that impressed me most about the game were the spider things, they had very lifelike movements and came out of EVERYWHERE in swarms

Although they were cool to look at, i got fairly sick of pistol whipping them. Very repeditive tbh. Quake 4, now that was a deadly game! Very frightening!

gizmo

Nuttzy wrote:

Arent they ancient, i remember playing max payne back in the day(i took a 2.5yr break from games) but i might look into getting max payne2.

The original is a wee bit old but it still looks really good imo. MP2 is newer and definitly still looks very nice. Doom 3 can get a small bit repetitive but the beginning and end are great, its just the middle that drags.

And Quake 4? Scary?

Sgt. Politeness

as i said in the 'drought' thread, prey is an excellent game, and looks bloody gorgeous. Not your average fps too, a bit more cerebral. Also i love doom3, yes its repetitive but its doom after all, some great scares, and some lubberly graphics.

RE*AC*TOR

Jesus christ - just get Far Cry. Its easily the equal of Half-Life2.

I don't know what videos you downloaded, but the enemies don't constantly say "I'm gonna break your face".

Stephen

While Far Cry was very good, and had beautiful graphics, I think calling it the equal of Half-Life 2 is taking things a bit far!

RE*AC*TOR

In many ways it is better than half-life 2. Enemy AI, non linear paths, graphics, more satisfying "thump" from weapons.

djmarkus

i like prey, fear, COD2, BF2, HL2, MOHAA

PogMoThoin

FEAR, HL, HL Ep 1, Doom3, Quake 4, Far Cry, COD, COD 2. Just what i see on my shelf now.
I quite liked SWAT 4 & upgrade pack. Doesn't take much of a pc to run it either. Its a FPS with a difference, you order the rest of the team. Should be able to pick it up fairly cheap.

Sgt. Politeness

Stephen wrote:

While Far Cry was very good, and had beautiful graphics, I think calling it the equal of Half-Life 2 is taking things a bit far!

Yeah, good game, but my god if i had to hear those guards insults one more bloody time... :rolleyes:
"im gonna shoot you in the face!" yawn

koneko

Far Cry was overrated. I don't think it was a bad game, but the way some people gush about it.... meh.

FEAR was great, but needs a beefy PC. HL2 you can get online with Steam. A little bit older, but I'd recommend No One Lives Forever 2 and AVP2 aswell, both great games. Enjoyed Call of Duty 2 (played it on Veteran, not too hard but you won't tear through it in 4 hours like with some games).

Don't get me started on Doom 3 and it's stupid monster-closets.

AnCapaillMor

Far cry was great because it was a shooter, no farting around, still nothing to halflife. an oldish one to check is return to castle wolfenstein. It was a great game.

Pugsley

koneko wrote:

Far Cry was overrated. I don't think it was a bad game, but the way some people gush about it.... meh.

Was just about to post that, I finished it, and didnt complain, but I wasnt think 'wow this is incredible' at any point, like I was in HL2, and parts of Q4 (I really enjoyed Q4, the game Doom3 should have been).

Rudolph Claus

an oldish one to check is return to castle wolfenstein. It was a great game.

That was a brillant game, i loved every single bit of it. The whole game was class from the guns to the traps/riddles and the talk from the guards. The guards would be having little private conversations about how cold a night it was whilst you were busy sneaking around sniping them and shooting them. The german guards were speaking english in german accents, fookin legend of a game. I loved the level where you emerge in the sewer pipe and are looking down at the airfield base, its real sunny and a plane comes in to land, then you start killing. Its class. Might go play it again. Oh, and the 1st level where you can fry the prisoner in the torture chamber yoke, its little touches like that thatmake a game playable.

Then medal of honour came out and everyone was saying its better than Wolfe, but as far as im concerned it was arcadey and **** and nowhere near as good as wolfe.

AnCapaillMor

Nuttzy wrote:

That was a brillant game, i loved every single bit of it. The whole game was class from the guns to the traps/riddles and the talk from the guards. The guards would be having little private conversations about how cold a night it was whilst you were busy sneaking around sniping them and shooting them. The german guards were speaking english in german accents, fookin legend of a game. I loved the level where you emerge in the sewer pipe and are looking down at the airfield base, its real sunny and a plane comes in to land, then you start killing. Its class. Might go play it again. Oh, and the 1st level where you can fry the prisoner in the torture chamber yoke, its little touches like that thatmake a game playable.

Then medal of honour came out and everyone was saying its better than Wolfe, but as far as im concerned it was arcadey and **** and nowhere near as good as wolfe.

Medal has no real story\plot to it, so you don't really connect with the game same with Call of duties, the whole wide area's but you can onlt go a certain path annoys the tits off me for COD.

Wolfentein really got into the story, i escpecially loved it when you went into the crypt first and you could hear the germans getting slaughtered in the background, the screams etc, you did'nt know what you were going to face.

Retr0gamer

I thought RTCW was fantastic for the first half of the game and then they introduced the uber soldiers and the level design went down hill. It just turned into Quake 2 and got a bit ****e.

BlitzKrieg

i always hated the amount of hype medal of honour got when it came to the pc. Sure on the PS1 i could understand its appeal. But on the PC it was such a flat dull repetitive shooter. I swear the game is a straightline from beginning to end.

Call Of duty can end up sort of the same at times but the best thing about that series (more so in the 1st one) there are points where the game drops all linear elements and is like a proper battle, enemies come at you from all directions and your trying to hold the line or assualt an enemy fortification (British bridge battle, early american mission, or the train assault level in stalingrad in Call of Duty 2) thats how a war game should feel like, less of this crappy 1 man walk in a straight line killing nazis.

I always loved in the original half life (not so much in 2 but its still there a bit with the gravity gun and in ravenholme) that levels go in all directions, you ended up climbing, crawling through air ducts, travalling in all manner of elaborate levels while still having kick ass gun play. thats the beauty of PC games they give you to ability to do so many things at once (which console FPS cannot really match with a joypad)

No game has actually matched that yet, i swear level design is overlooked far too often. The closest could be like Retrogamer said with Return the Castle Wolfenstien in the opening half, or some of the quake 3/Unreal Tournament deathmatch maps.

Ughh Far Cry is all right, when it turned into a corrider shooting monsters affair i got bored and never went back. Doom 3 was the same. Never tried Quake 4. Jedi Knight series still holds a small place in my heart (esp 1st one, again amazingly diverse level design, your fighting in a crashing ship how bloody cool is that)

No one Lives forever series is pretty cool as well (again sinking ship).

Also the two AVP games just for playing as an alien (esp the first one.) so much satisfaction.

Kiith

The obvious ones are:

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HalfLife 2 (Absolute Classic. Loved every bit of it)
FarCry (Some great parts, fighting the Human enemies anyway)
Doom3 (Scary enough, and some fun gameplay)
F.E.A.R (**** scary, and 2nd best on the list, imo)
Quake 4 (Havent played it yet, but will soon)
Prey (Great game, with some cool touches)
Ghost Recon: Advance Warfare (Much more tactical, but great fun. Also great co-op)

The older, yet still great ones are:

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HalfLife 1 (Probably better then 2, and make sure to try the brilliant Opposing Forces)
System Shock 2 (First time i stopped playing a game cause i was too freaked out. Personal favourite of mine.)
Alien vs Predator 1/2 (Great tense gameplay, and fun with the Alien and Pred)
No One Lives For Ever 2 (Never personally played it, but heard its great fun)
Return to Castle Wolfenstein (Great game, until those leg-less electric ****ers come into it)
Daikatana ( )

Retr0gamer

I loved Jedi Knight 1 but thought 2 was a bit soulless. I think dark forces is a very underrated game although it's absolutely ancient now.

I thought MOHAA was excellent for it's time. Sure it was awfully linear and outclassed by COD now but it did have some excellent atmospheric moments and the shooting a great feel to it due to the impressive sound effects.

BlitzKrieg

dont expect much of a fight from me over your opinions, my views on MOHAA has had me shunned for years and i've grown to accept my position as a minority.

MisterAnarchy

RTCW,Call of Duty 1,and Max Payne 2 are 3 must own games.
I'd also recommend Bloodrayne which isnt a shooter but is a fine game.

Pyr0

AvP2 is a class game. Never really was fond of the MoHAA.

Far cry was alright up until those monkeys are whatever they are came into the game, switched it off, started it again a year or so later, switched it off again. Wouldn't waste money on it. I never did understand the hyp around it.

Prey got boring about half way through, picks up near the end though.

Half Life 2 was cool, but never grabbed me like it did other people.

CoD2 was alright for an fps, AI got very boring though.

I enjoyed FEAR the whole way through, I couldn't get any speech in the game which really REALLY sucked, but I still enjoyed it.

Jedi Knight is a game worth getting imo.

Quake4 was really boring, played up until the tank part and turned it off, haven't gone back since.

RTCW is an excellent game from start to finish.

i_am_dogboy

I too would like to recommend FEAR and No One Lives Forever 2. Both rock, NOLF2 is by far my favourite FPS, chances are you won't play many funnier games than this, the level design and settings is really good, the dialog is excellent and there's a female lead who isn't just a piece of meat.

While I don't think Far Cry is even nearly as good as half life 2, the sections where you're outside, and not fighting the stupid monsters are fantastic and make the game more than worthwhile.

I honestly don't think any FPS fan can go without half life 2, which I would definitely recommend playing before Episode 1.

Prey is also very good, but short and a lot of people view it as a waste of money, I loved it though, nice mindless shooting with pretty graphics and some strange geometry puzzles.

For multi player shenanigans, there's really nothing better than RTCW and Enemy Territory, but from what I hear a little game called "Unreal Tournament" or somesuch is quite fun.

koneko

Prey was alright, but it's incredibly easy and pretty short.

There are a few parts I really love about it though, the start when Blue Oyster Cult's "Don't Fear The Reaper" starts playing. Brilliant song, and worked really well in the game.

The way Tommy goes a bit mad and starts swearing. It's rare people swear like that in games and it made me giggle. Especially at a certain point when he's very angry, he starts swearing at everything "Yeah, take that you fucker! Die die die!"

And

When you find your girlfriend for the last time, you'd know the bit if you played it, it was a bit disturbing

Sgt. Politeness

koneko wrote:

Prey was alright, but it's incredibly easy and pretty short.

There are a few parts I really love about it though, the start when Blue Oyster Cult's "Don't Fear The Reaper" starts playing. Brilliant song, and worked really well in the game.

The way Tommy goes a bit mad and starts swearing. It's rare people swear like that in games and it made me giggle. Especially at a certain point when he's very angry, he starts swearing at everything "Yeah, take that you fucker! Die die die!"

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When you find your girlfriend for the last time, you'd know the bit if you played it, it was a bit disturbing

Ive had that song stuck in my head since i played this game for the first time on saturday hehe..that bit was excellent. I really enjoyed this game, sure its a bit short but i think eurogamers 7/10 was a bit harsh, it deserves an 8 for having BOC in it alone!
I loved RTCW aswell. Classic game, i didnt even mind the uber-soldats.

gamer

get medal of honor on pc, i think theres a 3 game compilation ,called something like the war chest,also cod1 plus the expansion pack.

Fanny Cradock

If you want to go dfown the free route try FEAR (multiplayer) and Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory. The latter of these games is, imo, easily the equal of many full priced modern fps out there.

muppetkiller

Shame on you all ...you forgot System Shock 2
it's free to download too and the graphics have been given an update too by the mod community.

RTCW is a fantastic single player game ..
HL2 is good but nothing special...

Doom 3 and Quake 4 are alright too but a bit brainless.
(why they don't make an AVP3 with the same engine I'll never know)

AVP 1 is a classic too (and also free to download)

that is all...

BloodBath

No mention of Deus ex? It's also dated graphically at this stage (a lot more up to date than system shock though) but it's still a great game if you want a bit more depth than an all out mindless shooter. There is a sequel which is more up to date graphically but it's not as good as the original.

BopNiblets

^ Yes, Deus Ex was great.

Chronicles of Riddick was pretty good too.

L31mr0d

I personally found Star Wars: Republic Commando to be my favourite fps, I thought the team control system was very easy to use (unlike GRAW) and the dialogue was excellent (Boba Fetts voice, w00t!). i'd highly recommend it as you won't get bored with it. I'm surprised nobody else has recommended it? Has anybody played it?

FEAR was also good, but got a bit repetitive after the first few levels. If you are going to choose between Quake 4 and Doom 3, i'd go with Quake 4, imo a much better game and story. HL2 is a must have, excellent game, story, graphics, interaction... its got the lot, Sin episodes was alright as well.

As for MoH, I liked AA but not PA, and both of the CoD series where really good.

As for 3rd person, The PoP series is excellent, ditto Splinter Cell and also Psychonauts.

Dave!

Three best FPS games I've ever played:

Rainbow Six 3: Raven Shield (don't buy Rainbow 6: Lockdown, they ruined it)
Battlefield 2
SWAT 4

(in that order )