Good single player game

Doyler92

Hi I'm looking for ideas on a good single player game.

I have completed the CoD series, GTA series and have played all the FIFA games.

I'm not looking for a game with a lengthy enjoyable campaign to play and all ideas are appreciated. The only thing I do not like is unrealistic type games such as aliens everywhere and characters jumping 300 yards down the road so any other ideas are welcome. By the way I have a PS3.

Thanks for your time

Rev Hellfire

Drakes Fortune, Fallout, Oblivion, Dragon Age, Valkyrie Chronicles are a few you could check out on the PS3.

Doyler92

Have played drakes fortune - great game. Thanks for the other suggestions will look into them.

Grumpypants

Orange box, its not the best port to PS3 but Half life is one of the best games ever made plus it has Portal on it too. Very old should be able to pick it up for a tenner.

irish_stevo815

There are quiet a few good single player games out there you might like:

Metal Gear Solid 4
Batman Arkham Asylum
Bioshock 1 & 2
Crysis 2
Gran Turismo 5

Otacon

Enslaved: Odyssey to the West aught to be really cheap right now. Fantastic single player game.

Sephiroth_dude

+1 fallout and yakuza 3 and 4

RangeR

Disk
Uncharted
Uncharted 2
Killzone 2
Killzone 3
Little Big Planet
Burnout Paradise
Batman Arkham Asylum
Heavy Rain

PSN
Comet Crash
Wipeout
Flower
PixelJunk *
God of War Trilogy
Mushroom Wars
Plant Vs Zombies
Savage Moon
Super Stardust HD
Age of Booty

weiland79

I know you said you don't like aliens and jumping 30 metres down the road but i can't recommend Crysis 2 enough. Even though that is exactly what it has, lots of aliens and you are the one jumping 30 metres up in the air.

The game takes a couple of hours to get into it's stride but once it does i have to say i would struggle to find a recent single player title that i have enjoyed more in recent times. It is also twice as long as most SP games on the market at the moment.

What makes this game stand out from other FPS titles on the market is the suit your character wears. The suit enhances the players abilities. these include speed burst, strength and a cloaking system. You need to control your use of theses abilities as they are based on a power system,which drains quickly. What this does is turns your suit into a type of mini game. It makes you consider your plan of attack in expansive playing areas, because if you're caught out in the open after decloaking,you're pretty much fooked.

The visuals are top notch and with a score written by Hollywood composer Hans Zimmer it really plays like an interactive movie. (Think Cloverfield)

The only negative would be some dodgy AI but this is something that i only noticed in the first couple of hours and haven't seen repeated in the second half of the game. This could be due to a patch but i don't know for certain.

If you are a fan of gaming i would really recommend that you at least rent this title.
9.5/10

I see some people have suggested Half life 2. I never played this on the PS3 so can't comment on the port from PC but i will say if it plays well on the console you will love it.

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tonydude

Do yourself a favour and pick up Demons Souls, you will not regret it. Dead rising is good craic too

eioneill

Mass effect 2, The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion and Red Dead Redemption.

These will keep you occupied right through til Fifa 12.

jmx009

1) You will have a lot of jumping to do but still Assasins creed ( all 3 of them are great).

2) Demon Souls
3) Fight night Champion


Then there is LA Noir coming in May. Watchout for that one

I_ENJOY_BATHS

I know you said you weren't looking for anything too unrealistic, but my favourite single player game on PS3 is Final Fantay XIII. A lot of people gave out about it because it was different from other Final Fantasy games and because it was too linear, but I loved it, it had a very good story, a new, interesting and fun battle system and interesting character development. If you are in any way interested in RPGs, you should check it out.

Kraken

go to playstation store and get urself ff7, demon souls is very good,

Trevor451

Just cause 2 and Saints row 2 are both great single player sandbox games

Glico Man

Trevor451 wrote: »

Just cause 2 and Saints row 2 are both great single player sandbox games

+1 both excellent games. Will keep you entertained for months even years rather than weeks.

Recently got back into Saints Row 2 myself and it really is a fantastic game. Cannot wait for SR3 at the end of the year

Sieghardt

I really enjoyed Valkyria Chronicles, Yakuza 3 and 4, Bayonetta
Resistance:Fall of man is a pretty good single player campaign considering you can pick it up for a fiver these days

DonkeyStyle \o/

Assassin's Creed 2 - Lots of relaxing climbing and stabbing.
Saint's Row 2 - Like GTA but fun.
Mercenaries 2 - 3rd person shooter, earn cash with missions, buy vehicles, air-strikes, etc. Haven't seen another game like it. Very good if you're bored of the same rehashed formula... graphics are a bit dated, but the gameplay makes up for it in spades.

I wouldn't call any of them realistic, but they're not crazy unrealistic.

Soap MacTavish

Assassins Creed series is very good i think, I have the first two of them.

Battleflag

God of War 3 - simply epic

Balfie

if ya have never played it, get Call of Juarez:bound in blood. Get it, possibley one of the best single players I have ever played, its brilliant.. I loved every bit of it.. I'm currently going through Mafia 2.. So far its Meh, but I only started, possibley the christmas music is what's annoying me :pac: Heavy Rain has a great story line to it.. Do yourself a favour an stay away from both Kane and Lynch..

Krusader

The Assassins Creed Series 1,2 and brotherhood, each one gets better and better

cRRn1234

Gran Turismo definitely! So much to do in it and the B-Spec Mode adds an even better take on the race concept.

Kingpin187

The God of War games.. 1-3 definitely

They have that "just one more bit" quality that is rare

macpac26

LA Noire is great if your into detective stuff I'd highly recommend that.

WarZoneBrother

Tomb Raider Trilogy.. Whats not to like about 3 games in 1?..

OldManJenkin

The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion and Red Dead Redemption

MaidenSlayer

I would highly recommend Infamous. Got a lend of it off a friend and it's brilliant. Even better is that it is one of the games to download for free from the Playstation Store when it's back. Pretty long and good campaign and it's a free roam game like GTA so you can mess about when not doing missions. Definitely worth a look.

johnboysligo

if you can look past the dated gfx and sometimes backwards gameplay mechanics of Final Fantasy then theres your single player games right there.

FF7 8 and 9 are long story driven rpg's that put modern games with 6-7 hour single player campaigns to shame. plent of side quests and diversions in all of them so you could end up with a save file with over 60 hours if you just plow though the main story without doing any real exploring.

More modern games I would recommend are Fallout3, Oblivion, and Fallout New Vegas fairly long games easily 20-30 hours of exploring and interesting quests, if they dont suit you then maybe God of War3 my first play though that was really fun MGS4 might be worth a try but you really have to be prepaired to sit back and watch cut scenes every half hour which can get incredibly annoying.

The Rockband and Guitar Hero games are pretty fun in single player, as long as your like most of the track selection then you can get a lot of fun out of it and GH and RB controllers should be on sale fairly cheap right now or soon as most stores are trying to offload their stock ( the demand for new rythim/music games has fallen very sharply in the last two years ) You might even find some bargins on adverts.ie if your really interested.

Red Dead Redemption is another big single player game, open end world like GTA4 without the nagging friend crap :P

Dragon Age: origins is another big single player rpg ( although i never really got into it ) its ment to be quite good

Bioshock might be up your alley if you enjoy first person shooters

Little big planet is pretty decent but not to my taste, rent or borrow a copy and decide for yourself.

Al Capwned

Soap MacTavish wrote: »

Assassins Creed series is very good i think, I have the first two of them.

Can't agree more - excellent.... 3rd one (Brotherhood) is excellent

conor.b

try the assassins creed's games

BaronVon

Can't go wrong with this,

http://www.play.com/Games/PlayStation3/4-/18126988/Tom-Clancy-Splinter-Cell-Trilogy-HD/Product.html?searchstring=splinter+cell&searchtype=PS3&searchsource=2&searchfilters=s{splinter+cell}%2bc{362}%2bc{10065}%2b&urlrefer=search

3 Splinter Cell's for €32. Great games, using stealth to sneak around and take people out!

conor.b

infamous 1 and 2 are very good sandbox games

johnmcdnl

Demon Souls

you'll not need another single player game for months if you want to beat this one

bit on the hard side is the only thing...


but for a quick pick up and play title that's extremely fun you can't look past the 2 uncharted games... absolutely amazing games...

liverpo

Some really good games listed.

I'd have to throw in some Essentials for any PS3:

1. UC 1&2
2. Mass Effect2
3. Red Dead Redemption
4. Dead Space - I know the OP said no aliens but this game is a cracker and the second one isn't bad either.
5. Batman: AA
6. Heavy Rain
7. Smackdown v Raw11 - great fun.
8. Burnout Paradise
9. PES11 - for the gameplay - forget the jerseys.
10. Tiger Woods12 - with move is brilliant.

purity

Heavy rain, mortal kombat 9, L.A noire, god of war.
All brilliant games for one player

elchupanebrey

I enjoyed the rainbow six games when they were out, not sure how they'd stack up now though, graphics wise at least. Surely they'd be dirt cheap now at least..