Best recent first person shooter?

Balfa

My exams finish on Friday. I'm not going home that day until I've got a new PC game. Any suggestions would be welcome
Preferably a first person shooter, but i'm open to other ideas, if it's really good

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

Red faction, it's not exactly new but if you haven't played it I would well reccomend it!

Goodshape

Not a FPS, but GTA:Vice City's out for the PC on friday.

Rnger

Originally posted by Mordeth
Red faction, it's not exactly new but if you haven't played it I would well reccomend it!

Come on now! Thats a terribly flawed game! [/rant]

Maybe vietcong? C&C generals?

Tusky

Originally posted by Balfa
My exams finish on Friday. I'm not going home that day until I've got a new PC game. Any suggestions would be welcome
Preferably a first person shooter, but i'm open to other ideas, if it's really good

Mafia, GTA : Vice City

patch

Unreal2 seemed pretty good, from what i played of it.
I'd go for vice city though..... I love fps games, but got a huge kick out of gta3 on the pc........

red Faction is ****e....... Hated that feckin game- everyone bobs around so you can't get a clean shot :mad:

weemcd

i like ut2002 from what i've played- gta vice kicks ass and the matrix game is out soon, but i don't think it's first person

i_am_dogboy

metroid prime

Balfa

Heh. dogboy ya plonker. I was actually considering either a new pc game, or... a gamecube with metroid or more likely zelda but i'm not sure if i can justify buying a gamecube, considering i won't be living in a PAL country for very much longer

i_am_dogboy

Originally posted by Balfa
Heh. dogboy ya plonker. I was actually considering either a new pc game, or... a gamecube with metroid or more likely zelda but i'm not sure if i can justify buying a gamecube, considering i won't be living in a PAL country for very much longer

its my way of telling everyone to buy a gamecube.......but it probably wont work

Retr0gamer

Change your avatar! I've had this for ages!

Best FPS would be Metroid Prime and Timesplitters 2. There hasn't been a decent FPS on PC since Medal of Honour and before that Half-life. You can pick up Deus ex cheap.

Don't get any Raven games. They are all terrible. Even worse is Unreal 2. Avoid like the plague.

Ryo Hazuki

Unreal 2 is great. I would strongly disagree with anyone saying its not a worthy purchase. Not that I bought it or anything.

Sarky

If you haven't already, get the Half-life:Generations pack.3 good (if somewhat similar-looking...) FPS for 30 wing wangs can't be bad.

If you have any cash left over, get Homeworld. Should be about a fiver, and it's a fantastic 3D space strategy romp. I finally finished it yesterday, and when I looked at my watch, it was about 6:30 am today. That means it's good.

Creamy Goodness

metroid prime sucks as so do all console fps do

Len_007

GoldenEye.

Len_007

Metroid Prime does not suck, you'd know that if you'd played it. & a so called gamer wouldn't have the blind ignorance tos say that all consoles FPS's suck. Halo anyone?

RicardoSmith

Operation Flashpoint & Resistance addon.
Rogue Spear

Miguel_Sanchez

Ahh you're all wrong

Wolfenstein 3D is the only decent FPS ever.

ObeyGiant

Originally posted by Len_007
Metroid Prime does not suck, you'd know that if you'd played it. & a so called gamer wouldn't have the blind ignorance tos say that all consoles FPS's suck. Halo anyone?

Right up until the point where I was being forced to backtrack all over the place, littered with time-consuming (not challenging, just time-consuming) enemies, Metroid was one of the best games I've played all year.

From then - it just got too frustrating to bother with.

Wolf

HL.

tman

gta3 & vice city, a fine way to pass the summer

Sarky

While they're not exactly first person shooters , the Thief series is fantastic. Teaches you all sorts of stealthy stuff. Being able to complete a level without even knocking someone out gives me a feeling of immense satisfaction...

RicardoSmith

...theres a lot of non recent and non shooting titles appearing...

Retr0gamer

Thats becaause the PC has suffered a severe lack of decent action games since Half-life. The console is king at the moment but from the HL2 videos that might just change.

Seriously Unreal 2 is one of the most unimaginative and lazy games and is unforgivably middle of the road and average. Same goes to RTCW.

Anyone who says Metroid Prime was crap should actually play it for more than half an hour and will discover one of the most beautiful and engrossing games ever. There is no way you can say it's crap.

Dar

get jdoom!!

Got it the other day for the laff - still kicks ass

Basically its doom with a supped up 3d enginy type thing, including mouselook jumping, etc. Makes doom soooo much better than it used to be (plus its free).

Just do a google search for jdoom, download the loader & new models. And get the .wad files of kazaa if u need em. Well worth 20 mins downloading

spooky donkey

Well im enjoying Postal 2 at the moment. Though it is a very sick game. But than i have a sick mind!

Tellox

Planetside

Captain Trips

Originally posted by Rnger
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Maybe vietcong? C&C generals?

As an aside I picked up Generals for 14.99 in the music shop in Douglas, Cork a few weeks back. I think they mislabelled it (also selling Red Alert for 50 quid). That was the Tesco side for anyone interested.

Balfa

well. firday's come and gone. I got a GC with metroid. I have to say i'm a little disappointed. What's all the fuss about? I mean, seriously, what is it about metroid that people find so amazing?

I've spent the whole time so far wandering about either scanning things and reading through a cumbersome interface (nowhere near as straightforward as reading things Deus Ex, for example) or pulling the trigger while the game aims for me.

Is that meant to be fun?

This isn't meant to be a bitchy post. i really hope the game will improve. and i really want to know what other people find in the game.


(also got Vice City, but it GPFs as soon as the game starts, when them fellas are sitting chatting round a table about sending meh to miami - anyone got a clue?)

tman

you would have been wiser to check out super metroid before you got prime, it would have given you an idea about the whole metroid style of play.

gpf's?
have you installed directx9, tried skipping the cutscene with the spacebar...

or maybe this might help?

This fix is an UN-SUPPORTED update that corrects polygon corruption that has been noticed on certain video cards and PC combinations.

This is the only change that has been made from your original version of Grand Theft Auto: Vice City.

http://www.take2games.com/support/patches/vicepatch_11.zip

retro, stop bitching about raven games, jkII & rtcw are my 2 favourite quake3 engine games

Balfa

Originally posted by tman
gpf's?
have you installed directx9, tried skipping the cutscene with the spacebar...

Nahh, it's not in the video cutscene, it's in the game-engine cut scene. can't skip it.

Heh. Just read on the site that it supposedly only works on the primary partition That's a load of old bollx. My C: drive don't have enough room. Has anyone else got it to run off a partition besides C:?

Swifty

I was wondering that the fuss with metroid was all about for the first hour or so too.. but I found it got better and better as I got more stuff for my suit and got used to getting around the different areas. The bosses are excellent later on too.

Balfa

Thanks Swifty. That's put my mind at ease a bit. I was beginning to wonder if i should have held onto my €185 yesterday.

Retr0gamer

Well done swifty you just put some one off the best game this year so far. You probably haven't even gotten to the space pirates yet.

tman

erm, he just reassured him that it gets better

Greenbean

Been playing Metroid Prime on and off for over a while not.. maybe only 5/6 hour play time and so far I'm not enjoying it. I think the key to enjoying metroid is having playing the older 2d games. Taken purely as an fps, so far.. its really awful - ****e controls, respawning baddies, quake3 level rendering, quake2 style enclosed spaces (if without doubt really really well designed and detailed). Its more interesting when considering the puzzle element of things, think zelda dungeons.

The continuous scanning is really getting to me, a) because scanning is slightly awkward to setup and get used to control wise b) it leaves you unable to do anything else c) I'm completely paranoid about even leaving one object unscanned.. it bugs me. So far I've only felt motion sick about twice, but thats bad when you consider how much of an fps player I am.

Upgrades have recently made things slightly more interesting though. I am getting the feeling that I should be more focused on the puzzle side of things to enjoy it.. slowing down also might be a good idea.. its early days yet - this might blossom into the best game EVAR if I tune into it right. So far though, 5/10.

Balfa

That's what i was thinking too, greenbean. I played it a fair bit last night, and i stopped treating it as a first person shooter and more like a platform game, and that's when i started enjoying it more. It's still not amazing, but i'm still giving it time

It's a bit... y'know... consoley :P

Swifty

Well done swifty you just put some one off the best game this year so far. You probably haven't even gotten to the space pirates yet.

If you read the posts properly you would know that he has bought the game and was wondering if he had wasted his money. My post was a purely positive comment on the bloody game was it not?

As for scanning GB, I found the best way to do things is when you enter a new room just bang on the aul scanner and do a quick look around the room with it and scan any RED icons.. theyre usually the ones that go in the log book and the only ones you need for 100% scan. Yellow icons are usually just bull****.

Pugsley

Originally posted by Dar
get jdoom!!

Got it the other day for the laff - still kicks ass

Basically its doom with a supped up 3d enginy type thing, including mouselook jumping, etc. Makes doom soooo much better than it used to be (plus its free).

Just do a google search for jdoom, download the loader & new models. And get the .wad files of kazaa if u need em. Well worth 20 mins downloading

wow, that is one spinky looking doom!
Downloading it now, only 1.5meg!
Its quite funny there, theres only 3 european mirrors.......... none of em in the UK.....but 1 of em is in dublin

Retr0gamer

Sorry about the misunderstanding. Maybe I should lay off the calpol

50Cent

Thats becaause the PC has suffered a severe lack of decent action games since Half-life. The console is king at the moment but from the HL2 videos that might just change.

Thats is absolutely ridiculous. the console is not, never will be, never has been the king. I have a console and i have a pc but for sheer quality, the pc is a winner. Sof 2 is also one of the best first person shooters. Unreal2 is real good, i love the weapons but i dont like the game that much. Im not a big fps fan. But theres tons of great action games for the pc...and there always will be. Im not gonna name them...that would be stupid. everyone has their own tastes and can make up their own mind.

Retr0gamer

I've a PC and haven't used it to play any games recent except MOH and Warcraft 3 in the last 2 years. I think the quality of action games in the past 2 years on consoles has been much better while the PC has had a severe lack of any decent action games (However there have been some great strategy PC games). As for SOF2 I detested this game and don't know how i brought myself to finish it. Found the guns boring and and the levels annoying and dull. And the story was ridiculous ( maybe thats just me since I am doing Science in college and spotted loads of flaws in the biological warfare theme). Unreal too was just average and played it far too safe. It didn't add anything new and was fairly dull as a result. I think developers should take a long look a Halflife 2 ( and the bosses in Metroid Prime, whatever you think of the game it still has the only bosses that actually worked well in a fps).

50Cent

And the story was ridiculous ( maybe thats just me since I am doing Science in college and spotted loads of flaws in the biological warfare theme).

Ye that really pissed me off too...:rolleyes:

RicardoSmith

SOF2 you have to be kidding...awful game

Unreal2 while it looks great, doesn't really add anything new to the genre and its very linear.

fisty

Yawn - Easy.
Get Battlefield 1942.
Obviously owns all the above.

RicardoSmith

Personally I prefer Operation Flashpoint or Ghost Recon

Deadwing

Metroid prime has to be the best FPS ive played since half life. Its the only one ive played that had any real innovation in the genre, games like MOH:Frontline, while not without their charms, are just bog standard run n' gun gameplay and nothing else.
As for forthcoming FPS'...only one word...DOOM. Err..and one number, 3. If that doesnt turn out to be the greatest FPS, ill be severely pissed off.

Littletinyman

Daikatana.

RicardoSmith

Originally posted by Littletinyman
Daikatana.

Ha ha

MOH:Frontline - waaaay too linear

vasch_ro

Have to say i really enjoy Unreal 2 I think it is a beautiful game to look at , its quite polished it has great sound and is definately head and shoulders above a lot of the dross out there
ok so it doesn't push boundaries but should that necessarily detract from it what do people want ??

I also have an x box and use my pc much more often, the x box is only superior for beat em ups and convienance

SOF2 I thought was good it was solid and enjoyable if I was to sit down and pick holes in every plot line I have ever read I would never have any enjoyment, its called the ability to suspend disbelief

MOH allied assault is still for the the best , it has great atmosphere and settings and I really like it, the beach landing etc are really really well done and even make people stop and look who normally would have no interest in computer games never mind FPS games

Morrowind while not and FPS per say is from the first person perspective and is graphically very strong, and is really quite addictive and complusive . Anyeay thats my 2 cent worth for the boards.ie melting pot

Retr0gamer

Can't agree with what you say apart from MOHAA but I'm not going to analyse it.

As for Doom3 it's starting to look more like a playable game but Halflife 2 is bound to be way better. It won't be anywhere near as good as the originals (still the best co-op games ever).