A good FPS

[ShinyCharizard]

So I've got a hankering to play an FPS game yet I don't want to play another bland military shooter.

Does anyone have any recommendations for a good FPS game? It can be on any console or pc.

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[Smooth Operator]

Well some preferences would help the recommendation, but to get your feet wet without expenses try out some of the free to play goodies:
- Tribes: Ascend (huge maps, skiing, really hardcore gunplay)
- Planetside 2 (huge persistent world warfare MMO, with vehicles and bases to capture and all that comes with it)
- Team Fortress 2 (quick cartoony fun)
- Blacklight Retribution (top CoD clone)
- World of Tanks (not strictly FPS but you will feel right at home, and the depth of combat is great to switch things up a bit)

 

[EscapeGoat_v1legacy]

If you want some old-school stuff, try Doom, Doom 2, pretty much any of the Serious Sam games or Painkiller - get the Black edition, not the Hell and Damnation though. The Half-Life games also, obviously.

These are easily found knocking about for PC and they'll probably work on anything.

If you want something awesome and you've got a PS2, try the Timesplitters games, along with XIII. Star Wars Battlefront and its sequel are ace shooters, although they're obviously especially good if you're into Star Wars.

Finally, if you want something rather different to any of the above, maybe try out a Call of Cthulhu game. Both FPS and glorious survival horror.

 

[ShinyCharizard]

Well some preferences would help the recommendation, but to get your feet wet without expenses try out some of the free to play goodies:
- Tribes: Ascend (huge maps, skiing, really hardcore gunplay)
- Planetside 2 (huge persistent world warfare MMO, with vehicles and bases to capture and all that comes with it)
- Team Fortress 2 (quick cartoony fun)
- Blacklight Retribution (top CoD clone)
- World of Tanks (not strictly FPS but you will feel right at home, and the depth of combat is great to switch things up a bit)

I guess my preferences would be something like a good singleplayer game or unique multiplayer game that is not simply 'future COD or Battlefield' type game.

 

[ShinyCharizard]

If you want some old-school stuff, try Doom, Doom 2, pretty much any of the Serious Sam games or Painkiller - get the Black edition, not the Hell and Damnation though. The Half-Life games also, obviously.

These are easily found knocking about for PC and they'll probably work on anything.

If you want something awesome and you've got a PS2, try the Timesplitters games, along with XIII. Star Wars Battlefront and its sequel are ace shooters, although they're obviously especially good if you're into Star Wars.

Finally, if you want something rather different to any of the above, maybe try out a Call of Cthulhu game. Both FPS and glorious survival horror.

Ah call of Cthulu sounds excellent. I'll have to give that a go.

 

[Folji]

Gotham City Impostors! How could fake superheroes with guns be bland, right? Hey Far Cry 3 came out just recently and apparently it's a really surprisingly good game already from the get go. That's what I've heard, anyway, still yet to play it myself!

 

[Nonomori]

If you don't mind crass humor, try Bulletstorm. Nothing mind-blowing, but very creative and fun.

 

[Tallim]

Dark Corners Of The Earth
Metro 2033 (which happens to be in that thq bundle if your pc can handle it)

or Bulletstorm because unless you play it as a straight shooter you will have fun.

Or if you don't mind going old school Descent 2 or Descent 3, Descent 3 still has a rather active multiplayer community too and it's great single or multi.

 

[LookingGlass]

XIII [http://www.gog.com/gamecard/xiii] is a good one I didn't get around to trying until earlier this year. Nice art style and the way it plays reminded me a lot of the Rare/Free Radical FPSes (Goldeneye, Perfect Dark, Timesplitters). Great game.

 

[Lucyfer86]

For multiplayers, either Planetside 2 or Tribes: Ascend.

Single player, Crysis 1 + expansion + 2. Or if that is still too "military shooter", then F.E.A.R series.

 

[Baralak]

If you don't mind crass humor, try Bulletstorm. Nothing mind-blowing, but very creative and fun.

Bulletstorm is, hands down, THE best FPS I've ever played. I agreed with Escapist's review entirely when they called it "The next evolutionary step for the FPS". Shame we probably won't get a sequel

 

[LazyGlader]

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[felbot]

fallout new vegas is a pretty good rpg fps, the best one actually.

 

[Guy McCool]

There's a good sale on Unreal Tournament 3 on Steam this weekend if that's your sort of thing. Speaking of Unreal, Unreal 2 is also pretty cheap and great game that has nothing in common with Call of Duty/Battlefield style games other than the perspective and having guns.

Natural Selection 2 is an amazing multiplayer only game between a team of marines and a team of aliens. The two sides are completely different, and each has a commander playing the game as a sort of RTS. It takes a pretty solid PC to run, though.

Hard Reset is good if you're looking for something with more of a Doom or Quake pacing but with a few modern design elements. It's very pretty as well. Serious Sam 3 would also fit the same description, but I had more fun with Hard Reset.

If you're looking for something completely different and don't mind a general lack of shooting, Mirror's Edge is a first person game that's built mostly around parkour.

Also, the Doom BFG Edition has Dooms 1-3, and 1 and 2 actually have good mouse control in this one. I'd recomend it if you haven't played those.

 

[shrekfan246]

Yes, because bland military shooters are the only FPS' that ever get made.

It's not like there's Tribes: Ascend,
Halo,
Resistance 1-3 (which edges a cut above by having unique and interesting weapons),
Half-Life,
Portal (less shooter and more puzzle, but still first-person and you're holding a gun),
Bulletstorm,
Crysis, Crysis Warhead and Crysis 2 (the latter two are the ones I'd recommend personally),
Hard Reset,
Deus Ex: Human Revolution,
Dishonored,
The Darkness and The Darkness II (the first has pretty ass controls and they're both kinda short, but still pretty unique and interesting stories),
Bioshock,
Fallout 3 and Fallout New Vegas,
Serious Sam,
Painkiller,
Borderlands and Borderlands 2 (the sequel is better in basically every way),
Team Fortress 2 (only multi-player really, but anyone who calls it a bland military shooter has never even seen promotional material for it),
Far Cry 3 (open world sandbox),
F.E.A.R. (the first had the best "horror", though the third has a pretty neat co-op mode),
Metro 2033,
Mirror's Edge (again, more parkour and platforming than shooting, but you're in first-person view and you get guns at points),
Singularity (a hodge-podge of a lot of better shooters, it never really takes advantage of its time-travel gimmick but it's not really a bad game),
The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena,
the entire S.T.A.L.K.E.R. series,
Condemned,
Prey,
Timesplitters,
XIII,
Star Wars: Republic Commando,
Call of Cthulu.

 

[roushutsu]

I've just started playing Borderlands, and it's a blast. It plays out like an MMORPG, but instead of swords and magic it's an FPS. I'm really digging the cell-shaded look for it and I'm always chuckling at the silly humor in it (like the boss "Ninetoes: also he has 3 balls").

I'd also highly recommend Bioshock. It's by far my favorite FPS. The story is excellent, the gameplay is fun, and since you mentioned you value a good single-player campaign, Bioshock definitely delivers here.

 

[deathbydeath]

Section 8 Prejudice is a pretty good shooter, except nobody plays the multiplayer anymore. The SP campaign is rather meh, but the MP is a great mix of the mobility of Tribes and the objective-oriented gameplay of Battlefield.

Also the Half-Life games. Never hurts to replay them.