Best FPS
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I haven't played a lot of FPS', but the best ones I've played are the Halo: Combat Evolved(singleplayer) and Halo 3(multiplayer). I would mention Bioshock, but that game was simply too easy, and I don't say that about a lot of games. I also loved Half-Life 2, until I got to Ravenholm.
I refused to reply to this thread because there's too many answers.
And FPS is not a good term.
Singleplayer-experience-oriented? (Duke 3D, Doom)
Multiplayer-experience-oriented? (Battlefield 1942, Tribes 2)
MMO? (Planetside, WWII Online, a myriad of titles coming in 2009/2010...)
Arena FPS? (UT, Q3A)
FPS Hybrid/Crossover? (Metroid Prime, Mirror's Edge)
FPS/RPG? (Deus Ex, System Shock 2)
Tactical? (Rainbow 6 before it was dumbed down)
There's more subgenres that I can't just think of here.
There's way too much in the genre, and too many beautiful examples of all, to really just say "best fps." And there's plenty of great single player games that work perfect for multiplayer (Goldeneye)
Which reminds me, on N64 alone, I can think of an arena FPS (Turok: Rage Wars), and a single-player/story based FPS like Perfect Dark....
It really comes down to personal preference, especially in storyline, setting, characters, and weapon selection, for each category.
Or if you want the ever-encompassing FPS, you might as well just play CoD 4 since people call that realistic and find the multiplayer fun and interesting.
And FPS is not a good term.
Singleplayer-experience-oriented? (Duke 3D, Doom)
Multiplayer-experience-oriented? (Battlefield 1942, Tribes 2)
MMO? (Planetside, WWII Online, a myriad of titles coming in 2009/2010...)
Arena FPS? (UT, Q3A)
FPS Hybrid/Crossover? (Metroid Prime, Mirror's Edge)
FPS/RPG? (Deus Ex, System Shock 2)
Tactical? (Rainbow 6 before it was dumbed down)
There's more subgenres that I can't just think of here.
There's way too much in the genre, and too many beautiful examples of all, to really just say "best fps." And there's plenty of great single player games that work perfect for multiplayer (Goldeneye)
Which reminds me, on N64 alone, I can think of an arena FPS (Turok: Rage Wars), and a single-player/story based FPS like Perfect Dark....
It really comes down to personal preference, especially in storyline, setting, characters, and weapon selection, for each category.
Or if you want the ever-encompassing FPS, you might as well just play CoD 4 since people call that realistic and find the multiplayer fun and interesting.
I love Parodies and Timesplitters is just about perfect in my opinion, especially the final chapter. I am a fan of couch multiplayer and it doesn't get much better than the insane amount of options available in that installment. Best 15 dollars of my life.
Doom was better in every possible way I'd say.fix-the-spade said:
But the question really is one I cannot answer with a signle game.
My favorite multiplayer FPS is a tossup between Team Fortress Mega and Tribes.
My favorite single player FPS was Half-Life.
My current favorite modern FPS is Killzone 2 (And this saddens me just a bit).
Again, I have to say this is patently untrue. It was the first FPS of note, yes but that hardly makes it truly representative of the entire genre. Doom brought advances in level design (the ability to have ramps and stairs for example, something that could not be done in Wolfenstein), not to mention the ability to mod the game. Duke 3d was the first truly popular FPS to have level over level (the ability to have a room on top of or below another room), plus it featured mouse aiming and significant maneuver capability on the Z axis (i.e. jumping). Quake brought us true 3D versus the sprite based raster traced precursors, and it's flexible structure formed the basis of a mod that is still played in a number of forms today (Team Fortress). Unreal and Half-Life (they arrived at about the same time) gave us something approaching a story that carried on after the manual, the first even somewhat reasonable enemy AI, and modding communities that produced games still enjoyed by hundreds of thousands of gamers (most notably Counterstrike and Day of Defeat).MercFox1 said:
I'd say, the current game that demonstrates the entire history of advancements in shooters can probably be found in Half-Life 2, as it expresses in some form or another every trope and feature that has come before, with the possible exception of open world play (and I suppose one could argue that episode 2 has this feature packed in there, to an extent).
007 Goldeneye for the N64
There has never been or quite possibly be a better movie based game. The gunplay is solid, the amount of unlockables too numorous to count and the most satisfying multiplayer untill the Halo series. The levels were intuitively laid out the amount of customization was crazy.Did everyone think that Halo did it first well you were terribly misguided, every good idea they had was was "sampled" from Goldeneye. Its only flaw was if someone decided to use Oddjob. If you ducked and moved with him you were practically unhitable, this is tempered however by the fact that I know anyone who did this will be condemned to the deepest, darkest circle of gamming hell
There has never been or quite possibly be a better movie based game. The gunplay is solid, the amount of unlockables too numorous to count and the most satisfying multiplayer untill the Halo series. The levels were intuitively laid out the amount of customization was crazy.Did everyone think that Halo did it first well you were terribly misguided, every good idea they had was was "sampled" from Goldeneye. Its only flaw was if someone decided to use Oddjob. If you ducked and moved with him you were practically unhitable, this is tempered however by the fact that I know anyone who did this will be condemned to the deepest, darkest circle of gamming hell
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Counter-Strike, w/e version really. It's hard for me to think of another game more worthy of the title, while I 'like' other games more, I can always go back to cs. The servers have been full for what, coming up to 10 years now? As far as I'm concerned, if you never played cs, you've never been a fps gamer 
