Poll: Best First-person Shooter

[Casual Shinji]

Depends...

- For full-on blasting fun: Call of Duty 4
- For overall narrative experience: Half-Life 2
- For a fun mix of epic vehicle action: Halo 3

 

[bafrali]

I don't think we needed a poll.But if there is one, at least throw some of the good ones in it.

-TF2
-Deus EX
-Painkiller
-Half-Life 2
-Alien vs Predator

Honorable mention
Episode 2

 

[s0p0g]

first, i'd like to /sign the longer lists already given in responses. especially the Clancy games (=R6 until LV, GR1+add-ons). and all the Jedi Knights (part one, you still are one of the toughest S.O.B.s out there ^^). and Elite Force (hurrhurr). and Serious Sam xD and the tournament-games (especially Q3A & UT99 - IMPRESSIVE!). and the old Quakes before that; you know, when we still used to rocket jumped all the way to school. and back home. over boiling lava. and then telefragged you. without any regenerating health (WTF?!). hell yeah.

second: which 007 are we talking about? the crappy new one, or the glorious N64 version? some in between? and while we're at it: HL1 >> HL2 (come on, guys...)

third: so far, from the top of my head, i also miss Perfect Dark, AvP, AvP II, Dark Messiah of Might & Magic, Operation Flashpoint
and Halo sucks bad, you young'uns

also, FPS can (and should) be subdivided in quite a number of subgenres; survival, horror, tactical, wannabe-RPG-mashup-something,..., so please specify (to prevent all of us and this thread from getting lost off track too much ^^ )

captcha: heavy metal - 'nuff said \m/


aunty Edith says: how in the world could i possibly forget SWAT 3?? i mean, ok, it's not really about running around and shooting stuff, but it's still first person, and you do shoot, from time to time (i hated swat 4. dumbification at its best.)

 

[HavocS6]

BattleField? Which one? I'll assume you mean the latest one. It's very good, but not the best.

Medal of Honour? Again which one? Latest one, same as battlefield, very good but not the best.

Call of Duty? Again Which One? 1,2 and 4 are damn good. WaW onwards are increasing amounts of poop. 3 never came out on PC and therefore does not exist. ;P

007? AGAIN Which One? The last 007 game I played was Blood Stone, which is Third Person so doesn't qualify, was bloody good.

What about Star Wars: BattleFront 1 and 2 or Star Wars Republic Commando? How about Operation Flashpoint, ArmA, ArmA 2? or the Delta Force games and Joint Operations: Typhoon Rising? Half-Life, Half-Life 2? Farcry 1 and 2? Crysis 1 and 2? and a hell of a lot of others.

My personal choice would be Joint Operations: Typhoon Rising. 150 people, 2 teams of 75, beating the crap out of each other on huge maps. Then throw in the IC mod and the IC Tourny, 150+ people, separated into 2 armies, beating the crap out of each other in an organised fashion on huge maps with all manner of military goodies every Sunday, Hell Yeah.

 

[ReadyAmyFire]

Medal of Honour: Underground.

Oh how I still adore it.

 

[RedDeadFred]

Out of those I'll go with 007 because of the hours of fun I had playing Nightfire and Golden Eye.

My real favorite would probably be Borderlands.

 

[Mariakko]

Out of the ones on the list I'll have to go with COD (only because I haven't played the others).
My personal favourites would be:
- COD2
- Timeshift
- Timesplitters 2&3
- Mirror's Edge (if that counts, it is first person and you can shoot people)
- Star Wars Battlefront II

 

[LetalisK]

My favorite FPS is CoD4. Besides the single player, I've yet to find another multiplayer experience as fun, gratifying, and easy to use as CoD4.

Honorable Mentions:
CoD2
Crysis
Half-Life 2
Left 4 Dead 2

 

[Shoggoth2588]

My favorite one is Time Splitters Future Perfect. I haven't played too many others though but I love that one because you can play as monkeys. Not just one monkey but a few different monkeys. Also bot-matches. What the Hell happened to bot-matches and, split-screen multiplayer?!

 

[Darren716]

All of the Cod's from 4 to Black Ops, Bioshock, TF2, and Fallout New Vegas (I count it as a mix between rpg and fps) are all tied because they each have somthing different to offer.

 

[Lugbzurg]

Excuse me? What ever happened to Half-Life, Serious Sam, Halo, Left 4 Dead, Doom, Quake, Rage, Team Fortress, Counter-Strike, Resistance, and Duke Nukem? Because, frankly, they're all worlds better than everything in the poll. Especially, since Activision has thoroughly-ruined the 007 games.

 

[zehydra]

Out of those mentioned in the poll, Battlefield.

TF2 still blows them all out of the water

 

[Inkidu]

Human Revolution
Metro: 2033
Bioshock 2 (It actually was the better shooter if not the better story)
Bioshock (Vice versa)
Time Shift was actually pretty good to, it had some cool weapons and a nifty premise.
Singularity (I liked it)

 

[Shakomaru]

Tf2 and the Bioshock series. If Dead Space was first person then that would be there too, but sadly it isn't. Not that I'm saying I'd WANT dead space to be an fps. I don't. Not at all.
Captcha: Carbon-copy
Wow. Even captcha knows the true nature of the poll

 

[Ed130 The Vanguard]

This is probably hilariously the only time I've seen a poll thread that has more responses than it does poll answers. OP, you dun goofed at making those options. Where's Halo? Killzone? Resistance? Star Wars: Dark Forces? Doom? Quake? Borderlands? The Darkness? Star Wars: Republic Commando? Deus Ex? System Shock/Bioshock? Half-Life? Portal? Left 4 Dead? Serious Sam? Duke Nukem? Wolfenstein? Team Fortress? Counter-Strike? Crysis? Far Cry? Unreal Tournament? Metro 2033? S.T.A.L.K.E.R.? Timesplitters? Heretic? Hexen? Or at least an "Other" option so people who want to pick those, can.
EDIT: There are a lot of first-person shooters, man. I even forgot Tom Clancy's Assorted Games, which is something like three or four different series', Star Trek Elite Force, and F.E.A.R. Or how about Shadowcaster, which is probably a game that nobody on this website will remember even if they've heard of it? Though I guess that's more RPG and less shooter... well, Fallout 3/New Vegas too then.

As for myself, dunno what I'd be able to pick. Maybe Deus Ex: Human Revolution or Crysis 2. Or maybe the Halo series as a whole, or the Star Wars: Dark Forces series (from Dark Forces to Jedi Academy, of course).

Took the woods right out of my mouth. There are so many shooters out there form the cartoony (TF2) to cyberpunk (Systerm Shock 2) and everything in between. Just 4 choices, three of which whose latest offerings are now rather samey doesn't do the genre justice.

 

[MetalMagpie]

Not a big FPS fan, but I had an absolute blast with Borderlands. So I'll go with that.

 

[LilithSlave]

I don't like first person shooters. For me that's like choosing between bad and worse.

I guess Portal isn't too bad. I really, really dislike first person shooters, though.

 

[Starik20X6]

My favourites are GoldenEye, Perfect Dark and the Metroid Primes. Waiting for the PS3 version of Serious Sam 3, that looks sweet.

EDIT: Forgot 007 NightFire, how the crap did I forget NightFire.