The Best FPS Ever . . . so far.

[MetallicaRulez0]

Halo 2
Call of Duty 4
Unreal Tournament 2004

Halo 2 is my 2nd favorite game of all-time (behind Warcraft 3). The skill-cap on Halo 2 multiplayer was incredibly high considering it's a console shooter. Obviously it was one of the most important games ever as well. It basically put online console multiplayer on the map.

 

[mattttherman3]

Star Trek Voyager: Elite Force!

In all seriousness, Halo Reach.

 

[Programmed_For_Damage]

By the fraction of a whisker I'd have to say Halo: Combat Evolved. With Perfect Dark and Half-Life following closely behind. I used to think Goldeneye 64 was all that, until I played it more recently.

If the Thief series counted, they'd be right up there too.

 

[crono738]

Call of Duty 4, at least of the games I've played. Killzone 2 and 3 are good as well, so good taste for you.

I second this...and now I feel like playing Killzone 3 again, which I haven't touched since a few weeks after its release.

 

[bullet_sandw1ch]

I find mainstream military shooters boring and laughable after playing this.

This man is correct. For a more up to date game (in regards to graphics and military technology) ArmA2: Combined Arms is a good alternative, but the overall feel is nowhere near as good as this blocky masterpiece from 2001.

Mainly Arma 2's single player can't compare to OFP's legendary campaign.

i love this game. i spent..... like 400 or so hours playing it.

 

[psilontech]

Atmospheric / Hybrid FPS: Deus Ex & System Shock 2
Classic / Overall: DOOM / DOOM II
Multiplayer: Tribes 2


Never should one of the dozens upon dozens of current-generation clones be listed in a "Best of..." list ever. Call of Duty or Battlefield being listed anywhere in the title are reason for instant disqualification. Also, the Halo series is severely overrated.

Obviously, I'm stuck in the past as far as games of the FPS genre are concerned as the most recent game on my list came out in 2001, but oh well.

 

[skywolfblue]

Multiplayer: UT2004. Screw modern military FPS's, give me the good 'ol days with unique guns, super-fast movement and insane dodging moves, and an even balance between vehicles and ground troops.

Singleplayer: Half Life 2. Self Explanatory.

 

[octafish]

For multiplayer I have to go with Battlefield 2142, Titan Mode is the absolute best, plus the balance is really good.

For single player...

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Infidel.

The one the only No One Lives Forever.

 

[Darknacht]

Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth, its awesome until you get a gun after that it is just good.

 

[Signa]

For multiplayer I have to go with Battlefield 2142, Titan Mode is the absolute best, plus the balance is really good.

For single player...

You look like you need a monkey.
Excuse me?
I have a very fine monkey for you. Only twenty dollars, American.
Sorry, I don't want a monkey.
What do you mean?
I don't want a monkey!
Why not?
Because I don't like monkeys, now get that filthy beast away from me!
Are you insulting my monkey?
I'm sure it's a perfectly excellent monkey, but I don't want it. Now please leave, I'm very busy.
Ten dollars.
No! I wouldn't want the dreadful thing even if it were free!
Free? You want my children to starve?
If they're hungry, I suggest you feed them the monkey.
This is a valuable monkey! My wife would kill me if she knew I was offering it to you so cheap.
You don't seem to understand, I DON'T WANT A MONKEY!
Infidel.

The one the only No One Lives Forever.

Oh god, how could I forget NOLF! I recognized that conversation by the second line. That series actually depressed me, because by the time I finished NOLF 2, I knew there weren't any more coming. Ever.

 

[Bryce323]

My list, in the order given my current mood:

1) Counterstrike
2) Planetside
3) BF2
4) COD:MW1
5) BF:BC

I heard Valve was doing a reboot of CounterStrike... I really hope they don't turn it into a COD game.

 

[Robert Ewing]

Half life 2 is as good as any FPS will ever be at it's core. And a very close runner up would be the severely overlooked metro 2033.

 

[chadachada123]

I'm gonna have to say that Goldeneye is up there for most time wasted, same with Halo 1 and 2. Best times with friends, bar-none.

Otherwise? It's hard for me to say. None of my friends play FPS games anymore, so I have little with which to gauge how good an FPS game is; I can only see the faults in one.

 

[Clive Howlitzer]

This is easy. Doom for the PC is the best FPS ever made. We hit perfection a lot time ago and everything afterward has just been degrees of how good it is in comparison to Doom.

 

[Ragsnstitches]

System Shock 2, if we're being loose on what the OP accepts as FPS. I have never played a game that has offered such concentrated atmosphere and tension. The game oozes personality despite it's limitations and flaws. Something about the way things are animated make me feel like I'm in a nightmare. It's sluggishness is actually apart of the game. That's what I call making do with what you got.

Also, one of the only games I've ever experienced claustrophobia. I don't even feel claustrophobia in my day to day life.

TF2 if being strict on FPS mechanics. Maybe l4d2. I've had hundreds of hours of joy out of them.

I don't play FPSs for singleplayer experiences very often and they are rarely too remarkable even back in the golden age of PC gaming. Games like STALKER, Half-Life, Doom, Quake, Fear and so on (you name it, i've likely played it) are all great in their own way, but not as close to my heart as SS2.

 

[loc978]

I say UT'99 and its million mods, but it just happened to cater to what I look for in an FPS.

 

[Nazulu]

It's either Half-Life 2 or Metroid Prime for me. I didn't find their story's special at all like a lot of you did, but the design in those games made me drool.

 

[TomLikesGuitar]

"Realistic" Multiplayer:

I think you mean "modern setting" because realism and BF/CoD in the same sentence does not compute.

Realism does not imply simulation, but when shotgun pellets simply cease to exist after 10m all bets are off.

Dude, thank you... I know. I put it in quotes because every time I say that, SOMEONE has to respond that it's not realistic.

I guess I should have directly said that I meant "realistic" relative to Halo-esque games, but that's what I get for sacrificing clarity for brevity.

But seriously, it's not like Flashpoint and Arma are "realistic" compared to real war. They are just the most realistic games. I call it realistic because it portrays a possible non-fiction scenario that is likely to happen, where as Team Fortress 2 will most likely never happen in our universe.

Doom 3 was a good game, but it was survival horror more than all out action, so it wasn't really Doom.

Id are working on Doom 4, and have said that they want it to be more like the first two than the third. But with not so much as a single screenshot to go by as yet only time will tell.

I dunno about you, but Doom 1 scared the crap out of me when I was little. It's a big part of why I liked it. I agree that "survival" horror was a step in the wrong direction, but a legit horror-action (a la. Dead Space 1) would be sweet for Doom 4.