Top FPS . . . OF ALL TIME!!!!!

[Yellowbeard]

Why the fuck does the first Unreal game never get any love?

Beautiful graphics and aesthetic design, colour, lighting, etc. Huge, spectacular levels based on creative ideas and almost seamless transitions between them. A fantastic soundtrack and a fairly compelling story subtly integrated into the design and progression of the levels, mixed in with the puzzles and details of the environment. Puzzles involved reading, logic, even riddles on occasion.

A classical FPS arsenal; creative weapons with multiple functions and combos. Enemies that dodge and maneuver, even if they are a bit bullet-spongey otherwise. A variety of tactical power-ups and toolss.

Plus the engine's various incarnations have been used for about half a million games since.

 

[eimatshya]

Why the fuck does the first Unreal game never get any love?

I've always wondered the same thing. I enjoyed Unreal 1 a hell of a lot more than Half-life 1, but all people ever talk about is how great Half-life was.

Anyway, my all time favorite FPS is Dark Forces. I'm not going to try to argue that it's the best FPS ever because that would be a pretty tough sell even for a much more skilled debater than I. That said, I spent massive amounts of my childhood playing Dark Forces, and although I have played a lot of FPS games since, I tend to enjoy them while I play them but then forget about them as soon as I've finished.

With Dark Forces, however, I can fondly list memorable moments from every level in the game. Also, I recently bought a copy of it off of Steam, which was necessary as my PC can't run my old Mac CD-ROM version, and I still find it fun. Some parts were a bit easier than I remembered, like the Anoat City level, but all-in-all I feel it still holds up 17 years later, despite the lack of mouse-look. As such, it is easily my favorite FPS of all time.

 

[SlaveNumber23]

Halo 3 is definitely my all time favourite FPS, not necessarily the best FPS but definitely the one I've got the most enjoyment out of. In fact the Halo series was my introduction to the entire FPS genre.

 

[Scarim Coral]

Here is my top 5 since I don't played alot of FPS (but I want to)-

1 Timesplitter 3
2 Any Halo games
3 Unreal Tournament
4 Half Life 2
5 Conduit 1 or 2

 

[KINGBeerZ]

I'm not really a big shooter fan, but i really like TF2 and the fact that it was placed below COD is just something i can't understand.

 

[babinro]

Here's my top 10 FPS games.
Since I'm not into the genre I'll break the franchise rule so I can list 10:

1. Metroid Prime 3
2. Borderlands
3. Metroid Prime
4. Resistance: Fall of Man
5. Borderlands 2
6. COD4: MW
7. Half-Life 2
8. Bioshock
9. Goldeneye
10. Doom 3

Note: I'm not into online gaming, which might explain the lack of competitive FPS games listed.

 

[SonicWaffle]

House of the Dead wasn't on any list so far, therefore you all are dead to me.

Dead to me.

Any game that required me to stand in an arcade feeding pound coins to a ravenous machine that just made me feel bad at life is not getting into my top ten. Not that I have a top ten, because I suck at FPS and barely even remember half the ones I've played.

OT: I remember XIII being interesting, but that's about it. Other than Goldeneye, obviously; had a crack at it again round a friend's place recently, and absolutely smashed his back doors in. Turns out that unlike when I was a kid, I'm actually quite good at Goldeneye. I wonder when that happened?

 

[Tallim]

Why the fuck does the first Unreal game never get any love?

Beautiful graphics and aesthetic design, colour, lighting, etc. Huge, spectacular levels based on creative ideas and almost seamless transitions between them. A fantastic soundtrack and a fairly compelling story subtly integrated into the design and progression of the levels, mixed in with the puzzles and details of the environment. Puzzles involved reading, logic, even riddles on occasion.

A classical FPS arsenal; creative weapons with multiple functions and combos. Enemies that dodge and maneuver, even if they are a bit bullet-spongey otherwise. A variety of tactical power-ups and toolss.

Plus the engine's various incarnations have been used for about half a million games since.

I love the original Unreal, looked amazing at the time and I still remember that corridor where you get the first real encounter. Walking along and then all the lights start going out one by one and then..........

 

[TheTim]

Call of Duty 4 is forever my top shooter


soo many hours logged in on that son of a *****.

 

[Brainwreck]

1. Stalker. It requires neither praise nor superlatives.

And the rest is completely irrelevant.

 

[Auron225]

#1 Half-Life 2
#2 Fallout 3
#3 Timesplitters: Future Perfect

Having said that, I haven't played many FPS's but these are all fantastic.

 

[sanquin]

I look at them from the perspective of when they came out. As in what the possibilities and such were for that time, and only games I've actually also played. Hard to judge games I haven't played.

1: Half Life 2.
2: Counter Strike 1.6
3: F.E.A.R.
4: Unreal Tournament
5: Call of Duty 1

Close calls:
Quake, Unreal, Doom 3, Half Life 1

 

[Irridium]

1: Timesplitters 2

As for the rest, well it's all under Timesplitters 2. For Timesplitters 2 is the best.

 

[corneth]

1.Half-life 2
2.Bioshock
3.TF2
4.Doom
5.Counterstrike

I know that there's a bit of bias towards Valve, but what can I say? They've made some great games.

 

[Fractral]

I think you really need to differentiate between the single player experience in an FPS and the multiplayer as many amazing FPSs like Far Cry 3 have sub-par multiplayer. And really people, stop throwing in games just because they're in first person. First person views are used in a multitude of various genres such as FPSs, RPGs, Puzzle games, and straight up adventure games (ie Metroid Prime--which was a FPAdventure game not a shooter...it didn't even have aiming for god's sake).

This. Multiplayer and single player games are different things, and should be judged seperately. However, I wouldn't say that a game has to be in either category- I would put CoD:MW high on both lists.
Anyway, why is timesplitters not on that list?

 

[Meatspinner]

In no particular order

Modern Warfare 2
Modern Warfare 3
Black Ops
Black Ops 2
Max Payne 3

 

[Puzzlenaut]

I actually think the list is pretty good, although I would definitely swap in Halo 3 for Halo: CE, move Goldeneye to the top, replace Starsiege with Bioshock, mov-- actually, I'll just make a new list:

10.Unreal Tournament-=- (Even today this beast is entertaining as hell)
9. Doom -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-(Where would we be without Doom? Not that I ever really played it much, but I know how important it was)
8. Team Fortress 2 -=-=-=-(the best class-based multiplayer out there)
7. Left 4 Dead -=-=-=-=-=-(The best Co-operative FPS out there in my opinion)
6. Star Wars: Battlefront -(I played it in 1st person so it counts; here mainly for personal nostalgia)
5. Halo: CE -=-=-=-=-=-=-=(Revolutionised FPSes, for better or worse; brilliantly made shooter)
4. Half Life 2 -=-=-=-=-=-=("Wait, FPSes can have a STORY?!")
3. Bioshock -=-=-=-=-=-=-=(As a shooter it wasn't actually that great, but it taught me that a game could be ABOUT something)
2. Goldeneye-=-=-=-=-=-=-(my first FPS, important in its own right)
1. COD4 -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-(Probably my single favourite multiplayer ever made; I have plugged weeks and weeks into this game)

 

[Pero]

Any Serious Sam!!!!!!!!!!!