Your best experience with a FPS

[Blackality]

Half-Life 2 (Nothing else mattered until i beat it), Deus Ex and System Shock 2.

Epic Stuff

 

[Skorpyo]

Back when the first Halo was THE game to have, My brothers and their friends would all get together and just play vs. all damn day.

Those were the days.

 

[Kris015]

Anything Valve. Morrowind and Oblivion (Yes, using a bow makes it shooter!). Also Mirror's Edge was pretty good.

EDIT: Totally forgot about Crysis! What an excellent game.

 

[Kasawd]

MY best experience with a First Person Shooter is, hands down, the campaign in Modern Warfare 1.

 

[LeeHarveyO]

Combat Arms, simply because I completely rape at that game.

Though both James Bond games for the N64 were totally awesome, and were the first FPS games I played.

 

[alittlepepper]

You know, the best experience I ever had with an FPS was in Halo 1 multiplayer. It was the only time I managed to get in with 16 other people in a system link game and we played on that tiny little ship level that's basically like...one room. With rockets and shotguns. That one game was so delightfully chaotic and insane that it was easily the best time I've ever had with an FPS, ever. Having fun with friends, not caring if you lived or died, and just having a blast with the pure anarchy of the situation.
Win.

 

[Lawyer105]

Planetside. There simply isn't another shooter on the market that can compare to that piece of perfection (circa 2005-2007).
- persistent world;
- 3 sides;
- 133 people per team per map for a total of 400 people;
- weapons galore;
- tanks, light vehicles, air assault;
- really good 'support' systems to allow people to provide some serious force multiplication by selecting the right skills;
- decent character development (and I'm not talking about the lameass unlocks or achievements of modern FPS's!)
- purpose behind attacks (rather than just playing the same scripted tiny maps over and over again);
- various terrain types and obstacles require multiple play-styles.
- 10-man squads, and 30-man platoons.

Best game EVER. Until SOE abandoned it, merged all the servers into US West Coast, and the hackers, RU's and CN's took over.

 

[kidwithxboxlive]

cod 4...just because i was fun to shoot a 1 armed russian to death after he survived that dam sniper!

 

[Racthoh]

LAN Duke Nukem at my uncle's work. The first 20 minutes or so where all of us were just acting like asses to each other and hearing the ensuing laughter was golden.

 

[Kenko]

Halo 1 I guess for its long and decent story, good graphs for its time. But ive more or less played them all so im usually unimpressed 99% of the time

 

[Sebenko]

STALKER. It blows all those shallow FPSes out of the water.

Oh, and Doom. Not mentioning doom is HERESY.

 

[Shock and Awe]

Halo multiplayer. From my first splitscreen games with Halo: CE to my first online multiplayer games in Halo 2, to my current shenanigans in Halo 3, I love them all and can't wait for Reach.

 

[omega 616]

All pretty much the same to me, all roughly on par you could say.

Some surpassed expectations, others fell below expectations but neither by a whole lot.

Thunkin' about it though, there are more disappointments than surprises.

(I was meant to spell it "thunkin'" by the way)

Resistance 2 surprised me in a good way, that humans VS aliens thing is amazing fun, even without friends.

Bad company 2 was a bit of a let down, mainly 'cos of the anti climatic ending and WAAAY too many recon's in multi-player.

 

[TheHermit]

I really enjoyed counter-strike back in the day, it was the only multi-player fps I really got into and when I got bored of the normal servers there were always mod servers with stuff like the grappling hook mod and wc3 mod to make things more interesting. I stopped playing when they released 1.6 and killed all the servers.

 

[gregitaly]

Shock and Awe from C.O.D 4 is my favorite specific moment. (Even though I played the crappy Wii version.) But Metroid Prime 2: Echos is my favorite overall experience: exploring the world, solving the puzzles, discovering new and interesting things, and the feeling of being the only person on an entire planet has stuck with me through the years. (I played Prime 2 before the original)
Least favorite first person shooter? The underwater levels in Devil May Cry.

 

[Shycte]

Time Splitters 2. The amount of time I put into the multiplayer with my friends is just staggering. That game just never ever got old.

DING DING DING DING DING.

We have a winner.

 

[ProfessorLayton]

Call of Duty: United Offensive. I've said it before and I'll say it again... that game is the king of multiplayer and a part of my childhood.

Combat Arms, simply because I completely rape at that game.

I was one of the first people ever to get an Unbelievable + kill streak on Combat Arms. I eventually left because the community was one of the worst I've ever seen in my life.

 

[RobfromtheGulag]

Unreal Tournament (the original).
Psychedelic colors, sci-fi settings, great (fantastic/unrealistic) gameplay, bite sized time requirements, amazing soundtrack -- My biggest FPS benchmark.

FarCry is probably the second; the tropical setting was just too cool. Crysis tried to emulate but took itself too seriously and toned up the military aspect too much imo.

-Edit-
Reading posts I've come across a lot of other good ones.
Mirror's Edge - not what I'd call a fpS, but a revolutionary game nonetheless.
Bethesda - again, not straight fps, but great stuff.
No One Lives Forever (1/2) - I played these way past when they came out, but the fact that I still had so much fun just goes to show how great these games are.
TimeSplitters (1/2) - Very similar to UT, and both single player and multiplayer were amazing.