Nan Rymer of RantGaming writes:
I love FPSes. I love Doom, Wolfenstein, Counter-Strike, FEAR, ARMA, Resistance, Call of Duty, and Battlefield. I love SOCOM, Tribes, Quake, HALO, Crysis, Half-Life, Medal of Honor, Team Fortress and Unreal Tournament. I even love Brink, Star Wars: Battlefront and Rainbow Six, and heck, there’s even a little part of me that loves Hour of Victory if only due to the sheer hilarity of it all (What? You don’t want to be challenged as a player? Perfect! We’ve laid out all the enemies for you on the HUD. And just to make it easier, they won’t even shoot back).
I’ve played a good number of them, from stand alone titles, franchises and their countless sequels, mods and spin offs, and I’ve loved all of them as well for their own reasons. There are just so many amazing FPses out there, more that I’ve forgotten to mention, and certainly even more I haven’t played. But the list below, which I compiled after a lot of going back and forth in my little...
MW 2019 is five years old at this point and on previous gen hardware, but it is still the best looking Call of Duty game to date.
MW was an excellent videogame. They messed up Spec Ops big time, but aside from this it was a huge step in the right direction initially. Most notably, at launch it seemed to come from a very cohesive creative vision that was felt across gameplay, to story to art style/visual direction. It was also very notably written by prominent ex-Naughty Dog guys that quit almost immediately before release.
That COMPLETELY dissolved through post-launch content and the full pivot to a "cross-mode" narrative that completely obliterated the cohesion in overall story direction. Warzone then "became" the new face of Call of Duty and the franchise completely removed itself from anything remotely creatively "good". It is a pure money machine, so I kinda get why they're doing it....but I personally completely lost interest.
I would love to see Infinity Ward move off CoD and get to make their own product with full control. They clearly have some massive talent in their ranks but it's perverted by Activision's corporate interests.
Remember the days of four-player couch co-op? The Wealth of Geeks team certainly does. This list brings us back to the golden years of the original Xbox with the best four-player games that were available.
Have you ever looked at a modern first-person shooter and wondered "How did we get here?" Wealth of Geeks performs a deep dive into the genre, including some of the most influential games, from the very first FPS from the cross-genre experiences that changed the game entirely.
For me personally Deus Ex is my number 1 FPS of all time, everything about the game had me hooked :)
So many to choose from. Half Life 2 for me.
Pretty much the same for me , except that it was quake 3 that taught me how to aim with a mouse after playing golden eye and counter strike expanded on that , never looked back.
DeusEx always overshadows SystemShock2. =(
crysis and half life did it for me! <3