VOTE: Best First Person Shooter Last gen! CLOSED RESULTS

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#1  Edited By Jakandsigz
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This was originally going to include Retail only BUT, with so many fine titles like Rogue Warrior, and even before PC games started cutting down on retail versions, there were still a handful of digital games on top distribution services like Origin, I will just ask you to do the following:

LIST YOUR TOP 10 FIRST PERSON SHOOTERS!

Every game on your list will be in a ten point scale. Games at the #1 spot will get 100 points, and those at the #spot will get 10 points.

YOU JUST FOLLOW THESE GUIDELINES: PC(2005=2013), Xbox 360, Playstation 3, Wii, Playstation Portable, and Nintendo Dual Screen. Expansion packs don't count unless it is stand alone.

YOU DO NOT HAVE TO name all if you can't. You can say for example, list only 5, and the points will still work in that order.

SCORE BOARD SO FAR:

COD4MW: 2550 points

Killzone 2: 2370 points

Bioshock: 1880 points

Halo 3: 1720 points

Stalker SoC: 940 points

Battlefield BC2: 810 points

Halo Reach: 770 points

Far Cry 3: 760 points

F.E.A.R.: 730 points

Left 4 Dead: 690 points

Crysis: 660 points

Bioshock Infinite: 570 points

BORDERLANDS 2: 540 points

Left 4 Dead 2: 490 points

Resistance FOM: 430 points

Team Fortress 2: 390 points

MAG: 380 Points

Resistance 3: 350 points

HL2 E2: 350 points

BORDERLANDS: 340 points

CODBLops: 300 points

Killzone 3: 300 points

Stalker CoP: 290 points

COD2: 270 points

Bioshock 2: 250 points

Metro Last Light: 230 points

Halo ODST: 230 points

CODMW2: 230 points

Killing Floor: 220 points

Halo 4: 200 points

Deus EX HR: 200 points

Battlefield 3: 190 points

Metro 2033: 190 points

CODWaW: 170 points

Resistance 2: 160 points

Duke Nukem Forever: 150 points

Portal: 140 points

RAGE: 140 points

The Darkness: 110 points

CODGhosts: 100 points

Singularity: 90 points

Fallout 2: 90 points

Crysis 3: 90 points

Planetside 2: 90 points

SWAT 4: 80 points

Counter Strike Global Offensive: 80 points

Red Orchestra 2: 80 points

Stalker Clear Sky: 80 points

Serious Sam 3: 80 points

Turok: 80 points

CODMW3: 80 points

Metroid Prime 3: 80 points

Crysis Warhead: 70 points

Tribes Ascend: 70 points

Unreal Tournament 3: 70 points

Wolfenstein: 70 points

Shadow Warrior (2013): 60 points

CODBlops2: 50 points

Arma 2: 50 points

Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon: 50 points

Cryostasis: 50 points

Painkiller Hell&D: 50 points

Battlefield BC: 50 points

Medal of Honor: 50 points

Hard Reset: 40 points

Portal 2: 40 points

F.E.A.R. 3: 40 points

Warsow: 40 points

Rise of the Triad 2013: 20 points

Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth: 20 points

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  1. MAG
  2. Killzone 2
  3. Turok
  4. RAGE
  5. Duke Nukem Forever
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#4 jsmoke03
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cod 4

borderlands

killzone 2

left 4 dead

thats all i got. everything else i played is kind of ho hum.

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#5  Edited By Blabadon
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Halo 3

Modern Warfare 2

Resistance 3

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  1. Bioshock
  2. Bioshock 2
  3. Far Cry 3
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#7 Chutebox
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Killzone

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#8 Jakandsigz
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@Chutebox said:

Killzone

2, 3, or retribution?

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#9  Edited By deactivated-583e460ca986b
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1 COD MW

2 Halo 3

3 Bio shock

4 L4D

5 Borderlands

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#10  Edited By applefan1991  Moderator
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As a person who prefers Sony's console and games. How in the literal hell is Killzone 2 winning this? That's embarrassing.

1. Call of Duty: Ghosts

2. Halo 3

3. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3

4. Resistance: Fall of Man

5. Halo: Reach

**Inb4 someone takes my quote about the crapfest that is Killzone and mocks me for mentioning COD instead**

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#11 Nengo_Flow
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FPS? hm... Im not really that fond of them, but I did love KZ2 and Resistance 3

the rest didnt really hold my attention. Only COD i actually spend time on was Black Ops and it was so generic and bland...

I tried Bioschok but lost total interest within the first 3 hours. Same with Borderlands.

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#12  Edited By deactivated-583e460ca986b
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@WadeFan: Ghosts? Number 1? Really? I would put every other COD ahead of Ghosts.

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#13 lostrib
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Dammit, Glitchspot ate my post

1. COD 4

L4D2

BF3

BC2

TF2

Crysis/Warhead

Portal

Borderlands

HL2

FEAR

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#14  Edited By lostrib
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@GoldenElementXL said:

@WadeFan: Ghosts? Number 1? Really? I would put every other COD ahead of Ghosts.

Agreed.

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#15  Edited By MrYaotubo
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1. STALKER SoC

2. Crysis

3. Killing Floor

4. Serious Sam 3

5. Shadow warrior

6. Painkiller HD

7. Warsow

8. L4D2

9. Rise of the Triad

10. CoD4

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#16  Edited By speedfreak48t5p
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@lostrib said:

@GoldenElementXL said:

@WadeFan: Ghosts? Number 1? Really? I would put every other COD ahead of Ghosts.

Agreed.

I would put a dog turd ahead of Ghosts.

1. Call of Duty 4

2. Battlefield Bad Company 2

3. Halo Reach

4. Far Cry 3

5. Call of Duty 2

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#17  Edited By Nanomage
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1-Stalker Shadow of Chernobyl

2-Crysis 1

3-Half Life 2 ep2

4-Stalker call of prypiat

5-KIlling Floor

6-Halo ODST

7-Mass Effect 2

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#18  Edited By Szminsky
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Killzone 2

Rage

Deus ex

HL 2

Crysis (1)

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#19 with_teeth26
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wow i posted in this thread earlier but it vanished. I'll try again...

1. Stalker: SoC

2. FEAR

3. Red Orchestra 2/Rising Storm

4. Left 4 Dead 2

5. Metro Last Light

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#20 millerlight89
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Stalker SoC

Killzone 2

Metro Last Light

I just ordered Reach, Halo 4, ODST, and one other. So that may change.

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#21  Edited By the_bi99man
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Bioshock 1

Black Mesa (if it counts. If not, skip it)

STALKER Shadow of Chernobyl

Half Life 2: Episode 2

Crysis

Bioshock 2

FEAR

STALKER Call of Pripyat

Metro 2033 (I have a feeling Last Light would take this spot, but I haven't played it yet)

Bioshock Infinite

And number 11, in case Black Mesa doesn't count: Far Cry 3

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#22  Edited By millerlight89
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@the_bi99man said:

Black Mesa (if it counts. If not, skip it)

It feels different from the original, so I say it does. It was a solid game. I too am a huge fan of bioshock 1. My fav game, but the shooting was a little lackluster for me to consider it best fps. Still my fav game. Were you not letdown by infinite? I hate the direction they took with it. Way too much shooting and it took the mechanic from cod, where you kill all enemies in an area and progress. They just send wave after wave at you.

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#23 the_bi99man
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@millerlight89 said:

@the_bi99man said:

Black Mesa (if it counts. If not, skip it)

It feels different from the original, so I say it does. It was a solid game. I too am a huge fan of bioshock 1. My fav game, but the shooting was a little lackluster for me to consider it best fps. Still my fav game. Were you not letdown by infinite? I hate the direction they took with it. Way too much shooting and it took the mechanic from cod, where you kill all enemies in an area and progress. They just send wave after wave at you.

Yeah, Infinite was a bit of a letdown, but not enough for me not to love it. Love the atmosphere and story, and I didn't think the actual mechanics were as bad as lots of people seem to think. I got tons of enjoyment out of the skyline combat, and the vigor combos. The last time I tried to replay it, I did get bored and stop like halfway through, but that was an attempt at a 4th replay. Most single player campaign games would get boring by then. I did enjoy it thoroughly three times.

And yeah, I figured I'd call Bioshock 1 my favorite shooter, kind of by default, as it's my favorite game of the last gen. If I were to re-order my list, based entirely on the games' mechanical merits as shooters... All three Bioshocks would probably be knocked off completely, FEAR would be MUCH higher, as would Far Cry 3, and Crysis 2 and Counterstrike: Global Offensive probably would have made it.

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#24  Edited By SolidTy
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Hmmm...

  1. Killzone 2
  2. Left 4 Dead 1
  3. Battlefield Bad Company 2
  4. Resistance FOM
  5. Bioshock
  6. Resistance 3
  7. COD4: Modern Warfare 1
  8. Half Life 2
  9. Metroid Prime 3
  10. Halo Reach

Tough list as I had a list of 20 I narrowed down, and I'm certain I'm forgetting something. I enjoyed COD2, Deus Ex, Battlefield Bad Company, BF3, Halo3, Killzone 3, and various others I had to cut. I would have put in Portal and Portal 2, but I wasn't sure if they qualified as "FPS".

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#25  Edited By asylumni
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1. Borderlands 2

2. Fallout 3

3. Resistance 2

4. Killzone 2

5. Halo ODST

6. RAGE

7. Resistance FOM

8. Borderlands

9. Bioshock

10. ????

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#26 millerlight89
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@the_bi99man said:

@millerlight89 said:

@the_bi99man said:

Black Mesa (if it counts. If not, skip it)

It feels different from the original, so I say it does. It was a solid game. I too am a huge fan of bioshock 1. My fav game, but the shooting was a little lackluster for me to consider it best fps. Still my fav game. Were you not letdown by infinite? I hate the direction they took with it. Way too much shooting and it took the mechanic from cod, where you kill all enemies in an area and progress. They just send wave after wave at you.

Yeah, Infinite was a bit of a letdown, but not enough for me not to love it. Love the atmosphere and story, and I didn't think the actual mechanics were as bad as lots of people seem to think. I got tons of enjoyment out of the skyline combat, and the vigor combos. The last time I tried to replay it, I did get bored and stop like halfway through, but that was an attempt at a 4th replay. Most single player campaign games would get boring by then. I did enjoy it thoroughly three times.

And yeah, I figured I'd call Bioshock 1 my favorite shooter, kind of by default, as it's my favorite game of the last gen. If I were to re-order my list, based entirely on the games' mechanical merits as shooters... All three Bioshocks would probably be knocked off completely, FEAR would be MUCH higher, as would Far Cry 3, and Crysis 2 and Counterstrike: Global Offensive probably would have made it.

Someone who likes Crysis 2? When I was a PC only gamer I got blasted for thinking it was the best in the series. I did not enjoy the first at all.

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Halo 3 - Some of the most epic large scale fights early on this generation and the HDR was dare I say the best this generation has seen.

Half Life 2 EP2

Bioshock/Bioshock Infinite - Tie

Killzone 2

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#28 Chutebox
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@Jakandsigz said:

@Chutebox said:

Killzone

2, 3, or retribution?

2 of course

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1.) Halo 3

2.) Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare

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#31  Edited By applefan1991  Moderator
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@GoldenElementXL said:

@WadeFan: Ghosts? Number 1? Really? I would put every other COD ahead of Ghosts.

I love it, to me it and MW3 were the best 2. I thought Black Ops 2 was nothing more than a camping head-glitch fest. It seems most people either like IW's way or Treyarch's way. I prefer IW's

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#32  Edited By Arach666
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1. S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl
2. Crysis
3. Killing Floor
4. Half LIfe 2 episodes
5. S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat
6. Black Mesa
7. F.E.A.R.
8. RAGE
9. Tribes Ascend
10.Hard Reset

Since you said 2005/2013 I guess I could´ve included Battlefield 2 and SWAT 4 since both came out in 05 but it was before the 360 launched so I just left them out.

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#33  Edited By applefan1991  Moderator
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@speedfreak48t5p said:

@lostrib said:

@GoldenElementXL said:

@WadeFan: Ghosts? Number 1? Really? I would put every other COD ahead of Ghosts.

Agreed.

I would put a dog turd ahead of Ghosts.

1. Call of Duty 4

2. Battlefield Bad Company 2

3. Halo Reach

4. Far Cry 3

5. Call of Duty 2

I guess, but I think Ghosts is the best one in years. MP is much improved. It doesn't reward the campers who sit in the corner or the headglitchers with target finder on.

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#34  Edited By Daious
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How is Killzone 2 that high in the list?

Halo 3 and COD4 were crazy fun games.

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#35  Edited By millerlight89
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@daious said:

How is Killzone 2 that high in the list?

Halo 3 and COD4 were crazy fun games.

A lot of us like it? Really simple concept.

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#36 jg4xchamp
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S.T.A.L.K.E.R Shadow of Chernobyl

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#37  Edited By Seabas989
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1. S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl

2. F.E.A.R.

3. S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat

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#38  Edited By longtonguecat
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1) STALKER: Shadow of Chernobyl

2) BioShock

3) Orange Box (Count it as Portal if not TOB and if not that then HL2:EP2)

4) FEAR

5) Crysis

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#39 GreySeal9
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@daious said:

How is Killzone 2 that high in the list?

Halo 3 and COD4 were crazy fun games.

Lots of Sony fanboys on SW. Many of the people that voted Killzone 2 are Sony fans.

Anyway, since I don't consider Metroid Prime 3 to be a true FPS, I'm voting Bioshock 2.

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#40 PyratRum
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1. Bioshock
2. Bad Company 2
3. Halo: Reach
4.Call of Duty 4
5. Bioshock Infinite
6. Medal of Honor
7. Halo 3: ODST
8. STALKER: Shadow of Chernobyl
9. Killzone 2
10. Rage

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1. Halo 3

Nothing else even comes close

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#42  Edited By jg4xchamp
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@GreySeal9 said:


Anyway, since I don't consider Metroid Prime 3 to be a true FPS

It sure as **** wasn't a proper successor to the Metroid Prime games.

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#43  Edited By PannicAtack
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Half-Life 2: Episode 2

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@jg4xchamp said:

@GreySeal9 said:


Anyway, since I don't consider Metroid Prime 3 to be a true FPS

It sure as **** wasn't a proper successor to the Metroid Prime games.

Maybe not, but it still didn't feel like anything close to a traditional FPS.

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Call of Duty 4

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#46  Edited By Basinboy
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CoD4

Halo Reach

Resistance 3

Killzone 2

CoD:BLOPS

Crysis

Too lazy to list more

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#47  Edited By jg4xchamp
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@GreySeal9 said:

@jg4xchamp said:

@GreySeal9 said:


Anyway, since I don't consider Metroid Prime 3 to be a true FPS

It sure as **** wasn't a proper successor to the Metroid Prime games.

Maybe not, but it still didn't feel like anything close to a traditional FPS.

Personally I think that's a little silly. FPS by its very nature is a subgenre at best, the point is these games are action games, they just happen to have a first person perspective. The popularity of the genre dictated a sub genre. Ala Sandbox games, still very much shooters, but the structural difference/playground hub worlds+the popularity of the genre dictated a new term.

Prime has just been trying to satisfy in more than just action, but the Action is very much a major aspect of the game. I didn't adventure those bosses to death or adventure my way through the pirates. It's a game willing to not be a by the numbers shooter, but frankly Metroid Prime is every bit a FPS. It's an action adventure game in the first person perspective. It's not that different from a System Shock 2 or a Deus Ex or a Half Life 2(well it's not boring like Half Life 2). They all mess with the formula enough to be distinct and different from the traditional FPS, but the basic stuff is all there. They are just willing to go a step or two further.

And in Prime 3s case, that is a FPS parading itself around as a Metroid Prime game. It may have the facade of a Metroid Prime experience, but it's primary source of entertainment is those sharp controls(the game is going out of its way to say THE WII MOTE IS WONDERFUL FOR FPS GAMES), some of the boss fights, and kicking some pirate ass. Bad game? obviously not, it's pretty okay, even really good at times. But it is a shallower game than both its predecessors. It's pace/structure are different enough to keep it distinct from Halo, but it's a neutered Metroid Prime game at best.

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#48  Edited By GreySeal9
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@jg4xchamp said:

@GreySeal9 said:

@jg4xchamp said:

@GreySeal9 said:


Anyway, since I don't consider Metroid Prime 3 to be a true FPS

It sure as **** wasn't a proper successor to the Metroid Prime games.

Maybe not, but it still didn't feel like anything close to a traditional FPS.

Personally I think that's a little silly. FPS by its very nature is a subgenre at best, the point is these games are action games, they just happen to have a first person perspective. The popularity of the genre dictated a sub genre. Ala Sandbox games, still very much shooters, but the structural difference/playground hub worlds+the popularity of the genre dictated a new term.

Prime has just been trying to satisfy in more than just action, but the Action is very much a major aspect of the game. I didn't adventure those bosses to death or adventure my way through the pirates. It's a game willing to not be a by the numbers shooter, but frankly Metroid Prime is every bit a FPS. It's an action adventure game in the first person perspective. It's not that different from a System Shock 2 or a Deus Ex or a Half Life 2(well it's not boring like Half Life 2). They all mess with the formula enough to be distinct and different from the traditional FPS, but the basic stuff is all there. They are just willing to go a step or two further.

And in Prime 3s case, that is a FPS parading itself around as a Metroid Prime game. It may have the facade of a Metroid Prime experience, but it's primary source of entertainment is those sharp controls(the game is going out of its way to say THE WII MOTE IS WONDERFUL FOR FPS GAMES), some of the boss fights, and kicking some pirate ass. Bad game? obviously not, it's pretty okay, even really good at times. But it is a shallower game than both its predecessors. It's pace/structure are different enough to keep it distinct from Halo, but it's a neutered Metroid Prime game at best.

I suppose you have a point (don't feel like changing my vote tho, lol).

I agree that Prime 3 was noticeably shallower than the other two, but I liked the actual action better. Prime 1 still wins out tho, both in terms of its legacy and overall structure/design.

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