[QUOTE="Lonelynight"]And FPS stands for First Person Shooter, and STALKER(didn't have a problem with the hit detection, in fact I like it), FEAR and Crysis all have better gunplay than HL2.fatshodan
But is Half Life 2 really a first person shooter? People automatically assume it is because, well, it's first person and you have a gun... but I don't consider HL2 a FPS.
I view the gunplay as being incidental - a necessary byproduct of the storyline. I think HL2 is more like a first person adventure game, that just happens to contain gunplay. In terms of broad genre cIassification, it arguably has to be defined as a FPS, but Dark Corners of the Earth, System Shock 2 and Escape from Butcher Bay are all defined as being FPS games, too. The mere label is too broad to do many specific games justice.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not defending HL2 - its gunplay is ass, and its AI is a joke, but that's exactly why I don't think of HL2 as a FPS. Its gunplay elements are underdeveloped compared with other aspects of the game that are, while less noticable at a glance, more prominent as overall gameplay elements.
HL2 certainly has nothing in common with the adventure genre. In has little dialogue, no exploration whatsoever, the puzzles are laughable and its story is only decent when you consider it as part of a much bigger thing (as a stand-alone, HL2's story is pretty uninteresting and undeveloped). It has an amazing atmosphere however, which makes the player believe that there is more to the game (when there really isn't).
It is a FPS with semi-wasted storytelling potential, nothing more.
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