I'm nowhere close to being the skilled gamer that most of you are, but I have enjoyed several of the better FPS games over the years. I have a PS2 that's close to 10 years old, but I haven't bought a new game for it in probably seven years. My Mac G5 is about 5 or 6 years old and I enjoyed playing some of the Tom Clancy and Call of Duty games on it in its younger days. I've been out of luck on that platform though since Apple switched from the PPC to the Intel chip. So, after a several year hiatus, I'm starting to get the FPS bug again. I'm not ready (read: can't really afford) to replace my Mac yet, so I'm considering a gaming console. I get the feeling that the Xbox might be my best bet. The only problem is, I'm not sure how much I would enjoy the current crop of FPS games. In the first place, I always play in single player mode and I realize that's not necessarily the primary focus these days. Additionally, I tended to enjoy offerings like the Clancy Rainbow Six: Raven Shield game which afforded a fair amount of autonomy in allowing you to choose what route and at what pace you would accomplish the mission. Even with my original CoD deluxe box set pretty much let you engage threats and advance at your own pace. In contrast, I had an opportunity over Thanksgiving this year to play a few minutes of the new CoD Black Ops edition for the Xbox. Though the graphics were quite impressive, single player mode felt more like an arcade game to me in which I was merely racing to keep up with the guy in front of me, shooting everything that moved and trying not to die in the process. There was none of the map studying, strategizing and sneaking around eliminating threats that I remember enjoying in the earlier games. Granted, I'm basing my opinion of Black Ops on a very small part of the overall game, but nevertheless I'm wondering if maybe there are other games out there you could recommend that might be better suited to my preferences; or perhaps I should be considering a different system altogether. Any advice or recommendations would be appreciated.
Farcry 2, is an open world FPS, you can go into a conflict however you choose, you can complete the missions when ever you want. If you don't mind playing really outdated games, then any of the farcry's would give you that sort of gameplay. Bioshock 1&2 are more about the environment and the story then just shooting everthing as fast as you can. Can't think of any others of the top of my head, but the go at your own pace, strategic sort of FPS's, unfortunately don't really exsist anymore
Team Fortress 2 is sort of slow-paced and it is extremely cheap. It comes in The Orange Box which is five great games in one. If you play on the map 2FORT you can just defend until you think you are good enough to attack. It isn't that hard to kill people while defending unless they are extremely good and then it can be difficult. You can choose the class that best suites you so there is a lot of strategy.
Thanks very much for the quick responses and the recommendations, guys. I'm not really familiar with the games you've mentioned, so I appreciate having a starting point from which to begin my research.
Thanks very much for the quick responses and the recommendations, guys. I'm not really familiar with the games you've mentioned, so I appreciate having a starting point from which to begin my research. MajorInfidel
The Orange Box is one of the best deals out with four singleplayer games and one multiplayer game which is Team Fortress 2.
Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising 2. Be mindful of the extreme problems in the game though.
sivasiva
This is a great recommendation. I LOVED Dragon Rising, but like SivaSiva said, be aware that the game has some extremely glaring flaws (most notably the checkpoint system). Still if you like realistic, slower-paced, open-ended shooters, FlashPoint is your best bet on the Xbox right now. You may also enjoy Rainbow Six Vegas and Vegas 2, although they tend to lean more towards the arcadey side of things. Good luck with the jump to this gen!
The Darkness is my favorite fps on the 360. It throws some demonic powers into the mix, like being able to impale people with tentacles. It is definitely not a twitch shooter.
It's not technically a pure shooter, but Fallout 3 is definitely a slower paced game that is open-world and lets you go about enemy encounters however you want to.
I think Gears of War is a good shooter to get into. Once you get into that, it's easier to get into some of these other FPS games. And it's pretty slow and somewhat easier than first person shooters.
Fallout 3, Bioshock 1 & 2 are some of my favorite games and are slow paced FPS. You can play Fallout however you want to and they all have good RPG elements added into them.
One final thanks again to everyone for all the outstanding recommendations. Maybe the FPS genre hasn't completely passed me by after all. :) Thread is bookmarked for future reference.
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