just bought a xbox 360 and played a fps for the first time

Yea, it's got a pretty steep learning curve. You should probably invest some time playing single player til you get a little more used to it. A week or two will work wonders.

You'll probably get used to it and find that the control stick works quite well for aiming once you ge the hang of it. Welcome back to console gaming!

If you're looking for recommendations on 360 FPSs or third-person shooters, which also use the right control stick to aim, my favorites include:

Mass Effect and Mass Effect 2 (3rd person shooters/RPGs)

Dead Space and Dead Space 2

Call of Duty games

Halo 3, Halo 3 ODST, and Halo: Reach

Another suggestion-- you might want to try playing the games on Easy until you get accustomed to a control stick, although I don't know how long that will take.

hope your not like me bro... i got my 360 in feb last year and also felt the dual analog felt wierd and hard..welll one year later and i still cant be competative at it.. so i dont play FPS on 360 :(

There is third party hardware out there that lets you use a keyboard and mouse in Xbox 360 games. I personally own a XIM 3 and love it, it pretty much made console FPS games about a million times better for me.

so i bought a xbox 360 which is the first video game system i have bought in 10 years. i was a pc gamer. i was sick of buying new video cards every 6 months and i played black ops and its mad hard to to use a xbox 360 controller LOL. so much different from mouse and keyboard. anyone else have these experiencesWhiteFraud

My experience was similar. I was a PC gamer, also got tired of upgrading all the time, and switched back to consoles this generation. Now I find it really hard to go back to WASD and the mouse. I know it's a little more accurate with the mouse, but man using a game pad is so much more easier on the hands for long periods of gaming.

so i bought a xbox 360 which is the first video game system i have bought in 10 years. i was a pc gamer. i was sick of buying new video cards every 6 months and i played black ops and its mad hard to to use a xbox 360 controller LOL. so much different from mouse and keyboard. anyone else have these experiencesWhiteFraud

You get used to it just like anything else. I felt that way when going from xbox to ps3.

You changed a video card every six months? Why on Earth are you lying about videogames?

so i bought a xbox 360 which is the first video game system i have bought in 10 years. i was a pc gamer. i was sick of buying new video cards every 6 months and i played black ops and its mad hard to to use a xbox 360 controller LOL. so much different from mouse and keyboard. anyone else have these experiencesWhiteFraud

Don't forget about the modded controllers which the COD community is notorious for. I playwith a plain old controllerand I swear people have some weird advantage sometimes and I attribute that to Modded controllers. Remember that when you're getting owned relentlessly.

once you get used to it ull enjoy it a lot