A Good, Solid FPS

[0098386]

The most atmospheric games I've played were Knights of the Old Republic 2, Oni, certain maps in UT2004, most maps in UT3.

I don't really know why I dislike Halo... I didn't like weapons, enemies, graphics never felt "right", too many repetitive (and boring) levels, etc. I also find the multiplayer of Unreal Tournament (any) to be waaaay better than Halo's. The game wasn't fun at all to me, except for the final level where you need to drive a truck to you ship for escape - that was actually a nice level the music during it was very fitting.

I played only Halo 1 though, probably sequels are better.

I could never play Halo online. I tried with tunneling and Halo 2 and 3 online but it was always a LAN game for us. During college years we used to have 12 people Halo matches on a few Xbox's and it really worked. Great party game alongside Mario Kart, Smash Bros etc.

Some levels were boring. I can never play the Library level again. Terrible level design that, much too repetitive.

Unreals multiplayer is quite good but then again it's a dedicated online shooter (with paltry single player mode). UT3 I don't like though.

 

[JonLF]

What are u looking for? Something with a solid single player campaign, or is multiplayer more important to you?

Also, would you want a class-based multiplayer game?

Quake 4 is a few years old but I think it's a nice game, and the mac version runs pretty well.

I am really looking for something single-player. I don't play enough to get good at multi-player and typically end up getting destroyed.

 

[tominated]

Have played multiplayer and saddened to see Sidewinder still hasn't returned (my all time fave Halo 1 map).

Sidewinder is back in the legendary map pack.

 

[hankolerd]

I never liked farcry. I don't understand what everyone liked about it so much.
Also, I played the cod4 demo and got very little enjoyment out of it. Is the real game signifcantly better?

I have only played part of the SP on my roommates computer, and it was pretty good, not absolutely amazing, but not bad for a fps campaign. But I have watched my roommate play MP online, and it looks pretty fun. Last lan party I went to at school there were 5 people playing it, and that also looked pretty fun.

 

[0098386]

Sidewinder is back in the legendary map pack.

My interest in Halo 3 increases at this. Once we cycled through all the maps we only ever played on Sidewinder. Even found a really awesome glitch where you could climb out of the level by placing a tank right up against one of them high passages.

Love I feel for Sidewinder.

 

[eXan]

Unreals multiplayer is quite good but then again it's a dedicated online shooter (with paltry single player mode). UT3 I don't like though.

I wouldnt call it dedicated to multiplayer... Though it was intended as one, there's a very good AI to play with when you cant/dont want to play vs people.

I almost never play it online due to my pathetic connection (only 64kbit/sec) and there's only 1-2 people I know willing to play it on LAN so I mainly play vs bots and its reaaly fun.

 

[0098386]

Yea I went for years playing against them bots in UT99, we only had dial up back then and I just used it for downloading hundreds of maps and mods. Tried playing it online recently (bought it as part of the Steam/Epic deal, £30 for the whole UT series) and just got absolutely slaughtered! The bots didn't help me at all


I've also found the music to be very good in Epic games. Even the first Unreal had a brilliant opening theme.

 

[luffytubby]

UT3, COD2/COD4, Bioshock, Halo etc simply can't touch the value that you will get with the Orange Box.


Reasons Why Orange Box wins:

1)In Orange Box you get 5 fully fledged games for the price of one. HL2(around 10-15 hours), HL2:Episode 1(around 4-7 hours), HL2:Episode 2(around 4-7 hours), Portal(around 3-4 hours), Team Fortress 2(around ???).

2)These five games are very varried. The HL2 games will give you a great cinematic single player journey, with a good story and narrative. The pacing is great, it's quite fine tuned in it's difficulty. Portal is a humorous first person puzzle game. Very uniqe and fresh like nothing you have seen before. TF2 is a team oriented online multiplayer game with cartoon action. It's bright, colorful, charming and full of fun. Very full of fun.

3)All the games in the Orange Box runs on the Source engine. Arguable one of the best engines ever suited for games. It's incredible well optimized and it will run on any intel Imac.

 

[eXan]

Yea I went for years playing against them bots in UT99, we only had dial up back then and I just used it for downloading hundreds of maps and mods. Tried playing it online recently (bought it as part of the Steam/Epic deal, £30 for the whole UT series) and just got absolutely slaughtered! The bots didn't help me at all


I've also found the music to be very good in Epic games. Even the first Unreal had a brilliant opening theme.

Haha when I first played UT3 at my friend's house we played a bit vs bots just to test stuff out and then went online... He also has the same slow connection, but I was destroyed in deathmatch (3 people total) with like 1-15 score

Bots arent very smart in previous titles but their accuracy and dodging was insane. I usually play UT2004 (I'm best at it out of all series) at inhuman-godlike and win most of the time. We once went to computer club with a friend and found UT2004 was available to play there... we arranged a 2v2 vs some guys and I owned them really hard (thx to Godlike bots I used to train with lol ). So bots aren't completely useless

As for music, I REALLY like it. My favorite by far is in UT3, but I only listened to 15 tracks of 30 (going to order a CD with soundtrack from USA soon). UT99 comes second and UT2003/4 third (as they have different feel from the rest of the series and I dont think it suits it well).

 

[0098386]

The UT2003 theme was my fave, really surprised to see they included it on the UT2004 Steam edition! Just renamed the files around and have the 2003 theme as the menu music. Used to have it on my first MP3 player too Really good stuff.

All this talk of UT makes me want to sit down for the rest of the day and play the whole series. I never made it out of the first area in Unreal 1, never even touched Unreal 2.
Ah it's a great series. I don't like 3 much because it doesn't improve much from 2004, save some new gravity features and graphics. Also bobs wayyyy too much for me but I'm surprised that it could even run on my 2 year old iMac with the settings quite high! It's very optimised, just not as much as the Source engine.
For comparison Bioshock runs terribly on my machine.

 

[JonLF]

3)All the games in the Orange Box runs on the Source engine. Arguable one of the best engines ever suited for games. It's incredible well optimized and it will run on any intel Imac.

Didn't they steal that engine from John Carmack?

 

[Fogtripper]

Marathon perhaps?

 

[Ant1-Hero]

Guitar Hero 3

 

[0098386]

Guitar Hero 3

Guitar Hero 3 is an FPS?

 

[Vorian]

Half-Life 2.

This is by far the best FPS game ever made. The story is compelling and driving. The gameplay destroys all other single player shooters out there (yes even Halo, which I despise ).

But yes, for one HL2 is very cheap. you can buy it right off of steam by itself for $20, or buy a bigger bundle with many more games included (I would recommend this)
Get it here!

As for graphics, I run it on medium graphics with a RADEON 9200 and 512GB RAM. looks very pretty too. I'd say this game looks almost as good as the top market games, and considering when it was released (2004) this is amazing. But the good thing about the graphics is that your system resources are not being pushed to the max, it all runs smooth.

yess...

get Half Life


EDIT: I agree with LuffyTubby about orange box. It comes with a whole lot of amazing games, SP and MP, and the price is awesome. Its one of the bundles that I mentioned earlier

 

[danny_w]

Half-Life 2.

This is by far the best FPS game ever made. The story is compelling and driving. The gameplay destroys all other single player shooters out there (yes even Halo, which I despise ).

That's a matter of opinion. I didn't like either Half-Life or Half-Life 2.

 

[MinorBidoh]

for something to hold you over for a bit of time, particularly online, id firmly sugggest COD4 or battlefield2142. I still play alot of Battlefied 2 online and it still proves to be a popular title. check it out for some realistic gun-ho action. (just remember to train as a medic, and be accurate)

 

[0098386]

That's a matter of opinion. I didn't like either Half-Life or Half-Life 2.

It is but the general opinion put Orange Box on the top spot for FPS games.

If you want a free taster of HL2 and you have an ATi graphics card you can get HL2: Deathmatch for free. Along with a large demo level (Lost Coast). Here.

 

[Vorian]

That's a matter of opinion. I didn't like either Half-Life or Half-Life 2.

Yes it is my opinion and I realize he(or she :O) might not care that much, but I just felt like sharing my thoughts.

 

[Dont Hurt Me]

HL2 is a great game but without native Mac support makes it less then stellar. Enemy Territory Quake Wars is a good game in my view worth looking at and is made for Mac. No windows on my Mac. Solid FPS.