Graphics, "realism", storyline...all these things are secondary to if it's a fun game or not.
that said, Unreal Tournament was very fun, it was simple, easy to learn, many different ways to play the game, and it was possible to actually get better at it.
I enjoyed Rainbow 6 a lot back in the day, that was very fun, but I kind of got out of it once rogue spear dropped.
Though not really a first person shooter in teh traditional sense, Metroid Prime is a fantastic first person shooter/adventure game.
and Goldeneye is quite possibly the best FPS on a console, although perfect dark, once you get the hang of it, can be really fun too.
There was a MMOFPS on the PC called Planetside, it was VERY VERY fun, but buggy as hell!
Also, not really a first person shooter, but it has first person elements, there is a game on the PC called savage, that is a up-to 64 player FPS/RTS game, where you play as a grunt/worker and see the game in an over the shoulder view(and first person for guns) and your teams commander sees the game as though it were Warcraft, so it's really neat how that works out, it's very fun.
Unreal tournament 2003 was a big disappointment, as was halo.
oh yeah, the best FPS on PCs right now is Call of Duty, that game is fuuuunnn
If find UT to be really boring and ungratifying. It doesn't seem very open-ended or epic, although this will probably change with the gargantuan UT2004 maps and vehicles.
Halo is my all-time favorite. I love the story, I love environments, and above all, I find the "friendlies" to be likeable; I don't kill my men for the hell of it. And I love the 3-way attack method, it adds a lot of depth to the game. You have to decide which attack will work best in the situation; a storm of ammo, a well-placed grenade, or a melee to the back of a Covenant skull.
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Originally posted by pfflam
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...and by the way Quake is just UT with bad maps and skins and worse play . . .
Right... well that's not what yo' Mamma said last night.
[*Collective AI groan*]
Quake rocks... it even owns Quake II and III... IMO.
For single player I'm hooked on Ghost Recon & Halo for XBox. Once I defeat Halo I'll go back to Ghost Recon, then it's GTA Vice City after that!
Graphics, "realism", storyline...all these things are secondary to if it's a fun game or not.
that said, Unreal Tournament was very fun, it was simple, easy to learn, many different ways to play the game, and it was possible to actually get better at it.
I enjoyed Rainbow 6 a lot back in the day, that was very fun, but I kind of got out of it once rogue spear dropped.
Though not really a first person shooter in teh traditional sense, Metroid Prime is a fantastic first person shooter/adventure game.
and Goldeneye is quite possibly the best FPS on a console, although perfect dark, once you get the hang of it, can be really fun too.
There was a MMOFPS on the PC called Planetside, it was VERY VERY fun, but buggy as hell!
Also, not really a first person shooter, but it has first person elements, there is a game on the PC called savage, that is a up-to 64 player FPS/RTS game, where you play as a grunt/worker and see the game in an over the shoulder view(and first person for guns) and your teams commander sees the game as though it were Warcraft, so it's really neat how that works out, it's very fun.
Unreal tournament 2003 was a big disappointment, as was halo.
oh yeah, the best FPS on PCs right now is Call of Duty, that game is fuuuunnn
For weird reasons, the game has bugged, and i am lazy to reinstall it completely on mac os X.
Halo is my all-time favorite. I love the story, I love environments, and above all, I find the "friendlies" to be likeable; I don't kill my men for the hell of it. And I love the 3-way attack method, it adds a lot of depth to the game. You have to decide which attack will work best in the situation; a storm of ammo, a well-placed grenade, or a melee to the back of a Covenant skull.
Great weapons, great gameplay, great fun.
Although Halo has a better story, better gameplay, graphics, etc, I say Marathon because Halo is made by the same people. Salute the original!