Favorite First-Person Shooters

Console

-Metroid Prime: It's first-person and you shoot things, so I call it a FPS.
-Goldeneye: This game is still fun, even though it looks like shit.
-Doom: The PS1 version has better music, sound and lighting than the PC version.

PC

-Quake 1 (multiplayer): The best multiplayer first-person shooter ever.

Dishonorable Mentions

-Halo: I hate this game. It needs mild Goldeneye-style autoaim. Better yet, it needs mouse support. It also needs some color, better artwork, a better framerate and an interesting plot. Goldeneye might be ugly, but it has more character than Halo, which counts for a lot.

-Anything by id Software within the last 5 years: Quake 2 and 3 really bite.

-Unreal Tournament series: Along with Quake 2 and 3, Unreal Tournament's weapons helped take the skill out of first-person shooters.

Favorites:
Doom
Quake II
Duke Nukem 3D

Least favorites:
Powerslave
Ecks vs. Sever

Doom / Doom II -- Perfectly (and I mean *perfectly*) tuned gameplay, stellar atmosphere, highly modable (!), just all around outstanding. Only major problem is some weak level design in Eps. 2-4 of the original. Otherwise, masterpieces.

QuakeWorld -- My all-time favorite online game. ThunderWalker CTF (capture the flag) is one of the best team games ever. I traveled to Canada once to play it at a LAN, and connections I made in TW let me get my foot in the game industry. I just wish I could find active matches anymore.

System Shock -- Insanely genre-bending, sci-fi horror masterwork from Warren Spector. Has possibly the best villain ever. SS2 and Deus Ex are very worthy, too.

Unreal Tournament -- A runner-up to the above games, but still an outstanding multiplayer experience. It's too bad they seemed to lose the UT magic in UT 2003.

Edit: Oh yes... Blood.

Blood -- Best Build engine game, bar none. Extremely creative in all aspects, the over-the-top camp / horror atmosphere is wonderfully realized. Great fun in deathmatch and coop, too. Alas, the sequel was shite and killed the series. But, Blood 1 is good enough for me.

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Anyway

- Doom I, II, UD, etc: Extremely addicting.
- Quake 3: Easily the best online console game I've ever played, I just love everything about this game.
- Half-Life: Excellent Atmosphere
- Team Fortress Classic: A nice twist on team multiplayer, allowing you to choose from different classes with their own unique abilities.

Without hesitation, I can easily trim my list to 3...

Halo
Battlefield 1942
System Shock 2

For me, nothing else even comes close thus far.

Alien Front Online. The wide open battle fields, combined with the maze like battles fields and voice chat made this game a great multiplayer online game. I'm defineatly enjoying Metriod Prime right now, but it's more about exploring, than shooting things.


I've enjoyed Nuke Dukem, Doom II and such, but they seemed to make me feel nausiated, after an hour or so of play.

For me
console
Metroid prime
Medal of honor series
goldeneye
doom series

PC
half life
system shock

My favorite is Powerslave on the Saturn, easily. Disruptor on the PSX is also great.

Some of my favorite FPS's are:

Metroid Prime
Goldeneye
Halo

There's more, but I'll post later.

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