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I need a game!!

Solitaire Rose as Tom Servo

14:26 / 03.06.02

I have finished the game I was playing on my X-Box and am in the mood for an old school first person shooter (like Doom, or Quake). I have played Half Life and all the Quakes, anyone know of an undiscovered gem in that genre?

14:47 / 03.06.02

um...you've played Halo...right? You said you have an X-Box, so if you don't have that, go get it. It's by far supposed to be the best game out there...think it beat out MGS2 in sales. Also save some dough for Panzaar Dragoon Orta when it comes out.

Find out more info on these games here.

15:06 / 03.06.02

Does it have to be on the x-box specifically?

If not, take a look at Deus Ex. It's one of the few fps games I've enjoyed.

If you're just looking for mindless fps fun, check out Serious Sam.

15:14 / 03.06.02

Serious Sam is genius: you shoot. LOTS of stuff. Like, 50-60 enemies on screen at one time. It's hilarious, and very old school.

Deus Ex is pretty fantastic, though very deep.

Halo, obviously; though the most fun I've had in ages has been with Jedi Knight II. Which is basically the Star Wars movie they never made. You shoot stuff. You get the Force. You get a lightsaber. If you're dextrous enough, you can pick Stormtroopers up with the force, lob them off walls, then run up said walls and hack up Dark Jedi with the prettiest lightsaber you'll ever see. OK plot, good fun, bar some jump bits, and most definitely satisfying.

Medal of Honour: Allied Assault? It's got hefty system requirements, and I wasn't hugely impressed, but it had rave reviews and it does look and sound fantastic. I'd google for these and see what looks good. That's all I can think of FPS wise for now.

Shit, I really HAVE blown my cover as a geek.

19:25 / 03.06.02

I consider Deus Ex to be the best game ever made. However, if you're looking for a Quake style shooter, then it might not be for you.

19:28 / 03.06.02

It can be a quake style shooter. Just choose the sniper rifle at the beginning and run headlong into the enemies. You probably won't last long but its fun the first couple of times.

What about Return to Castle Wolfenstein? I've heard that's a fairly decent fps game.

23:05 / 03.06.02

Doom + Liesure Suit Larry = Duke Nukem

10:17 / 04.06.02

No One Live Forever is smart and fun, spy (Austin Power) style give it a look. For the old school FPS, try Serious Sam 1&2 and Return to Castle Wolfenstein. Don't forget Medal of honor if you like the WWII ambience.
Deus Ex is really good but for me it's more an RPG than a FPS.

11:23 / 04.06.02

Don't forget online fun. Counterstrike is a pretty excellent Half Life mod, though less mindless than you'd expect from a FPS type thing.

Now I'm not really a FPS fan, but looking over the thread I see that I've played almost every game mentioned. Time to put away childish things...

16:49 / 04.06.02

Since I'm not that big a fan of the S part of FPS, I really enjoyed - and recommend - both Thief and it's even more sparkly sequal (which has just been rereleased for a tenner). I also seem to recall the designers, Looking Glass Studios, wrote System Shock 1 and 2, the latter of which is essentially 'Event Horizon' the game, and so lots of engrossing fun to play. Deus Ex is certainly entertaining, but kinda lost credibility/originality in my book from the moment the Illuminati popped up. I suspect that none of this is actually applicable, however, as these are all PC titles.

21:21 / 04.06.02

Deus Ex is certainly entertaining, but kinda lost credibility/originality in my book from the moment the Illuminati popped up.

The story of Deus Ex was supposed to incorporate a number of different conspiracy theories proliferated by the black helicopter crowd, and to combine them into one massive plot. I didn’t find the addition of the Illuminati to be out of place in a world that included a FEMA takeover scheme, Area 51, Majestic 12, and a number of things I can't mention without spoiling the game.

Elijah, Freelance Rabbi

11:42 / 05.06.02

system shock 2, if you can find it, is the most terrifying game i have ever played
we got the mod that lets you play co-op mode and me and a pal beat it in 14 hours and i was literally jumping every 5-10 mins because of something scaring the shit out of me. Only problem--CANT BE BEATEN WITHOUT CHEATING, games like that bother me

Deus ex---awesome

carnage/shooting=aliens vs predator2

good multiplay---Wolfenstein, MOHAA,

Thief is great fun, as is the sequal

MAx Payne is good, although not FPS, but still full of shooty and matrixy effects

11:47 / 05.06.02

Max Payne is a 3rd person shooter.

If we're bringing in 3rd person shooters you must get American Mcgee's Alice. It's a wonderful game. The atmosphere, the weapons, a female protagonist that wears more than a chainmail bikini.

12:03 / 05.06.02

If you're looking for some serious ambience check out Clive Barker's Undying. Play with the lights out and you will jump out your seat. The story is great, graphics are just plain sick and the variety of magical and nonmagical weapons (you wield one in each hand) is vast. Kind of falls off at the end, but well worth it throughout.

Or hold your breath for Doom 3. hehe

13:29 / 05.06.02

System Shock 2 is a very good game but then again it's more a RPG than a FPS.
Clive Barker Undying got a strong ambience but is a bit hard and there's no multiplayer.
None mention it but Lucas Art released Jedi Knight 2, the first playable Star Wars game since a long time, a great FPS lightsaber powered.

13:32 / 05.06.02

If you get the special edition of Jedi Knight 2, the one in the nifty tin, you also get Dark Forces and Dark Forces 2: Jedi Knight.

I wouldn't hold my breath for Doom 3. I'd just wait for a bit and pick up a gamecube and metroid prime.

The one fps game you do not want to play is Daikatana.

13:35 / 05.06.02

Nothing to do with FPS but I bought Virtua Fighter 4 yesterday, things have changed since Street Fighter 2

And I bought Final Fantasy X last week, nearly finished it but my characters aren't strong enough to beat that stupid flying worm so I'm going to have to start again after playing for about 20 hours - how annoying is that.

But I'm buying Deus Ex on Friday and possible Medal of Honour.

But I'd go for Jedi Knight 2 if your talking about PC's my flatmate seems to love it.

14:00 / 05.06.02

Don't start FFX over, just take your party back a bit and beat some more monsters. I'm at the end right now and taking the airship around to get the missing aeons and the celestial weapons like a little rpg bitch before I go for the final fight.

14:15 / 05.06.02

Yeah I thought about that but I think I've totally messed up the sphere grid, I got a little guide book and it said that Wakka should be hitting around 5,000hp! He's only hitting around 500 for me, and I don't have Curaga or Demi or the last elements (the one after Fira) and as for the that Blitzball I can't be arsed with that I thought it would be fun - just pass, shoot and swim around

Elijah, Freelance Rabbi

16:18 / 05.06.02

gah no, dont by jedi night 2
save your cash and buy a bargain copy of Star Trek Elite Force
uses the Quake engine, all the wepons are almost the exact same effects as JK2, pretty much a direct port with sloppy light sabre action and ungainly near impossible to use force powers

01:01 / 06.06.02

Freespace 2.

Okay, so it isn't one guy walking around with a backpack full of rocket launchers and weapons, but it is an FPS in that it is a first person game, and you shoot, and it does rock to all heck. It really rocks when you turn up the resolution and the detail and drop two tabs.

Solitaire Rose as Tom Servo

02:17 / 06.06.02

I played Star Trek Elite Force, and thought it was great, to be honest...

Free Space and System Shock 2 are high on the list too, but I did go ahead and buy a used copy of Deus Ex.

That should keep me busy for a few weeks.

08:58 / 06.06.02

I strongly disagree with Elijah on JK2. And I DID mention it earlier, folks.

Freespace 2 is lovely. It feels "right", is great fun to play, relatively tactical, and does have a relatively bearable plot. It's certainly the best space-dogfighting game I've played since the original TIE Fighter, which is simply genius.

That said, the greatest space game you'll ever, EVER play is I-War. It's dirt cheap now. But basically: corvette-size ship. Doing stuff in the near future. Very little pure-combat missions; you end up trying to catch neturon bombs with big, well, glove things, trying to destroy asteroids in freefall towards planets, attempting to lure pirates into minefields, knackering ships by flying INSIDE their own faster-than-light fields and skipping around them, and even getting a bit of first contact on the way. It also integrates CGI into the game engine superbly; the CGI looks like the game, the game (for 1998ish) looked superb, ran on almost anything, and is simply marvellous. A bit linear, but like nothing else. Oh, and the computer's personality rocks (said personality explained by the 14-minute, none of it wasted, intro movie). Trust me on this.

Geek mode off, again.