[Para bailar La Bomba]

Half-Life 1-Episode 2..

Is this like Half Life: Opposing Force?

This just in - HL2 is a dudebro shooter..

A dudebro shooter starring a spectacled quantum physicist.

[Dave Long]

TimeSplitters: Future Perfect

[gadwn]

TPS?

Uncharted 2 + 3

FPS?

Killzone 2 + 3

[NullPointer]

Shame about the respawning enemies.

Those were removed in MW2 except for where it made sense (snow base infiltration/exfil).

They made a triumphant return in Black Ops though.

+1 to the Modern Warfare campaigns too. I'd add all of the Halos (except 2), Crysis 2 and Bad Company 1. Medal of Honor is short, but it follows the MW formula, only better in a few important ways.

[Gez]

Deus Ex (the original). I can't believe people are putting Uncharted/Killzone/Resistance above it. It has everything the OP asked minus graphics.

We know who the PS3 only users are around here.

[gabbo]

No One Lives Forever

How I could forget Ms Cate Archer I do not know, but the NOLF games had really enjoyable campaigns (Trailer park tornado, exploding plane, midget on tricycle, sunken ship + sharks)

[chickdigger802]

TimeSplitters: Future Perfect

Hmmm never finished this... but I the cutscenes are easily some of the best in shooters.

Cortez is like the best shooter MC ever.

[Dave Long]

It's worth finishing. The game has a superb climax. Just loved the whole thing. Cortez is awesome. The shooting is awesome. It's the real deal.

[KiNeSiS]

Singularity

[Vorg]

Doom 3. Dead Space actually reminded me of Doom 3 a lot. If you enjoy one, you'll probably enjoy the other.

[chickdigger802]

It's worth finishing. The game has a superb climax. Just loved the whole thing. Cortez is awesome. The shooting is awesome. It's the real deal.

problem is that I got it on GCN.

Trying to play a shooter with that cstick right now... They make the vita nubs seem excellent ;P

[Fjordson]

This is going to get me killed, but I've always found Half-Life 2 to be incredibly boring. It looked great when it came out (always loved City 17), I like the universe and the story, but it's just so damn boring. I liked the episodes a lot more, especially the second one.

As for my favourites: System Shock 2, Halo: CE, Half-Life, S.T.A.L.K.E.R., Resident Evil 4, Duke Nukem 3D, BioShock, Max Payne 1 and 2, Metro 2033 (flawed, but pretty damn good) and CoD 4. Some of these aren't really pure shooters, but oh well.

Honourable mention to BioShock 2's expansion, Minerva's Den. Better mechanics than the first BioShock with a tightly paced, quality story.

[zatara]

Gears of War 3 needs some love, one of the most beautiful console games made. The gunplay is visceral and immensely satisfying and had a good enough story for me to care.

[badcrumble]

Half-Life 2 + Episode 1 + Episode 2 remains king, never to be toppled. Except by maybe Resident Evil 4, which is basically perfect.

Yep. This, plus Uncharted 2 and Vanquish on the TPS side and Halo: CE and HL1 on the FPS side.

[EatChildren]

I really like Wolfenstein

Wolfenstein was fantastic.

[Odrion]

Ctrl+F Doom And only Doom 3 is mentioned... :(

SERIOUSLY. COME ON.

Doom 1 is amazing in terms of level design and enemy layout. Probably my second favorite game (behind Super Metroid.)

[domlolz]

Nothing else close to Crysis and STALKER. Seeing so many say Half-Life 2 is depressing but also telling. No wonder the huge steps forward that Crysis and STALKER made has not been more widely appreciated by developers. Half-Life 2 is stagnation.

lol crysis was pretty bad, especially the second half of the game. The first half being just mediocre. I'm not seeing how Crysis was a huge step forward.

[NullPointer]

Wolfenstein was fantastic.

Really? I remember having fun with Return to Castle Wolfenstein way back in the day. Now I'm curious.

Any idea if the PC version has xbox controller support? Steam store pages aren't always 100% accurate on this front.

[Stallion Free]

Any idea if the PC version has xbox controller support? Steam store pages aren't always 100% accurate on this front.

Yep, I beat the entire game with a wired 360 pad on PC.

[NullPointer]

Yep, I beat the entire game with a wired 360 pad on PC.

Sold! Thanks.

[EatChildren]

Really? I remember having fun with Return to Castle Wolfenstein way back in the day. Now I'm curious. Any idea if the PC version has xbox controller support? Steam store pages aren't always 100% accurate on this front.

I thought it was, in an old school shooter way. It's far from a polished masterpiece, but Rave is (or was) one of the better developers for making run-and-gun stuff. I had a lot of fun with it.

lol crysis was pretty bad, especially the second half of the game. The first half being just mediocre. I'm not seeing how Crysis was a huge step forward.

It had two big open levels there were pretty cool I guess.

[Saroyan]

Half Life 2

Bioshock

Fear

[CadetMahoney]

Half-Life 1-Episode 2
Bioshock

[Tokubetsu]

Bulletstorm
Singularity

[Stallion Free]

Bulletstorm Singularity

brofist, place it here.

[ViewtifulJC]

I thought it was, in an old school shooter way. It's far from a polished masterpiece, but Rave is (or was) one of the better developers for making run-and-gun stuff. I had a lot of fun with it.

Now that you mention this, I had a lot of fun with Quake 4. Had a nice, old-fashioned feel to it with all it's weapons and varied aliens. Vehicle sections were pretty meh though, and I feel like they really wasted that COMPLETELY FUCKING AWESOME plot twist.

[erlim]

Singularity

this is a severely underrated game. i dunno if it's the best.

[mickcenary]

Yeah, you can lump me in with the "HL2 was actually kinda boring" crowd, but I appreciate what it is and what it did for the genre/gaming in general.

Best gunplay/mechanics:
> Killzone 2/3
> Battlefield 3
> Gears of War 3
> F.E.A.R.

Worst (and/or overrated) gunplay/mechanics:
> every single CoD game
> Homefront
> anything that feels like CoD or Homefront

And special snaps to Bioshock for being such an amazing game, that I barely noticed its odd gunplay/aiming idiosyncracies.

[ii Stryker]

In no particular order these include all games in their respective franchises

Halo, Half life, Crysis, Bioshock, Farcry, Battlefield BAD COMPANY

[jsnepo]

Half-Life
Half-Life 2 (episodes included)
Killzone 3
Uncharted 2 Among Thieves
Halo Combat Evolved
Resistance Fall of Man
Medal of Honor Allied Assault (expansions included)

[kunonabi]

My favorite single player fps campaign was The World is Not Enough. Really underrated in my opinion.

[blizzardjesus]

REZ
Deathsmiles 1
Radiant silvergun remake

[Lavalamp1138]

Star Wars Republic Commando

[Tricky I Shadow]

Resident Evil 4 always wins.

Yep, it'll take a miracle to dethrone Resident Evil 4. (Uncharted 2 got close)

[Mully]

Half Life 2, Ep. 1 + 2 for sure.

I had a lot of fun with COD 4 as well. It was the first time I experienced such a campaign. It was a lot of fun and competent. I still pop in COD 4 once in a while to play the mission War Pigs over and over again.

[Dresden]

RE4 can't possibly lose.

[revolverjgw]

With how expensive it is to develop games nowadays, I wonder if we'll ever see a shooter as relentless as RE4. You're constantly killing new enemies, seeing new environments and doing new shit for like 15+ hours. 7 years later and its virtuosity hasn't really been challenged.

[Radec]

Resistance 3

So fucking good.

[aznpxdd]

Half life 2 + Episode 2 (Ep 1 wasn't that memorable IMO)
Riddick Escape from Butcher Bay
Crysis (first 2/3)
F.E.A.R. (for the gunplay only)
Halo 1

Outside of those, can't think of any other awesome FPS SP.

[Freezie KO]

Sin and Punishment 2. Every enemy placement, level, and power is finely-crafted.

[fuzzyreactor]

Just recently finished Hard Reset


Campaign is damn awesome

Resistance 3 is prob my fav this gen

Got to give props to Killzone 2 too even though it really shines in MP. the gunplay and AI is good enough to put it in the ranks for top campaigns as well

[Dead Man]

Max Payne 1 and 2 Dark Forces 2: Jedi Knight Crysis

Yes on MP, not so much the other.

[KaizorPenguin]

RE4 is so far ahead of everything else. The pacing is perfect, I love the feel of the weapons, and just about every encounter feels different. Hell, it even has a great(yet stupid) story.
In terms of FPS games, Timesplitters 2 was damn cool, especially the Neo Tokyo level. I've seen a few mentions of Future Perfect here, is it considered better than TS2?

Killzone 2 was awesome as well, really felt like there was an actual war going on.

[Net_Wrecker]

With how expensive it is to develop games nowadays, I wonder if we'll ever see a shooter as relentless as RE4. You're constantly killing new enemies, seeing new environments and doing new shit for like 15+ hours. 7 years later and its virtuosity hasn't really been challenged.

I wouldn't think something like RE4 would be any more expensive than any other big budget shooter, most devs are just not that good. RE4 has an INSANE amount of care in every pixel. They really didn't half ass enemies, locations, graphics, pacing, weapons, replay value, etc. etc. It's a big effort, but not impossible to reach again. A dev just has to be willing to go the extra mile for singleplayer content instead of splitting the team and wasting budget on some mediocre multiplayer mode that nobody will be playing 3 months after release because they've gone back to CoD.

[Freezie KO]

I wouldn't think something like RE4 would be any more expensive than any other big budget shooter, most devs are just not that good. RE4 has an INSANE amount of care in every pixel. They really didn't half ass enemies, locations, graphics, pacing, weapons, replay value, etc. etc. It's a big effort, but not impossible to reach again. A dev just has to be willing to go the extra mile for singleplayer content instead of splitting the team and wasting budget on some mediocre multiplayer mode that nobody will be playing 3 months after release because they've gone back to CoD.

But all that time worrying about pacing could be spent making DLC.

[Lion Heart]

Enemy encounters, gunplay, visuals...

Thats Killzone alright.

I'm interested in trying Hard Reset now.

[Aaron]

Binary Domain is one of the best I ever played. One of the very few that's great from start to finish, and actually has a good story to back it up. While there are plenty of other great shooters, there's always conditions attached, like the crap end of Crysis, or the library of Halo. People might knock the non-shooting segments of Binary, but I thought they were short and sweet. Unlike the shitty vehicle sections of Gears.

[I Push Fat Kids]

Resident Evil 4. Anyone have a link to the original 'Official Thread' here?


It's odd that the weakest moment of the game is the very last boss.

[Jaxter09]

TimeSplitters: Future Perfect

I like that it essentially a pastiche of the FPS genre up to 2005(?). Awesome humor and gameplay too.

[TripOpt55]

I'd say Uncharted 2 except for the last area I guess (particularly the last boss... ugh). Otherwise, I think it nails all of those things. Half-Life 2 Ep. 2 was pretty great as well.