Recommend me a First Person Shooter game

GiantMike

Attention!

Your Task: Recommend me a FPS game to keep me occupied when I'm not training. The last FPS I played was Medal of Honor in 2003, but that's the kind of thing I like. I don't mind if it's not the latest game, but it must be good.

My Kit: Dell Inspiron 15R running Windows 7, Intel Core i5 with 4gb RAM and a 1gb graphics card.

As you were!

nathancom

Deus Ex for something a bit different.

Smokin Joe

Forget that computer game crap. Buy a multi shot air pistol and take a stroll through your local school.

GiantMike

Smokin Joe wrote:

Forget that computer game crap. Buy a multi shot air pistol and take a stroll through your local school.

I've been banned from my local schools. That's why I'm after a computer game :shock:

finchy

Go retro and tightwad and download Marathon 1, 2 and 3 for nowt.

Cleat Eastwood

David Cameron - well he's teh first person I'd shoot.

tim_wand

Russian Roulette. Or alternatively tell the Mrs you ve just clicked the button on a £2 k bike.

Daz555

"1GB graphics card".

Doesn't tell us anything useful. What card do you have?

If you have the grunt - BF3 is first class.

CarlosDSanchez

Any of the recent Modern Warefare games, Bioshock 1 & 2, any of the Half Life 2 games, Left 4 Dead, Medal of Honour Black ops... There have been a load of good ones. If you like a bit of RPG mixed in the any of the STALKER trilogy are good, RAGE, Boarderlands, Fallout 3 and Fallout New Vegas are excellent.

Cycling is my good hobby, it balances out the sitting on my arse playing pc games and eating haribo.

alihisgreat

GiantMike wrote:

Attention!

Your Task: Recommend me a FPS game to keep me occupied when I'm not training. The last FPS I played was Medal of Honor in 2003, but that's the kind of thing I like. I don't mind if it's not the latest game, but it must be good.

My Kit: Dell Inspiron 15R running Windows 7, Intel Core i5 with 4gb RAM and a 1gb graphics card.

As you were!

You don't have the horsepower.. go buy an xbox.

Have a look at something like Minecraft which you will have the specs to run... its not an FPS but its a lot of fun.

GiantMike

Daz555 wrote:

"1GB graphics card".

Doesn't tell us anything useful. What card do you have?

If you have the grunt - BF3 is first class.

Card: NVIDIA GeForce GT 525M
Processor: Core i5-2450M @ 2.5GHz
Windows Experience Rating: 4.7 (3D gaming graphics performance 6.6)

Quick enough for modern games, or should I be sticking with something a little older??

CrackFox

My laptop has a similar spec - a tad more grunt, but not much more - and I can run Skyrim with a lot of mods on high settings and get a reasonable frame rate. Skyrim on pc suffers from a bad case of consolitis, but it's still a great game (fps = first person slash 'em up in this case). If you want something a little older, try Fallout 3 or Bioshock. Half Life 2 is the best game ever made, so if you haven't played that then get the Orange box and enjoy!

nweststeyn

Yup... Half Life 2

rick_chasey

nathancom wrote:

Deus Ex for something a bit different.

CarlosDSanchez

All of valves source engine based games will run fine on that. All the games I mentioned I played using a Radeon HD3850. What resolution is your screen?

GiantMike

Right, thanks guys.

Half Life 2 on order from Amazon tonight (unless somebody has a cheap copy they want to get rid of).

nweststeyn

download Steam and just buy the game digitally!

CarlosDSanchez

Have just checked your graphics card here:-

http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/gaming-gr ... 442-7.html

It is a bit weedy, but you should still have no problem with Half Life 2. Make sure you get the Orange Box, you get a load of games with that and I bet it's cheap on steam.

GiantMike

CarlosDSanchez wrote:

Have just checked your graphics card here:-

http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/gaming-gr ... 442-7.html

It is a bit weedy, but you should still have no problem with Half Life 2. Make sure you get the Orange Box, you get a load of games with that and I bet it's cheap on steam.

Thanks.

OB $19.99 on Steam. That's my Winter sorted out (and the rainy summer too)

airbag

I've got the same card, half-life 2 definitely works fine, I'd be interested to see what it could manage. Others have mentioned the orange box: for a little more, you get episodes 1 and 2, team fortress 2 and portal (my personal fave). Left 4 dead 2 runs on the same engine and along with team fortress is excellent mutliplayer.

RDW

nweststeyn wrote:

download Steam and just buy the game digitally!

I once made the mistake of buying analogue. The framerate was terrible.

pinno

Bit old but very addicitve - Quake 2 and guaranteed your processor will handle it.

Bit more older - Missile Command, Meteors, Worms, Pong all downloadable!!

Do not buy Far Cry 2 unless you have to of course. Its OK and some of the scenery is interesting, great sniper rifles in it though

Anyone remember Redneck Rampage ?!!

Loved the GTA series, Vice City and especially San Andreas. Alternatively, buy a set of rollers; you can have curly hair !

symo

I still play COD2 online, the guys playing it on the UN server are really good.

pinno

Keep up Cleat, welshbloke, flatlander...

Slack

World of Tanks (free to play unless you get carried out away and become pro) or Planetside2 (almost at Beta, and will be the most awesome game ever)

GiantMike

Thanks for all the suggestions.

Completed Call of Duty 2. Quite enjoyed it.

About 30% of the way through Half Life 2. Really really good and engaging. Looking forward to the rest of the series within the Orange Box.

Bunneh

I'm playing Arma 2 at the moment but that said it's a 'realistic' shooter, but I find it a lot of fun especially with the DayZ mod. You can actually download a limited version of Arma 2 from the game's official website if you fancy giving it a whirl, but because it's free you can't do the campaign, nor can you have high res textures or use mods.

http://www.arma2.com/free

Perfectly legal download, not warez etc - Bohemia Interactive must have thought it would bring in extra buyers of the game, and it did :P

Kal85

I've been playing black ops multiplayer for months now. Very addictive! Should try it

TheEnglishman

Americas Army. It's hard. Well, it is if you're old, like me. World of Tanks is good, but expensive if you want to be really up there. Free if you just want to get blown up, like me.

If you want something a bit different(yes, it's not a FPS), and very long term, try Eve Online.

rick_chasey

Team Fortress two.

anj132

cs 1.6

Or if you must, quake live.