Thirtyfootscrew’s Blog

I was just posting in the Call of Duty 4 thread over on Red Rant and mentioned that I think COD4 deserves a spot in my Top 5 First Person Shooter games, that lead me to start wondering - what are my Top 5 FPS games?  It’s a tough call as it’s my favourite genre of video games so it’s like choosing between children, to make life easier I’ve limited this to the multiplayer (deathmatching) aspects of the genre.  Here goes…

1. Red Faction 1 (PS2) – the geomodding was great and the game had a wicked pace.
2. Unreal Tournament (PS2) – the first uber-fast run & gun FPS that I played on a console (loved the PC version too), foe a while it was in class of it’s own.
3. Halo 1 (Xbox) – I know the sequel had Xbox Live but nothing ever beats the System Link games I used to play with a bunch of friends at the regular mini LAN Party events we use to have.
4. Call of Duty 4 (Xbox 360) – a recent release but one that feels instantly familiar yet adds all sorts of cool features to the genre (the Perks are brilliant).
5. Ghost Recon Series (Xbox, PS2 Xbox 360, PS3) – much more tactical than all of the above but these games gave an immense scope for teamwork in the co-op modes.

One game many would expect to see on this list (and many would feel is conspicuous by it’s absence) is Perfect Dark, I didn’t own an N64 until a couple of years ago and so never played Perfect Dark back in it’s glory days.  Consequently when I tried to play it I found the stubby single-analog control method to be extremely odd and impossibly frustrating so I couldn’t be bothered to play any more.

written by thirtyfootscrew \\ tags: COD4, FPS, Halo, PS2, Top 5, xbox