My Three Favourite FPS Games

I’m a lover of FPS (first person shooter) games, and have been for longer than I can possibly remember. Over time, that love has grown, but it’s also sophisticated itself. I no longer love all FPS games, I only truly enjoy particular ones. My perfect FPS is based on Earth, not on some far off, imaginary world. It must have some element of realism in the storyline, such as a past or futuristic war, but with some semblance to current times. They must have graphics that make the whole world of the FPS that much more immersive and believable. Finally, they must have an immersive storyline, one that I can learn to adopt, but never fully predict. With all these conditions in mind, I’ve come up with a list of my 3 favourite FPS Games.

Call of Duty 4 (Playstation 3/Xbox 360/PC)

Wow. Just wow. That’s what this game was. It was beyond any FPS before it. It brought so much more to the table, it pushed the bar that much higher for future FPS games. In my mind, no game yet has matched it, but that might not always be so. We’re looking at you Resistance 2, with your 60 player online. But Call of Duty 4 pulled off something amazing when it was released. It beat Halo 3. While that might seem like much, it proved that Halo 3 wasn’t the be all, end all of FPS games. Airstrike and Helicopter Support anyone?

Battlefield: Bad Company (Playstation 3/Xbox 360)

Battlefield: Bad Company might be one of the newest FPS games available, but it’s also one of the most fun-cum-addictive. Graphics aren’t its strong point by any means, but does anyone else enjoy the destructible environments? Hell yes. Suddenly, hiding in a factory with RPGs and shotguns isn’t the tactic to win close quarters maps, and tanks/helicopters aren’t the way to destroy your team and the enemy. Explosions and death never sounded so good.

Goldeneye (Nintendo 64)

Ok, so Goldeneye doesn’t exactly have great graphics. But it did, at the time. That’s right, back in the 1990s, Goldeneye was not only the peak of FPS gaming, it was the peak of gaming, full stop. Infact, many still feel that it is one of the best, if not the best, games of all time. The multiplayer was the best of any game by far, pity it had no online though. The game was also probably the most balanced game ever released. No character or weapon was overpowering, but the “pencil gun” (AK-47) was fun as hell. And Bond’s karate chops? Beautiful, it was pure unadulterated beauty.