Give me the name of a fun shooter

Stark · Post by **Stark** » 2006-02-16 11:02pm

I'm bored and cranky, so I want to play a shooter (obviously). But the only shooters I've got atm are UT2k4 and FEAR, and I need another one. Suggest something and I'll pop over and rent it from EB.

I've already become sick of Q4 and HL2. What happened to the glut of shooters? I've been considering installing fucking GORE, that's how desperate I am.

Brother-Captain Gaius · Post by **Brother-Captain Gaius** » 2006-02-16 11:58pm

Battlefield 2?

Call of Duty 2?

If you can find it, the old-but-free Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory?

SyntaxVorlon · Post by **SyntaxVorlon** » 2006-02-17 12:08am

Here's a fun bunch of shmups.

SyntaxVorlon · Post by **SyntaxVorlon** » 2006-02-17 12:10am

And here's an actual URL with a bunch of shmups:
URL with shmups

Not FPS, but it's what first came to mind when I saw shooters.

Uraniun235 · Post by **Uraniun235** » 2006-02-17 01:13am

Do you have Doom 2? I found a kickin-rad, albeit insanely difficult map pack for it called "Hell Revealed".

Mindless fun!

Stark · Post by **Stark** » 2006-02-17 01:15am

Brother-Captain Gaius wrote:Battlefield 2?

Call of Duty 2?

If you can find it, the old-but-free Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory?

I'm somewhat over WW2 shooters. I'll keep an eye out for CoD2, though, since it's so new.

And Doom2 with mouselook through a modern frontend is way too hard for me.

InnocentBystander · Post by **InnocentBystander** » 2006-02-17 01:22am

AvP 2 is pretty fun and fairly modern.

Spyder · Post by **Spyder** » 2006-02-17 02:55am

InnocentBystander wrote:AvP 2 is pretty fun and fairly modern.

"Wait, let me rape him!" -Facehugger instructing a fellow alien not to kill the Marine that appeared. Awesome LAN game.

InnocentBystander · Post by **InnocentBystander** » 2006-02-17 03:04am

Minigun, that is all.

Spyder · Post by **Spyder** » 2006-02-17 04:08am

Guns, cloaking devices and a facefull of alien wingwong. Good times all around.

Faram · Post by **Faram** » 2006-02-17 05:12am

FarCry is in the bargin bins, but it is still one of the best shooters ever.

Get FarCry!

Stark · Post by **Stark** » 2006-02-17 05:20am

I have FarCry. It's fun and all until the incredibly lame monsters and Squad Of Badguys With Rocket Launchers shows up, but no way I'm playing through the early levels again.

Ace Pace · Post by **Ace Pace** » 2006-02-17 06:34am

Can I suggest Painkiller and Serious Sam? Mindless shooters.

DesertFly · Post by **DesertFly** » 2006-02-17 07:49am

If you want something different (and old), might I suggest Thief Gold? It's not actually a shooter, and the learning curve is steeper than Mt. Everest, but it's a goody.

Sriad · Post by **Sriad** » 2006-02-17 05:22pm

Ace Pace wrote:Can I suggest Painkiller and Serious Sam? Mindless shooters.

I myself was going to suggest Serious Sam/SS2.

FSTargetDrone · Post by **FSTargetDrone** » 2006-02-17 05:24pm

DesertFly wrote:If you want something different (and old), might I suggest Thief Gold? It's not actually a shooter, and the learning curve is steeper than Mt. Everest, but it's a goody.

Thief 2 is very good too, and I'm enjoying Thief 3. Note that Thief Gold and Thief 2 will look very dated compared to most stuff now (think Quake-type models) but they are fun as hell.

The Thief series involves lots of stealthy game play. You will rarely, if ever, survive a 1 v 1 melee encounter. Kills are accomplished by a knife thrust to the back, or sniping with arrows. You can actually play without killing or even knocking out any NPC guards or others, which can add to the challenge. Thief, like Doom 3, is meant to be played in the dark, and turning up your gamma settings will make it look very crappy.

Stark · Post by **Stark** » 2006-02-17 05:41pm

Oh for the christ of course I played T/T2/Tshit to death years ago. And you so will survive melee encounters using the patented 'walk backwards' technique. And Thief/Thief2 doesn't need to turn the gamma up to look crappy. Woe to the world before 32meg video cards.

I played Serious Sam when it came out: it seemed *far* to 'mindless' for me. Insane guys run over hill, shoot them. Insane guys run through corridor, shoot them. Repeat one thousand million times, or twice (until bored). I really didn't get very far, as the endless waves of suicide bombers put me off the game pretty fast.

SylasGaunt · Post by **SylasGaunt** » 2006-02-17 08:24pm

If you want mean on top of mindless you could always go for Postal 2.

As for a more decent shooter.. Ghost Recon or OFP maybe.

Solauren · Post by **Solauren** » 2006-02-17 09:55pm

Duke Nuke'm 3-D; Atomic Edition

"I'm going to rip your head and shit down your neck"...

then he does

Ar-Adunakhor · Post by **Ar-Adunakhor** » 2006-02-17 11:27pm

AvP2 is loads of fun multiplayer. Story for SP is meh, but the gameplay is a bit different and fun, especially as an alien. Be prepared to be pissed off when you can't find the vent you *must* crawl through as an alien though. Then can't find the next vent. And again. And yet again.

Wish I could play it now, but seems my CD was shot and rendered inoperable... seriously. Anyone know if there is an image for the second CD I can pick up off the net somewhere?

Ypoknons · Post by **Ypoknons** » 2006-02-18 01:11am

FEAR. Lots of atmosphere, fun shooting action. Ah, crud wait, you said you had that. Far Cry shall have to do, although I have no idea why Jedi Knight 3 comes to mind. Call of Duty 2 can be quite a bit of fun, but if you don't play CoD you could be missing out.