Gamers: Help

[Jack_Dawson]

I beat Call of Duty World at War last night. I've also finished COD4 and Halo 3. What is the next-best FPS I should get for XBOX 360?

Thx,

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[InternalDialogue]

1. Can't recommend a game, but I can recommend the Gaming Forum.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topics&forum=248

[Spacemom]

2. Gears of War (1 & 2) and Left 4 Dead

are big at my house. I can't vouch for them personally. Every time I try to play, I end up stuck in a corner looking at the ceiling, I can't control my character. :D

All I know is they are played ALL THE TIME around here.

[ZombieHorde]

3. Battlefield: Bad Company.

Five classes for on-line mode. Recon, Demolition, Support, Specialist, and Assault. Each has their own weapons and tools.

Many vehicles including light and heavy tanks, boats, helicopters, golf carts, Jeeps, transport vehicles, and dune buggies. All are armed except the golf carts.

Destructible buildings, fences, and trees. You can ram a tank into the side of a building and then shoot everyone inside, use an RPG to tunnel through houses creating new paths to objectives, etc.

Fun gadgets such as motion sensors, a power tool which can repair vehicles, dismantle vehicles, drill holes through walls or other player's heads, land mines, laser guided missiles, mortar strikes, first aid kits for you and your teammates, C4, etc.

The single player story mode is not as cool as COD, but the on-line play is one of the best for any console.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

5. Have you tried BF: 1943 yet?

It's pretty amazing. It uses the same engine as BF: Bad Company (with the destructible buildings, etc.), but it's set in the Pacific Theater during WWII and is online only.

I've never been big into online gaming, but I've started routinely playing a match or two to unwind when I get home from work. It's not quite as fully-implemented as the other Battlefield games (from what I hear), but it's only $15!

[ZombieHorde]

7. I have played the demo and I like it, but I like Bad Company more and I already own Bad Company so I

never paid the 15 bucks. It does seem to be an amazing game for $15 and if I did not own Bad Company I would probably buy it in a heart beat. Bad Company just has so much more when it comes to weapon selection, vehicles, and gadgets.

The boats are cool, the airplanes are interesting, and some of the guns have a really nice feel to them.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

10. Sounds like I'd probably like Bad Company then

I love all the different stuff you can do in 1943; sometimes you feel like manning an AA gun, sometimes you feel like camping in the hills and playing sniper!

I'll have to give it a look-see.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

4. If you haven't already, get the Orange Box

And play Half-Life 2 and it's mini-sequels, Ep 1 and Ep 2 (all included in the Orange Box.)

The original Half-Life and Half-Life 2 are the two best FPS ever, IMO.

[Jack_Dawson]

6. Interesting

What is Orange Box exactly? :shrug:

[Tyrone Slothrop]

8. Guess I should have explained a bit more in depth...

The Orange Box is a collection of 5 games from Valve Corp. (They also make Left 4 Dead, which several other people have mentioned on this thread. I still haven't played it yet, though...)

It includes the aforementioned Half-Life 2, HL2:Ep 1, HL2:Ep2 as well as Portal and Team Fortress 2 (which are also pretty awesome games in their own right).

Several of those games were released separately, but at some point, Valve decided that they would release them all together as a compilation.

You can read all about it here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Orange_Box

(Note that it has a 96% Metacritic score...pretty good.)

[benEzra]

9. Half Life 2 series (Orange Box), which is full of Awesome. (n/t)

[marzipanni]

11. I asked my son what he would recommend, he said "Orange Box" w/o hesitation,

so you have three votes for it.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

12. I'd recommend Fallout 3.

It's not strictly a FPS, although you can play it as one if you want to.

[ZombieHorde]

13. Fallout 3 is easily the best non-online shooter.

There is absolutely no on-line for Fallout 3, but you can create very different characters.

Crazed cannibals, stealthy gun ninjas, fast talking computer hackers, and demolition masters are some of the characters I have created in Fallout 3.

[MineralMan]

14. I like the RL game, Biker Bar...

It's a real RP game. Your character walks into a biker bar, orders a glass of Chardonnay, then starts flirting with one of the women sitting at the bar. If you can survive, you win...

[Jack_Dawson]

15. Ha!

That would be an interesting game.

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