[coldshot03/04]

So whats your favorite shoot'em up PC, XBox, Gameboy, Playstation, or Nintendo video game?

Max Payne is alot of fun. Xbox.
Hitman I & II;) XBox.
Rainbow Six XBox & PC
Big Game Hunter PC

[igor]

The Rainbow Six series on PC. I got all of them... and got rid of some of the more boring parts (like Covert Ops and the quite pathetic SOAF) to trade for the newest Raven Shield. That's the best, with Ghost Recon as a very close runner-up.

Operation Flashpoint was a big disappointment.

FPS Trivia: where is the Max Payne creator team located? :p :scrutiny:

[Jack T.]

Max, hands down ( except for the goofy drugged up/dream sequence ). . .At least until Duke Nukem Forever is released.

[MicroBalrog]

Hitman
Counterstrike (don't have one now, but use to play it...

[Dorrin79]

for just straight up gun-Fu, MAx Payne is pretty much impossible to beat.

especially on New York Minute mode.

[stevelyn]

Me, I like the Rainbow 6 series and their off-shoots.
My son is into the 007 series of games
Used to have Longbow Anthology and spent many hours blowing things up with Hellfires and rockets.:D

[Labinnac]

GTA Vice City

[Wanderer]

Counter Strike. But now I know I'm going to be accused of being desensitized, but in truth, they fire at me first, so its self defense...:rolleyes:

[Daniel T]

America's Army.

I also liked the No One Lives Forever and Medal of Honor games on the PC.

[genie]

i gotta go old school for this - doom. ahhh, the fond memories from 1992. it was such a quantum leap in games back in its day.

heh, i still have a fondness for pump action shotguns b/c of doom!

[762x51]

Posted mine over here:

http://www.thehighroad.org/showthread.php?s=&threadid=33389

[meathammer]

Medal of Honor: Allied Assault for PC.

GTA Vice City for PS2. (It's so bad that it's good. Gotta love it.) :evil:

[Sean Smith]

Max Payne was made in Finland. Fun game, but gets kind of old kind of fast.

Deus Ex and System Shock 2 were two of the best shooters ever, though their graphics are pretty crappy by modern standards. DX2: Invisible War looks like it will be awesome, however.

[Andrew Wyatt]

america's army, firearms for half life, halo. (no particular order)

[JerryN]

Halo on xbox is great.
Red Faction II on PS2 is excellent for its action. Graphics are not as good as Halo though.

[illuminatus99]

counterstrike, can't wait until CS 2 comes out.

[Skunkabilly]

Probably Half-Life single player, more because it played like a sci-fi movie.

[Combat-wombat]

Counterstrike. Definitely.

Lets start a THR CS Clan. Seriiously, if anyone has a server we can start the "[THR]" clan. Is anyone with me?

[Combat-wombat]

I know servers are hard to run, but someone has to have the computer knowledge here.

[JSolie]

Castle Wolfenstein 3D - running on a 286!

[Wanderer]

I'd happily join a [THR] clan. But then we'd have Desert Eagle v. USP arguments, and discussions on how effective the silencers really are :neener: Seriously, it sounds like a good idea!

[Ian Sean]

More into the strategy type games myself, Panzer General series and Civilization.

BUT, I have had a blast with Team Fortress and a Counterstrike THR Clan sounds like a good idea, so who has a server?

[coldshot03/04]

Whew........ Panzer General is pretty hard to beat.

The Red Alert games are fun too.;)

[RocketMan]

The Day of Defeat mod for Half-Life.
Spend a fair amount of time over there...

Used to play CounterStrike a lot. Need to download the latest of that one again.

[braindead0]

Fallout, I, II, Tactics...etc.. Not only do you get to shoot em up, but there's a point to it all ;-)

sorta...

My wife and I have been playing Time Splitters on the PS2, that's kinda fun...

[uglygun]

Battlefield 1942, well actually the Desert Combat mod for that game.


FUN FUN FUN. Chasing people around with an A10 Warthog or blowing people up in an AC130, or being a grunt with a mortar bombing people as they run towards you.

Great game.

[coldshot03/04]

Kill Switch for the Xbox is coming out this Fall. It is going to be Awesome!!

None of the shoot and run in this game.
Its more of duck & hide, blind firing stuff.:D
Spray and Pray!!

[Combat-wombat]

What's to argue about? So what if the enemy hears your Desert eagle, by the time they get to you, you'll have killed them with the superior power.:D

[MAKOwner]

Can't stand CS, I'd rather we run a Allied Assault or Spearhead realism-modded server... I ran a 8 player AA server for awhile. I've since taken some of the Ram out of that computer I hosted with, so I'm not sure how it would perform now but I could try out a AA server again... Or maybe Infiltration for UT, more realistic than CS... (I'm not a server expert, I just dabbled in it)

[Gewehr98]

While playing Unreal online. We still play, she on her computer against me on mine, on the home network. :D

[standingbear]

i have halflife and enjoy playing it online.i have the counterstrike mod of halflife installed.dont play them much.really liked the day of defeat mod for halflife too.my modem is slow and i cant afford a cable connect so i got the phone modem,my huge ping gets me booted out most of the time cause it lags everyone else that has a faster modem.that with the updates they regularly get that contain megamegabites-takes me too long to download them so i basically stopped.when it was a simple game...i liked to hide on a roof and toss those spiders and i could hear them biting everone running around- in halflife. that arctic-warfare mag in counterstrike..1 shot from the other end of the game ;guaranteed 1 shot stop,lol,got booted from there cause id shoot them as they peeked around the corners.its just a game.

[Pendragon]

I really like Planet Side.

Its pay to play, massively multiplayer and it is kind of "sci-fi" but most of the guns are rifles, shot guns, machine guns and RPG type weapons.

The game gives a very good infantry+ light armor feel. There are lots of cool vehicles and transports and as you build your character, you get more points to buy certifications on different weapons, armor and vehicles.

The game is played usually with squads of up to 10, but you can have a dozen or more squads from 3 Empires fighting for one base!

The landscapes are HUGE and its just a really meaty game if you got the time.

I play on the Johari server in the New Conglomerate (Libertarian) faction as Pendragon - usually 10pm-2am PST.

[Beav]

Deus Ex and No One Lives Forever series

[jims98z28]

Return to Castle Wolfenstein is by far my favorite. I plan to get battlefield 1942 next.

[MessedUpMike]

Halo hands down. Every type of weapon you could want ans plenty of Fienswine stune doubles to take my frustrations out on. By the way did I mention tanks......

[Dionysusigma]

Let's see here...

1) Deus Ex for PC. Why? Because it plays like an RPG but from a first-person shooter view, and the storyline cannot be beat. Deserves to be played to conclusion by everone here, especially those who love the Legal & Political forum.

2) Return to Castle Wolfenstein. Why? Why not? :D

3) Doom I, II, and the fabled Doom III that's supposed to come out by the end of the year. :evil:

[Walther P99]

Definitely a Doom (I and II) person here. although the Quake series isn't far behind...

[Ernie9mm]

Hey Fellers Im new here but I have to say Halo on XBOX
There is nothing more fun than throwing a sticky grenade at a alien and watching him run.:)

[MAKOwner]

HALO PC is finally coming out in a couple months, been waiting for that forever since I'm too cheap to buy an Xbox and most of my friends frown on me playing HALO 24/7 on theirs, lol....

[cool45auto]

GTA Vice City, Medal of Honor: Frontline, Medal Gear Solid II: Sons of Liberty, Max Payne - all on PS2 are a lot of fun.

Welcome to THR, Ernie9mm!:D

[Destructo6]

IL2: Forgotten Battles. Lots of fun to swoop down in a ME262 on a formation of Russian transport planes, sending wings and fuselages in opposite directions. Those cannons do quite the number.

Unreal2: The Awakening was pretty fun.

UT2K3 was pretty good, too.

Flashpoint is an all-time favorite.

[Schuey2002]

Half-Life and the Rainbow Six series on PC.
THPS4 (Yeah, I know. There are no guns on this game. :rolleyes: ) and Medal of Honor for the PS2.

(I still reserve the right to add Star Wars Galaxies to my list at a future date..) ;)

[six 4 sure]

Hogan's Alley. It's old and I haven't played it in years, but it's still my favorite.

six

[eoR]

Well, it ain't PC, XBox, Gameboy, Playstation, or Nintendo...

ROBOTRON ~ Still the favorite

[Wanderer]

What's to argue about? So what if the enemy hears your Desert eagle, by the time they get to you, you'll have killed them with the superior power.

But what if you need to be stealthy, or there are two of them? I've taken out a squad of five people with a USP in 10 second, including reload, while in a dark corner.:evil: :cool: :evil: :cool:

[AmericanFreeBird]

CarnEvil is by far the most fun shoot 'em dead game. The "full gore" version not the CA mamby pamby version.

I never thought shotguns could be soooo much fun!

[OF]

I haven't played anything in months and months, but my all-time favorites are:

1. LMCTF for Quake II
2. Rainbow Six series (especially Rogue Spear)
3. Operation Flashpoint
4. America's Army

- Gabe

[5ptdeerhunter]

I agree with RocketMan Day of Defeat is awesome. It is my favorite although I do also play counterstrike and all of the half-life games.

[blue86buick]

get off work in 2 mins, so makign this quick :D

Unreal Tournament, and the mod for it, Tactical Ops.

[IRONFIST]

Operation Flashpoint... I knew I liked this game when I found myself trying to crawl uphill to the safety of the treeline, at night, wounded so bad I could not walk... and in the valley below I could see the headlights from the Soviet armor as they were searching for me. Great game.

Grand Theft Auto: Vice City... I play this game 2 or 3 times a week after work. No multi-player, I have finished maybe 7 missions but I dont care, I am just there for the carnage and blood... just me and an assfull of weapons against the Cops and Feds. I love to hole up in the corner drug store in Little Haiti, stand in the middle of the street, take a slo-mo pill and riddle the Feds black Suburbans with rifle fire as they try to skid to a stop to engage me. When the bullets hit their vehicles you hear them dang Feds scream and they spill out into the pavement. Then crank-up the Flamethrower for the Army tanks that are coming next. Love that Flamethrower! Gotta go and play some more now...

Michael

[Okiecruffler]

Diablo 2 has them all beat. What could be better than a barbarian in a whirlwind frenzy with an axe in each hand.

[George Hill]

And NWN has Diablo II spanked and put to bed.

[Recon By Fire]

Counterstrike is by far the best first person shooter.

[goon]

Operation Flashpoint.
Even hiding in the bushes isn't always effective. Sometimes they just shoot into the bushes until they kill you anyway.
My strategy usually centers around killing a machine gunner and taking his PK. I then use whatever concealment and cover is available to get as close as possible. The closer, the better.
Then I proceed to mow them down until they get smart and kill me.
Sniping from afar is the most effective strategy though.

[wQuay]

Deus Ex for a fantastic plot and great action.

Oh, and Half-Life 2 is just a few months away :D

[Skunkabilly]

And NWN has Diablo II spanked and put to bed.

George, by what? (still looking for an RPG)

Anyone play Freelancer? Any cannons or just energy weapons on the ships?

[digex]

I've been playing Flashpoint too. It's a tough and realistic game. Definitely an addictive game. It really makes you look at different "tactics" to get the job done.

[Destructo6]

I've been playing Flashpoint too. It's a tough and realistic game. Definitely an addictive game. It really makes you look at different "tactics" to get the job done.
That's no joke, is it? One mission on the Resistance expansion pack, the one where you have to take out 3 enemy supply trucks, which happen to be escorted by T80s and BMPs, was just about impossible when I tried to meet them head-on with my armored units (BMP, T55 & T80, IIRC). Finally, I got the idea to hide my armored units and plant satchel charges on the road. I detonated the satchel charges remotely, while watching through the binos: mission accomplished without so much as a shot fired.

Making up your own missions is pretty fun, too.

[faustulus]

Rainbow six series, operation flashpoint, medal of honor and battlefield 1942. oh and american army (first use i have gotten from my tax dollars in a long time)

[Phyphor]

Might I recommend Infiltration? (http://infiltration.sentrystudios.net)

This is a EXTREMELY realistic mod for Unreal Tournament. You select your weapons loadouts (and the heavier the loadout, the slower your character moves, becomes unable to jump, etc.. )

There's also mods to make it even MORE realistic, those that won't allow you to carry quite as many guns as the default infiltration settings... (In Default Inf, you can carry as many guns as you have 'budget' for, but the trade off comes in speed, like I said.... that and trying to decide what gun to wax a given opponent with. )

I especially like the realistic reloading animations. If you shoot your M-9 dry, you can choose to drop the magazine, slap in a new one, and hit the slide release, OR you can draw another weapon, take out your enemy, then draw the M-9 and reload (when you holster an empty pistol, your character releases the slide forward, before holstering. Upon reloading this weapon, your character actually goes through the motions of loading the mag and racking the slide, it's VERY cool. )

It's REAL cool to set up a server with 1 spawn per person.... and since it only takes 1 well-placed round to kill, it makes things VERY interesting.... like an earlier game where I was being pursued by 3 guys (I was the last alive on my team, )

All I had left was 1 1/2 magazines for my FN P-90. Obviously, I wasn't gonna get them at range, so I limped into a building and proned facing the door. The first mook through got zippered from crotch to sternum. Fortunately, I stood up and limped away, because the second guy primed a grenade and introduced it to the room I had been in (I still caught a couple of frags from them bouncing around, ) He peeked around the corner in time to catch a burst to his face... Like an idiot, I just waited for the 3rd guy to poke his head around the corner.... Right up to the point the 3rd guy snuck up behind me and introduced a knife to the back of my head. (I'd forgotten about the BACK WAY into the building I was hiding in.. ) Ah well...

[Fly Navy]

Halo for XBox is by far the most fun, but only online or co-op. Medal of Honor: Allied Assault for the PC is a lot of fun, as well as Unreal Tournament and Half-Life. I HATE Counter-Strike, it's a total rip of the Rainbow Six series, without the realism.

I've seen the video of ACTUAL in game footage of Halo 2. Let me tell you guys, it's INCREDIBLE.

[Cacique500]

Battlefield 1942 with Desert Combat Mod

I can literally play this game for hours every night and never get bored - online head to head with up to 60 other players.

Equipment ranges from Fighters (Mig's, F-16's, Flankers, A-10's) to Helo's to every type of tank, BDRM, Shika, to infantry with stingers/RPG's. You can play with any of it - i.e. fly a helo and get shot down, now you're a ground trooper.

Sniping is also a lot of fun near their spawn :-)

[New_comer]

I'd vote Counterstrike, though I still get the occassional vertigo after several minutes playing the game. Diablo II -Exp and Red Alert ain't so bad themselves...


But I really prefer Praetorians, Warcraft III and my favorite, Battle Realms. ;)

[Autolite]

No thinking, no tactics, no planning. Just keep squeezing the trigger ... :)

[DW]

XBOX Halo
XBOX Metal of Honor

[Skunkabilly]

I was tossing out some old junk under the bed at my parents' place....found SEAL Team, probably the first 'tactical' sim shooter...wow.

[RocketMan]

If I remember correctly, CounterStrike predates any of the Rainbow Six stuff.
But Rainbow Six is pretty cool...

[The Silver Bullet 1719]

Ghost Recon, and the expansion packs engulfed me for quite sometime. The Marine missions in Aliens vs. Predator 2 were very neat too, but far from realistic.

[Fly Navy]

No way. Rainbow Six was released on 07/31/1998 and Counter-Strike was released on 11/08/2000. Look at the maps, uniforms, and for the most part weaponry. It's a rip-off. I just can't have fun playing it.

[Phyphor]

but games like Battlefield 1942 and Counterstrike somehow fail to get me going....

I DO like Day of Defeat (http://www.dayofdefeatmod.com) but with the addition of rocket launchers recently, it's....well.. still great, but I hate hearing the sniveling of rocketwhores who think the Rocket Launcher should be the end-all/be all of weapons.

Anyway, anyone who's up for a game of infiltration (translation: anyone who wants to try thier hand at hitting a moving target, namely ME) can ICQ me at 1007628 or email at phyphor@rocketmail.com

[RocketMan]

"First released to the public on June 18th, 1999, Counter-Strike started out
as just another fan-produced mod for Half-Life."
From the PlanetHalfLife website.

I knew I had played CounterStrike earlier than November, 2000.
But you are right.
I thought I made a mistake once, but I was wrong. :D

[Fly Navy]

I guess the date I got was the retail release. It was from Gamespot. I still don't know why people buy it when you can download it for free. Still, R6 was first :p

[RocketMan]

Used to play Rainbow Six and Black Thorn on a home network with my kids
and their friends when I lived in Oregon.
It was a heck of a lot of fun.
Played a lot of CS, too. Online, with and against the kids, and against bots.
Into DoD nowadays, though I've been thinking about downloading the latest
CS as my youngest son says it's pretty cool.

[Fly Navy]

Yeah, R6 is a lot of fun, and Rogue Spear (haven't played the new ones). It's so brutally realistic, that it can get annoying with really good players lol. I never played DoD, but I hear good things. Did you get into Quake 3? I never liked it, but Quake 1 was so great, especially on a network. Duke Nukem 3D, I used to play HOURS of that, as well as Doom 2.

[Hk Paul]

Heh, I dled CS the exact day it came out. I was HOOKED!

then somtime around beta 5 it just . . . sucked. CS now is nothing like it used to be. In beta 1 I can remember playing on a prision map, and everyone was so annoyed because the fall damage was so realistic that if you jumped off a guard tower you got hurt.

Now i play Rainbow Six 3, even though it freezes up somtimes, Or I play infiltration.
If anyone wants to play INF or RB6-3 and get somthing togather, I know two people that would love to play.

[Fly Navy]

My favorite thing to do in Rogue Spear is a pistols only game. That gets people playing a lot different. Fun to play on Bunkers.

[Destructo6]

I was tossing out some old junk under the bed at my parents' place....found SEAL Team, probably the first 'tactical' sim shooter...wow.
I had that game, too. I might even still have it somewhere along with my Apple II+ games. Never really got to play it, since I wasn't around much then.

[RocketMan]

Don't even get me started on Duke Nukem. :D
First time I played that was in Japan with a friend. We were both over
there for training, just having started with a Japanese company.
Played hours of it in the hotel, laptops linked with a serial cable.
Played drunk a lot, too. Don't recommend that!
In Hachioji they had a lot of LP gas bottles near buildings just like in DN.
Talk about weird. Coming out of the hotel, going to get something to eat
after playing for six hours straight. We saw the gas bottles, kept expecting
monsters and stuff to jump out at us.
Was introduced to Doom II about then as well. Another game I played
waaaay too much.
I still have the DN CD, been thinking about getting it out again.
Waiting for the new one to come out, if it ever does. Vaporware for about
five years now.

[HBK]

Ghost Recon for Xbox was okay single player, especially the tasks to unlock stuff, but playing it online is mad fun. One time I had to pee, so I made my guy lay down in a corner next to my favorite spot. When I came back a guy was laying right there. I switched to pistols and executed him. My xbox live name is Death if anyone else has it. Look me up for a game.

[Skunkabilly]

Is 1942 multiplayer only or is there a singleplayer campaign?

[HogRider]

Your Favorite Shoot'em Up Video Game?

America's Army

[Okiecruffler]

Ever notice how some threads just refuse to lay down?

FWIW, I've become addicted to the police trainer game at a local arcade, wish they had something like that for my game cube.

[Futo Inu]

No FPSes - Like Okiecruffler, I prefer to get up close and personal with the enemy in Diablo II - or at a distance with a bow - I'm certifiable as a DII nut. Okiecruffler, email or PM me with your DII account names - I've got 5 full accounts on USEast. I also like real-time strategies like Age of Empires, etc., but they were leading to RMS so I swore them off.

What's the best FPS, limiting them to the games that feature ONLY actual, existing gun choices, and actual potential enemy choices (not aliens, etc.). i.e. best simulation of 20th/20st century warfare or specops?

"IT'S ALIVE!!!!!" - Lol

[Okiecruffler]

I haven't played Diablo 2 online. I tried to play diablo online when I first started playing it, but there were so many hackers with tricked out equipment it just wasn't any fun. I'm a bit of a pureist.

[Bugs66]

Battlefield 1942 - online multiplayer mode, there is no substitute!

[Skunkabilly]

But does it have single player?

[BeLikeTrey]

Fast paced (real fast) and the taunts are priceless. I love to hit the keys bound to taunts like " squeal boy" and "anyone else want some":evil:. Raven shield is pretty good too. Still nothing like blazing through a game of capture the flag in Unreal tournament.

[45R]

Arcade: Police 911.
PC: Rainbow 6 Series (I was the one known as Overkill)

[ShaiVong]

If you guys havent played "Call Of Duty" yet, GET IT. If you liked Medal of Honor; well, this goes above and beyond.

Made by the same guys who made MOH, different company though. It is awesome

[Destructo6]

Call of Duty doesn't come out for another month or so, but I'll get it immediately.

BF 1942 does have a single player mode. Same thing, but you play against the bots. Unfortunately, the bots are pretty predicable, so once you figure out what they'll do, every time, you can slaughter them. The same strategy doesn't work well online.

I just started the new MOH expansion, Breakthrough. It's okay, but it's not as good as Call of Duty.