I liked COD 4 too, but felt that it was a little too on Rails. Stalker was interesting.
FEAR was good mainly due to the AI and particle FX making the game much more immersive. Shame all the bad guys were mostly clones and you got to fight maybe 3 identical guys a few thousand times.
I thought the first part of Crysis was Far Cry on steroids and excellent, one of the best but I couldn't be bothered to play it past fighting the Koreans. You can get most of the experience from the demo.
Stalker was cool, quite RPGish but I found sticking to a schedule a bit annoying, mostly because I enjoy taking my time and um, stalking prey. And my pace often meant that I missed deadlines for small overlapping missions.
MOHA Airborne I enjoyed this one quite a bit, has gears of war cover, and you parachute in at the start of the level, so you can pick your own starting point. I like sniping and parachuting onto a tower or tall building and picking off the bad guys, and sneaking around on roofs was great fun.
The Brother in arms series was pretty cool, squad based where you command your men in a almost RTS type way, and can shout out various cover and suppression orders. The cool thing is the enemy can do the same, and will also try flanking manouvers, changing tactics depending on what your squad is trying to do.
A bit old now, But Riddick was amazing on the Xbox and is avaliable on PC too. Blew away far cry and Doom3 (was released around the same time). One of my favourite SP story based FPS of all time.
FEAR was good mainly due to the AI and particle FX making the game much more immersive. Shame all the bad guys were mostly clones and you got to fight maybe 3 identical guys a few thousand times.
I thought the first part of Crysis was Far Cry on steroids and excellent, one of the best but I couldn't be bothered to play it past fighting the Koreans. You can get most of the experience from the demo.
Stalker was cool, quite RPGish but I found sticking to a schedule a bit annoying, mostly because I enjoy taking my time and um, stalking prey. And my pace often meant that I missed deadlines for small overlapping missions.
MOHA Airborne I enjoyed this one quite a bit, has gears of war cover, and you parachute in at the start of the level, so you can pick your own starting point. I like sniping and parachuting onto a tower or tall building and picking off the bad guys, and sneaking around on roofs was great fun.
The Brother in arms series was pretty cool, squad based where you command your men in a almost RTS type way, and can shout out various cover and suppression orders. The cool thing is the enemy can do the same, and will also try flanking manouvers, changing tactics depending on what your squad is trying to do.
A bit old now, But Riddick was amazing on the Xbox and is avaliable on PC too. Blew away far cry and Doom3 (was released around the same time). One of my favourite SP story based FPS of all time.