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First person shooter for the 360?
noir_blood
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So I been in the mood for a first person shooter for the 360, and with black friday coming up, I figure I can get a good deal. The question boils down to, what should I get? I honestly haven't really played much shooters for the 360, I think the last one was Gears of Wars. My friends play the second one, so I was thinking of getting that, the only thing being I didn't care much for the single player portion. What does Penny Arcade recommend? Should I get the new Call of Duty, or the COD 4? Is Halo 3 still popular? I really like(I think it was called) Battlefield, the EA game which has helicopters, tanks, and big levels. Anything like that?
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COD4 is far better than COD5: World at War.
Halo 3 is still amazing.
Farcry 2 is the dark horse hit of the year.
Battlefield Bad Company is also great.
Left4Dead just landed on 360 and by all accounts is an excellent console version of an ostensibly PC orientated game.
I liked the Left 4 dead demo, but I heard that there aren't many levels, and fear that could get old fast.
I did play Bioshock, and while I liked the atmosphere, there wasn't enough Oomph in the guns I thought.
Halo 3 and COD4 consistently trade places on the top spots for games played on XBL (except this week because fo GoW2), so they'd both be good buys.
I can't recommend this title enough. The online campaign mode is a roller coaster of adrenaline, and the versus mode amps it up to 11. Valve's other titles are some of the best fps titles out there, and L4D is of the same caliber. Plus it has zombies, lots of them.
Halo 3 is irritatingly split up into different segments of different Map Pack owners, and if you want to play the awesome, big 16 player maps and new gametypes you have to pay for the newest one, which is just bullshit to me. I would love an option to play all gametypes with the maps the game came with, they really did ship with enough. I don't want to add more maps that I may very well want to veto every time they come up. Still, what's there is decent.
Call of Duty 4 is probably the game you want. Great multiplayer with an addictive experience system, and a good single player campaign with re playability in it's "get the high score" arcade mode. If you haven't already played this to death, there's really no need at all for World at War, if then.
Bioshock is my favorite next gen game, but it's really a hybrid FPS/RPG/Adventure thing that doesn't really have that great of gunplay, so I don't know if it'll scratch your itch here. Still, get it eventually.
I am kinda regretting buying Halo 3 at full price. The campaign is decent, co-op is alright. The versus multiplayer doesn't do much for me at all though. Just feels very plain and dull. Could be because I'd already been spoiled by CoD 4's excellent multiplayer, but still a lot of people enjoy Halo 3 online so it might be worth a look.
Ever since Halo 2 went online, though, it's hard to get these things going. Perfect LAN party material is probably the single reason why I loved Halo 1 so damn much.
Its single player is awesome though.
The splitscreen is horrendous and not even worth your time. Limited selection of maps.
Halo 3 gets endless play around here. You can play it co-op online. It has a playlist for pretty much everyone, and it's actually possible to get games without owning Legendary. Yes, you can't play Big Team without Legendary, but otherwise you'd only have 2-3 maps to play on. Legendary is also cheaper than CoD4's map pack. Also, you can take up to 3 people with you online in splitscreen. CoD4 is an entirely solo experience online. Also it's infested with turbo controller cheaters.
the playlists that require Legendary on Halo 3:
Team Doubles (2v2)
DLC Big Team (8v8)
DLC FFA (8 man FFA)
Team SWAT (4v4 no shields, came out after Legendary)
Team Snipers (the worst playlist ever)
playlists that don't require Legendary:
Team Slayer (4v4)
Team Objective (4v4)
Social Slayer (4v4)
Social Skirmish (5v5)
Multi Team (2v2v2v2)
Rumble Pit (6 man FFA)
Lone Wolves (8 man FFA)
Squad Battle (6v6)
MLG (4v4)
Three games that have a lasting community and happen to be very different from each other, so I'm sure you will get your money's worth from them.
*CoD5 is out, yeah, but CoD4 is probably going to outlive it.
yeah , and i think what you have said is so right , and i think i can get great pleasure from playing the game ,
The first one seemed to have an uphill battle. A lot of people were thrown off by the terrible lobby system, only the people that really enjoyed it (read: were retarded good) stayed with it for any length of time.
I have never been kicked for not having the map pack.
And it may not have CTF, but it also has...4 objective modes if I remember correctly.
Bad Company, again, takes a backseat to COD4, unless you can't live without tanks and helicopters and huge sprawling maps.
Halo 3 kinda depends on how much you enjoyed other Halo games. If you don't like energy shields, bunny-hopping, and emptying a clip into someone and then going upside their head with a melee attack to kill them, then it's not your best bet.
I'm finding Far Cry 2 really difficult to recommend at full retail right now. Too many other, better games are out there, and the online play is fairly anemic despite the great map editor.
the first GoW was on top of the live charts for a year without a lobby system. the matchmaking works provided you restart the search if you haven't found a game within 10 or so seconds
doing all that is still faster than finding a game in halo 3
so yeah, i think it's going to last
most of the things he complained about can be said about halo, funnily enough
Team Fortress 2 (Orange Box) is unbelievably awesome, but the PC got updates where the 360 was shafted which has left a bad taste in some mouths.
CoD4 is excellent and very solid. Loved the weapon customization in multi. I'd say the main downside is no co-op campaign.
R6: Vegas 2 had excellent 2 player co-op and character customization. The multiplayer community sucked though, and that was at release. Much like the original, I expect it to have gone downhill over time.
GoW2 is also good times. Haven't had a chance to do co-op, but I'd definitely take it's multiplayer over Halo 3's any day.
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Get Left 4 Dead
That's dumb, don't do this.
For the Valve multiplayer games, if you have a capable PC, definitely get them on that.
Otherwise, I'm putting my vote in for COD4.
I also thought GoW2's campaign was rather lame, but the Horde mode is fantastic. I doubt you could get it for very cheap this soon after release, but if you can, I'd say Horde mode is worth it alone.
I only played CoD4 for a very small time, thought it was ok but not as good for quick fun with friends as the Halo games. The campaign is supposed to be rad, though.
L4D is super fun as a simple co-op game, but the 360 version might have dubious support and a sub-par community.
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If you can plow through the first few hours of being killed over and over by guns you don't even have access to, there's a tremendous amount of fun to be had, but the whole thing is balanced to be about as unfriendly to new people as possible. Great if you picked it up when it was new, more than a little aggravating a year later.
I'm definitely in the minority on this, though, so take it with a pinch of salt. I'm very much of the opinion that a game should place all players on an equal playing field and let skill sort it out, but the perks system definitely has its fans.
ALSO Left 4 Dead is absolutely fantastic.
Except for UAV jammer.
Just because more weapons and perks are available doesn't necessarily make them better. Only perk I wouldn't mind seeing go away altogether is martyrdom, even though I love seeing that +10 exp pop up after I die.
Also CoD4 has a CTF mode. It's called sabotage, and the flag is a bomb.
Yeah, and it unlocks early. Besides, new players can use the M-16 with 'noob tube' attachment and Stopping Power, a combination which can stand against anything else in the game.
The perks don't hurt new players, but they do have kind of a rock, paper, scissors effect that I don't much care for. That and it takes way too many levels to unlock Dead Silence.
Yeah, the perks are pretty balanced. They are really only there to cater to certain playstyles and the most common ones are unlocked early on in a level.
Get some friends, play it on advanced and play VS to break things up.
Then spend a month trying to beat every level on expert. I'm pretty sure Valve will be releasing the DLC for the 360 as well.
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No. CoD5 actually has CTF. CoD4 does not.
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Having played COD4 a ton on PC, some on 360, and now playing COD WAW on 360 it seems to be a pretty fun game.
There's even a perk that negates martyrdom (which is pretty much the only reason all the perk haters hate) and people with last stand can revive other last standers.
though I wish the vehicle maps weren't on regular rotation. Unfortunately, I think COD WAW has more of a problem with unlocks. Unlike COD4, the best weapons aren't available from the start.
I'm gonna have to respectfully disagree on the perks, the earlier ones are more useful in my book. Besides, didn't they keep the barebones playlists? I'll agree with you that the perks seem really lopsided in World at War though, and once you get some weapons (FG42) there's not really too much incentive to use anything else. Oh, and the MP5 in CoD4 is absolutely fantastic. And people saying 'noob tube' really grates for some reason for me. It's a fucking grenade launcher.
I liked the demo for Bad Company a lot, and I have always been into the BF series. On the other hand I love the UT series and haven't played much since UT2k4 was released, so the 'same old weapons and gameplay' doesn't bother me that much. Online split screen sounds like a blast and it would be a good, easy to get into deathmatch game for when friends are over. The lack of user created content doesn't really bother me much either, aside from a few total conversions I was never that interested in it in the other UTs.
I picked up UT3 back when it came out on the PS3, I never really got into it. Speaking of the PS3, if you have a one, I recommend checking out Resistance 2 -the online component is fantastic. I have not played Bad Company, so I can't comment on that title.
You didn't mention it, but have you played Dead Space? It's supposed to be very good, and it's 30 dollars at Target this Friday.
What makes Halo 3 stand apart is the replay sharing. That's the one new feature in that game that needs to become an industry standard.
And somebody brought up Bad Company. I stopped playing a while ago, but some things just never got old in that game. Collecting dogtags, owning people with the laser designator, and getting kills with the power tool.
If you have got Call of Duty 4 you should play it again.
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I hope it becomes one of those things that becomes "required" for these types of games.