Your Favorite Shoot'em Up Video Game?

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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.
 
Deus Ex for a fantastic plot and great action.

Oh, and Half-Life 2 is just a few months away :D
 
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.
 
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.
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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.
 
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)
 
For those of you with Unreal Tournament....

Might I recommend Infiltration?

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...
 
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.
 
PC

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 :)
 
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. ;)
 
Beach Head 2002

No thinking, no tactics, no planning. Just keep squeezing the trigger ... :)
 
I was tossing out some old junk under the bed at my parents' place....found SEAL Team, probably the first 'tactical' sim shooter...wow.
 
Fly Navy

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

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.
 
I'm sorry...

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

I DO like Day of Defeat 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 [email protected]
 
"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
 
RocketMan

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
 
Fly Navy

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.
 
RocketMan

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.
 
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.
 
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