Any good FPSs out there

**A Nerd** · 04-20-2010, 18:25

STALKER from what I've heard thru this thread is sounding more and more appealling. I saw a preview for I think it was Bioshock 3 in PC Gamer, looked interesting. Probably would be better to start the series from the beginning. I might even be able to buy more than one with the prices lower due to their past releases! Hooray!

**Jolt** · 04-25-2010, 13:07

Well, Half Life 2 Ep. 2 has some sort of "boss" battles if you can call them that:

- The Antlion Queen in the caves
- The Combine mine dropship
- The ambush in the house (The final and biggest one)
- The final battle

But these aren't your ordinary boss battles where you have a huge monster that kills you easily and which simply won't die unless you do a dozen things.

**Veho Nex** · 04-25-2010, 13:14

If you get STALKER Shadow of Chernobyl I definitely recommend getting the Stalker complete 2012 mod. If you want immersion that mod does it for you. I've had it sitting on my computer for almost a year and I havent touched it, I just started playing it a few days ago and I must say that it sets the bar for Survival FPS... Just wish there was a Zombie outbreak mod for it.

**A Nerd** · 04-25-2010, 15:51

I'm leaning toward STALKER now, the mod would probably be a good addition to it as well. I haven't searched any webpages related to the game as of yet though. What is the premise? Do you fight men or hordes of mutants? If the game is good, can I look forward to sequels?

**Veho Nex** · 04-25-2010, 16:14

Originally Posted by A Nerd

I'm leaning toward STALKER now, the mod would probably be a good addition to it as well. I haven't searched any webpages related to the game as of yet though. What is the premise? Do you fight men or hordes of mutants? If the game is good, can I look forward to sequels?

Well thats whats great about stalker, is that there is already a prequel, Clear Sky, and sequel, Call of Pripyat.

As to what you fight, its a mix. The mutants are tough to kill though 2 or so shots to the head will do them in, while you got zombies which go down pretty quickly but they shoot back, idk why. Then there are factions and bandits vying for control over The Zone. So you could be walking along doing some random mission for some random person and come across two factions duking it out. The fire fights get really intense and sometimes you get lucky enough to watch one of your guys go up to a wounded enemy, say something dirty in Ukrainian to him then give him a one way ticket to the head. Like so...

**Beskar** · 04-25-2010, 16:19

I never got into Stalker as when THQ took over the studio, they pretty much ripped out everything that appealed to me in the game originally, so from then on, perhaps I purposefully avoided it as I already been disappointed by it. However, I did get it for £1 a while ago, and with that Stalker complete mod, it seems like it might be nice to hook up to it again.

**Veho Nex** · 04-25-2010, 16:21

I never got into stalker when I first bought it a long time ago, it wasn't until I was recommended that mod by a friend, that I went back to it and really liked it. Though I must say it is definitely one of the harder games I've played, but it is also one of the scariest.