386_junkie wrote:Snayperskaya wrote:I've played quite a bit of FPS titles. Some of my favourites are (excluding games like Fallout and Deus Ex, which are more RPG-ey):
* Bioshock (series): I must be one of the few people that like the 2nd chapter better than the first. Infinity is on another level of awesomeness. If you have not played it and crave for nice plots, do not waste another minute.
Not seen this one before! It looks pretty dark... with similar gameplay to Fallout.
Bioshock has few RPG elements, and is almost a pure first person shooter. You upgrade your plasmids (basically magic powers but in the game's context they are DNA upgrades produced by science) and the weapons have two upgrades each, but the story is fixed, you have no stats to upgrade (other than the size of your health pool, your Eve pool (your magic power pool), the weapons and the plasmids). It's a great, and VERY ATMOSPHERIC game though, but it does go very downhill after a certain point (don't read about the game or talk about it until you've played it through, or you will learn spoilers about the game), it quickly gets too easy, and the game could have been better if the makers had not took the easy way out of some design choices.
If you like first person shooters then you really should play Bioshock, then Bioshock 2 (which fixes many of B1's flaws, though lots of people say B2 shouldn't exist as (to them) B1 told the story so well that it needed no follow up). Then play B2's superb DLC episode, Minerva's Den. You can get all three in one collection, called the Bioshock Ultimate Rapture Edition:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/BioShock-Ultimate-Rap … 3/dp/B00AXXILC8
There's a third Bioshock game, called Bioshock: Infinite, which really polarised gamers. I thought it was hugely disappointing, as it's gameplay was cut down from B1 and B2, and the game failed to include so much that was in the preview videos. And the ending was (to me and lots of people) contrived drivel, but lots of other people really liked it.
If you do play B1, B2, and Bioshock: Infinite, then play them in order, as they do reference the earlier games(s). Not enough to spoil things if you haven't played the earlier games, but it's good to know what the game is referring to.