First person Shooter

Can anyone recommend some good First Person shooter games for PC. I got my kids Crysis-Warhead for Christmas and my 12 year old already beat it. I don't allow them to play online, so the recommendations need to take that into account. They also have a few of the Unreal series games and a few of the Delta Force games from Novalogic.

Thank you.

mike

Half-Life 2

Crysis a benchmark Test Disguised as a Game,
I Second Half Life 2, And at that a Raise you Another System Shock 2 Along With Bioshock.

Good Job Keeping them offline, Will Stop Them from becoming Absolute Fucktards Like Most 12-year olds online.

Said By ExShinobi

Crysis a benchmark Test Disguised as a Game,
I Second Half Life 2, And at that a Raise you Another System Shock 2 Along With Bioshock.

Good Job Keeping them offline, Will Stop Them from becoming Absolute Fucktards Like Most 12-year olds online.

I was wondering about Crysis. For such a highly reviewed game, it proved to be rather easy. Not to mention, the actual adventure/game was rather short I thought.

Sorry to double post. I have been looking at this Half Life 2 you both recommend.
I notice there is an Orange Box edition or something like that? And there is also an Ultimate Edition? Or have I been misinformed? Oh and now I see a Half Life 2 "Episodes"...what the fuck?

Wel, I would only recommend the Orange Box if you wanted all the games it had.
It contains:
Half-Life 2
Episode One
Episode Two
Portal
Team Fortress 2

The Episodes are just a continuation of Half-Life 2, all Single Player, and Portal is another nice game where you use portals for all sorts of neat stuff. The only game on there that you wouldn't like is Team Fortress 2 because it is an online Multiplayer game, which as you stated in your first post, you don't allow them to play.

You can either get it for $29.99 online through Steam:

http://store.steampowered.com/sub/469/

or pick it up at your local video games store, another option is getting it for your Xbox360. Whichever you prefer.

The next option is just getting Half-Life 2 stand-alone for $19.99:

http://store.steampowered.com/app/220/

Also, happy to be of service.

Its Worth it to get the orange box.

And to Elaborate More on These "Episodes" Are Technically Half life 2.5, Continuing the Series but With Shorter, more Frequent Games.

Well, shorter games. This is still Half Life.
Left 4 Dead is pretty sweet, even in single player. Fallout 3 is pretty good from what I hear (I haven't yet played it, though).

Any of the Unreal Tournaments. They're fucking awesome.

He doesn't want online games.

Or Soon Enough tornado, The half life 2 Mod, Black Mesa Will Be every thing half life Source should have been.
Fallout 3 was great, Not Exactly an fps, But hell Why Not. I will Also Throw in Dead Space, That may be a bit freaky for your kids though its up to you.

I'll third the Fallout 3, although I'm not sure how you will feel with your children hearing language... If your against it, avoid it.

I still haven't gotten around to getting Fallout 3, but I plan to eventually. So I can't fourth it at all yet. XD

UT's still fun offline, in my opinion.

Damn slow down people. I got Half-Life 2 for my Kids (just the stand-alone version). I have played it a little and it is "pretty neat". I don't much like the storyline play myself. I am more into shot anything that moves type games as are my two boys. I have also found that we are getting "stuck" in certain areas and finding it difficult to get through to the next area or section etc.

FroogleDoop,
We have Unreal Tournament, Unreal Tournament Game of the year and Unreal 2004. In my opinion those are the best first person shooters I have ever played. IS there a new one out? I thought I saw something about it.

ExShinobi,
My 12 year old thought a few parts so far in Half-Life 2 were "pretty gross"(his own words). Even after the gore in the Unreal games they play, half life is a little more "graphic". To be honest he actually gets nervous and scared sometimes playing these games and will ask for me to get him past certain parts. I try not to laugh at him. He is pretty sensitive.
My 15 year old is not as affected.

To All,
We only have PC. No XBOX, No Playstation. My kids have a Wii and GameCube is all.

Said By FroogleDoop

UT's still fun offline, in my opinion.

I agree and yes I don't allow them to play online, Tornado. The main reasons are all the chit chat that goes on is sometimes pretty "rude" and all the cheaters out there ruining the games. They have a great time simple trying to beat the game one on one. We do sometimes play on my network against each other in a LAN game.

Sorry for the double post.

Ok Than I Was Going to suggest Painkiller, Its Shoot Everything That Moves, And Than Go kill there Mothers. Your fifteen Year Old Should like it, Gorey And Whatnot.

But Than I Would Also Recomend The Serious Sam Series, Sure The first ones are a bit Old, But fun as hell, You May Want to Change The Aliens From Blood Spewing Monsters, To Flower Vomiting Creatures.

You don't have 2k3? I was always a 2k3 fan, for some reason.

No. Don't have Unreal 2003. I think we skipped it and went from Unreal Tournament to Unreal 2004. I thought there was a more recent one than Unreal 2004?

Yeah. Unreal Tournament 3.

Said By Tornado

Yeah. Unreal Tournament 3.

OK, I'm a little confused. Unreal 3 is newer than Unreal Tournament 2004? And then there is Unreal Tournament 2003. What the hell?

I think I have this figured out. Unreal 2007 is now known as Unreal 3.

From the reviews I have read, most liked Unreal 2004 better than Unreal 3. On reviewer said:
"If UT2004 was a game on steroids, UT3 is on anti-steroids: a Vitamin B."

I wonder if/when Epic will come out with a new version of the Unreal series?

No mention of Gears of War or Gears of War 2? Anyone played those games? Both by Epic as well.

They Wont release it on Pc, So No.

Looks like they DO have Gears of War for PC.
http://www.amazon.com/Gears-War-Pc/dp/B000VBFW7E

Sweet. I'm getting it. I think I'll order Unreal 3 while I'm at it. It is only 15 bucks.

GOW for PC is decent, though I found the game very short, and beat it on its hardest level of difficulty in less then 15 hours. Online once again is awesome, but as said, they aren't allowed online. I have UT3 for 360, and I love it.

Might I suggest War§ow.If you are familiar with the "Quake" series,it's practically the same thing.The catch is,it's only multiplayer.So if the kid
has lots of friends that be cool.

The problem with GoW on PC is that it didn't transfer very well. Much like (the first) Halo on the PC, the PC version is definitive, but their are better games.

My Bad Mike, GoW 2 Wont Be Comeing To PC.

After what Tornado said, it might not be a bad idea to relase it for PC. Maybe it will improve. Sort of like the Halo series has.

By they way. This has been a great topic with tons of information. I really appreciate the vast amount of input from you all. Thank you so much.

Keep any additional information coming.

Back to topic. I found Unreal 3 for 14.99 online. Not a bad price.
I'll get back to reading more reviews etc.

Oh, and Tako...my kids have "real friends", not online ones. The ones they have online through email and instant messengers are actual friends they have in real life. I'm not sure if you meant one or the other.

UT3 took UT2K4 and made it worse.

How EPIC takes a genre as simple as UT and makes it worse is beyond me.

Everyone still plays UT2K4 instead of UT3 for that reason. UT2K4 is fun.

Fallout 3 is a RPG, less of a FPS (much less).

But Portal is a fun game to do. It is a rental one, I beat it in a couple of hours. It is a really nice puzzle game.