1. Call of Duty 4
2. Bioshock.
3. Portal
4. Mass Effect5. Half Life: Episode 2
Do you disagree? Re-read the title and look up the concept of possessive words in the English language.

Play these games and you will understand. I seriously want Mass Effect for Windows, then I would buy it.

Are you a developer looking for a common theme? The single player experience.

-The Digital Kitty

Call of Duty 4: Modern Combat is the best first person shooter computer game since Counter-Strike that I have played.

I lived and breathed Counter-Strike for four years. I flippin loved it. It was simple, well balanced, and lots of fun. Except of course for the Artic Warefare Magnum sniper rifle… it was just a different class of weapon… seemed out of place.

Anyways.

Call of Duty is the only game that has recreated the passion that CS drew out of my soul, but actually improved upon the game by offering a single player game that is far and away the most diverse type of FPS combat I have played in a single game in years. It makes Half-Life 2 look boring, and that we know thats saying a lot.

I do have one complaint… its too short! Its so good, that you never want it to stop, and it stops about about 4-5 hours of straight play, which is too short for something so wonderful. It does however, offer multiplayer that is a lot of fun.

The multiplayer has its own unique game charachteristics, more designed twards the unique experience of a multiplayer game. The guns are weaker, the bullets on the sniper rifles shoot slower (anoyingly), you respawn quickly unlike CS, and the goals are far more nebulous. It is extremely, extremely, unbeliveably fun. Its like a game and a half for the price of one.

The graphics are sexy, the speed is great, and story is interesting, and the gameplay is very diverse.

What is really great though… is the feel… the FEEL of the game. The controls are responsive and all, but the way the guns shoot, the way you see and hear the bullets hit, the way you reload, the acuracy, everything is just… right. Some games feel out of this world clumsy in an effort to create realism, but instead just anoy me with their relentless spraying of bullets in random directions or godlike resistance of enemies to your attacks. These problems dont really rear their head in COD4 (yeah the acronym sucks) making it just more fun. They upped the realism where it makes it more fun, like graphics, features, actions, sound, and removed it in areas where it detracts from the fun, like recoil physics, tiredness of the soldier, and weapons physics.

I suggest you try out the demo, you will be hooked.

Note I am only talking about the computer version. I play almost exclusively first person shooters, and I only play them on a computer, I perfer the interface, the expandability, the modablility, and the chat functionality. I cant say how the console versions are, but I hear they are similarly good.

I just dont get playing FPS games on consoles… those sticks… blah.

-The Digital Kitty