1st Person Shooter Recommendation - With Local Coop & Bots

[Ian J]

As per title, we've just got back into FPS after quite a while away from the genre.

We used to play Battlefield 2 on LAN, the beauty was that even if there were only half a dozen of us the game made up the numbers with Bots.

Yes they were a bit dumb but it was a lot better than playing with idiots on-line.

Can anyone recommend a game with similar specs?

Heard that Left for Dead may play similar.

 

[b_o_b]

I have no idea if it is similar - still on my to-do list to try it -  Enemy territory wolfenstein seems to have a pretty active community and they have included bot ability. Free game, the source is released and still being improved (see ET: Legacy) You can set up a server yourself to play against bots. 

Old game, but might be interesting. 

https://www.youtube.com/embed/erjHUe6gZPw?feature=oembed

 

[kirkanoss]

does look nice

 

[elwing]

UT2004?

I know it's old but honestly I find all new FPS to be quite pathetic...

 

[Asiyura]

Unreal Tournament series are good games and there are a ton of mods!

I hate FPS, UT are the only ones I ever enjoyed playing (I massively owned the asses of my friends even if I was playing with a trackball… I played these games too much B) ).

 

[elwing]

well, UT3 suck, at least in single player... the bots are damn useless... they are completely dumb...

I've lost many mission while completely owning every single bot I met... When you play 2vs4 (a way to compensate for the pathetic bot level?) and you're teammate stays without moving in a leviatan, not participating in any way to the mission you're basically f*#&ed... even when the bots are free point you can't attack a point and defend your own at once...

I have yet to find something that went out after Q3/UT2004 that is playable... most seems dumbed down gamepad fps, skill're no more needed

 

[Asiyura]

Well, never played UT3, the latest I bought was 2004.

The first UT was the one I played the most with my friends

 

[elwing]

well, I'm not saying that the bot are really less inteligent in UT3, but when you just have one bot in an attack/defend and he decide to camp in a cool tank far away from any objective and don't respond to order that's kind of game breaking... to me it's by far the worst UT... I loved the first most, but 2003/2004 are nice too and offer some cool new features

 

[kuru]

Damn BF2 was my answer after reading the title. Enemy Territory: Quake Wars is quite good, too. I remember playing the sh out of a demo years ago.

If you and your friend are O.K. with a story shooter though, go get System Shock 2 and install the latest patch bringing you better gfx and co-op. Make sure you deactivate all CPUs but one (will crash otherwise) and play on the hardest setting! This game was my best co-op experience, followed by Borderlands. Not so much for the balancing and gameplay mechanics, but enjoying a good story with a friend and just working together. Also try Dead Island.

Edit: Counter Strike: Condition Zero has bots, too. Dunno about the newer ones.

 

[Ian J]

Many thanks for the recommendations, some titles there for us to look through.

 

[LuSimon]

Check sauerbraten http://sauerbraten.org/ very cool game plus it is open source, recently I have been playin Postal 2 http://www.desura.com/games/postal-2it's pretty addicting actually and it runs on linux(in the ubuntu distro I think).

 

[kirkanoss]

007 nightfire was fun

 

[leathco]

Open arena is a good open source fps that supports multi player, along with alien arena.

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[LTStone]

Um, does Perfect dark for n64 or Killzone ps2 count?

 

[Ian J]

Um, does Perfect dark for n64 or Killzone ps2 count?

Sadly no we're looking for PC titles to run on a LAN.

 

[Gausen]

I haven't played online fps's in more then a year. But I really enjoyed Crysis 2 multiplayer and Killing floor.

 

[Franko]

You could try to babysit my niece and nephew.  They're terrors.  I have almost given up multiple times.

Edit 1:  No, but seriously there are HALO LAN parties around that you should check out, good shoot em' up kind of game.