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I am looking at getting into a FPS that has a descent SP mode and a really good (and easy to use) MP mode. Does such an animal exist?

Unreal Tournament GOTY Edition is about all I can think of. Depends on your SP requirements. (I play the bots all the time, better than online, imo)

I second UT:GOTY. It's a little older but its a blast. Half-life has a really good SP mode, and for the MP mode you can download Counterstrike, Day of Defeat, Team Fortress, etc. Or you could just play classic HL deathmatch, which is zany fun.

I really enjoyed Halo online, but I know a bunch of people here quit playing it for one reason or another.

Battlefield 1942 and Vietnam (weak SP, great MP)
FarCry (great SP, Somewhat good MP)
Tribes:Vengence (Good SP, Great MP)
Gran Theft Auto 3 (of course, great SP)
Doom3 (good SP, Crappy MP)
SimCity 4 (tons-o-fun)
Homeworld 2 (great SP, MP isn't much different)
UT2004 (good SP, great MP)

all in all.. the battlefield series and UT2004 are the most bang for the buck. Both have a huge mod community
(BF42: Desert combat, Forgotten hope, BF:V: Point of existence, EA's WWII mod, UT2004: Red orchestra, Frag ops, and many, many more.)

I've been playing Battlefield Vietnam a lot lately (MP) and it is great fun (team play in this game rules), but it is a resource hog. I had 512M on a P4 2.4 and it ran just ok. I doubled the memory and now it runs fantastic. Memory is everything to this game. FX5600Ultra vid card for me. Never even considered the single player portion, so I don't know if that is any good.

I'd have to agree with punk. ut2004 and the battlefield series are some of the best games I've played in a while. The 1942 desert combat mod is one of the coolest mods ever.

And since noboby's caught this yet, no game's got a deScent SP mode except, well, descent

Have you ever tried Deus Ex? Not Deus Ex: Invisible War but the first one from 2000. Multiplayer aint good but the singleplayer is a blast. I highly reccomend it, its easy to get in to and builds up as you play along.

i play Halo here and there, my primary FPS Game is America's Army


America's Army

Americas Army.. ew

F a facist government created game that contridicts itself when it comes to all of the republicans whining about violent video games. Americas Army is a brainwashing tool.

smoke a bowl and play Homeworld 2, it's wonderful!

It doesn't have multiplayer, but Thief : Deadly Shadows (the third in the series) is the best single player game I've played in a long time. (well, since the original Thief)

Dammit, i swore i wasnt gonna play that... now i gotta

Unreal Tournament: Game of the Year Edition (UT GOTY) is probably the best PC game $10 can buy. Dayum, that game is fun. In addition to a robust multiplayer mode with countless mods and user-made maps, it also has several fan-made single-player campaigns for you to try (like Operation Na-Pali and Xidia Gold).

Looks like I may give UT GOTY a try. Thanks guys.

Oh ya, Check out Unreal Gold. Large SP. Not much for MP tho', that's what UTGOTY was for.

I'm going through Unreal Gold again for kicks. Been a while, I almost forget the levels.

Thief 1 and 2 absolutely rock. Dunno about 3, doesn't run so well on my machine.

Deus Ex is simply awesome. I've played through it to the end countless times, and every time I fire it up, I run across something different I've NEVER seen before. Tremendous game...

Testiculese wrote:Oh ya, Check out Unreal Gold. Large SP. Not much for MP tho', that's what UTGOTY was for.

Right, but UTGOTY actually has all of the core content of the original Unreal sans the maps. So, all of the enemies still exist in UTGOTY. That's why a lot of user-made campaigns (Xidia Gold, Operation: Na-Pali, and soon 7 Bullets) use them.

Ya, I just d/l Operation Na-Pali, I'm gonna check it out.

I play Battlefield Vietnam (the Point of Existence mod) and I have to say it is great. The only thing bad about it is those f8cking Canadians and Sweeds that made BFV need to get better at programming. Doom3 has WAY better graphics, and runs a hell of alot better. They also need to fix some lag issues.

wtf is up with lag? Why can't they make a game without lag already?

The Battlefield developers are crappy at making games. Hell the game even CRASHES when you make to many effects in your mod.
Anyways, that new Tribes Vengeance game is good.

Jagger wrote:Thief 1 and 2 absolutely rock. Dunno about 3, doesn't run so well on my machine.

Well, the minimum requirements are a bit hefty, but it's almost worth upgrading your system just to play it. The quality of gameplay exceeds the first 2 (that's a huge accomplishment), and the graphics are right up there with Doom 3. It didn't have as many scary missions in it, but let's just say I NEVER want to go back to The Shalebridge Cradle again (a haunted former orphanage and insane asylum).

Fezzik wrote:... but it's almost worth upgrading your system just to play it... It didn't have as many scary missions in it, but let's just say I NEVER want to go back to The Shalebridge Cradle again (a haunted former orphanage and insane asylum).

Oh, believe me, I INTEND to upgrade just to play this game! New vid card should tide me over.