The few that do focus on story and character tend to focus on a single supersoldier, like the HALO series, rather than on the more realistic “band of brothers” aspect of real combat. Most modern FPS games are focused on the social aspect, where gamers gather online and engage in competitive matches or team slayer competitions, which is all well and good, but those same games tend to have pretty thin, even outright preposterous campaigns. The problem is, there are very few FPS games like this. Such a game will require you to assign your friendly units carefully, to maximise their tactical advantages in combat. This kind of game would be the closest thing currently available to the average video gamer of real-life combat, in which your survival depends not on being a cybernetically enhanced supersoldier with incredible equipment and resilience, but on the skills and training of your brothers. The best scenario of all is where your friendly units are independent and aggressive in waxing your enemies, but can also be brought under your control and assigned to specific tasks in order to achieve a challenging objective. What few modern FPS games pass the first test, usually fail this one.
I like playing games where the enemy AI puts up a really good fight, so that slaughtering them isn’t just an exercise in mindlessly mashing the trigger.īetter still, if the allied AI units are also programmed to be skilled and competent, then that just makes the whole experience better. I am a “campaign gamer”, which means that I dig story-driven games with engaging, interesting plots married with great, intuitive, fast-paced gameplay.
However, unlike most console gamers, I don’t like multiplayer games. Ladies and gentlemen of the Court, Exhibit A
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