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Readers Respond: What are your favorite multiplayer online shooters?

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FPS fans have a remarkable number of games to choose from these days. What are your favorite multiplayer online shooters? Share Your Thoughts

Nice List but crysis wars

Crysis wars shouldn't be on it. I can barely find a server with a acceptable Ping. Americas Army is way easier to find a decent game in than crysis.
—Guest Alkitron

UT2004

... is still a way better game with more depth and skill than most of these. it's not as popular though, which presumably is what this is about.
—Guest gearoi

ARMA 2

There is no way that Arma 2 should not be on this list.
—Guest ASHole

Cold weather ahead, perfect for FPS

Personally my all time favorite FPS are the older titles such as Half-life 1 death match, Quake 2 death match and mods. Likely the best strategic FPS I have ever played and compare everything too is Star Siege Tribes and or Natural Selection.. I have yet to find a modern game that can replicate the kind of gameplay that Tribes or NS had. As of now I spend my time playing a little L4D here and there, though this title has become a bit repetitive as does the Counter Strike series. Also BattleField 2142 was a great game, however the community is dead now and there are so few players playing it, that one cannot even play the game as intended. I look forward to the upcoming NS2 and I will likely try out Call of Duty 4 in the near future to see how that plays.
—Guest Yablo

West Coast

What about Americas Army - nice fun free game! and it's been around for some time!
—Guest AI1996

Wilco Tango Foxtrot

Battlefield 2142 is NOT more popular than Battlefield 2. It has plenty more glitches to boot. This list is a bit suspect, rather like a local radio station's "Top 10". Just their picks. +1 to Tribes, and a shout-out to Half-Life, Doom, Quake.... the new FPS have flash, but the old originals had community and more mods than you could shake a stick at!
—Guest Tango Down

Popularity is not the same as quality

Every popular game out there today only lasts maybe 4 years. The producers take this into consideration, and cut the master servers to the games a few months after a new game comes out to force people to buy the new game. This is not a mark of quality, but the mark of clever advertisement and gullible gamers. Games that have solid player bases after all hell breaks loose ("omg everyone plays L4D," "Crysis is the best bame ever") are the REAL games. Dont get me wrong, the games listed above are truly entertaining games, but they lack complexity. The game i'm talking about is Tribes 2. It is almost a decade old and there is still hundreds of people that play it. Ill give everyone in the world $100 if people play L4D in those numbers in 2019. Tribes even withstood 2 company takeovers and the closing of it's master server. With some clever tinkering, tribes has been resurected as a free fps called TribesNext. If you think you are playing the "best" fps, google it and try it out.
—Guest DudeBot

CA

Combat Arms 1º !the best first person shooter game for Pc Online
—Guest carlos

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