Childrens first person shooters?

Tombstone said:
When you say easy, is it crazy easy ? Or can I edit it in some fashion to make it crazy easy, make the bots move slowly and so forth?
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Not massively easy, no. But certainly not challenging. They stand still when they shoot and turn very very slowly.

I'm sure there's a way to turn sv_cheats on and then to give yourself a HP boost etc. too so shouldn't be that bad.
 
As people have said, the Nerf game was mindless, suitable for the whole family FPS. I remember playing the demo back in the day, was actually alright if I remember correctly. :|

I'll second Parky's recommendation for Condemned, just to see what would happen. :D
 
Chronictank said:
this, although not sure i would give a fps to a 5 yr old personally (surely a platformer or something like mini ninja's would be better?)
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She has platformers, the trick is to think outside of the box when I say fps, I only say fps to attempt to convey the sort of control mechanics I mean. Check my earlier post where I give a couple of examples of suitable concepts to see how an fps could be done very well for a younger child. ( particularly my example of the paint gun and having to match paint colours to solve problems ) . Not every fps has to involve death and blood :)
 
So that's Nerf and tf2 with the silly gib and bots to check out. Gives me a couple of things to look into. As I say, not sure that the sort of thing I want actually exists.
 
Tombstone said:
I don't know if such a thing exists.... let me explain...

My young daughter is very intrigued by my first person shooters, which got me wondering, are there any fps games for young children ? Something that has the same mouse/keyboard mechanics as a normal fps but with a more youthful degree of colour and content like shooting paint or fried eggs or I don't know. Can't really give her bc2 or fear 2 to play afterall :)
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i have the same problem mate. my 5 year old is getting hooked on bc2 and moh. He palys with the sound off (cos of the swearing) and blood off.

i,v tried lego games, racing games to get him away from shooting people but the lad is army mad.....................
 
Minecraft.
My son aged 4 loves it. He plays with the monsters turned off & just hits the hell out of the Pigs,Sheep,Cows & Chickens.
As a added extra he can build stuff aswell.
 
garsands said:
Minecraft.
My son aged 4 loves it. He plays with the monsters turned off & just hits the hell out of the Pigs,Sheep,Cows & Chickens.
As a added extra he can build stuff aswell.
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Must admit I didn't even know minecraft had stuff like that in it, I just thought it was a building thing.
 
Slightly off topic but one thing I've often wondered about the adult options in FPS (blood/gore etc), how much better really is it for a child? i.e. if we don't think the display of blood is acceptable, surely going around hacking at people with axes / shooting them in the face with high calibre weapons isn't the greatest thing irrespective of whether they bleed blood?
 
HangTime said:
Slightly off topic but one thing I've often wondered about the adult options in FPS (blood/gore etc), how much better really is it for a child? i.e. if we don't think the display of blood is acceptable, surely going around hacking at people with axes / shooting them in the face with high calibre weapons isn't the greatest thing irrespective of whether they bleed blood?
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It's a question which has been pondered over for a long time, the question of just how bad tom and jerry is for children given the things they do to each other.
 
I don't think any child with good parenting would be the worse off for playing an FPS game even with blood, etc. unless they were already predisposed of a violent nature. My cousins used to come over from the age of 5-6 to play multiplayer Need For Speed and Quake 3 and it was always fun and a good laugh and afaik never any kinda bad influence. But they've always been fairly well adjusted and their parents not afraid of exposing them to the realities of life albeit in a moderated manner at first.

QuakeLive IIRC now has the freezetag mode in it which might be a bit more child friendly tho.
 
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What about Tag from the digipen students that is a fps with paint, haven't played it so don't know if its suitable for a child but might be worth a try.
 
You could give BF2 a try, singleplayer map, easy difficulty and children find it a blast (at least my nephew did). Sure he wasn't pwning everyone in sight, but it's suprisingly easy to pick and because it's pretty much a sandbox game with a very simply objective, it's pretty entertaining for children.

It's got no blood and the combat/violence is somehow less disturbing within the context of the game.

Gotta agree with Rroff, any parent worth his/her salt would have no problems with this.
 
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