Best First Person Shooter Multiplayer

Quakeworld is unsurpassed in terms of the 'your favourites' category. The perfect blend of speed, skill and teamplay. I can appreciate that many people have moved on from traditional deathmatch now, but the tactical complexity in modern QW is boggling and as far as I'm concerned it is the ultimate 'competitive' FPS.

With the modern client and server updates, it is also arguably the most technically advanced FPS on the market (graphics engine aside). This may surprise many people, I can hear you thinking "sh'yeah right, an 11 year old game that's more advanced than BF2, Source, Quake4 etc" but how about this for a list of features:

-Completely customisable HUD (ALL elements, heck, it's even mouse-driven letting you place icons exactly where you want them)
-Multiview demo support (all povs recorded, splitscreen playback if desired)
-Advanced teamoverlay / map etc for demo playback
-Live streaming support (double click a url and you are there watching the game from any pov with full overlays, stats etc)
-Totally customisable gfx, crosshairs, console, hud, sound, teamplay options, auto recording/naming of demos/screenshots.... my cfg is over 100k in size!
-Fantastic netcode including clientside prediction and qizmo re-routing (ping 70ms to a Danish server? No problem, re-route via a different ISP and get 40ms!)
-Built in demo browser / mp3 player / server browser etc
-Advanced scripting (IF/THEN/ELSE)
-Native Windows/Linux/Mac/FreeBSD clients
-Great serverside mods for competition play (also pickup games)
-Advanced movie-making features (record directly to xvid+mp3, re-camming etc)
-Built in support for XML help files

...plus hundreds more.

Of course, it's the gameplay which makes QW great (otherwise it wouldn't have lasted this long), but as far as I can see it is now the perfect platform for competitive play too.
 
this guy getting payed for writing that ^^^^

cod + cod2 + (in future)cod4 = winners

css is alright but it just doesnt hit like cod
bf2 is ace fun for messin bout with mates, but nothin more for me.

CoD forever!!! cs:s + MoH = lose

and 650 cod2 servers, whats that all about? theres 10xmore
 
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Chronictank said:
Aliens Versus Predator would be my vote for best
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I must agree here, AVP and AVP2 are probobly the best ever online games, i really hope they make an AVP3 because its a brilliant concept and a great way to play. Love playing survival as marine trying to survive against the aliens.. its a lot of fun
 
-|ScottFree|- said:
RTCW multiplayer will never be beaten IMO. The best online FPS game of all time!!

If you are a good RTCW player, you can pretty much own on every other online shooter, an absolutely brilliant game!!
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If your talking about vanilla RTCW rather than ET i agree wholeheartedly!!

Made me quite a few £££ playing RTCW ;)
 
I'm still waiting for something to replace q2 as my multiplayer game of choice.

There's something about running through fairly enclosed spaces and claustrophobic corridors bouncing people around with rockets that can't be replicated in modern games.
I've tried battlefield, and frankly being out in the wide open with naff weapons that don't seem to hit people doesn't appeal in the slightest.

Quake has a very clean and clinical feel to it that is difficult to describe but nothing else has matched it for me.

TF2 sounds like it could be a worthy successor, so I'm going to try that out this evening.

Outside of my particular online deathmatch urge, 99% of games I play for single player only.
 
taz488 said:
this guy getting payed for writing that ^^^^
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No :)

All of the enhancements to QW above are freeware (GPL licensing) and there are even steps in progress to create server/client side support for identical versions of the retail maps, but with all the copyrighted content (textures) replaced. So hopefully soon the nQuake package will be completely compatible with the retail version (currently it is with the exception of non-shareware maps) meaning a completely free game even for people who don't own Quake :)
 
Quake 3 arena for me.

Coming a close second would be UT2003/2004 simply because they are like quake but with better graphics lol.

Also BF2 / 2142 are up there on my list.

Never got into CS/CSS personally, all down to personal taste at the end of the day.
 
Any of the Quake games. Love them all. Quake4 is probably my favorite, but nobody is playing it.
 
D3lirious said:
Quake has a very clean and clinical feel to it that is difficult to describe but nothing else has matched it for me.
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this is how i feel about cod2, on css + bf2 the guns just dont appear to be hitting the enemy (bf2 more than css) but on cod2 if you hit them, you hit them, nothing better than rifling on cod2 for me, love getting ace shots :P
 
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