older FPS games?

Some good suggestions here people. Thanks :)

Clive Barkers Undying was a creepy game. The control system was a bit buggy though from what I remember. One of those games I wish had had just a wee bit polishing before it was released.
Kingpin :D now that was a brilliant game. 1st game I played on my old K6-2 500 (apart from UT which I was already hooked on lol). Must see if I can get a cheap copy from somewhere -swapped mine yonks ago for System Shock2. That was another classic but I never did quite manage to complete it & lost my saved games after a somewhat inebriated reformat. One of those games I keep thinking about reinstalling.
Built my current pc just so I could play RTCW & AvP2. lol £700+ for 2 games :p . Sick as a dog when the GeForce4 game out a few weeks later & could be had for half the price I'd blown on the GF3! Still, never mind such is life...RTCW & Halflife are 2 games I wish I'd never played so I could enjoy them afresh all over again.
Hexen2 & Heretic2 -what are they like? Sound like pretty spooky titles.

Chronicles of Riddick is something I heard mention of a while ago -is that a FPS game? Heard that was supposed to be pretty good but can't remember what else was said about it. Memory like a fish...
 
I don't think you'd get Unreal Tournament 2004 or Quake 3 to go anywhere near a GF3. Star Trek Voyager, Elite Force is the only one I can think of that hasn't been mentioned yet, very good game with excellent teammate AI.
 
samat2001 said:
Unreal Tournament - still the best in my opinion.
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What he said, plus get the latest OpenGL renderer with the correct .ini settings = best looking 7 year old game you'll ever see.

NOLF 2
Original Unreal
Swat 3 (oh yes)
 
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FishPolice said:
Just finished Unreal2 today -absolutely loved it. Cracking game :D
Got about 90% through it when it first came out but I got sidetracked with other stuff. Now I'm looking for something else in the FPS genre.
Any suggestions? (needs to be able to run on my rather dated XP1600+/GF3 system until I can get my new system together).
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How did you get it to run well on that system :eek:.
 
FishPolice said:
Hexen2 & Heretic2 -what are they like? Sound like pretty spooky titles.

Chronicles of Riddick is something I heard mention of a while ago -is that a FPS game? Heard that was supposed to be pretty good but can't remember what else was said about it. Memory like a fish...
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Hexen2 & Heretic are older games from Raven based on id engines, good fun but a bit dated for modern times. Pretty much run-and-gun in the medieval setting with not a lot of plot, storyline or anything like that.

I'd be very suprised if you could get acceptable performance in Riddick on your system:

MINIMUM

* Windows(R) 2000 (Service Pack 4) / Windows(R) XP (Service Pack 1)
* Pentium(R) 4 1.8 GHz or AMD equivalent
* 256 MB RAM
* 64 MB AGP OpenGL 1.5-compatible video card, supporting
programmable shading. (ATI Radeon(R) 8500 or NVIDIA(R)
GeForce(TM) 3 and above - except GeForce(TM) 4 MX)
* DirectX(R) 9.0 or better
* DirectX(R) 9-compatible sound card
* 353 MB hard disc space (recommend 400 MB of uncompressed
disc space)
* 16x CD-ROM or DVD-ROM drive
* Microsoft(R) compatible mouse and keyboard


RECOMMENDED

* Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 2.6 GHz or
AMD(R) Athlon(TM) XP 2500+
* Windows(R) XP (Service Pack 1)
* 512 MB RAM
* ATI Radeon(R) 9700 or NVIDIA(R) GeForce(TM) FX 5900 or better.


OPTIMAL

* AMD(R) Athlon(TM) 64 or better.
* Windows(R) XP
* 1024 MB RAM
* NVIDIA(R) GeForce(TM) 6800 GT or better NVIDIA(R) card.
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Stick with something older. I recently played through NOLF2 for example and it looks decent with everything turned up.
 
Robert said:
How did you get it to run well on that system :eek:.
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It was a little bit choppy in parts when the action got hot -like that bit when you're trying to defend the shield wall from the pirates so I clocked my CPU to 1.53 (approx XP1800+ speed) which helped a fair bit and then I chucked in my 2GB of G.Skill 3200zx which I had set aside for a new system. Ran pretty flawlessly after that tbh @ 800x600 32bit colour :D

2k3 ran pretty good but 2k4 was a no no when I tried the demo.
Original UnrealTournament, lol don't mention that [still in rehab for that addiction!]

Swat3, saw that one or an earlier version maybe, about 5 years ago. Looked pretty cool back then. That's the one where you've got to try not to blast the civilians etc :D

Did SoF2 fairly recently. I prefered the graphics on the 1st one though -loved the bit in the subway toilets when you get to lob grenades into the occupied cubicles.

Someone was on about Thief3 here a while back -more of a sneak em up than a FPS I guess from the sounds of it but it sounds interesting anyway. Everyone who mentions that goes on about some bit in an asylum which sounds really atmospheric & creepy. I love that sort of screwed up Silent Hill type of twisted horror...
 
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