Sniper FPS

[Dark_Raven]

After having some fun in Bloodlines with the sniper rifle, are there any good FPS games that let you use a sniper rifle as your main weapon?

[Xard]

Deer Hunter 2

[Nick_i_am]

haha, counterstrike.

[Hurlshort]

Battlefield 2 is the best sniper experience I've ever had in a game. The maps are big enough where you can actually put yourself far enough away to not be easily seen, and the shots are strong enough to get a kill from a couple hundred yards out.

[Shryke]

haha, counterstrike.

 

AWP whore!

[Nick_i_am]

Don't get me started man, don't get me started.

[Jinx]

Hidden & Dangerous 2 is a tactical fps similar to the early rainbow 6 series and just as fun. Set during WW2 you pick four SAS soldiers and equip them with whatever you desire from a huge list of weapons and equipment. This has to last them for the whole campaign (there are about 4-5). You can also take anything the enemy germans had on them when they were killed.

 

The planning phase is accessed during the mission rather than before it, allowing you to make alterations to your plan on the fly. Most missions take place outdoors, so sniper rifles are a very valid choice and see a lot of action. H&D 2 had some really fantastic multiplayer maps for sniping and there is still a good sized community who play it.

 

H&D1 is pretty old now but it can be downloaded for free at file planet, it may be a pain to get working on newer machines.

 

 

edited for clarity

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Hurlshot is absolutly right about BF2 by the way.

Edited April 14, 2008 by Jinx

[Nick_i_am]

H&D is an awsome game, one of the few that got away with being gamestoppingly buggy, yet still worth buying (though patches have fixed most of the issues).

 

H&D2 was ultimately superior though.

[Slowtrain]

Deus Ex

[Spider]

Sniper Elite

[Xard]

Operation Flashpoint

[Bokishi]

Crysis lets you stick the sniper scope on any gun

[Humodour]

After having some fun in Bloodlines with the sniper rifle, are there any good FPS games that let you use a sniper rifle as your main weapon?

 

Deus Ex.

 

Best sniper weapons are the sniper rifle, pistol, plasma rifle and rocket launcher. Although only two of these are stealth weapons (guess which ones).

[mkreku]

Boiling Point. But it's a FPS/RPG hybrid that's horribly flawed in some cases and absolutely wonderful in others. You either love it or hate it.

 

http://www.eurogamer.net/article.php?artic...9379&page=2

[Dark_Raven]

Coolness. I'll have to do some research.

[Deadly_Nightshade]

Coolness. I'll have to do some research.

 

Post if you find a good one.

[Bokishi]

Get Crysis gabs you know you want to

 

[Hell Kitty]

It's not an FPS but if sniping's your thing I suppose you might try Hitman: Blood Money.

[Musopticon?]

STALKER: Shadow of Chernobyl, if you have yet to play it. There's tons of sniping ground, a wide selection of weaponry that can be scoped and everything happens in the tastefully dilapitated radiated hellscene of Chernobyl. Soviet nostalgia, jamming East-Bloc rifles, brooding rainswept vistas where wind plays with broken steel barrels and half-torn trees, the constant ticking of Geiger counter lulling the player to a post-apocalyptic vision far more indepth and complete than its predecessors such as Glow ever managed.

 

It's not perfect by any means, but a great game nevertheless.

[Dark_Raven]

Get Crysis gabs you know you want to

My computer would probably have a seizure trying to play that.

[Gorth]

S.T.A.L.K.E.R. runs nicely on my old 2.8 Ghz P4 with an old 256mb gfx card

 

It is all about sneaking, sniping, ambushing and generally avoiding hostiles, as there is no real benefit to fighting them (unless part of a mission).

[Slowtrain]

as there is no real benefit to fighting them (unless part of a mission).

 

Yeah, but its FUN, which is an important part of combat in an FPS.

[Krookie]

as there is no real benefit to fighting them (unless part of a mission).

 

Yeah, but its FUN, which is an important part of combat in an FPS.

 

you mean, which is an important part of games in general?

[Llyranor]

Not in Jade Empire, it isn't.

[Slowtrain]

as there is no real benefit to fighting them (unless part of a mission).

 

Yeah, but its FUN, which is an important part of combat in an FPS.

 

you mean, which is an important part of games in general?

 

 

Ha no, just in FPS..oh wait, nevermind

 

I think another reason I love the combat in STALKER is that I have no idea what anybody is saying, which lends the whole affair a suitably metaphysical vibe.

 

Wait what's that? You need a medkit? Or did you just say my butt looks fat from that angle? ha well never know. (Because I'll never learn Russian)