Free FPS Games

by porkchop on Aug.22, 2009, under Gaming

Free games are getting better and I’m not talking about flash games, but actually games that could be a paid game. The first free game I played was America’s Army in 2002 and it was a pretty good game for a free game. Now many game developers are realising that free games can probably actually bring in more profit than paid games in a sense, unless it’s a subscription based game like World of Warcraft. The reason why I am saying this is because most of these free games have advertising in them and special abilities and outfits that can be bought, which means more players will play and people could be buying those abilities or spending real money on the game inside. Free games are also now being made by big game developers such as ID, which means we will be getting great games and support. Enemy Terrority when it was released had to be my favorite free game I have ever played for a long time, it was made and developed free, and unlike Quake Live it was unique, not just a game that was paid before and now released for free. I will be mentioning a couple free games that I use to play and am playing now, just recently I began playing the Battlefield Hero’s game and it’s pretty fun.

America’s Army 3

This game is pretty good, it is very tactical and is meant to be like that, when first starting the game before playing, you have to go through a real life like training missions. You have to shoot targets, run a obstacle coarse, parachute from a plane, take classes, and much more. The game was developed and funded by the US Government to recruit troops, they saw the gaming industry as a great avenue to recruit more soldiers and they did succeed in making it realistic. For example the training missions is pretty much exactly what would happen first day in the army. They even have Join the American Army links all over the place in the game and menu’s, it would be interesting to see the statistics of people actually joining the army from this game. The game plays well and looks good, and its not that bad for free. They also update it regularly and improve it. I suggest you check it out.http://www.americasarmy.com/ America’s Army 3 is probably the best free game out that has the best graphics of any free game released to date.

Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory

This game was very fun when it first was out, I haven’t played it in awhile so I don’t know how popular it still is, its been around for awhile (6 years). The game is real fun, its very fun, its a Allies vs Axis war game (WW2) with teams having to use dynamite to blow up certain objectives and game modes. I suggest you check it out. http://www.splashdamage.com/content/wolfenstein-enemy-territory-barracks?s=7b3c46e65f8dee06b64c54839ae7b93c

Battlefield Heroes

Battlefield Heroes is the newest free game out now, based off the web browser like Quake Live but a complete new game. The game plays well, it’s a little weird, and try’s to imitate Team Fortress 2 in its cartoon graphics. The graphics are low, so most systems can run this game. The nice thing about this game is it carries the Battlefield name, and if you know from playing Battlefield games you can except to fly things and drive things, which you exactly can do in this game, fly planes and drive tanks. The only drawback to this game, is that people purchase advances such as unlocks which gives them stronger health better weapons, the hit registry seems off as well, but this is still in beta – check it out here http://www.battlefieldheroes.com/

Quake Live

Browser based game like Battlefield Heroes but came out earlier. I like this game a lot since I use to play Quake 3, and this pretty much a free Quake 3 remake with a bunch of improvements. I actually wrote a separte review about this game already, you can find it here. Get Quake Live here http://www.quakelive.com/

Tribes 2

Tribes 1, the original game was great, this game I haven’t played in ages and is not supported anymore for online play, by its developer, they shut down the master servers, but I found a site which enables the multi-player part of Tribes 2 and it can be found here http://www.tribesnext.com/ I suggest you try Tribes 2 out, if you haven’t already it’s a great classic.

Postal 2

Postal 2 probably had to be one of the funniest and weirdest games I have played, the game has actually been banned from many places for its content. It’s a funny FPS game and nasty, you can play characters that I can remember, Gary Coleman, and some terrorist, (looks like Bin Laden) it has funny taunts and you have the ability to piss on people, you would have to play it too see how funny/weird this game is. Only the multi-player part is free and I’m not sure how many people play this anymore. http://www.gamershell.com/download_26434.shtml

Fear Combat

The multi-player is only free not single player. Fear at the time was one of the best graphical games at the time, and especially the “fear” factor that it had in single player of dark levels and enemies popping out of anywhere. The multi player was very good and then became free unexpectedly for this good game at the time. It has that counter-strike feel to it the gameplay some people even considered it better, but I did not. I’m not sure how many people still play this, since Fear 2 is out already, hopefully they will release the multiplayer for that game free. Get Fear Combat here – http://projectorigin.warnerbros.com/fearcombat/main

Well this is my list of free FPS games that I think you should check out, if you want to play a free game. Some of these games are old, and I’m not too sure how popular they still are, you will have to install or look around for yourself. These games are still worth checking out in my opinion if already don’t have many games already. The newest games on that list that I still play are, America’s Army 3, Quake Live, and Battlefield Heroes, except lots of people to be playing those games. I’ll be adding a similar post to this in the future with free MMORPG games that I think are worthily, unfortunately there are tons of free MMORPG games out there, so its difficult finding the good ones. Also note this list is not extensive there are more free FPS games out there but I have never played them before so I didn’t bother mentioning them the list of free FPS games are here – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_free_first-person_shooters I noticed they missed Fear on that list.