Off top of my head favourite first person shooter games of all time.   Every game is viewed in equal fashion to each other.

• Killzone 2
• Golden Eye
• Counter Strike Source
• Call Of Duty 4
• Timesplitters 2

Why I enjoy each of these titles and how they became my favourites.

Call Of Duty 4 – Infinity ward master stroke creating a new genre/formula for the series.  Design wise the game was rather simple letting lowest level players shine.  Gun play was rather arcade simple weapons with simple basic concepts.  Added reward system for players letting them rank up and earn killstreaks. Game had flaws with certain items being to powerful and couple balance choices.   Talent behind the studio defined what meant to be causal game.

Golden Eye – Following the formula created by past games in the same genre.  Transferred the genre to home consoles providing one of the best movie tie ins of all time.  modern console at the time and made it work. Game is cult classic from small British studio,  jew in crown for many gamers.  Many happy memories playing this game and beating it. Multiplayer component was rushed never planned but masterpiece which was added.

Timesplitters 2 – Comes from the same studio which created Golden eye.  Title follows on from familiar formula adding map maker.   Full of content providing gamers with everything.   Came before call of duty followed it own ideas.   Still was casual friendly game just followed different path.

Killzone 2 – Cult classic which followed various design ideas many shooters dropped years ago.   Controls was complained about which slowed the game down, weapon design slowed things down. Required to use weapons in the right situations.  I don’t know about anybody else loved the original feel of the game.  Patch was added which redesigned and reshaped the game for the worse in my eyes.

Counter strike source – Not much to say first online game I played.