Unbelievable I know, but I do not like playing 1st, 2nd or any kind of person's shooters. I think in all the years I have played computers games, I can count the 1st player shooter games I have played on one hand. Of course I played Wolfenstein, but apart from one in the Star Wars universe that is basically it. My hand only needs 2 fingers. I must say I played both quite a bit, Wolfenstein because it was first of its kind, the Star Wars version because it is, well, Star Wars. I skipped the Halflife series and its clones, didn't really enjoy playing the Xbox version of Farcry so I never even considered investing money to get it to play on my PC.
A few months ago, perhaps even a year, I found Battlefield 1942 anthology in the special sales section, get 2 pay half price kind of deal. I can't remember what the first game was, but the half price one was Battlefield. With all the problems I have had with my DVD player seizing up (twice now in just over a year), it didn't install or play it correctly and so left it to gather dust somewhere in my ever growing pile of CD/DVD boxes. I even forgot about it, when I was browsing through the special offers basket at a new local GameMania shop I saw it again. "I have this game", I thought, "I am sure of it." Convinced I wasn't suffereing from memory issues I went looking and indeed after a day or 2 found it again, covered in dust. Installed it, the computer informed me it was already installed...sigh..., and played it for a weekend.
I still don't like xth-player shooters, but I can see its appeal to some. It is just to monotomous to me, no overall strategy to implement, no advanced tactics as my fellow soldiers sure didn't listen to my cries for help or any intention to listen to my orders. I am sure that will all be different played with other humans online, I just played with bots in a single player enviroment. Perhaps I am missing something, I will be investigating that the coming week before putting the CD box back to gether dust.
Cycling season has started again, so pretty soon I will be playing Cycling Manager '06 again... I know because I have already started. I can still win, I still know which buttons to press.