Call of Duty, Game Design, Gamer Culture, Gears of War, Halo
So What If First Person Shooters Are Repetitive?
Whether you’re shooting zombies, terrorists, aliens, or Nazis it seems that most first person shooters all follow the same simple formula.
Pit a player in an epic environment with a desperate conflict in which his/her faction or side is losing. Then have their respective faction enlist their help to somehow turn the tides of war.
The player then must slaughter their way through countless armies and foes in order to achieve victory and save the world. Now throw in some explosions and engaging firefights throughout the game and you got yourself a FPS.
Predictable? Yes, and many have complained as a result, but will the FPS genre change anytime soon?
CD-keys and game authorization codes are not only annoying for most PC gamers, they’re generally accepted as standard procedure. In fact, they’re so standard that you find yourself letting your guard down — forgetting that titles under the banner of “Games for Windows” should not be so readily trusted; after all, Windows is in the title. 
Upon its 2006 release, Gears of War became a hit among the Xbox 360 community almost immediately. While the gameplay was sound, it was criticized for not introducing anything truly groundbreaking or “new” into the third-person shooter genre. Well, Gears of War 2 it out, and it has been met with much of the same criticism. So what improvements can be made to the series if, (more likely when), Gears of War 3 is released?
