[quote name='Chacrana']I did like that game that gunm described, but more seriously, COD4/MW/whatever you wanna call it is an incredibly poorly designed game. You're completely at the whims of your squadmates, and having dudes who can and will take out any potential threat to you basically saps all of the excitement out of shootouts. That, and shit comes at you from everywhere. That doesn't make the game interesting, it just makes it feel like a mess. It's like they just randomly placed sand $$$$ers all over the place and were like "yeah, that's good enough for our target audience of douchebags and rednecks."
And maybe it is. But I dunno. I just played through all dem Half Life 2 games, so maybe my standards for FPSes is a currently a little higher than "dog shit."[/QUOTE]
The squad mates don't kill jack shit. Not sure what game you're playing, unless the PC version has drastically different squad mate behaviour.
Then again, if your idea of a good FPS is HL2, no wonder you don't like Calladuty. Radically different.
Personally, I rather liked MW and some of the other CoD games, but thought the HL2 games were average and, based upon the gratuitous praise they receive, vastly overrated.