Help picking a Military FPS for a birthday present?

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sefaleth

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The well has run dry for the hub's birthday and I would love suggestions for a new military/historical FPS (pref on the 360) that run along the lines of: COD series, Bad Company 1&2 that will be available before July 25th. He is currently still collecting ranks in COD4.

We own a PS3, Wii, and decent Quad Core PC gaming system so stellar games for those platforms might work, but he games almost exclusively on the 360 if he has a choice.

Good games for the DS lite or a historical/military game for a moderate end laptop (Celeron , 2GB RAM) like Civ 4 for when he's travelling would work too.

Obviously, he already owns the games mentioned above. He's not big on Sci-Fi FPSes like Halo, Half Life, etc. Mulling over Red Faction: Guerilla but think it may be too sci-fi for him.
 
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Try typing in his favorite game at Amazon and click it to explore similar items that customers also bought. Works for me for films.

Red Faction: Guerrilla is in a third-person perspective (not first-person like the thread title suggests he would only prefer for a shooter).
 
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You can buy the complete Battlefield collection for $60 which covers past present and future military combat.
Battlefield 1942 and Battlefield Vietnam
http://www.amazon.com/Battlefield-1..._1_7?ie=UTF8&s=software&qid=1247440711&sr=8-7
Battlefield 2
http://www.amazon.com/Battlefield-2-Complete-Collection-D
VD-Pc/dp/B000MRB8LQ/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=videogames&qid=1247440711&sr=8-2
Battlefield 2142
http://www.amazon.com/Battlefield-2..._1_5?ie=UTF8&s=software&qid=1247440711&sr=8-5

Or buy every Valve game for $100. It contains Day of Defeat, a WWII shooter, and Counter Strike, a counter terrosist shooter.
http://store.steampowered.com/sub/1134/
 
There are a couple History Channel games for the 360. A Civil War one and a Battle for the Pacific one. I've never played either and I don't think either of the two are ground breaking but I've heard both were alright to play through.
 
[quote name='mission42']There are a couple History Channel games for the 360. A Civil War one and a Battle for the Pacific one. I've never played either and I don't think either of the two are ground breaking but I've heard both were alright to play through.[/QUOTE]

It would be a bad idea to buy these games for a hardcore COD4 player. They're okay for casual shooters, but hardcore COD4 players won't play them more than 10 minutes.
 
[quote name='DarkNessBear']Does Killzone 2 not work? It's a great game and it can get pretty hardcore.[/QUOTE]

X2 If he does not have this game then get it. It fits the mold your looking for.
 
Thanks for the tips guys-

Already own the battlefield multipacks (except for 2142) but will check out Killzone 2.

How is the MP on Killzone 2? Neither he nor I do clans, so it is heavily skewed towards clans similar to COD4?
Also, despite the fondness for historical/military FPSes, he likes to run in guns blazing, so is the gameplay more Unreal/Halo and less Counterstrike/America's Army? (He hates CS but won't stop running out into open spaces- go figure)

/There's gold in them thar hills!
 
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