Drakeman wrote:
For multiplayer, you can never beat Counter-Strike. It's better than any of the Halo's IMO, and it still has a massive and fun community.
Completely different FPSs, both of which have a pretty insipid community of idiots and lamers. Though gameplay wise I'd take Halo over Counter-Strike any day as it has much more variety than Counter-Strike's which even on maps with objectives always boils down to Last Man Standing as no one ever completes the objectives and just runs around shooting each other.
As far as multiplayer shooters goes, Starsiege: Tribes is still my favorite one of all time, though I think they took down the master servers for it but I'm sure the community has managed to work around that, I'm not sure as its been a while since I've played, and my computer refuses to run anything at the moment since the video card is almost completely dead and chokes on YouTube and sometimes animated banners...