Military FPS Games Need New Blood

Call of Duty and Battlefield have their places. But they are turning into or have turned into the Walmarts of FPS games.

They're getting dumbed down.

Here's what I think the next military FPS should focus on:

1. The gun. The gun should be authentic, weighty, and impactful. It should be customizable and unique. You should want to play this game because the guns have a feel and immersion to them that makes them feel almost realistic. There should be no target finders. There's no way in hell a red laser adds accuracy to your gun when you shoot from the hip. It's just there to help you ADS.

2. Teamwork. Coordinating streaks or when to clear an area.

3. Point streaks that are complimentary, not individualistic. The best example I can come up with is the UAV + Chopper in CoD4. Or the Raven UAV and Apache streaks in Warfighter.

4. Players should be rewarded for timing their streak rewards when used at appropriate times, like if a team needs to plant a bomb, a player uses a smoke mortar to mask the site and another teammate successfully plants...that should be rewarded.

5. Immersion. Look, we can't just run over a gun and get it's ammo in real life. Show the mags on the ground, make your player hit a button to pick them up. It can be a quick animation...nothing that holds you up or makes you too vulnerable. Or if I want to give my teammate a mag, toss him one. Don't just make it magically appear in inventory.

6. Real geographic regions or landmarks that are centered or the basis of maps. Washington, DC. Downtown Baghdad. Fallujah. Islamabad. Abbottabad. JFK Airport. Rural New York. The mountains and valleys of Afghanistan.

I saw a new FPS called Get Even on IGN. Trailer inside the link...I don't know what it is or how things play out, but it at least got me thinking something new is needed especially with the new consoles.