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If you're looking for a FP based game that's as realistic as possible (for a computer game) try Operation Flashpoint. I can't get any of my DM buddies to play because they don't like dying after getting hit once.
It's got realistic weapons, and a realistic environment. If it's something that might be usefult to you then you can interact with it. For instance... you're low on ammo? Just find a body and grab their weapon. Need to get somewhere fast? Steal a car and drive it.
The world is wide open (somewhat like Morrowind) so you can go anywhere and solve missions in a virtually infinite variety of ways. Throughout the course of the game you go from a grunt taking orders, to a squad leader (with a bunch of guys to worry about), to a sniper, to a tank commander, to a tank squadron commander, to a blackhawk pilot, to an Apache pilot, and you even get a crack at the A10. (you jump into different characters, it's not a single guy getting promoted [img]smile.gif[/img] ) Admittedly the piloting stuff and tank driving is VERY simplified, but the strategy and tactics involved are probably not horribly inaccurate. The squad combat tactics are excellent, by far the best I've seen in a computer game. No it doesn't give you the physical exertion of paintball but it's VERY similar psycologically (and the Adrenaline rush is certianly there when you play against real people), and it's MORE of an intellectual challenge (IMO) simply by virtue of the addition of a BIG PICTURE that you can't simulate on a paintpall field... in many ways it's MORE realistic than paintball.
The attention to detail in the game is very impressive, if you're on a sniper mission don't expect to run accross a field then pull up your rifle and drop a baddie from 500 yards. When you look through the scope it'll be waving all over the place in time with your breathing (which gets harder the farther you run) and you'll have to wait until you catch your breath before you even think about shooting at anything. Once you do shoot, unless you have a silenced gun you might have 10 seconds to get your butt out of there before return fire collects you.
I can't recommend this game highly enough for guys who're getting bored with the simplicity of the run of the mill fps games out there. The "Operation Flashpoint:Resistance" add-on is highly recommended, it fixes a lot of the gripes I had about mediocre graphics quality in the origonal game and will put any high end graphics card on the market to the test.
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